Old Detective Mysteries

The wise-cracking Wysdom Ward is back and more badass than ever. It’s been five months since The God Among Men disappeared off the planet. Wysdom Ward is trying to find him while simultaneously building her new private detective business. Women are the ultimate multitaskers. AmIRight!? She has zero leads until she discovers a cryptic clue left behind by her brand-new boyfriend. He tells her to run for her life, but she’s never been one to follow the rules. Wysdom jumps into a world of secret military contractors, knife-throwing badasses, missing dry cleaning, and 55+ retirement ...

The aging millionairess has a problem: where is her young playboy husband getting all his money? To help find the answer, Archie infiltrates a party at her palatial estate. But her late-night murder ruins the festive mood...and a letter bomb from a powerful crime boss makes Nero Wolfe do the unthinkable - run for his life. Suddenly Archie finds himself on his own, trying to find a killer without the help of his old mentor. For to all appearances, Wolfe has vanished. The career of the world’s most famous detective has ended in cowardice and disgrace...or has it?

In 1890, the first Japanese diplomatic delegation arrives in London to open an embassy. Cyrus Barker, private enquiry agent and occasional agent for the Foreign Service Office, is enlisted to display his personal Japanese garden to the visiting dignitaries. Later that night, Ambassador Toda is shot and killed in his office and Cyrus Barker is discovered across the street, watching the very same office, in possession of a revolver with one spent cartridge.

The Dodge City Murders Book One of the Earp, Masterson Murder Mysteries In the shadow of Dodge City, 1883, something wicked plays beneath the silence… When a series of ritualistic murders strikes the gritty frontier town, lawmen Wyatt Earp and Bat Masterson find themselves chasing not just a killer—but a conductor orchestrating death like a symphony. From candlelit corpses on Boot Hill to blood-soaked altars in Kansas opera houses, the two must face a haunting enemy known only by a chilling nickname: The Conductor. As they unravel a dark musical conspiracy stretching across the American...

Thrift shop til someone drops... Welcome to Pine Grove, where Minnesota nice is just a suggestion, and the sheriff is a real dog. Turning her garage into a thrift store was a lakeside picnic compared to having her mother come to visit. And when the scandalously young boyfriend she brought with her disappears, Jessica Braun has her work cut out for her. With the help of the canine sheriff and her new friends in town, Jess will have to think fast to keep her mother from taking the blame for the body that turns up. And as if a mother and a murder aren’t enough, her shop faces competition ...

Mossa has returned to Valdegeld on a missing persons case, for which she’ll once again need Pleiti’s insight. Seventeen students and staff members have disappeared from Valdegeld University—yet no one has noticed. The answers to this case may lie on the moon of Io—Mossa’s home—and the history of Jupiter’s original settlements during humanity’s exodus from Earth. But Pleiti’s faith in her life’s work as a scholar of the past has grown precarious, and this new case threatens to further destabilize her dreams for humanity’s future, as well as her own.

Where Old Bones Lie is set on an isolated archaeological dig in the Cotswolds. When a body is found near the site, the suspects, witnesses, and clues all conflict, and the disappearance of a group of New Age travellers just seems to add to the mystery. Superintendent Markby and Meredith Mitchell must untangle the mess, and in doing so find themselves in a dangerous and uncompromising situation.

"The dog came back." "This is a joke, right?" "No, it isn't.... So do you want to hear the rest of it?" Dumbly, Jury nodded. The rest of it is told by Harry Johnson, a stranger who sits down next to Richard Jury as he's drinking in a London pub called the Old Wine Shades. Over three successive nights Harry spins this complicated story about a good friend of his whose wife and son (and dog) disappeared one day as they were viewing property in Surrey.

From out of the rain-swept postwar night comes Harry Nile - a man who's seen it all, because he just can't look away. Here are 19 state-of-the-art radio noir dramas, produced by West Coast legend Jim French, and starring Larry Albert as the hard-boiled, straight-shooting Harry! This collection includes four more installments of the "War Comes To Harry Nile" storyline, a Christmas episode, two two-part adventures, and more. You'll hear Pat French, Jay Green, John Patrick Lowrie...and a whole bunch of killer cases.

PI Hallie James is asked to assist in the investigation into the robberies at local banks. The crafty criminals change their MO with each bank, making them difficult to predict. When they begin to kill, Hallie knows they must be stopped before they strike again. At the same time a friend asks her to look into a string of mysterious deaths at a seniors only apartment building. Is it murder or just unfortunate accidents? With two cases heating up, a major glitch in her personal life threatens to change everything. Hallie must fight to keep herself from becoming distracted and solve the cases-...

Eager to unravel her family's history, Becca Gold finds herself untangling a web of murder. Aunt Becca and her niece take a journey to Portugal on an exclusive tour in pursuit of ancestral insights. Amid mingling with fellow travelers, Becca’s inner warning system starts to flare. She senses an ominous undercurrent. She’s keenly observing everyone’s actions and yet a priceless relic goes missing and its owner, one of the tourmates, is found dead. Uncertainty looms: no one knows if it was a natural demise or a calculated murder. Determined to get to the bottom of things, Becca snoops ...

You can’t keep the past buried forever… When private investigator Nikki Garcia comes to New Mexico, raging wildfires in the nearby mountains force her and her family to evacuate. In the ensuing chaos, people close to her, including her husband, mysteriously disappear. Join Nikki as she races across the Sangre de Cristo Mountains and the Colorado prairie in a desperate attempt to save her loved ones. Her search unearths decades-old secrets and an international spy network that will stop at nothing to steal secrets from the heart of Cheyenne Mountain. As she navigates treacherous terrain ...

Little has changed structurally to Dreadbury Manor since Trench’s last visit almost six years ago – but other things have: The manor-house is now empty; the Lord of the Manor resides abroad and the sixteenth-century property is up ‘For Sale’. But… What is causing the strange creaking sounds that plague the hallways? Who is the ethereal woman in white who flows between the house and the grounds? And what is the significance of the old coin found near the stables? Trench and Old Tom must look to the past to discover just who is menacing the manor-house of today...

Confronted with a development he’d long dreamt of, a weak link in the iron-hard chain of Professor Moriarty’s criminal empire, Sherlock Holmes undertakes a series of quests which arise from clues left in a number of locations around London, each message leading onto the next, and in order to keep a prearranged meeting with the mysterious informant who has sent the challenge, the great detective must unravel a complex series of psychological puzzles before he can keep his rendezvous with the unnamed defector. It’s all in The Case of Moriarty’s Betrayer, the twelfth volume in The ...

The Owl Express: Nate, the great detective, and his dog Sludge, hit the rails on their latest case. Their mission: To guard an owl named Hoot. Hoot belongs to Nate’s cousin, Olivia Sharp, and she thinks someone on the train might be out to get her feathered friend. Then Hoot disappears! The Tardy Tortoise: The sun is shining, the birds are singing, and someone is eating the flowers in Nate's garden. A green tortoise is slowly stepping across the lawn, and Nate is slowly following him. It may take all of Nate the Great's patience and sharp eyesight to find out slowly.

Brad Hunter is doing everything he can to keep his private investigation agency open, but the women of Honolulu keep distracting him from his work. His latest desire, a Chinatown barmaid, occupies too much of his time, and his money. At least until she is eliminated from his life the hard way--by murder. Within hours, his HPD detective brother puts Brad at the the top of the prime suspect list. Now that he is being scrutinized by the Honolulu Police Department, Brad heads to Chinatown to start his own investigation. What does Brad find first? A new woman, of course.

Thrift shop til someone drops… When she receives a strange invitation to her aunt’s midnight funeral in the cozy Minnesota town of Pine Grove, Jessica Braun’s life is going nowhere. Her marriage is over, and her dead-end job has run out of road. Now she’s inheriting an old log house full of collected treasures and memories, and learns Aunt Daphne’s death was no accident. To make matters worse, Jess is the hopeless deputy’s prime suspect. After a second old-timer is silenced and a third may be in danger, she dives into her own investigation and the town’s worn-out secrets. With...

The most exciting Sterling P.I. instalment yet! In this episode, a spouse in denial hires Sterling to overturn her husband's murder conviction - the Crown Prosecution's, "Silver Bullet Case". A dog, a diary and DNA are his only clues in this twisting tale with dark turns. But is Sterling on a wild goose chase or honourably trying to reset the scales of justice? Even he is not sure... Follow Sterling in his latest case. A standalone Film Noir-inspired novella.

Before the beginning of a mystery legend... Trench and Editor Law discover the Stokeham Herald is losing sales fast to a new rival newspaper, the Stokeham Star - whose star reporter always seems to be the first to a news story exclusive. And... why are the Stokeham Star offices so close to Downtown Stokeham? What is the Star's connection to shady businessman, Stonebridge? And does the Star's editor have his own hidden agenda? The investigation will lead Trench to future colleague, Sally-Anne and eventually to the Mayflower Court flats where a certain mysterious and elderly gentleman will be...

The heist was legendary, still talked about 20 years after the priceless paintings disappeared from one of Boston's premier art museums. Most thought the art was lost forever, buried deep, sold off overseas, or, worse, destroyed as incriminating evidence. But when paint chips from the most valuable piece stolen, Gentlemen in Black by a Spanish master, arrives at the desk of a Boston journalist, the museum finds hope and enlists Spenser's help.