Mystery category: 140534 books

"[W]orthy of being compared to Dickens's creations . . . First-class entertainment." - William F. Deeck,The Mystery Fancier "An exciting story told in a pleasant narrative style with considerable skill, and a whole portfolio of Dickensian characters, drawn against a rich background...

Great classic mystery. A lawyer, Mr. Lester, is pulled into a mystery by his friend, Mr. Godfrey, a newspaper reporter. The mystery surrounds a man and his daughter and a yogi and his helper. When the man is found killed, the daughter's would be fiancee is implicated and the friends work to find the...

The irrepressible Laura Morland, Professor of Gender Studies, is back again! In WADING INTO MURDER, Laura climbs - or - or more accurately falls - down a wall and swims across a rat-infested pool to rescue a baby in the famous Roman Baths of England. Attempts on her life and near-escapes come thick...

Here's a historical murder mystery, for you, set in the 18th century, one Christmas Day... Someone is killing the lordlings in London.Get your copy of Sarah Barton's "Hunting the Wren" to discover this intriguing who dunnit. "Mrs." Elizabeth Rowland is the young housekeeper...

In a tangled web of mystery lies hidden truth and danger, but not always the answers you were expecting. Blood Relations is the second book in the series and is a modern day murder mystery set in the Arizona/New Mexico area. Sorrel a retired Investigative journalist is simply seeking peace after the...

A Belinda Lawrence Mystery Belinda and Hazel find themselves on the island of Guernsey where they are invited by Sir Mark’s mother, Melba, Lady Sallinger. Other house guests include her parents, a handsome interior designer, a slovenly bookseller, a Jesuit priest, and Catherine, a mysterious...

After three years of traipsing across Europe with her lovesick, widowed mother, Nell Bray has finally found her way to Oxford University. There she has befriended the beautiful Imogen and the charming Midge. When the three girls decide to accept an invitation by their male classmates to join...

On the lavish estate of mogul Bernard Leigh, there lurks a secret. It is the Roaring Twenties, the Jazz Age. The war is over, and Leigh House, once a lavish, private home, is now a sanitarium for the wealthy. Florian Valentine Flix, a veteran of World War One, is one of the patients at this health-oriented...

A mystery unfolds in rural Japan. Who is behind the students' murder? Read on to discover the truth. Jordan Howard moves to the Japanese countryside to become a high school English teacher, not an amateur detective. But when Jordan's students are murdered one after another, she resolves to...

Includes an active table of contents for easy navigation. Contents Wyn's Camping Days (1914) A Little Miss Nobody (1914) The Girls of Hillcrest Farm (1914) The Girl from Sunset Ranch (1914) Frances of the Ranges (1915) Wyn's Camping Days (1914) Wynifred Mallory was delighted to learn...

“Mary Beth Magee has created an engaging cast of characters in this delightful cozy mystery debut. You don’t need a green thumb to enjoy the plot twists and turns in Death in the Daylilies.”— Cindy Sample, National Best-selling Author of Dying for a Date, Dying for a Dance and Dying for a...

A new romantic murder mystery series! Three book Sedona West Murder Mystery series: SLEEPS WITH THE FISHES, Book 1 BREAKS AN EGG, Book 2 PUSHES UP DAISES, Book 3 Sedona’s dead ex husband keeps putting her at risk. Two million dollars that he stole has gone missing, and the Mob thinks...

4 character-driven short mysteries set in frontier Canada and steeped in whimsy *From award-winning author Alexandra Amor** Over 350 pages of quirky charm and old-fashioned values, with some modern themes for good measure, the Town Called Horse short mystery collection is the love child...

**In the third volume of the Inspector Lamb mystery series, a murder at a hospital for veterans in rural England leaves Lamb with a village full of suspects, each with a motive and secrets of their own. ** In the spring of 1942, with the war in Europe raging, a gruesome murder shocks the rural...