Detective and mystery stories, American

Five untold tales of the great detective. In the first, Holmes chronicles to Watson a strange event at a freak show years before he met the good doctor. The second sees Watson throwing a birthday party for his friend - but danger lurks among the festivities. The detective and the doctor play golf...

In the three stories collected here, Edgar Allan Poe laid down the ground rules of detective fiction. This is a compendium of Poe's tales of mystery and intrigue featuring his ground-breaking detective Auguste Dupin.

In just five stories, Edgar Allan Poe laid down the ground rules of detective fiction. This is a compendium of Poe's tales of mystery and intrigue featuring his ground-breaking detective Auguste Dupin.

In the three stories collected here, Edgar Allan Poe laid down the ground rules of detective fiction. This is a compendium of Poe's tales of mystery and intrigue featuring his ground-breaking detective Auguste Dupin.

The indomitable Amelia Watson, second wife of the famous doctor, continues to bend her formidable intellect to solving further crimes. Whether foiling anarchists, investigating a possible murder committed high above the streets of London, rescuing her old theatre colleague Harry Benbow from a dec...

When a naked, knife-wielding man who thinks he has killed someone crashes a glamorous ball she's attending, Lieutenant Eve Dallas is almost relieved. The clues point towards ritual murder, but Eve knows there is nothing supernatural about a deadly lust for power. Missing Aboard the Staten Island ...

When a naked, knife-wielding man who thinks he has killed someone crashes a glamorous ball she's attending, Lieutenant Eve Dallas is almost relieved. The clues point towards ritual murder, but Eve knows there is nothing supernatural about a deadly lust for power. Missing aboard the Staten Island ...

When a naked, knife-wielding man who thinks he has killed someone crashes a glamorous ball she's attending, Lieutenant Eve Dallas is almost relieved. The clues point towards ritual murder, but Eve knows there is nothing supernatural about a deadly lust for power.

Presenting three Scooby-Doo mysteries, this book introduces simple mystery solving skills, particularly good for reluctant readers and Scooby-Doo fans.

Laura Lippman's sharp and acerbic stories explore the contemporary world and the female experience through the prism of classic crime, where the stakes are always deadly. And in the collection's longest piece, the novella 'Just One More', she follows the trajectory of a married couple who, tired ...