In the dog days of August, it is no surprise to see New Yorkers perspire. But this summer, a kill...

Now retired from the tour circuit on which he made his name, master magician The Great Merlini sp...

Legendary science fiction author Fowler Faulkes may be dead, but his creation, the iconic Dr. Der...

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

When Ellery Queen and his father encounter a raging forest fire during a mountain drive, the only...

For the staff of the library at the center of The Widening Stain, it's easy enough to dismiss the...

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

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

The Great Hotel Murder

Broadway producer Peter Duluth sought solace in a bottle after his wife's death; now, two years l...

When New Orleans coffee merchant Louis Durand first meets his bride-to-be after a months-long cou...

The arsenic in her sugar bowl was wealthy widow Eliza Fairbanks' first clue that somebody wanted ...

Sleuthing attorney Perry Mason can't resist a good mystery, so when he sees an older woman being ...

When Quinn first meets Bricky, she's working as a partner-for-hire at a dancehall and he's strugg...

Even in the early 1930s, Crescent Place is a neighbourhood out of the past. The five Victorian ma...

The Godfrey family is vacationing among the picturesque rocky cliffs of the North Atlantic seaboa...

A strange encounter with a little girl named Claudia and a dead toad sparks elderly detective fic...

For the third graders at Jefferson School, a field trip is always a treat. But one day at the New...

A successful writer and a B-movie director seem like the perfect match in the Hollywood Hills and...

'I came here to make a dead man change his mind.' So begins a creepy and unusual mystery celebrat...

Walking home wearily from an evening spent poring over the books of the Parchly Heights Methodist...

Cub reporter Mary Llewellyn is on a soothing sea cruise to help her recover after a minor operati...

In a nightmare scenario, Frank Townsend has an apparently minor accident on his way home but he a...

The state has accused beautiful young Elinor Norton of murder and she refuses to mount a defence.