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  • WITNESS AT LARGE
    MIGNON G. EBERHART
    A woman is witness to an act that could cause the man she loves to face trial for murder in this mystery thriller from an Edgar Award–winning author. She was known on the island as Sister and she always tried to do the right thing. But when she comes upon Tom, the man she secretly loves, pulling a woman's body from the water, a hammer in his hand, Sister doesn't know what to th...

    $119.00

  • DEATH IN THE FOG
    MIGNON G. EBERHART
    This classic mystery is " more than a mere crime puzzle. . . . It is a tragic event which deeply affects the destinies of those who are in any way involved" ( The New York Times). The road to her aunt's country house on Lake Michigan is dark and shrouded in fog. But it's a road Katie Warren knows well, having taken up residence with her Aunt Mina after losing her job during the...

    $119.00

  • WOMAN ON THE ROOF
    MIGNON G. EBERHART
    When her husband falls from the terrace of their NYC penthouse, a young widow is terrorized by his killer in this thriller from an Edgar Award winner. As the much younger wife of a wealthy man, Sue Desart has much to be grateful for. After her first fiancé was killed in Vietnam, she didn't expect a great romance, only companionship and security, which Marcus Desart graciously o...

    $119.00

  • NEXT OF KIN
    MIGNON G. EBERHART
    A young heiress turns amateur sleuth when a politician—the brother of the man she loves—is murdered in this Golden age mystery from an Edgar Award winner. A former senator up for a prestigious cabinet appointment, Stuart Channing had everything to live for—power, influence, a beautiful wife. So when he's found dead behind the locked door of his study, everyone, from the public ...

    $119.00

  • THE PATIENT IN CABIN C
    MIGNON G. EBERHART
    A newly-engaged nurse searches for a killer among the passengers on her fiancé's yacht, in this locked-room mystery from an Edgar Award winner. When nurse Sue Gates agreed to join Monty Montgomery on his yacht, she knew he intended to ask her to marry him. She also knew she didn't love him but that a marriage to the wealthy entrepreneur would give her and her aunt, whose under ...

    $119.00

  • RUN SCARED
    MIGNON G. EBERHART
    In this "stunning [and] enthralling" thriller from an Edgar Award–winning author, a politician's wife covers up her hit and run and gets blackmailed ( Miami News). On a country road on a dark, rainy night, Martha Bascom's life is changed forever. As the young wife of Lem Bascom, the front-runner in a gubernatorial race and a presidential hopeful, Martha has everything to lose w...

    $119.00

  • THE SARAH KELLING AND MAX BITTERSOHN MYSTERIES VOLUME ONE
    CHARLOTTE MACLEOD
    The first three novels featuring the sleuthing Boston couple: "The screwball mystery is Charlotte MacLeod's cup of tea." — Chicago Tribune Packed with wit, simmering romance, and complicated crimes, the whodunits in this delightfully cozy collection from the two-time Edgar Award finalist include: The Family Vault An aging burlesque star's fresh corpse turns up in an old family ...

    $447.00

  • THE NERO WOLFE MYSTERIES VOLUME ONE
    ROBERT GOLDSBOROUGH
    The iconic armchair detective returns in this collection of three novels by an author who "does a masterly job" continuing Rex Stout's legacy ( Booklist ). Nero Award winner Robert Goldsborough continues Rex Stout's classic mystery series in these three acclaimed novels: Murder in E Minor Nero Wolfe is tempted out of a peaceful retirement in his Manhattan brownstone by his desi...

    $497.00

  • THE FOURTH PLAGUE
    EDGAR WALLACE
    When organized crime comes to England, two brothers face off At eighty years old, Professor Tillizini is Italy's foremost authority on the nefarious practices of the underworld. His life's work has been to root out the secret society known as the Red Hand, a blackmailing outfit that has terrorized the country for centuries, and he has finally pinpointed its source. When Tillizi...

    $85.00

  • THE MOLLY MAGUIRES AND THE DETECTIVES
    ALLAN PINKERTON
    To keep the peace in the coal mines, the Pinkerton agency goes to war The Civil War is over, and the Union is rebuilding using the power of coal—black rock dug from deep beneath the Pennsylvania earth by men from all over the globe who are seeking their fortune in America. In the 1870s, the miners are unionizing to fight for better working conditions, but within their ranks lur...

    $85.00

  • THE CLUE
    CAROLYN WELLS
    An heiress has been murdered, and only Fleming Stone can see the vital evidence Madeleine Van Norman is the most eligible young woman in the state, a beautiful young lady who is soon to come into her fortune. From her countless suitors, she makes a peculiar choice, agreeing to marry a stuffy man who loves someone else. On the eve of the wedding, Madeleine shuts herself away in ...

    $85.00

  • THE EXPRESSMAN AND THE DETECTIVE
    ALLAN PINKERTON
    Pinkerton sends an agent to catch a thief on the Southern railway In the build-up to the Civil War, Montgomery is a thriving town—a local capital grown rich on cotton and the railroad. When $10,000 disappears from the railroad, suspicion falls on a clerk named Maroney, an upstanding citizen whose only vice is a love of horseracing. The railroad hires the South's best detectives...

    $85.00

  • THE ANGEL OF TERROR
    EDGAR WALLACE
    To save herself from debtor's prison, a girl agrees to marry a convicted killer When her father died, Lydia lost her closest friend in the world and inherited a mountain of debt. Though she works tirelessly, she doubts she will ever be able to pay it all off. She is near despair when a lawyer comes to her with a most unusual proposal that could save her finances—and cost her li...

    $85.00

  • THE RIDDLE OF THE SANDS
    ERSKINE CHILDERS
    In the rough waters of the North Sea, two sailors fight to save Britain Charles Carruthers is languishing in the crushing heat of a London summer when an old university chum named Davies throws him a lifeline, inviting him on a yachting expedition in the North Sea. It sounds like a lark, but Carruthers finds that the Dulcibella is hardly a yacht, and Davies's trip is no pleasur...

    $85.00

  • THE EYE OF OSIRIS
    R. AUSTIN FREEMAN
    To find a missing archaeologist, Dr. Thorndyke digs for a body After the great success of his latest expedition, the brilliant archaeologist John Bellingham returns from the sandy tombs of Egypt with enough ancient treasures to fill a wing at the British Museum. He visits a friend for dinner and is told to wait in the study. When the friend arrives, he finds the study empty; Be...

    $85.00

  • THE SINGING BONE
    R. AUSTIN FREEMAN
    A remarkable collection of mysteries starring the brilliant Dr. Thorndyke Silas has diamonds in the heel of his shoe. He is a thief, but until the night he meets Oscar Brodski on the footpath near his house, he has never considered murder. A diamond dealer, Brodski's pockets bulge with more precious stones than Silas has ever dreamed of, and they will be his with one swift, vio...

    $85.00

  • THE JUST MEN OF CORDOVA
    EDGAR WALLACE
    In Spain, the Just Men stalk a mysterious English doctor The beggar limps toward the outdoor café looking for a familiar face. He finds Manfred sitting alone and tells the gentleman to follow. Only when the beggar leans close and speaks in his true voice does Manfred recognize him as Gonsalez, master of disguise and an ally in the fight against crime. When they are joined by th...

    $85.00

  • COME BACK DEAD
    TERENCE FAHERTY
    A disgraced director wants a comeback, but a rival wants him dead Carson Drury's first movie was a smash hit that raised his reputation from that of boy genius to greatest director of all time. His second film, The Imperial Albertsons, was even more ambitious, but aggressive editing from the suits at RKO Pictures ruined the movie, and Drury's career with it. Now RKO is dead—kil...

    $119.00

  • DEATH IN THE NIGHT WATCHES
    GEORGE BELLAIRS
    At the height of World War II, Thomas Littlejohn investigates a factory boss's murder Once, Henry Worth's sprawling factory was filled with looms and textile workers, but since the onset of World War II, the space has been given over entirely to military production. Worth is walking the grounds late one night when he smells gas coming from an unused shed. When he enters to inve...

    $119.00

  • THE GARDEN OF MARTYRS
    MICHAEL C. WHITE
    A Catholic parish is torn apart when two of its members are accused of murder The year 1806 is not a good time to be Catholic in Boston. When a man is brutally killed on the Boston Post Road, two unsuspecting Irishmen are charged with the crime. For five months they rot in prison, denied a lawyer until just two days before the hearing. It is a mockery of justice—a one-day trial...

    $149.00

  • THE CASE OF THE HEADLESS JESUIT
    GEORGE BELLAIRS
    On New Year's Eve a string of grisly deaths strike a remote English hamlet For centuries Cobbold-in-the-Marsh has been haunted by the ghost of a Jesuit priest who lost his head rather than deny his faith. Since then, there hasn't been much bloodshed in this peculiar little village, but all that changes during the icy week just after Christmas. First a policeman is found drowned...

    $119.00

  • CALAMITY AT HARWOOD
    GEORGE BELLAIRS
    To solve a murder case, Thomas Littlejohn contends with ghosts, Nazis, and crooked real estate speculators Known across London as one of the premier slumlords of the East End, Solomon Burt has never fallen in love with a property the way he has with Harwood, a faded manor house halfway between London and the sea. When the owner refuses to sell, Burt uses every trick he knows to...

    $119.00

  • RAISE THE DEVIL
    TERENCE FAHERTY
    A starlet is dead, and it falls to Scott Elliott to avenge her In the penthouse of a Las Vegas casino, a gang of mobsters play poker, betting sums that would make even the most seasoned gamblers blush. In the bedroom lies Beverly Brooks, one of Tinseltown's most beautiful leading ladies. She has been kidnapped for the amusement of the don. Scott Elliott, Hollywood sleuth, has c...

    $119.00

  • OUTRAGE ON GALLOWS HILL
    GEORGE BELLAIRS
    In Melchester, Thomas Littlejohn hunts the killer of a strangled poet The war is over and blackouts are a thing of the past, except in the village of Melchester, where the local council has refused to sully its streets with unsightly lamps. The night is pitch black, but hardly quiet. Young lovers are rendezvousing, a police constable is helping himself to a few of his neighbor'...

    $164.00

  • A BROTHER'S BLOOD
    MICHAEL C. WHITE
    Edgar Award Finalist: A German comes to Maine to investigate his brother's long-forgotten murder. Dieter Kallick fought for Rommel in North Africa, doing his duty to the Fatherland right up until he was captured by American GIs. He and his comrades had been told stories of the savagery of the Americans, but when he arrived at the work camp in Maine, he was surprised to find the...

    $149.00

  • JOHN THORNDYKE'S CASES
    R. AUSTIN FREEMAN
    "It would be difficult to find anywhere more nearly perfect stories of scientific deduction than the Dr. Thorndyke tales of R. Austin Freeman." — The New York Times Visiting a lonely hamlet perched on a cliff above the English coast, forensic detective Dr. John Thorndyke goes for a walk on the long, deserted beach. In the sand he finds two sets of footprints, made some hours ap...

    $85.00

  • BULLDOG DRUMMOND RETURNS
    H. C. MCNEILE
    Caught in a deadly conspiracy, a young man stumbles into the only person who can help: Bulldog Drummond Far from home, Marton staggers across a foggy moor, evil in close pursuit. A shot whizzes past his ear and Marton thinks his time has come. He is about to give up when he sees a house up ahead and finds new strength. Inside the isolated cottage, Bulldog Drummond, tough-nosed ...

    $85.00

  • THE FEMALE OF THE SPECIES
    H. C. MCNEILE
    No man in Europe can stop Bulldog Drummond, but now it's a woman's turn to try Bulldog Drummond has retired from fighting tyranny to live peacefully with his wife, Phyllis, in the English countryside. He is just leaving his sleepy local pub when he is accosted by two sinister strangers. With a few quick movements, Drummond leaves the men dazed, bloodied, and eager to make a has...

    $85.00

  • SEVEN KEYS TO BALDPATE
    EARL DERR BIGGERS
    Hoping for peace and quiet, a novelist checks in to a secluded hotel and becomes part of a noisy conspiracy in this classic mystery from the creator of Charlie Chan After years of churning out potboilers, novelist Billy Magee decides that he needs just two months of solitude to produce a work of true literary merit. New York is too crowded with distractions, so he embarks on a ...

    $85.00

  • THE GOSPEL OF SHEBA
    LYNDSAY FAYE
    A librarian is tormented by a lethal volume of black magic. When A. Davenport Lomax's young daughter asks him whether spirits and faeries are real, the Edwardian librarian just pats the little darling on the head. But when a desperate man emerges from the winding passages of the library muttering about demonology, he gets Lomax's attention. Theodore Grange is a member of the Br...

    $35.00