Agora Books: 59 books

Another in the classic series filled with mystery, murder, and British espionage from the Edgar Award–winning author.   Some parts of the secret service are more secret than others, and Department Z is among them. Now, its founder, Gordon Craigie; top agent Loftus; and their compatriots must face...

International blackmailers are scheming to rupture relations between Britain and the United States—but Bill Loftus of Department Z is hot on their trail . . . With America’s most powerful industrialists, British peers of the realm, and agents of unknown power all entangled in a conspiracy,...

A thrilling mystery set against the backdrop of the Blitz in WWII England, by an Edgar Award–winning author. England, 1941. Terror from the Germans’ constant bombing is spreading through the nation, as homes, cities, and morale are reduced to little more than rubble. Worn down and defeated,...

A corpse in a country house brings Scotland Yard to an eerily quiet English village, in this tale by a master of British mystery. Cyril Savage has inherited the home of his wealthy and estranged aunt. But before Savage has the chance to discover her fortune, he is struck dead in the cellar...

A lively British mystery from “one of the greatest mid-20th-century practitioners of the detective novel” (Alexander McCall Smith). Strange things are happening in Saltey. The little village on the Essex coast is invaded by bikers and a parade of peculiar visitors, a newly released prisoner...

Murder takes center stage when a song-and-dance man is targeted, in an Albert Campion whodunit from “the best of mystery writers” (The New Yorker). When entertainer Jimmy Sutane falls victim to a string of malicious practical jokes, there’s only one man who can get to the bottom of the...

A couple in the British countryside finds themselves fighting fascists in this suspenseful novel by “a master of detective fiction” (The Daily Telegraph). In 1930s England, Nigel and Georgia Strangeways have settled into rural bliss, thinking their days of globe-trotting detective work...

A lively, opinionated biography of the queen, and a vivid portrait of nineteenth-century England, from a literary icon. ‘You call me the little Queen,’ she told her uncle the King of the Belgians; ‘my body is little, but my heart is not.’ Edith Sitwell’s endearing portrait...

A body surfaces off the Isle of Man in a puzzling mystery by the master of the “pure British detective story” (The New York Times). The Manx Shearwater was scallop dredging—but it dragged up a body from the water instead. Considering that the corpse was tied at the ankles and weighed...

A French detective looks into a public figure’s murder—and discovers some private secrets—in a mystery by an author who is “a joy to read” (The Times Literary Supplement).   When a local official is gunned down in the street, it looks like a cold-blooded political assassination. But as...

The author of The Colony series explores the mysterious Isle of Wight in this novella of “old-fashioned suspense combined with modern horror imagery” (The Times, London). Michael Aldridge, talented architect and devoted family man, has built his dream home on the Isle of Wight. But his...

It’s a race against time to rescue a kidnapped scientist in this suspenseful tale by an Edgar Award–winning author. The world is under threat of destruction. As the politicians hedge their bets with atomic weapons, it seems no one is safe. The only hope? A brilliant professor who...

The detectives of Britain’s Department Z look into a murder at an exclusive club.   Sir Basil Riordon is mysterious, frightening, and immensely wealthy. But is he also a killer? As head of England’s elite secret service, Department Z, Gordon Craigie has to find out, but it won’t be an easy...

A terrifying international plot threatens the agents of Britain’s Department Z in this tale of suspense from an Edgar Award–winning author.   Leopold Gorman studies the World Economic Conference with interest—and then picks five rich and powerful men to bring his plan to fruition. If any one...