Traditional Detectives

It is the stroke of midnight on Hogmanay when Alison Reid admits a caller to her home. When her death is later reported, DI Clare Mackay attends the scene....

Early one morning, DI Clare Mackay receives a message from her boss, DCI Alastair Gibson, telling her to meet him in secret. She does as he asks and is taken to a secure location in the remote Scottish hills....

When the chief suspect in the notorious "peekaboo cop killer" case blew himself up, almost taking lead investigator DCI Duncan Bone with him, the psychologically damaged detective thought his days on the force were over....

A cozy crime series set in gorgeous Tuscany. It's murder in paradise....

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s Sherlock Holmes tales are rightly ranked among the seminal works of mystery and detective fiction.

On the surface, Richard Ainsworth has life where he wants it. Middle-aged navel gazing and Olympic levels of procrastination are exactly what rural life in France should be about.

Cleo’s holiday with her family to the seaside resort town of Brighton is everything she hoped it would be…until she receives a blackmail note. The blackmailer demands Cleo help her or a story revealing Cleo’s investigating will appear in the newspaper.

Three gripping crime fiction thrillers featuring DCI Whitney Walker and forensic psychologist Dr. Georgina Cavendish: Deadly Games, Fatal Justice, and Death Track....

In the peace and tranquility of the woods at Pinehills on a Saturday afternoon, a mobile phone begins to ring. The phone belongs to DC Smith....

When a man's dismembered body is discovered at an abandoned quarry on the north Norfolk coast, DI Tom Janssen and his team must wade through his secretive life to figure out how he met his end....

Nestled high in the Tuscan hills lies Villa Volpone, home to renowned crime writer Jonah Moore and his creative writing course. It’s also the last place retired DCI Dan Armstrong expected to spend his retirement....

Here is the world's first ever fully dramatised Sherlock Holmes canon: 56 short stories and 4 novels, all made by the same team of directors, producers, dramatists and leading actors, and packed with the high production qualities of a film or TV drama that set it apart....

When Hercule Poirot, a well-known inspector and an eccentric, but very likable, Belgian refugee from the Great War, discovers that Emily Inglethorp, his wealthy benefactress who helped him through his new life, has been found dead, poisoned with strychnine, he sets out to solve the crime....

The first time somebody tried to kill him was an accident. The second time was deliberate. Now Paul Mulchrone finds himself on the run with nobody to turn to except a nurse who has read one-too-many crime novels and a renegade copper with a penchant for violence. Together they must solve one of the most notorious crimes in Irish history....

Maurice Questing was left to die in a pool of boiling mud.....

Sir John Phillips, the Harley Street surgeon, and his beautiful nurse, Jane Harden, are almost too nervous to operate....

Graham's a career police officer, with a tragic past. His quiet, thoughtful exterior hides a complex mind, and a fierce determination to see justice done.

When a revered sports legend falls victim to a brutal home invasion, a nation is shaken to its core. Outrage swells and the press and powers that be demand answers.

Daisy is anticipating a relaxing, nondramatic holiday. But Daisy doesn't have that kind of luck....

Charlie Hills, former desk sergeant at Kings Lake Central, is in trouble. He hasn't told Smith, his old friend and sparring partner, but someone has, and now the two former policemen are about to embark on a difficult and potentially dangerous search for the truth....

Pendant une représentation de "La Traviata" au théâtre vénitien La Fenice, on annonce brutalement que le célébrissime chef...

Daisy Dalrymple discovers that daffodil bulbs aren't all that's buried in a country estate's flower bed....

Graham is a detective inspector with London’s Metropolitan police force. He’s a career police officer, an educated, reserved, thoughtful, some might say, complex man....

Murder's a beach! A family holiday turns deadly at Brighton Beach. When Ginger and Basil and their family check into the Brighton Beach Boutique Hotel on a lovely warm day in June of 1926, a shocking discovery upsets their plans to relax in the sun and surf....

DI Fenella Sallow has retreated to her work, escaping the trauma of the last case, when a strange man is found dead in the ruins of an ancient castle.

Tommy Beresford and Prudence “Tuppence” Cowley are broke. What are two young people in post-WWI London to do in such a situation except start up a new and exciting business: Young Adventurer’s Ltd. Almost as soon as they make the leap into self-employment a case falls into their lap. A mysterious man wishes to hire Tuppence for a job. All she has to do is impersonate a young American woman in Paris. Easy!

The newly formed Ministry of Fine Arts has a staffing problem - one minister dead within six months of its inception, his successor snuffed out shortly before the General Election. When a third victim, Permanent Secretary Edwin Pompfret is fatally crushed by the fall of a giant bust, Inspector Julian Rivers is drawn into a case of murder of artistic devilment.

Eine brutale Mordserie versetzt Sylt in Angst und Schrecken: die neue Nordsee-Thrillerserie von Bestsellerautor Martin Krüger Eigentlich wollte Fria Nordström in ihrem geerbten Kapitänshaus auf Sylt einen Neuanfang starten und mit den düsteren Erinnerungen an Hamburg und das LKA abschließen. Aber schon an ihrem ersten Tag wird die Kommissarin nach List gerufen: Der alte Seemann Tammo Mattes wurde erhängt aufgefunden. Ein Selbstmord? Doch die Umstände seines Todes sind so rätselhaft, dass Frias Misstrauen geweckt ist.

The two greatest detectives of the twentieth century come together in this incredible collection. This audiobook includes unabridged recordings of Agatha Christie Hercule Poirot Collection, as-well as the complete collection of Arthur Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes novels and stories. The novels included here, with relevant track-listings, are: Sherlock Holme Collection. A Study in Scarlet Track 1 to 14. The Sign of the Four Track 15 to 27. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes Track 28 to 47. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes Track 48 to 60. The Hound of the Baskervilles Track 61 to 75.

Jabez Wilson, a pawnbroker, consults Holmes about a job, gained only because of his red hair, which took him away from his shop for long periods each day; the job for to simply copy the Encyclopædia Britannica. After eight weeks, he was suddenly informed that the job ended. After some investigation at Wilson's shop, Holmes contacts a police inspector and the manager of a nearby bank. With Watson, they hide in the bank vault and catch two thieves who had dug a tunnel from the shop while Wilson was at the decoy copying job.

Un pueblo tranquilo, tres muertes misteriosas y preguntas sin respuesta: Roger Ackroyd aparece muerto, dejando tras de sí una red de secretos. Solo un peculiar detective recién llegado, amante de los calabacines y la verdad, podrá desvelar el enigma oculto tras las apariencias.

Disgraced Detective Dave Slater is stuck on gardening leave, down in the quiet Hampshire town of Tinton, with just one last chance to redeem himself. He must search for mousy young journalist Ruth Thornhill. Months ago, she vanished from her home, her London job, her life. But the Met don't want to know. Now Slater's boss slips him the file, asking him to investigate discreetly, with the help of an unlikely new assistant. Bedraggled fifty-something Detective Norman Norman.

Das Musgrave-Ritual ist ein jahrhundertealter Familienbrauch der Herren von Gut Hurlstone. Meisterdetektiv Sherlock Holmes erkennt, dass in dem Ritual der Schlüssel zu einem Schatz von historischer Bedeutung verborgen liegt. Aber nicht nur Holmes versucht dieses Geheimnis zu entschlüsseln. Noch ehe er es lösen kann, haben bereits zwei Menschen ihr Leben verloren.

Je kamer is geweldig. Het is eigenlijk geen kamer, maar een complete villa: een bungalow op het water. Je hebt een privézwembad, een enorme hangmat boven het water, een hottub en een persoonlijke butler. Welkom op de vakantie van je leven. Het zal je laatste zijn. Als een groep influencers en journalisten een uitnodiging ontvangt voor een exclusief verblijf in een prachtig luxeresort op de Malediven lijken al hun dromen uit te komen. Maar dan breekt er een hevige storm los en kan niemand meer van het eiland af.

8 femmes isolées, un meurtre : un huis clos à la Agatha Christie par l'auteur plébiscité par 1 million de lecteurs au Royaume-Uni. Addictif. Un groupe de jeunes femmes va enterrer la vie de jeune fille de l'une d'elles sur une île isolée de tout. Elles se sont connues à différentes périodes de leurs vies. Leur séjour s'annonce luxueux et agréable jusqu'au moment où l'une d'elles trébuche sur le cadavre du cuisinier. Les communications avec l'extérieur sont coupées. Et nous découvrons des relations ambigües et plus complexes qu'il n'y paraissait.

Um Homem atormentado por dívidas e pela perda de um parente de grande importância, levando-o a realizar ações questionáveis e extravagantes para evitar a falência. Surge a questão: conseguirá nosso estimado SHERLOCK HOLMES desvendar os planos que ele está tramando?

The first three mysteries in the Inspector Marco series: The Cardiff Bay Murders, The Cardiff City Murders and The Roath Park Murders. Have you met Inspector Marco? He’s a detective in Cardiff, the capital of Wales. He loves his mother and football - not always in that order. And he loves to lock up the bad guys.

In the spring of 2017, DI Harcourt is called to the village of Castle Upton to investigate the death of Andrew Patch, only to find eerie traces of an unsolved crime from 40 years earlier. The more he digs, the more personal the case becomes, as the village’s secrets entangle with his own unresolved past. With his boss - Superintendent Hunter-Wright - embroiled in a mystery of his own, can an unlikely ally help Harcourt untangle the truth before another tragedy strikes?

Neuf personnes, sans aucun lien apparent entre elles, reçoivent simultanément une liste de neuf noms, dont le leur. Une simple liste, sans la moindre explication. Certains y voient une mauvaise blague, d'autre une erreur, en tout cas rien de vraiment digne d'intérêt. Mais lorsque deux d'entre eux sont retrouvés mort, un terrifiant compte à rebours s'enclenche. De nouveaux meurtres s'enchaînent mais aucun rapport entre ces neuf individus ne se dessine. Jessica Winslow, agent du FBI, est bien décidée à tirer tout cela au clair, d'autant que son nom figure également sur la liste.

Quatre scènes de crime. Sept victimes. Une seule arme : la foudre. Après une nuit d'orage, alors que la saison touristique commence à peine, des corps sont découverts sur l'île d'Oléron et ses alentours, attachés à des pieux métalliques plantés dans le sable face à l'océan, foudroyés. Sept dépouilles au total. Et des modes opératoires très proches. Le capitaine Max Fontaine, en poste à la PJ de La Rochelle, va aussitôt être chargé de l'affaire. Sa priorité : trouver le lien qui unit les victimes pour espérer remonter jusqu'à leur assassin.

On the eve of a major international AIDS Conference in London, the Conference chair is found dead in suspicious circumstances. Tracking down how he died reveals layers of deception, rivalry and danger for those close to him.

Vejo, verano de 1996. El cadáver de una joven aparece a orillas del Río Viviesa y alerta la tranquilidad de un pueblo que aún recuerda la desaparición de la pequeña Nico hace veinte años y el enfrentamiento que desencadenó entre las familias Alonso y De la Vega. El veterano teniente Laza, tras una brillante trayectoria en la Unidad Central Operativa de la Policía Judicial y a un mes de su jubilación, regresa a ese mismo lugar que todavía le atormenta.

It is 1960 and15-year-old Frankie Moretti is living with her aunt and uncle in Baltimore. Her American mother has died, and her Italian father is at sea ten months of the year. Learning that Frankie has run away from two boarding schools, her father reluctantly takes her with him to live on Il Destino, the cargo ship he captains. When the two of them arrive at the ship, they find that one of the crew, the wiper, has been murdered.

When Abby Carlson’s job as a dietitian comes to mind now, it’s accompanied by a looming threat: the Minneapolis serial killer who's been targeting women based on the first letter of their jobs, and who's ripe to pick a “D” victim. He follows his gruesome routine—preserving and posing the corpses per their professions, then posting his exploits on social media. But the threat is abstract in a city as big as Minneapolis...until Abby finds herself drugged in the back of a van, the latest potential viral hit.

An English country home during a house party becomes the scene of a double mystery. One of the three detectives employed on the case is a woman whose common sense, calm, and plain logic are skillfully employed in straightening the tangle.—NY Times Book Review, Aug 16, 1914.

O assassinato brutal de um conhecido de Holmes deixa todos suspeitando uns dos outros e com mil e uma teorias do que poderia ter acontecido e deixado o corpo do homem como ficou.

A Vampira de Sussex conta a história de um homem viúvo que casa-se novamente com uma mulher latina. A nova esposa não se dá muito bem com o filho de seu primeiro casamento, chegando a maltratar o menino. Mas até ai, o ex-viúvo não se preocupa muito, pois acredita ser mais uma situação comum entre madrastas e enteados.

Das Böse sprengt jede Grenze – der fünfte Band der SPIEGEL-Bestseller-Serie um das deutsch-österreichische Ermittlerteam Alexa Jahn und Bernhard Krammer ...

Nick Cardillo (author of The Feats of Sherlock Holmes) presents seven improbable adventures of the World's Greatest Detective collected for the first time in one place. These tales of mystery and suspense will test the minds of Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson like never before as they confront a wide array of monsters, madmen, impossible crimes, and the wildest aberrations of nature beyond their wildest nightmares.

La prima indagine del commissario Ponzetti, un intricato mistero da risolvere nel cuore di Roma. Disincantato, eppure lucido e attento a cogliere ogni dettaglio, il commissario indaga sulla sorte dell'eccentrica sora Giovanna, colpita da un’auto in assenza testimoni. Nel mirino dell’indagine finiscono Arturo, il senzatetto della zona, e Alex, il giornalaio di via Principe Amedeo. Ma anche i condomini del palazzo della vittima sembrano nascondere qualcosa.