Browsing the "Mystery & Detective - General" category: 2722 books
Raffles is E.W. Hornung's immensely popular gentleman thief, a delight of which the Times Literary Supplement says: "Hornung's Raffles re-reads at least as well as, if not better than, all except the very best of Sherlock Holmes." In fac ...more »
ISBN: 1931305676 / New Albion Press / Pub Date: Jan 2002 / File Size: 621K
"New York Times bestselling author J.A. Jance presents another extraordinary adventure featuring hard-bitten homicide detective J.P. Beaumont, in the series that earned Jance the American Mystery Award. The Seattle that Beau knew as a young police ...more »
ISBN: 0060518596 / HarperCollins / Pub Date: Aug 2002 / File Size: 320K
ISBN: 1588731170 / Renaissance E Books / Pub Date: Jan 1900 / File Size: 166K
They were madly in love, perfectly suited for each other, and going to be wed. Everything seemed perfect ... until one terrifying night when he nearly beat her to death. ...more »
ISBN: 0744300428 / SynergEbooks / Pub Date: Mar 2001 / File Size: 115K
Blairview: Listen to Your Heart, is a romance/mystery, the main part of which is set in a remote town on the coast of Maine, and involves the rocky romance of Morgan Blair, heir to his family's estate in Maine and fashion model Jessica Thorne. The st ...more »
ISBN: 0968963021 / Double Dragon Publishing / Pub Date: Sep 2001 / File Size: 414K
Matthew Scudder Crime Novel #5. "For those who yearn to walk those mean streets, no one provides a more satisfactory stroll than Lawrence Block" (The San Diego Union-Tribune). A frightened hooker named Kim asked private investigator Matthew Scudde ...more »
ISBN: 0060533536 / HarperCollins / Pub Date: Aug 2002 / File Size: 729K
Raffles is E.W. Hornung's immensely popular gentleman thief, a delight of which the Times Literary Supplement says "Hornung's Raffles re-reads at least as well as, if not better than, all except the very best of Sherlock Holmes." In Raff ...more »
ISBN: 1931305706 / New Albion Press / Pub Date: Jan 2002 / File Size: 493K
A daring burglary has been perpetrated at ChÂteau d’Ambrumesy. Two men were seen carrying something away, but nothing has been stolen. A wounded, and possibly dying ArsÈne Lupin is known to be hiding somewhere inside the gates, but no search, no m ...more »
ISBN: 1931305692 / New Albion Press / Pub Date: Jan 2002 / File Size: 676K
"Matthew Scudder Crime Novel #13. "When Lawrence Block is in his Matthew Scudder mode, crime fiction can sidle up so close to literature that often there's no degree of difference"" (The Philadelphia Inquirer). "Will of the People" is playing veng ...more »
ISBN: 0060533579 / HarperCollins / Pub Date: Aug 2002 / File Size: 307K
Martha Evancek was an old woman who desperately needed detective Amos Walker's help in investigating the disappearance of her grandson, Michael. Poverty and frustration had driven Michael's father Joseph to the edge. He had murdered his wif ...more »
ISBN: 158824394X / ibooks, Inc. / Pub Date: Jan 1900 / File Size: 344K
ISBN: 1588243400 / ibooks, Inc. / Pub Date: Jan 1900 / File Size: 534K
The world is a strange, sad, and wonderful place. And Moscow is at its center. Killers are running through the city--some on two legs, some on four. To lower the body count, Porfiry Rostnikov, the Moscow Police's one-legged inspector, will ha ...more »
ISBN: 759583412 / Mysterious Press / Pub Date: May 2001 / File Size: 325K
Johanna Brady, young widow, devoted mom, and Sheriff of Cochise County, Arizona, is a tough cop who gives no ground to lawbreakers. But now she's dealing with some big-time political maneuvering that could let someone get away with murder. When an ...more »
ISBN: 0060518782 / HarperCollins / Pub Date: Aug 2002 / File Size: 340K
ISBN: 1588240398 / ibooks, Inc. / Pub Date: Jan 1900 / File Size: 526K
"There's a $10,000 reward for solving the crime -- it could be yours! The sensational killings that have rocked the seemingly untouchable world of international jet-setters and powerful glitterati appear to be unrelated -- but former police detective ...more »
ISBN: 0060098066 / HarperCollins / Pub Date: Sep 2002 / File Size: 357K
Five women from vastly different social spheres meet by chance in a London hospital: Catherine, a timid young British receptionist in a veterinarian's office; Georgy, an aggressive American photographer who traveled to London to make her career; ...more »
ISBN: 0759591830 / Warner Books / Pub Date: Feb 2001 / File Size: 433K
A murderer is stalking the streets of the St. Louis, and the only connection between his victims are the nightlines -- special phone lines used by the phone company to test equipment. At night, lonely people use them to make contact with each other: ...more »
ISBN: 1588243869 / ibooks, Inc. / Pub Date: Jan 1900 / File Size: 375K
When Nicole Whitingford's nightmare about Tony Mordano's murder shows up as an actual event on the eleven o'clock news, she wonders how much of her dream was real, and if she has the information needed to find his killer. When Rosie La ...more »
ISBN: 193154042X / SynergEbooks / Pub Date: May 2001 / File Size: 157K
Small town cop With an attitude
Set up and shot Left for dead by his own.
Went to a big city Became a private detective
With an attitude.
He’s good
But not as good as he thinks he is. ...more »
ISBN: 1929374119 / JAQKAR Publishing Services / Pub Date: Jan 1900 / File Size: 197K
How would discovery of a bona fide alien artifact impact society? Geologist Gregory Neale unearths a bizarre crystal from an Antarctic clay layer deposited during the extinction of the dinosaurs that baffles scientists. Word of the discovery leaks fo ...more »
ISBN: 0744308984 / SynergEbooks / Pub Date: Nov 2005 / File Size: 6229K
A seraphic foray into the very depths of human nature and the soul, Divine Murder elicits disbelief suspended by the vivid resonance experienced by the reader. Though the novel is a far cry from a simplistic moralistic exposÉ, you'll meet up wit ...more »
ISBN: 0744301882 / SynergEbooks / Pub Date: Oct 2001 / File Size: 275K
A man's home may be his castle, but for American millionaire Rhys McCain the ancestral fortress he inherited from his Irish kin is also the backdrop for scandal...and murder. ...more »
ISBN: 0744309026 / SynergEbooks / Pub Date: Oct 2005 / File Size: 320K
In the latest adventure in what is ''fast becoming one of the genre's best historical-mystery series'' (Booklist), roughhewn private enquiry agent Cyrus Barker and his assistant Thomas Llewelyn must track down London's first serial killer.hen Bark ...more »
ISBN: 1416546324 / Simon & Schuster / Pub Date: Jul 2007 / File Size: 279K
In an effort to make a change in a child's live, Alyse and Steven take in a four-year-old who has been thrown out of several homes prior to theirs. Because of their successful parenting of three children of their own and Steven's career as a counselo ...more »
ISBN: 0759937575 / Hard Shell Word Factory / Pub Date: May 2006 / File Size: 265K
Harry is a man still mourning the loss of his beloved girlfriend, Imogen, who left him suddenly without a word. He& ...more »
ISBN: 0440336961 / Dell Publishing / Pub Date: May 2007 / File Size: 428K
