Christmas has served as a fertile background for mystery fiction for a long time, perhaps because...

John Dickson Carr is famous for his puzzling 'impossible crime' plots in which corpses are discov...

Edgar Award winner Otto Penzler selects stories that highlight the greatest American authors of t...

A Shakespearean actor-turned-sleuth wonders if a suicide's been staged—and suspects the members o...

Dr. Gideon Fell investigates multiple impossible crimes in this celebrated mystery from the maste...

A hardboiled rare book detective seeks a literate killer to clear an innocent man.Joel Crisp know...

Fifteen suspenseful tales from the Golden Age of the mystery genre.The art of the suspense story ...

Perry Mason solves a murder in a mining town in this whodunit from one of the bestselling authors...

When a box of bootleg liquor washes up on the shores of Cape Cod, it brings a whole lot of troubl...

Edgar Award winner Otto Penzler selects stories that highlight the greatest American authors of t...

A surgeon is murdered in mid-air with only his fellow airplane passengers as possible suspects in...

A teenage boy sets out to avenge his father in this noir novel from the author of Specialty of th...

Fifteen suspenseful tales from the Golden Age of the mystery genre.The art of the suspense story ...

Dr. Gideon Fell investigates multiple impossible crimes in this celebrated mystery from the maste...

A hardboiled rare book detective seeks a literate killer to clear an innocent man.Joel Crisp know...

When a box of bootleg liquor washes up on the shores of Cape Cod, it brings a whole lot of troubl...

Perry Mason solves a murder in a mining town in this whodunit from one of the bestselling authors...

A teenage boy sets out to avenge his father in this noir novel from the author of Specialty of th...

A Shakespearean actor-turned-sleuth wonders if a suicide's been staged—and suspects the members o...

At the hand of an outrageous prankster, top hats are going missing all over London, snatched from...

When Ellery Queen, described by the London Times as the logical successor to Sherlock Holmes, is ...

Hildegarde Withers is just your average school teacher - with above-average skills in the art of ...

Meet Captain Duncan Maclain. Blinded during his service in the first World War, Maclain made up f...

All of Wall Street and Manhattan high society is abuzz after playboy stockbroker Alvin Benson is ...

Mr. and Mrs. North live as quiet a life as a couple can amidst the bustle of New York City. For J...

For Ellery Queen, there is no puzzle that reason cannot solve. In his time, he has faced down kil...

When one of New York's favourite dancers is killed in a crowded high-tone speakeasy, everyone pre...

In a small town north of Los Angeles, Doug Selby claims narrow victory in a hotly-contested race ...

A successful writer and a B-movie director seem like the perfect match in the Hollywood Hills and...

On vacation with his daughter on the New England coast, Dr. Hugh Westlake is enjoying the sun, th...

In the rough edges of 1940s Chicago, the discovery of a corpse in an alleyway isn't always enough...

They say that Lord Mantling's mansion is haunted - at least, one room of it is. Known as the Red ...

The society pages announce it before she even arrives: Griselda Satterlee, daughter of the prince...

When Nurse Keate arrives at the Thatcher estate to care for a man with a bullet in his shoulder, ...

They say that Lord Mantling's mansion is haunted - at least, one room of it is. Known as the Red ...

Unable to stop herself from investigating another murder, Rachel Murdock gets plenty of help from...

Born during intermission in a seedy New Orleans playhouse, Drury Lane has spent the better part o...

In a quiet village far from the noise of Victorian London, Sydney Silchester lives the life of a ...

In an elaborate house known as the Cloisters, Maud Wainwright rules supreme. The queen of society...

An all-around skeptic when it comes to the supernatural, literature professor William Porter give...

Plague Court is old and crumbling, long neglected after its lord, hangman's assistant Louis Playg...

When Rachel Murdock and her sister Jennifer receive a call for help from their favorite niece, Li...

Martin Greenough's walled-off mansion is the last remaining holdout in the Boston parkland known ...

Meet Asey Mayo, Cape Cod's answer to Sherlock Holmes. Settled down from his former life as a seaf...

The 'brilliant' and baffling puzzle book that launched the 'solve-it-yourself' mystery craze of t...

Even in the early 1930s, Crescent Place is a neighborhood out of the past. The five Victorian man...

The smoking room on a transatlantic cruise ship is bound to be a hotbed of activity - but it's le...

A dark cloud has descended upon the elegant mansion of Jazz Age New York's illustrious Greene fam...