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by M. L. Longworth
Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2012
When a shocking murder rocks the theology department at Aix-en-Provence’s university, chief magistrate Antoine Verlaque is on the case
The newest book in the Provençal Mystery series, The Secrets of the Bastide Blanche, is available now from Penguin Books
When Dr. Georges Moutte...
The Adventuress
A Novel of Suspense featuring Irene Adler and Sherlock Holmes
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2013
(Previously published without the Readers Guide as Good Morning, Irene.)
"Some women are just born to have grand adventures. Such a woman—"the" woman to the bewitched Sherlock Holmes—was the American actress Irene Adler, who shrugged off her untimely literary demise in "A Scandal in...
by Carole Nelson Douglas
Language: English
Release Date: May 29, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: May 29, 2013
IRENE ADLER . . . She’s one of the most mysterious women in literature, an American and the only woman to have outwitted the world's greatest consulting detective, Sherlock Holmes.
This novella, “The Private Wife of Sherlock Holmes,” reports Adler and Holmes's most recent and intriguing...
by John Dickson Carr
Language: English
Release Date: March 25, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: March 25, 2014
Famed crime solver Dr. Gideon Fell attends a housewarming party in the English countryside, but a ghost spoils the fun in Golden Age mystery master John Dickson Carr’s stylish, baffling mystery novel
The house is called Longwood, and its history is wet with blood. It is closed up for good...
by Andrea Camilleri
Language: English
Release Date: February 5, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: February 5, 2019
“[Camilleri’s mysteries] offer quirky characters, crisp dialogue, bright storytelling—and Salvo Montalbano... a delightful creation, an honest man on Sicily's mean streets.” —USA Today
The day gets off to a bad start for Montalbano: while trying to break up a fight on Marinella beach,...
Anne Perry's Silent Nights
Two Victorian Christmas Mysteries
Language: English
Release Date: October 27, 2009
Here are two holiday mysteries set in remote, snow-covered regions of Victorian Britain–where the nights are indeed silent but all is not calm, and where some will sleep in eternal peace.
A CHRISTMAS BEGINNING
While spending Christmas on the island of Anglesey off the coast of Wales, Superintendent...
The Dark Water
The Strange Beginnings of Sherlock Holmes
Language: English
Release Date: May 7, 2013
The detective team of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle and Dr. Joseph Bell star in this “ingenious” historical mystery (The New York Times Book Review).
As many fans of Sherlock Holmes know, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle found inspiration for the great fictional detective in a brilliant Scottish surgeon...
by M. L. Longworth
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2017
**In this captivating installment of M. L. Longworth’s acclaimed series, our newlywed investigators contend with their most sinister challenge yet: a centuries-old curse
The newest book in the Provençal Mystery series, The Secrets of the Bastide Blanche, is available now from Penguin Books**
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by Frances Brody
Language: English
Release Date: February 14, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: February 14, 2012
"Well-plotted and atmospheric… Kate Shackleton joins Jacqueline Winspear's Maisie Dobbs." --Literary Review
Take one quiet Yorkshire village
Bridgestead is a peaceful spot: a babbling brook, rolling hills and a working mill at its heart. Pretty and remote, nothing exceptional...
Dangerous to Know
A Lillian Frost & Edith Head Novel
Language: English
Release Date: April 11, 2017
A Seattle Times Best of 2017 Book!
Los Angeles, 1938. Former aspiring actress Lillian Frost is adjusting to a new life of boldfaced names as social secretary to a movie-mad millionaire. Costume designer Edith Head is running Paramount Pictures’ wardrobe department, but only until a suitable...
The Emperor's Assassin
Memoirs of a Bow Street Runner
Language: English
Release Date: February 4, 2009
For twenty years, England and France have been at war. Now the war has come home…
On a sunny July day in 1815, Plymouth Sound is crowded with boats vying for a view of England’s great battleship HMS Bellerophon. For aboard the vessel is the stout little Frenchman who threw the world into...
The Year of the Cobra (Akhenaten Trilogy, Book 3)
A thrilling tale of the secrets of the Egyptian pharaohs
Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2012
Egypt's enemies are massing in the North. But could the nation's deadliest threat lie within?
The Year of the Cobra is the third and final book in Paul Doherty's Egyptian trilogy. Perfect for fans of Lauren Haney and Wilbur Smith.
Egypt is in danger. The barbarous Hittites are rumoured...
Murder on the Orient Express Teaching Guide
Teaching Guide and Sample Chapters
Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 2017
To help teachers decide if Agatha Christie’s Murder on the Orient Express is right for their students, we’ve created this free e-book that features sample chapters from the book and a teaching guide.
Old Scores
A Barker & Llewelyn Novel
Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2017
In 1890, the first Japanese diplomatic delegation arrives in London to open an embassy. Cyrus Barker, private enquiry agent and occasional agent for the Foreign Service Office, is enlisted to display his personal Japanese garden to the visiting dignitaries.
Later that night, Ambassador Toda...