Detective and mystery stories, English

From the celebrated address of Baker Street, London, Mr Sherlock Holmes and his friend Dr Watson set out to solve the most difficult cases and bring to justice the master criminals of Victorian England.

The Peculiar Crimes Unit has solved many extraordinary cases over the years, but some were hushed up and hidden away. Until now. Arthur Bryant remembers these lost cases as if they were yesterday. Unfortunately, he doesn't remember yesterday, so the newly revealed facts could come as a surprise t...

Enter the Saint and his ruthless enemies. The Soho vice king who couldn't help winning. The murderous Spider and his horde of diamonds, buried for seven years on Dartmoor. Audrey alias the Countess Marova, and the yacht-load of millionaires she planned to fleece off the coast of Corsica!

Here is a collection of the best of Max Carrados, a set of stories featuring a series of baffling puzzles to challenge the greatest of detectives.

Saxby Smart, schoolboy private detective solves three more challenging cases. In each story Saxby gives you clues which help solve the mystery. But are you 'smart' enough to work out the answers?

Father Brown's cherubic face and unworldly simplicity, his glasses and his huge umbrella, disguise a quite uncanny understanding of the criminal mind at work. This volume includes 7 adventures of Chesterton's endearing amateur sleuth.

In 1927, Strand magazine challenged its readers to guess which Sherlock Holmes stories Arthur Conan Doyle himself rated as his very best. These Holmes stories, along with Doyle's article explaining his choice, are now collected together for the first time.

When private investigator Al Maclean rescues Gail Grant from being assaulted in her hotel room, he has no inkling that she will become his next client. Gail is searching for her sister, who mysteriously disappeared from her hotel room two years ago, and Maclean's brief is simple: find my sister! ...

Edinburgh is a city steeped in history and tradition, a seat of grudges, blackmail and violence, where past and present clash and old wounds fester, as this collection of Inspector Rebus stories shows.

Edinburgh is a city steeped in history and tradition, a seat of learning, of elegant living. But the flip-side is a city of grudges, blackmail and violence, where past and present clash and old wounds fester, as this collection of Rebus stories show.