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  • 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 desire...

    $329.00

  • THE MADOC AND JANET RHYS MYSTERIES VOLUME ONE
    CHARLOTTE MACLEOD
    The first three cozy mysteries in a series featuring a Royal Canadian Mountie and his resourceful wife from an international-bestselling author. The beloved sleuthing couple solves a trio of murder cases in the austere beauty of Canada’s New Brunswick. Originally published under the pseudonym Alisa Craig, these three tales are a witty look at murder in a small town—“the epitome...

    $299.00

  • MALICE IN MAGGODY
    JOAN HESS
    After a crossbow killing at a cheap roadside motel, Ozarks police chief Arly Hanks finds herself investigating her first murder case. Her marriage over and career gone bust, Arly Hanks flees Manhattan for her hometown: Maggody, Arkansas. In a town this size, nothing much ever happens, so Arly figures she’s safe as the town’s first female chief of police—until the husband of one...

    $119.00

  • MISCHIEF IN MAGGODY
    JOAN HESS
    When a woman is shot in a cannabis patch, Arly Hanks must restore order to her Ozarks community, in this sharp-witted mystery by an Agatha Award–winning author. When small-town police chief Arly Hanks returns to Maggody, Arkansas, after vacation, she finds the population has risen to a booming 802. Among the newbies: Madame Celeste, the psychic who’s holding locals in thrall wi...

    $119.00

  • MURDER UNDER THE PALMS
    STEFANIE MATTESON
    Among the senior citizens of Palm Beach, legendary Oscar-winning actress Charlotte Graham finds love, murder, and a delightful cozy mystery After fifty years on stage and screen, Hollywood icon Charlotte Graham has gone south for the winter. In the glamorous confines of Palm Beach, Charlotte sips rum cocktails, reunites with friends, and rekindles the flame with a former lover....

    $119.00

  • MURDER BY THE BOOK
    FRANCES LOCKRIDGE / RICHARD LOCKRIDGE
    While vacationing in Florida, Mr. and Mrs. North investigate a doctor’s murder It’s morning in Key West, and Pamela North has gone fishing for pelicans. Her husband, Jerry, insists it’s impossible to go fishing for birds, but when he finds her later on, she’s surrounded by pelicans on all sides. He shouldn’t be surprised; Pamela has made a career out of doing the impossible—and...

    $119.00

  • THE LONG SKELETON
    FRANCES LOCKRIDGE / RICHARD LOCKRIDGE
    When a television hostess is killed in their hotel, Mr. and Mrs. North investigate the murder of America’s girl next door From coast to coast, everyone in America knows the smiling face of Amanda Towne. The most celebrated interviewer on television, she’s a beacon of honesty and warmth . . . when the cameras are rolling. Amanda will do whatever it takes to stay at the top of he...

    $119.00

  • CURTAIN FOR A JESTER
    FRANCES LOCKRIDGE / RICHARD LOCKRIDGE
    The murder of a notorious practical joker is no laughing matter in this “excellent series” starring a husband-and-wife detective team (The New Yorker). Byron Wilmot will do anything for a laugh. He’s a legend of practical jokes, notorious for once using a dummy to stage a kidnapping so realistic it fooled the police. So when Pamela and Jerry North are invited to a party at Wilm...

    $119.00

  • A KEY TO DEATH
    FRANCES LOCKRIDGE / RICHARD LOCKRIDGE
    When their lawyer is murdered, Mr. and Mrs. North find that everyone in Manhattan is a suspect Jerry and Pamela North have targets on their backs. It’s not fair, but that’s what happens when you make a hobby out of catching killers. The murderers get upset, and, well, you know how they are. And with all this homicidal attention directed at the Norths, it’s about time they made ...

    $119.00

  • MURDER IS SUGGESTED
    FRANCES LOCKRIDGE / RICHARD LOCKRIDGE
    Mr. and Mrs. North work with the New York Police Department to investigate a hypnotic murder As far as NYPD captain William Weigand is concerned, there’s nothing more inconvenient than a murder victim with a name. Names—not just ordinary names, but boldfaced names—mean headlines, and headlines mean headaches. Prof. Jameson Elwell was a boldfaced name of the first order, a celeb...

    $119.00

  • DEATH OF AN ANGEL
    FRANCES LOCKRIDGE / RICHARD LOCKRIDGE
    For the sake of a Broadway hit, Mr. and Mrs. North search for a playboy’s killer Naomi Shaw has taken the stage in Around the Corner one hundred times. And with every performance, she has brought the audience to tears. But while she’s an angel onstage, she’s rather harder to like once the curtain drops. Nevertheless, the play is a hit. The critics are awed, the crowds are livel...

    $119.00

  • DEATH HAS A SMALL VOICE
    FRANCES LOCKRIDGE / RICHARD LOCKRIDGE
    Before he dies, a murdered burglar puts Mrs. North in mortal danger The thief struts toward Broadway, confident his luck has finally begun to turn. Just a few hours earlier, he had been as scared as a trapped rat, cowering in a bathroom, hoping the homeowners would go to bed without finding him. He got lucky, and he got away with his mark: a flimsy little piece of plastic that’...

    $119.00

  • ODESSA BEACH
    BOB LEUCI
    Fleeing the KGB, a Russian conman decamps for New York City to build a new empire of crime Nikolai “Niki” Zorakoff has made a killing on the Soviet black market. He smuggles in luxury goods from the West—the blue jeans and perfumes that wealthy Muscovites simply can’t do without—and sells them for small fortunes. But when the KGB takes an interest in Niki’s operation, he knows ...

    $119.00

  • FULL FRONTAL MURDER
    BARBARA PAUL
    A cutthroat Manhattan custody battle leads to kidnapping and murder Rita Galloway is leaving a puppet show when a stranger sprints up to her and snatches her son, Bobby, from her arms. She screams for help, and Bobby is able to wriggle out of the man’s grip, but the would-be kidnapper escapes without a trace. It would be just another ordinary Manhattan street crime if it weren’...

    $119.00

  • HE HUFFED AND HE PUFFED
    BARBARA PAUL
    To find a blackmailer’s killer, Marian Larch investigates the extortionist’s victims A. J. Strode would kill for command of House of Glass, the corporation that controls everything from plate-glass windows to fiberglass insulation, and he nearly has it within his grasp. Only three stockholders—a violinist, a helicopter pilot, and a mercenary—stand between the businessman and hi...

    $119.00

  • IN-LAWS AND OUTLAWS
    BARBARA PAUL
    A widow returns to Boston to aid a family plagued by death Gillian stopped being a Decker when her husband, Stuart, died, and she considers herself lucky to have escaped. The Deckers are ruthless, a family of power-hungry backstabbers who live for profit and sneer at love. Stuart was different, but even he obeyed his older brother Raymond like he was a god. Since she lost her h...

    $119.00

  • A CHORUS OF DETECTIVES
    BARBARA PAUL
    The stars of the Metropolitan Opera search for a crazed killer who plans to bring the company down. They find the tenor dangling from a water pipe, hanging by his own suspenders. His corpse is still warm. Naturally, the opera’s manager doesn’t stop the production. A dead chorus tenor isn’t enough to close them down, and the show must go on. But there are 139 singers left in the...

    $119.00

  • STOP THE PRESSES!
    ROBERT GOLDSBOROUGH
    Nero Wolfe and Archie Goodwin have a lot of boldfaced names on their suspect list when New York’s most hated gossip columnist is murdered. There are few people Nero Wolfe respects, and Lon Cohen of the New York Gazette is one of them. So when Cohen asks for a favor, the famously brilliant—and notoriously lazy—detective is inclined to listen. According to Cohen, someone wants to...

    $179.00

  • DEATH ON THE AISLE
    FRANCES LOCKRIDGE / RICHARD LOCKRIDGE
    Mr. and Mrs. North win front-row seats to a murder on Broadway Dorian Hunt intends to marry Lt. William Weigand, and she doesn’t care how many murderers get in the way. Every time they’ve tried to tie the knot, her fiancé has let Jerry and Pamela North sweep him up in another mystery, and Dorian has had enough. Today, she’s demanding a wedding—murder or no murder—but before the...

    $149.00

  • PAYOFF FOR THE BANKER
    FRANCES LOCKRIDGE / RICHARD LOCKRIDGE
    “One of the funniest and most satisfactory mysteries in this excellent series” set in 1940s Manhattan (The New Yorker). When he saw the Zeroes on his tail, Rick Hunter knew he had two choices: He could land on the carrier, inviting a Japanese attack that could destroy the squadron, or he could take the Zeroes out to sea. He turned away from the carrier, and flew until his tanks...

    $119.00

  • HANGED FOR A SHEEP
    FRANCES LOCKRIDGE / RICHARD LOCKRIDGE
    Mrs. North must protect her aunt from being poisoned—whether she likes it or not Pamela North has never worried about making sense. When she has a thought, she expresses it, and if no one in the room knows what she’s talking about, it’s no trouble to her. While Mrs. North’s unique style of thought can make her a challenging conversational partner, it also makes her one of the f...

    $119.00

  • UNTIDY MURDER
    FRANCES LOCKRIDGE / RICHARD LOCKRIDGE
    When a magazine editor falls from his window, the case lands in the laps of Mr. and Mrs. North The body hits the pavement at 12:25 p.m., but Dorian Hunt doesn’t know a thing about it. She has come to the offices of Esprit magazine to deliver some sketches, and she has a meeting with the art director, Paul Wilming. When his secretary opens the door, Wilming isn’t in his office. ...

    $119.00

  • THE HORN OF ROLAND
    ELLIS PETERS
    A famous composer’s post-WWII homecoming is marred by death threats in a gripping tale of suspense from the Edgar Award–winning creator of Brother Cadfael.   Three decades ago, a teenaged Lucas Cornith joined the Austrian Resistance, helping to lead escapees from German oppression across the Alps to Switzerland and safety. But when Hitler’s storm troopers got too close, Lucas f...

    $119.00

  • THE ASSIZE OF THE DYING
    ELLIS PETERS
    A pair of gripping mystery novellas dealing with crime and punishment from the Edgar Award–winning author of the Chronicles of Brother Cadfael.   In The Assize of the Dying, a defendant in an English courtroom is sentenced to death for a terrible slaying he insists he did not commit. Rising to his feet, Louis Stevenson places a medieval curse on the prosecutor, the judge, the j...

    $119.00

  • THE LILY HAND
    ELLIS PETERS
    Sixteen unforgettable stories from a “beguiling writer” and the Edgar Award–winning author of the Chronicles of Brother Cadfael (The Daily Telegraph).   Expanding her horizons far beyond the boundaries of crime fiction, Ellis Peters offers a broad range of short stories in this collection. Two friends, cruelly torn apart when their country is violently sundered, reach a surpris...

    $119.00

  • THE WILL AND THE DEED
    ELLIS PETERS
    A shocking revelation in a diva’s will leads to murder in this chilling whodunit from the Edgar Award–winning author of the Chronicles of Brother Cadfael.   It’s not surprising that adored British opera star, Antonia Byrne, would want her death to be as dramatic as the roles she performed on the world’s great stages. Even so, the existence of a new will surprises everyone—espec...

    $119.00

  • DEATH MASK
    ELLIS PETERS
    A troubled English boy sets out to uncover the truth about his father’s death, from the Edgar Award–winning author of the Chronicles of Brother Cadfael.   Following the death of his father at an archaeological dig in Greece, young Crispin Almond returned to England and the mother he barely knew. Now a difficult, morose, and unreachable teenager, he has been expelled from every ...

    $119.00

  • MOST LOVING MERE FOLLY
    ELLIS PETERS
    A post-WWII love affair is eroded by suspicions of murder, from the Edgar Award–winning author of the Chronicles of Brother Cadfael.   Talented potter Suspiria Freeland and her painter husband, Theo, survived the Blitz and are living among fellow artists in a bombed-out London suburb. But since the war’s terror ended, Theo’s drunken self-loathing has become even harder for his ...

    $119.00

  • THE LADY AND HER DOCTOR
    EVELYN PIPER
    To escape poverty, a doctor blackmails a desperate patient   In the far reaches of Queens, a doctor struggles to maintain his practice. Milton Krop sees patients in his apartment’s bedroom, which means he dresses in the bathroom and sleeps in the living room, trying to keep up appearances while providing for two children. Krop is strong as an ox, but poverty is suffocating, and...

    $119.00

  • CONDOR IN THE STACKS
    JAMES GRADY
    Short tales about deadly books, by top mystery authors   A thrilling Condor novella from the bestselling author of Six Days of the Condor.   Vin, a name of convenience for the agent known as Condor, has been released from psychiatric care and it’s back to work. Unfortunately, he’s been assigned the mundane job of sorting through books meant for the incinerator instead of the hi...

    $59.00