Murder disrupts a reporter's train trip in this classic mystery from the Golden Age of Detective Fiction, from the author of The House of the Two Green Eyes.New York City reporter Hamlin Douglas has a knack for getting into trouble. When an assignment gets dangerous and his editor pushes him more, he loses his temper and is promptly placed on suspension. Making use of his new surplus of free time, Ham decides to escape the city for a few weeks of bass fish...

A crime reporter in early-1900s Manhattan covers the shocking murder of a socialite in this classic mystery by the author of The Crime in Car 13.Mrs. Belle Villiers was a celebrated character in early-twentieth-century Manhattan society. The sexagenarian's origins are a mystery, but much is known about her love affairs with celebrities and her influence in local politics. Her wealth was unquestionable. Her Washington Square mansion frequently hosted royall...

Fate places John Sheffield in the wrong place, at the wrong time - standing alone in the park at night with “Shylock” Smith lying dead at his side.First published in 1914.Transcribed and edited by Jeffrey Merrow from the 1920 New York edition.

From a British mystery author "in a class by himself among detective story writers," eighteen classic crime stories, perfect for astute armchair detectives ( The Times Literary Supplement).Scandal is at stake for London's fashionable society when Edwardian playwright Richard Dangerfield's sordid diary falls into the hands of a blackmailer. Though Dangerfield is long dead, those who consorted with him are all very much alive and at the respectable old age wh...

Gentleman sleuth Albert Campion tries to solve the murder of a prominent publisher in this "vivid and witty" British mystery ( The New York Times).One of the Golden Age of Detective Fiction's Four Queens of Crime"Margery Allingham deserves to be rediscovered."—P.D. JamesScandal hits the prestigious publishing house of Barnabas when one of the directors is found dead in a locked cellar. All eyes are on the othe...

A lively British mystery from "one of the greatest mid-20th-century practitioners of the detective novel" (Alexander McCall Smith).One of the Golden Age of Detective Fiction's Four Queens of Crime"Margery Allingham stands out like a shining light."—Agatha ChristieStrange things are happening in Saltey. The little village on the Essex coast is invaded by bikers and a parade of peculiar visitors, a newly released prisone...

A corpse in a top hat leads Dr. Gideon Fell to a killer with a sick sense of humor in this mystery by the celebrated author of Hag's Nook.At the hand of an outrageous prankster, top hats are going missing all over London, snatched from the heads of some of the city's most powerful people―but is the hat thief the same as the person responsible for stealing a lost story by Edgar Allan Poe, the manuscript of which has just disappeared from the collection of Si...

In this mystery by the acclaimed author of To Wake the Dead, an inheritance hangs in the balance in a case of stolen identities, imposters, and murder.Banished from the idyllic English countryside he once called home and en route to live with his cousin in America, Sir John Farnleigh, black sheep of the wealthy Farnleigh clan, nearly perished in the sinking of the Titanic. Though he survived the catastrophe, his ties with his family did not, and he...

A London woman taking her grandson to the park finds her lonely life disrupted by murder in this award-winning author's "gripping thriller" (Reginald Hill).Poppy Tasker never imagined this would be her life at age fifty: divorced, living alone, and stuck caring for a tiny grandson while his mother is busy seeking public office. Sad and resentful, Poppy feels completely detached from the nannies she's now forced to associate with when she brings little Toby to the pa...

Two brave young sleuths connected to one of the greatest detectives of all time tackle their own cases in these eleven whodunits.For mystery fans, the name Ellery Queen brings to mind the sophisticated amateur sleuth who helped solve some of New York City's most confounding cases. But he wasn't the only one in his household with an eye for crime solving.Here are eleven puzzling mysteries, nine solved by Djuna, the Queen family's quick-witted assistant, with ...

Famed French detective Monsieur Bencolin comes out of retirement to solve a crime of passion in Golden Age mystery master John Dickson Carr's sophisticated and surprising novelLondon lawyer Richard Curtis is sent to Paris by one of the firm's senior partners to handle a delicate case. Revelations about playboy Ralph Douglas's former mistress, the stunning redhead Rose Klonec, threaten Douglas's impending marriage. But upon Curtis's arrival in Paris, a body is discov...

Famed crime solver Dr. Gideon Fell attends a housewarming party in the English countryside, but a ghost spoils the fun in Golden Age mystery master John Dickson Carr's stylish, baffling mystery novelThe house is called Longwood, and its history is wet with blood. It is closed up for good in 1920, when a massive chandelier falls, crushing an eighty-year-old butler. Oddly enough, the old chandelier was sturdy, and there was no way it could have fallen unless the butle...