By: Ngaio Marsh
The season has begun. Debutantes and chaperones are planning their luncheons, teas, dinners, and balls, and the blackmailer is planning his strategies and stalking his next victim. Chief Detective Inspector Roderick Alleyn senses that something...
By: Agatha Christie
When a sudden murder shatters the peaceful atmosphere of the Bertram Hotel, Miss Marple springs into action to crack a crime syndicate and unmask a killer. Reprint.
By: Agatha Christie
Mrs. McGinty is dead and everyone suspects James Bentley, her slightly shifty lodger. In fact, James is facing a trial for an almost certain open-and-shut case. But Superintendent Spence is suspicious enough to ask for Hercule Poirot's assistance....
By: Bert Coules
Clive Merrison and Andrew Sachs star in three new radio adventures. Inspired by the original stories of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, dramatist Bert Coules has written three more "unrecorded" cases. Includes The Remarkable Performance of Mr....
By: Arthur Conan Doyle
When Arthur Conan Doyle wrote 'The Final Problem' in 1893, it seemed to mark the end of Sherlock Holmes after a fatal plunge into a waterfall. But the public refused to let Holmes die, and Doyle resumed the series that remains a worldwide favorite....
By: Charles Finch
It's Christmas, 1866, and amateur sleuth Charles Lenox, recently engaged to his best friend, Lady Jane Grey, is happily celebrating the holiday in his Mayfair townhouse. Across London, however, two journalists have just met with violent deaths-one...
By: M. C. Beaton
Returning from a foreign holiday, Constable Hamish Macbeth senses a dark cloud of evil hanging over his Scottish village of Lochdubh. A newcomer, Catriona Beldame, has cast a spell over the town, and word of her magical powers spreads as fast as the...
By: Agatha Christie
When Richard Abernethie, the master of Enderby Hall, dies his heirs assemble at the vast Victorian mansion to hear the reading of the will. It is then that Cora, Abernethie's sister, comes out with an alarming proposal: 'But he was murdered, wasn't...
By: Agatha Christie
From Crime's Grande Dame, a Wonderful New Poirot Mystery Set Amid a Girls' School! In a palace in Ramat, a prince entrusts a packet of jewels to his pilot, in the hope that he can smuggle them to England. But before the packet reaches its...
By: Agatha Christie
An urgent cry for help brings Hercule Poirot to France, but he arrives too late to save his client, whose brutally stabbed body now lies face down in a shallow grave on a golf course. But why is the dead man wearing his son's overcoat? And who was...
By: Dorothy L. Sayers
Mystery writer Harriet Vane’ s murder trial is the talk of London, and naturally, Lord Peter Wimsey is fascinated by the case. He’ s not convinced she poisoned her fiancé in the same way she offed one of the characters in her books,...
By: John Mortimer
Both long-term fans of the Rumpole of the Bailey series as well as first-time readers will enjoy diving into this one, the long-awaited and oft-alluded to story of Horace Rumpole's first big case as a barrister in the 1950s. The young lawyer, only...
By: Agatha Christie
A brilliant spy story by the queen of mystery. To help the British war effort in 1940, Tommy and Tuppence Beresford take on assumed identities to uncover Nazi informers who have infiltrated British armed forces and intelligence. They set an elaborate...
By: M. C. Beaton
A lovely but murderous spring follows the quiet, snowbound winter in this addition to the long-running mystery series featuring Hamish Macbeth, a constable in the Scottish Highlands. Lochdubh newcomer Effie Garrard, discovered next to a poisoned...
By: Agatha Christie
When Hercule Poirot accepts an invitation to an evening of dinner and cards, he’s aware that four of the other guests are murderers. During the course of the evening, one of them strikes and Poirot must ascertain who would have the gall to...
By: Agatha Christie
Aboard a plane, a woman dies in her seat, apparently the victim of a wasp sting. Then, a venom-tipped dart from a South American blowgun is found in the aisle. Everyone is suspect, including Hercule Poirot, who was sitting a mere fifteen feet from...
By: Agatha Christie
A Classic Agatha Christie Tommy & Tuppence Mystery, Now Available on CD! Sleuth Tuppence Beresford suspects that something wicked is responsible for the death of one woman and the disappearance of another. When she investigates, clues pile up,...
By: Agatha Christie
When Rex Fortescue falls dead after taking a sip of his midday tea, it is obvious to most that his drink was poisoned. But when rye is found in one of his pockets, the reasons are not so obvious. Miss Marple must dissect an old nursery rhyme to solve...
By: Agatha Christie
This carefully crafted novel is perhaps the strongest proof that Agatha Christie was a gifted writer as well as a shrewd storyteller. It is the story of a woman's attempt to clear her mother's name 16 years after the mother was convicted of killing...
By: Agatha Christie
Secretary-for-hire Sheila Webb thinks it's business as usual when she is called out to a client's home, until she comes across a dead body surrounded by incorrectly-set clocks in the parlor. Supersleuth Hercule Poirot takes on this bizarre case.
By: Agatha Christie
Mr. Treves, a well-known and respected criminologist, theorizes that murder mysteries are most effective when the murder takes place at the very end of the novel, at "the zero hour." Unfortunately for Mr. Treves, on this matter he may be...
By: Agatha Christie
A proper English girl keen for adventure, Anne Beddingfield gets much more than she had bargained for during a luxury cruise when she winds up at the center of a mystery involving a murdered ballerina and a missing set of jewels. Read by Emilia Fox....
By: Agatha Christie
A priest's death leads to sinister goings-on in an old country pub...To understand the strange goings on at The Pale Horse Inn, Mark Easterbrook knew he had to begin at the beginning. But where exactly was the beginning? Was it the savage blow to...
By: Agatha Christie
For several years, Agatha Christie and her husband lived in Baghdad. Her keen observations there helped frame the setting for They Came to Baghdad, a story about Victoria Jones, an incurable romantic who meets a handsome man in the park with whom she...
By: Rex Stout
Published only a month before Rex Stout's death, this case is regarded as one of the author's truest. When Nero Wolfe's favorite waiter is murdered in an explosion just feet from him, the detective takes it as a personal affront and waives his...
By: Agatha Christie
Young, beautiful, and rich, Linnet Doyle sparks the interest of Belgian sleuth Hercule Poirot when she and her new husband take a cruise on the same ship as he, and he senses trouble in paradise. Read by David Suchet. Book available.
By: Agatha Christie
Moments after Hercule Poirot leaves his dentist, Mr. Morley, the poor man is found dead with a bullet hole in his head. That he committed suicide is apparent to all, except, of course, to Poirot, who immediately suspects foul play.
By: Agatha Christie
Superintendent Battle is often given the most dangerous political cases, though his powerful physique and impassive expression often lead people to underestimate his sleuthing instincts. In The Secret of Chimneys, he is called in to investigate a...
By: Agatha Christie
Hercule Poirot arrives at The Hollow for a weekend luncheon just in time to see Gerda Christow standing, revolver in hand, over the body of her husband. It seems obvious that she has killed her wayward spouse, but Poirot doesn't believe things are...
By: Rex Stout
This mystery from one of America's best-loved writers features one of the greatest fictional detectives of all time--Nero Wolfe. Wolfe is an orchid-growing, gourmandizing, demanding genius who solves most cases with the able assistance of his legman,...