Outside the pale of the Abbey of Saint Peters and Saint Paul, in September of the year of our Lord 1140, a priestly emissary for King Stephen has been reported missing... ... Read More

ISBN:  0-7861-1307-3
Author:  Ellis Peters

The grotesquely grinning corpse in the Devonshire shack was a man who had died horribly... ... Read More

ISBN:  0-7861-1142-9
Author:  Dorothy L Sayers with Robert Eustace

Literary star Karen Leith died violently, secluded in her odd Greenwich Village house.... ... Read More

ISBN:  1-57270-206-0
Author:  Ellery Queen

The case and the client are both eccentric. Multimillionaire Cadmus Cole asks the Queen detective agency to accept a large retainer, but he won?t tell them what they are to investigate.... ... Read More

ISBN:  1-57270-197-8
Author:  Ellery Queen

A newly discovered pyramid, Egypt`s rising nationalist movement, and family complications confront the brilliant Amelia Peabody in her latest encounter with crime... ... Read More

ISBN:  0-7871-1924-5
Author:  Elizabeth Peters

French`s department store was famous for the rare merchandise it offered its elite clientele. But no one there... ... Read More

ISBN:  0-7861-1285-9
Author:  Ellery Queen

An ancient family curse has caused the shocking death of all of Sir Henry Baskerville`s ancestors... ... Read More

ISBN:  1-55690-237-9
Author:  Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

Detective fans of all races and creeds, of all tastes and fancies, will delight in the exploits of this wise and whimsical padre. Father Brown`s powers of detection... ... Read More

ISBN:  07861-0126-1
Author:  GK Chesterton

A "very short Catholic priest" who appears "...not seem to know which was the right end of his return..." ... Read More

ISBN:  1-55690-255-7
Author:  GK Chesterton

The case seems so simple, Inspector Morse deems it beneath notice. A wealthy, elderly American tourist has a heart attack... ... Read More

ISBN:  0-7861-0980-7
Author:  Colin Dexter

Setting out for the Saint Giles leper colony outside Shrewsbury, Brother Cadfael has more pressing matters on his mind than the grand wedding coming to his abbey... ... Read More

ISBN:  0-7861-1260-3
Author:  Ellis Peters

Hard-boiled detective Sam Spade is hired to locate a client`s sister by tailing the sister`s companion.... ... Read More

ISBN:  1-57270-363-6
Author:  Dashiell Hammett

Published between 1892 and 1893, these 11 stories about the famous detective are told by his friend... ... Read More

ISBN:  N/A
Author:  Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

The irascible husband of Victorian Egyptologist Amelia Peabody demonstrates... ... Read More

ISBN:  0-7861-9873-7
Author:  Elizabeth Peters

The indomitable Amelia Peabody and her husband, known to many as "the Father of Curses", are into archaeology and mischief again.... ... Read More

ISBN:  0-7887-6140-4
Author:  Elizabeth Peters