Christmas has served as a fertile background for mystery fiction for a long time, perhaps because...

John Dickson Carr is famous for his puzzling 'impossible crime' plots in which corpses are discov...

Fifteen suspenseful tales from the Golden Age of the mystery genre.The art of the suspense story ...

A teenage boy sets out to avenge his father in this noir novel from the author of Specialty of th...

A teenage boy sets out to avenge his father in this noir novel from the author of Specialty of th...

When a box of bootleg liquor washes up on the shores of Cape Cod, it brings a whole lot of troubl...

Fifteen suspenseful tales from the Golden Age of the mystery genre.The art of the suspense story ...

A Shakespearean actor-turned-sleuth wonders if a suicide's been staged—and suspects the members o...

A Shakespearean actor-turned-sleuth wonders if a suicide's been staged—and suspects the members o...

When a box of bootleg liquor washes up on the shores of Cape Cod, it brings a whole lot of troubl...

A hardboiled rare book detective seeks a literate killer to clear an innocent man.Joel Crisp know...

Perry Mason solves a murder in a mining town in this whodunit from one of the bestselling authors...

Edgar Award winner Otto Penzler selects stories that highlight the greatest American authors of t...

Dr. Gideon Fell investigates multiple impossible crimes in this celebrated mystery from the maste...

A hardboiled rare book detective seeks a literate killer to clear an innocent man.Joel Crisp know...

Perry Mason solves a murder in a mining town in this whodunit from one of the bestselling authors...

Edgar Award winner Otto Penzler selects stories that highlight the greatest American authors of t...

Dr. Gideon Fell investigates multiple impossible crimes in this celebrated mystery from the maste...

At the hand of an outrageous prankster, top hats are going missing all over London, snatched from...

When Ellery Queen, described by the London Times as the logical successor to Sherlock Holmes, is ...

The offices of foreign literature publisher and renowned stamp collector Donald Kirk are often ho...

Hildegarde Withers is just your average school teacher - with above-average skills in the art of ...

Meet Captain Duncan Maclain. Blinded during his service in the first World War, Maclain made up f...

Mr. and Mrs. North live as quiet a life as a couple can amidst the bustle of New York City. For J...

Meet Captain Duncan Maclain. Blinded during his service in the first World War, Maclain made up f...

Sometimes, the police aren't the best suited to solve a crime. Depending on the case, you may fin...

For Ellery Queen, there is no puzzle that reason cannot solve. In his time, he has faced down kil...

At the hand of an outrageous prankster, top hats are going missing all over London, snatched from...

Sailor used to be Senator Willis Douglass' protege. When he met the lawmaker, he was just a poor ...

Plague Court is old and crumbling, long neglected after its lord, hangman's assistant Louis Playg...

When the wealthy ladies' man fell from his balcony in the midst of his engagement party, the poli...

A surgeon is murdered in mid-air with only his fellow airplane passengers as possible suspects in...

In the rough edges of 1940s Chicago, the discovery of a corpse in an alleyway isn't always enough...

The society pages announce it before she even arrives: Griselda Satterlee, daughter of the prince...

When Nurse Keate arrives at the Thatcher estate to care for a man with a bullet in his shoulder, ...

In a quiet village far from the noise of Victorian London, Sydney Silchester lives the life of a ...

An all-around skeptic when it comes to the supernatural, literature professor William Porter give...

Plague Court is old and crumbling, long neglected after its lord, hangman's assistant Louis Playg...

When Rachel Murdock and her sister Jennifer receive a call for help from their favorite niece, Li...

For the die-hard Sherlock Holmes fans that comprise the Baker Street Irregulars - some of them fa...

The society pages announce it before she even arrives: Griselda Satterlee, daughter of the prince...

The journey of the Mexico City-bound Pullman seems ill-fated from the outset - what with the engi...

Unoccupied and unsupervised while mother is working, the children of widowed crime writer Marion ...

In a house in the English countryside, a man has just turned up dead, surrounded by a crime scene...

Banished from the idyllic English countryside he once called home and en route to live with his c...

The bait is half of a $10,000 bill, delivered to Perry Mason by a man who promises the second hal...

When Amanda Garth was born, a nearly-disastrous mix-up caused the hospital to briefly hand her ov...

Hollywood big-shot Vivien Spender has waited ages to produce the work that will be his masterpiec...