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Editor Susan Ryeland has left her Greek island, her hotel, and her Greek boyfriend Andreas in search of a new life back in England. Freelancing for Causton Books, she’s working on the manuscript of a novel, Pund’s Last Case, by a young author named Eliot Crace, a continuation of the popular Alan Conway series. Susan is surprised to learn that Eliot is the grandson of legendary children’s author Marian Crace, who died some fifteen years ago—murdered, Elliot insists, by poison.

Agatha Raisin's private detective agency is working flat out on a series of shop burglaries. The break-ins seem to have taken a violent turn when a friend of Agatha's is murdered during a raid on his shop. Although determined to nail the villains, Agatha still makes time to help Sir Charles Fraith prepare to stage a massive, hugely glamorous, promotional event in the grounds of his ancestral home, Barfield House.

In the canton of Yarrowdale, at the very edge of the Empire’s reach, an impossible crime has occurred. A Treasury officer has disappeared into thin air—abducted from his quarters while the door and windows remained locked from the inside, in a building whose entrances and exits are all under constant guard. To solve the case, the Empire calls on its most brilliant and mercurial investigator, the great Ana Dolabra. At her side, as always, is her bemused assistant Dinios Kol. Before long, Ana’s discovered that they’re not investigating a disappearance, but a murder.

Spenser is waiting out the latest Boston snowstorm when he gets word that Rita Fiore has been shot. Rita’s always been a tricky one: flirting with Spenser for years, she’s an ever-present figure that transcends friendship in Spenser’s circle. But at the end of the day, Rita is family. And family will always be protected. Both a pit bull in the courtroom and provocateur outside it, Rita is no stranger to controversy. But as one of the city’s toughest lawyers, Spenser knows that there’s no short list of suspects who might want to enact revenge.

In late Victorian England, private enquiry agents Cyrus Barker and Thomas Llewelyn find themselves in the middle of the deadly chaos when powerful forces align to take over London's criminal underworld.

Set against the enchanting background of post war Vienna, with its beautiful palaces and gardens, its disenchanted residents and scars of war, E.C.R. Lorac constructs a characteristic detective story, sure to puzzle and excite. This exceedingly rare mystery, first published in 1956, makes its triumphant return for the first time since its original appearance.

London, 1952. Seven years after the chaotic aftermath of World War II, London has is coming alive again, with jazz clubs and flickering cinema awnings lighting up the night sky. But for widowed Helen ‘Dexie’ Dexter, she’s still a woman in a man’s world. She longs to prove herself as an officer in the London Metropolitan Police, yet she’s stuck intervening in domestics and making tea for her male colleagues. Then Harri Schroder arrives, seconded from Hamburg to the Met.

Detective Peter Diamond, chief of the Avon and Somerset Murder Squad, is taking a short holiday in the country. His former colleague Julie Hargreaves has invited Diamond and his partner, Paloma, to visit the idyllic village of Baskerville (no relation to the Sherlock Holmes story, so he's told). It turns out Julie's invitation was not without ulterior motives. The woman who owns the village's largest dairy farm has been convicted of manslaughter following a terrible accident in her grain silo.

Sherlock Holmes, Lord Peter Wimsey, & Detective Alan Grant: The Complete Collection is a wide-ranging collection of 20 classic detective novels and stories from three of the greatest crime writers of the 20th century and their most iconic characters.

When James Taylor arrives late for a funeral, he has to stand at the back of the small church. But, as the service progresses, Taylor notices a man six rows in front of him. At first he thinks he must be mistaken, but the more he looks at the man, the more convinced Taylor becomes that this is his old schoolfriend Rufus Rorke. Except it couldn’t be him, could it? Because two years ago Taylor attended Rufus Rorke’s funeral. He even delivered Rufus’s eulogy.

Something is clearly bothering Sir Flyte Rascallian, Master of Hardwick College at the University of Cambridge and renowned art expert. Are all the grimy paintings he's recently inherited from his aunt's old attic really as worthless as he claims? When Sir Flyte is found murdered in his study on campus, Detective Chief Inspection Arthur St. Just must unravel his sudden unusual behavior to get to the bottom of the death of the old master, but in doing so, St. Just becomes entangled in a web of priceless artwork, deadly intentions, and dangerous secrets.

Eine unerklärliche Serie an Suizide hält London in Atem. Nahe der Burgruine von Pall-Mall werden immer öfter gut situierte Bürger tot aufgefunden. Als Polizeiinspektor Gordon plötzlich ein Erpresserschreiben erhält, indem man ihm seines Lebens bedroht, sollte er nicht umgehend als Oberster Scotland Yards zurücktreten, wendet sich dieser hilfesuchend an Holmes.

Ein Schuss in Liliane de Vry‘s Villa. Kurze Zeit später ist Inspektor Hawthorne auch schon vor Ort. Er findet die Leiche eines Mannes im Salon der schönen Liliane, während diese mit ihrem Geliebten zum Tatzeitpunkt selbst die oberen Räumlichkeiten bewohnt haben soll. Auf der Suche nach dem geheimnisvollen Mörder wendet sich Inspektor Hawthorne an Sherlock Holmes und Dr. Watson.

Gerade als sich Sherlock Holmes und Dr. Watson auf den Weg zu Pater Brown in die Waltham Abbey machen wollen, entdecken sie einen Brief auf ihrer Türschwelle. Dieser enthält nicht nur eine alte Drohung an John Smith, sondern auch eine Aufforderung, sich mit einem gewissen Dr. Blackwood im Epping Forest zu treffen. In der Hoffnung, einen Ausweg aus ihrer misslichen Lage zu finden, folgen sie dieser rätselhaften Einladung – und sind verblüfft über das, was Dr. Blackwood ihnen offenbart.

Ein unbekannter Mann mit rotem Schopf bietet der schönen, aber mittellosen Ellen Delmoreit einhundert Pfund für eine neue Arbeitsstelle auf Schloss Cardiff. Überrascht willigt Ellen Delmoreit ein und macht sich sogleich am nächsten Tag auf nach Schloss Cardiff. Doch das angebliche Schloss entpuppt sich als eine unbewohnte Ruine. Dann aber entdeckt die schöne, junge Frau einen alten Mann.

Alice Hill, die Tochter eines reichen Großkaufmanns, heiratet den bedeutend älteren Marquis de Ravaillac, als plötzlich ein zerlumpter, junger Künstler die Kirche stürmt und seine Liebe gegenüber Miss Hill beteuert. Der Störenfried wird umgehend entfernt und die Trauung fortgesetzt. Daraufhin verschwindet der Marquis mit seiner hübschen Braut auf nimmer wiedersehen.

Als der Hungerkünstler Ricardo Sacco zufällig einem jungen, hübschen Mädchen zu Hilfe eilt und es vor einem brutalen Überfall bewahrt, ist es auch schon um den jungen Mann geschehen. Zum Dank schenkt ihm Ines, die Tochter eines reichen Mannes, einen Brillanten. Ricardo Sacco kann sein Glück kaum fassen, doch es währt nicht lange. Sein langjähriger Feind, der sich als sein Doppelgänger ausgibt, ist ihm auf den Fersen. Und dann nimmt das Unglück seinen Lauf! Doch Holmes und Watson sind schnell zur Stelle.

Mr. Warren, ein Londoner Bankier, bittet Sherlock Holmes um Hilfe. Sein Buchhalter, Mr. Hill, wird seit einigen Tagen vermisst. Holmes nimmt sich der Sache an und befragt dessen verzweifelte Frau Eva. Diese berichtet ihm von einer weiteren vermissten Person. Mrs. Cerise Taylor, die Ehefrau des ehemaligen Geschäftspartners des Bankiers Hill, wurde am selben Tag, als der Buchhalter auf merkwürdige Weise verschwand, von ihrem eigenen Mann in die Irrenanstalt eingewiesen.

Thomas Pitt is now the powerful head of Britain’s Special Branch, and some people fear that he may have been promoted beyond his abilities. His own self-doubt is fueled by rumors of a plot to blow up connections on the Dover-London rail line, on which Austrian duke Alois Habsburg is soon to travel. But why destroy an entire train to kill one obscure Austrian royal? Are the rumors designed to distract police from an even more devastating plot?

The man who lies bleeding to death in a London brickyard is no ordinary drifter but a secret informant with details of an international plot against the British government. Special Branch officer Thomas Pitt, hastening to rendezvous with him, arrives seconds after the knife-wielding assassin—who, in turn, flees on an erratic course that leads Pitt in wild pursuit to picturesque St. Malo on the French coast. Meanwhile, Pitt’s supervisor, Victor Narraway, stands accused of embezzling government funds. accompany him to Dublin to investigate.