Framed in the doorway of Hercule Poirot's bedroom stands an uninvited guest, coated from head to foot in dust. The man stares for a moment, then he sways and falls. Who is he? Is he suffering from shock or just exhaustion? Above all,...
Private investigators
- Author:Christie, AgathaSummary:
- Author:Van Dine, S. S.Summary:
In 1920s New York a playboy stockbroker, Alvin Benson, is found murdered in his brownstone mansion. Amateur detective Philo Vance arrives first on the scene. He is at once intrigued by the absence of Alvin's toupee and false teeth...
- Author:King, Laurie R.Summary:
Presents a young woman who manages to apprentice herself to the retired Scotland Yard master himself, Sherlock Holmes.
- Author:Chesbro, George C.Summary:
A detective takes on mad scientists when a D&D fantasy world turns deadly in this " thrilling combination" of "not-quite-science-fiction and suspense" (Playboy). With a genius IQ, a past career as a circus acrobat, and a black belt...
- Author:Wiley, MichaelSummary:
Greg Samuelson hired PI Joe Kozmarski to dig up dirt on his wife and her lover, Eric Stone, but soon everything is turned upside down when it appears Samuelson has torched Stone's car, killed his boss, and shot himself.
- Author:Campbell, MelodieSummary:
Del's great-aunt, Kitty, has retired from a life of crime and embarked on a new venture, the B-Team. Although Del works at an animal shelter by day, by night she, her great-aunt and their cohorts, Dino and Ritz, use their criminal...
- Author:Kuhlken, KenSummary:
As The Angel Gang begins, thoughtful, capable ex-private detective Tom Hickey is married to the delicate Wendy, whose unworldly innocence and faith in her “angels” provides her with a stronger shield against evil than even Hickey’s...
- Author:Green, DennisSummary:
Sherlock Holmes searches for the daughter of a Canadian multimillionaire.
- Author:Doyle, Sir Arthur Conan, Paget, SidneySummary:
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes is a collection of the first twelve short stories based on the famous detective, including the cases of The Red-Headed League, The Speckled Band, and A Scandal in Bohemia. Holmes will need to use his...
- Author:Doyle, Arthur ConanSummary:
Sherlock Holmes doesn’t actually wear a deerstalker hat in the original. Other fun fact: he’s addicted to cocaine. Come see what else you don’t know about the world’s most famous violin-playing, chain-smoking detective as he solves...
- Author:Levitt, GeneSummary:
Philip Marlow, like other hard-boiled detectives, is unsentimental about the violence he faces - and few could take it or dish it out like Marlow. Behind the snappy come-backs and hard drinking, Marlow was a philosophical and...
- Author:Radio ArchivesSummary:
The Adventures of Frank Race featured an attorney turned O. S. S. agent turned worldwide investigator. After the War, Race returned home and adventure was clearly calling him into a new career as a far-flung investigator. Even though it...
- Author:Radio ArchivesSummary:
Frank Race is a cultured and sophisticated investigator who, in his world travels, encounters equal measures of crime, espionage, violence, and attractive but suspicious women. A dashing combination of Johnny Dollar and James Bond, Race...
- Author:Radio ArchivesSummary:
Frank Race is a cultured and sophisticated investigator who, in his world travels, encounters equal measures of crime, espionage, violence, and attractive but suspicious women. A dashing combination of Johnny Dollar and James Bond, Race...
- Author:Christie, AgathaSummary:
Movie star Mary Marvell consults with Hercule Poirot after receiving threatening letters that warn her to return her diamond, the famous "Western Star," to its rightful owner. But who does own the diamond, and is it even the...
- Author:Christie, AgathaSummary:
There's a serial killer on the loose, workinghis way through the alphabet and the whole country is in a state of panic. A is for Mrs. Ascher in Andover, B is for Betty Barnard in Bexhill, C is for Sir Carmichael Clarkein Churston....
- Author:Quinn, SpencerSummary:
Spencer Quinn's Tender Is the Bite is a brand new adventure in the New York Times and USA Today bestselling series that Stephen King calls without a doubt the most original mystery series currently available. Chet and Bernie are...
- Author:Krouse, ErikaSummary:
"The best story I've read in a long, long time."--Lacy Crawford, author of Notes on a Silencing "Krouse's vivid and original memoir is state of the art. Tell Me Everything is our new standard."--Charles D...
- Author:Nardizzi, John F.Summary:
In Telegraph Hill, private detective Ray Infantino searches for a missing girl named Tania. The case takes him to San Francisco, the city he abandoned years ago after his fiance was murdered. Thrust into his old city haunts, Ray finds...
- Author:Siger, JeffreySummary:
In an isolated olive grove on the idyllic Aegean island of Tinos, revered by pilgrims around the world as the Lourdes of Greece, the remains of two bodies charred beyond recognition are discovered chained together amid bits and pieces...