A man is killed five months after his funeral, in a tale by ""one of the greatest mid-20th-century practitioners of the detective novel"" (Alexander McCall Smith).Private detective …
An international criminal spells trouble for the agents of Britain's Department Z, in this suspenseful mystery from an Edgar Award–winning author. Marius Krotz is notorious for …
What drove a woman to murder in 1920s New England? It was referred to as the Chatham School affair—a tragic event that destroyed five lives, shook a coastal Massachusetts …
From an Edgar Award-winning author: Someone is trying to force Britain to declare war-but with what motive?British armaments are being systematically destroyed, and the list of …
"Allingham has that rare gift in a novelist, the creation of characters so rich and so real that they stay with the reader forever."" Sara ParetskyWorld War II is limping to a …
A lively British mystery from "one of the greatest mid-20th-century practitioners of the detective novel" (Alexander McCall Smith).Strange things are happening in Saltey. The …
A mysterious symbol is the key to a murder case in this classic suspense tale by the Edgar Award–winning author.Gordon Craigie and Department Z—the squad of top-secret detectives …
""If I had to vote for the single best detective story, this would be it."" A.S. ByattCelebrated amateur detective Albert Campion awakes in hospital, accused of attacking a police …
In 1949, a West German nightclub owner embarks on a risky quest behind the Iron Curtain to save his kidnapped American brother but soon gets entangled in a treacherous mission to …
A young college student is found murdered in her dorm room, a blank sheet of typing paper on her stomach. The only thing chief of police Mario Balzic knows is that the girl was …
