Mystery Detective Fiction category: 469 books

From his 1887 literary debut to his many film and television adaptations, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s Sherlock Holmes has lost none of his appeal. Besides Holmes himself, no character in Conan Doyle’s stories proves as interesting as the astute detective’s constant companion, Dr. Watson, who somehow...

Ian Rankin’s series featuring Scottish detective inspector John Rebus chronicles his hero’s tense bonding with gangster “Big Ger” Cafferty. Both men age in parallel for decades in what Rebus might call “f(r)iendship.” Their bonding is based on a mutual need for validation as obsolescent...

HIS LAST BOW SOME REMINISCENCES OF SHERLOCK HOLMES BY  ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE   in this book THE ADVENTURE OF WISTERIA LODGE THE ADVENTURE OF THE BRUCE-PARTINGTON PLANS THE ADVENTURE OF THE DEVIL'S FOOT THE ADVENTURE OF THE RED CIRCLE THE DISAPPEARANCE...

LA ROSA DEL CRIMINALE. Il primo romanzo giallo nel contesto storico italiano, tra fantasmi, erotismo e servizi segreti. Arabella è una giovane donna che vuole vivere una vita "normale", ma lo Spirito Errante di Sofia, imprigionata fra i Mondi da un'antica maledizione, ha urgenza...

In Crackdown visual art becomes a powerful take down tool to push back against the oligarchs. People adjust to the surveillance state and its agents who are emergent forces. Post-coup Thailand is the setting as high tech competes with traditional power in a battle for hearts and minds. It is a noir...

Twenty years after the end of the Vietnam War, Vietnam is opening to the outside world. There is a smell of fast money in the air and poverty in the streets. Business is booming and in austere Ho Chi Minh City a new generation of foreigners have arrived to make money and not war. Against the backdrop...

SHERLOCK HOLMES  THE VALLEY OF FEAR BY  ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE A mystery that entangles the mind - "The Valley of Fear" is a fraction of Sherlock Holmes' series. Full of suspense and ambiguity the story revolves around the mysterious murder case of Douglas which is resolved...

Bertha Muzzy Sinclair or Sinclair-Cowan best known by her pseudonym B. M. Bower, was an American author who wrote novels, fictional short stories, and screenplays about the American Old West. This eBook contains her 14 notable American Old West Novels. Table of Contents Lonesome Land The...

Bertha Muzzy Sinclair or Sinclair-Cowan best known by her pseudonym B. M. Bower, was an American author who wrote novels, fictional short stories, and screenplays about the American Old West. This eBook contains her 15 notable American Old West Novels. Table of Contents The Lonesome...

This early work by Edgar Wallace was originally published in 1922 and we are now republishing it with a brand new introductory biography. 'The Flying Fifty-Five' is a novel set in the horse racing community and follows the ups and downs of turf life. Richard Horatio Edgar Wallace was born in London,...

Includes an active table of contents is easily to navigate each book. Table of Contents Caleb Williams (1794) Memoirs of the Author of a Vindication of the Rights of Woman (1798) Lives of the Necromancers (1834) Thoughts on Man (1831) Four Early Pamphlets (1783) Imogen Damon and Delia (1784) Italian...

Questo racconto origina da una tenebrosa e triste vicenda accaduta realmente negli anni '50 in un piccolo paese non lontano da Palermo. Quando ciò accadde l'autore era ancora giovanissimo da allora è trascorso molto tempo, eppure il suo ricordo è vivido, anche se quando il paesino venne sconvolto...

An MWA Grand Master tells it straight: Fredric Brown: “When I read Murder Can Be Fun, I had a bottle of bourbon on the table and every time Brown’s hero took a drink, I had a snort myself. This is a hazardous undertaking when in the company of Brown’s characters, and, I’ve been given...

In the mid–20th century, Mickey Spillane was the sensation of not just mystery fiction but publishing itself. The level of sex and violence in his Mike Hammer thrillers (starting with I, the Jury in 1947) broke down long-held taboos and engendered a near hysterical critical backlash. Nonetheless,...