Orchestrated Death


Orchestrated Death

By Cynthia Harrod-Eagles

Bill Slider, a middle-aged, straight-arrow London cop, finds his life thrown into passionate disarray by the murder of a mysterious ...


Arabesk


Arabesk

By Barbara Nadel

Confined to his home on sick-leave (and prevented from sneaking his beloved brandy and cigars), Inspector Ikmen of the Istanbul ...


The Riddle of the River


The Riddle of the River

By Catherine Shaw

The 19th century is on its way out, as are many of the Victorian conventions regarding women. The elaborate bustles ...


Vodka Neat


Vodka Neat

By Anna Blundy

"The dead twins stole my chicken!"  That's the least of the revelations to greet Faith Zanetti on her return to Moscow, ...


Arrow Pointing Nowhere


Arrow Pointing Nowhere

By Elizabeth Daly

Take one grand house, stuff it with staff, and make it home to several generations. If they send their sons ...


An April Shroud


An April Shroud

By Reginald Hill

A country-house mystery. The phrase evokes an image of 1930s fops in dinner jackets, starched family retainers, pale fingers dripping ...


A Chill Rain in January


A Chill Rain in January

By L.R. Wright

It's sunny days for Staff Sergeant Karl Alberg, even as everyone else in Canada is shivering. The magnificent Cassandra Mitchell, ...


The Marx Sisters


The Marx Sisters

By Barry Maitland

Mrs. Thatcher’s London is bristling with the newly rich bankers, and property developers who have declared the city their personal ...


Black Plumes


Black Plumes

By Margery Allingham

Gabrielle Ivory was once a society beauty of such exquisite arrogance that she stared down a queen. But now, nearing ...


Buried for Pleasure


Buried for Pleasure

By Edmund Crispin

The Sixth Book in the Gervase Fen Series It’s a naughty world, a tiresome world, a world notably lacking in ...


Mystery Mile


Mystery Mile

The Crime at Black Dudley


The Crime at Black Dudley

By Margery Allingham

The First Book in the Albert Campion Series A house-party with a glittering guest-list. An imposing country estate with endless ...


Death of a Dissident


Death of a Dissident

By Stuart Kaminsky

The first Inspector Rostnikov mystery Inspector Porfiry Rostnikov has a lot on his plate. His superiors in the Moscow police ...


Police at the Funeral


Police at the Funeral

By Margery Allingham

The Fourth Book in the Albert Campion Series The imperious Caroline Faraday runs her house like a Victorian fiefdom, unconcerned ...


Look to the Lady


Look to the Lady

By Margery Allingham

The Third Book in the Albert Campion Series Some objects just cry out to be stolen, and an obliging ring ...


A Gathering of Saints


A Gathering of Saints

By Christopher Hyde

It’s the summer of 1940, and while the Blitz is killing Londoners by the hundreds, a methodical madman is killing ...


The Rainaldi Quartet


The Rainaldi Quartet

By Paul Adam

Well into his middle years, Gianni Castiglione has a pleasant, quiet life in Cremona. A luthier - a maker and ...


The Suspect


The Suspect

By L.R. Wright

The Edgar-winning first novel in the Karl Alberg mystery series set in the sunshine coast of Canada. To Karl Alberg ...


Germanicus


Germanicus

By David Wishart

The Second Book in the Marcus Corvinus Series; first U.S. publication No good deed goes unpunished. Marcus Corvinus, ...


Ovid


Ovid

By David Wishart

The First Book in the Marcus Covinus Series Nobleman by birth, loutish party boy by temperament, Marcus Corvinus is a ...


The Fourth Dimension is Death


The Fourth Dimension is Death

By Donald Westlake (writing as Samuel Holt)

The Fourth Book in the Sam Holt Series He’s got buckets of money and two gorgeous girlfriends, but actor ...


What I Tell You Three Times is False


What I Tell You Three Times is False

By Donald Westlake (writing as Samuel Holt)

The Third Book in the Sam Holt Series Sam Holt played TV-detective Jack Packard for five years, and ...


I Know a Trick Worth Two of That


I Know a Trick Worth Two of That

By Donald Westlake (writing as Samuel Holt)

The Second Book in the Sam Holt Series; with an introduction by Donald Westlake written especially for the ...


One of Us Is Wrong


One of Us Is Wrong

By Donald Westlake (writing as Samuel Holt)

The First Book in the Sam Holt Series by one of the great masters of the genre Actor Sam Holt ...


Landscape of Lies


Landscape of Lies

By Peter Watson

Isobel Sadler is dead broke, and all she’s got left is a bad painting that’s been in her family for ...


Elephants in the Distance


Elephants in the Distance

By Daniel Stashower

Paul Galliard is a magician by training and heredity: his father died performing the Bullet Catch, an infamous trick that ...


The Triumph of Bacchus


The Triumph of Bacchus

By Douglas Skeggs

Everyone in town is lining up to see Titian's masterpiece, The Triumph of Bacchus, on loan for a limited time ...


The Library Paradox


The Library Paradox

By Catherine Shaw

A Vanessa Weatherburn Mystery A famous--and famously anti-Semitic--professor has been killed, shot in his own library, and the police, eager to ...


A Talent for Destruction


A Talent for Destruction

By Sheila Radley

Inspector Quantrill #3 Swaddled in snow, the town of Breckham Market looks like a tourist's dream of the Little English ...


The Chief Inspector’s Daughter


The Chief Inspector’s Daughter

By Sheila Radley

Second in the Inspector Quantrill mystery series set in an English market town They make an oddly effective team - ...


Death in the Morning


Death in the Morning

By Sheila Radley

The first Inspector Quantrill mystery It’s a glorious spring morning in the village of Ashthorpe. Birds are singing, and sunlight ...


Heading Uptown


Heading Uptown

By Marissa Piesman

The Third Book in the Nina Fischman Series For Nina Fischman and her mother, Ida, Queens is a foreign ...


Personal Effects


Personal Effects

By Marissa Piesman

The Second Book in the Nina Fischman Series Nina Fischman has dated plenty of life's losers, but she has ...


Unorthodox Practices


Unorthodox Practices

By Marissa Piesman

The First Book in the Nina Fischman Series Think real-estate is a current craze? Welcome to New York in the ...


Death’s Bright Angel


Death’s Bright Angel

By Janet Neel

First in the Francesca Wilson series For years the trim, methodical Francesca Wilson has served as her family's organizing principle, ruthlessly ...


The Ottoman Cage


The Ottoman Cage

By Barbara Nadel

The second book in the Inspector Ikmen Series, with fascinating, disturbing echoes of Istanbul’s tragic relationship with its Armenian ...


Belshazzar’s Daughter


Belshazzar’s Daughter

By Barbara Nadel

The First Book in the Inspector Ikmen Series Tourist brochures present Istanbul as a glamorous, modern city, but the brochures ...


The Ganja Coast


The Ganja Coast

By Paul Mann

The 2nd George Sansi mystery A sleepy community on the Indian coast, Goa is a paradise for the international hippie ...


Season of the Monsoon


Season of the Monsoon

By Paul Mann

The first George Sansi mystery about a cop in Bombay; ideal for fans of Henning Mankell. “A classic noir thriller, ...


A Back Room in Somers Town


A Back Room in Somers Town

By John Malcolm

First of the Tim Simpson “art mysteries,” all featuring real works of art depicted on the books’ covers As an art ...


Bertie and the Crime of Passion


Bertie and the Crime of Passion

By Peter Lovesey

A Bertie, Prince of Wales mystery The year 1889, however, marks his most eventful trip. First, he is introduced to ...


Bertie and the Seven Bodies


Bertie and the Seven Bodies

By Peter Lovesey

A Bertie, Prince of Wales mystery The eldest son of Queen Victoria, “Bertie” will one day be King Edward VII. ...


The Transcendental Murder


The Transcendental Murder

By Jane Langton

First in the Homer Kelly series set in Concord, Massachusetts Scholarly infighting can get a lot more violent than most outsiders ...


The Game of Thirty


The Game of Thirty

By William Kotzwinkle

Streetwise PI Jimmy McShane has seen plenty, but he’s never seen anything like the murder of Tommy Rennseler. A wealthy ...


Black Knight in Red Square


Black Knight in Red Square

By Stuart Kaminsky

Inspector Rostnikov #2 The Moscow Film Festival may lack Cannes’ boats, bikinis, and gentle breezes, but it has nevertheless attracted ...


A Very Private Enterprise


A Very Private Enterprise

By Elizabeth Ironside

Hugo Frencham was the consummate British civil servant. A bit dull, perhaps, a bit fussily fastidious. But in the right ...


The Accomplice


The Accomplice

By Elizabeth Ironside

Jean Loftus has lived at Asshe House for more than 40 years. Its tidy contours, the soft colors of the ...


Death in the Garden


Death in the Garden

By Elizabeth Ironside

In 1925 beautiful, bohemian Diana Pollexfen was celebrating her 30th birthday, but the celebrations soured when her husband died, poisoned ...


Shooting in the Dark


Shooting in the Dark

By Barbara Nadel

America is reeling from the Iran hostage crisis, which is threatening to topple the Carter presidency, and Claire Brooks is ...


The Romeo Flag


The Romeo Flag

By Barbara Nadel

The utterly ordinary Nicola Ward is a divorced schoolteacher living in Maine when one day a mysterious (and long-delayed) trunk ...


The Neapolitan Streak


The Neapolitan Streak

By Timothy Holme

The First Book in the Inspector Peroni Mystery Series -- featuring the “Rudolph Valentino of the Italian police”. Achille ...


Ruling Passion


Ruling Passion

By Reginald Hill

The Third Book in the Dalziel & Pascoe Series From Yorkshire to Thornton Lacey is only a morning's drive, but ...


An Advancement of Learning


An Advancement of Learning

By Reginald Hill

The Second Book in the Dalziel & Pascoe mystery novel series The second book in the Dalziel and Pascoe mystery ...


A Clubbable Woman


A Clubbable Woman

By Reginald Hill

We bring back the (long out-of-print) first novel in the phenomenally popular Dalziel & Pascoe mystery novel series about ...


Death of a Dormouse


Death of a Dormouse

By Reginald Hill

Trudi Adamson has lived her life in fear—of strangers, of asking questions, of angering her husband, of leaving the house. ...


Who Guards a Prince


Who Guards a Prince

By Reginald Hill

The multi-award winning Reginald Hill dives into the world of international conspiracy with a tale of a discontented cop and ...


The Spy’s Wife


The Spy’s Wife

By Reginald Hill

Molly Keatley is deeply contented with her life, her loving husband, her comfortable home in an attractive London suburb. Things ...


The Devil in the Bush


The Devil in the Bush

By Matthew Head

The first book in the Dr. Mary Finney series featuring a lady missionary who sidelines as the Miss Marple of ...



The Weird World of Wes Beattie

By John Norman Harris

The youngest sprig of a stuffy Toronto family, Wes Beattie ...


Murder at Madingley Grange


Murder at Madingley Grange

By Caroline Graham

Simon Hannaford is in need of some fast money, and murder seems the obvious solution. Specifically, a 1930s Murder Mystery ...


Written in Blood


Written in Blood

By Caroline Graham

The Fourth Book in the Inspector Barnaby Series The Midsomer Worthy's Writers' Circle has never had much luck in attracting ...


Death in Disguise


Death in Disguise

By Caroline Graham

The Third Book in the Inspector Barnaby Series The Lodge of the Golden Windhorse has provided the citizens of Compton ...


Death of a Hollow Man


Death of a Hollow Man

By Caroline Graham

The Second Book in the Inspector Barnaby Series and a delicious satire of community theater Actors do love their dramas, ...


The Killings at Badger’s Drift


The Killings at Badger’s Drift

By Caroline Graham

The First Book in the Inspector Barnaby Series Badger’s Drift is the ideal English village, complete with vicar, bumbling local ...


Gun Before Butter


Gun Before Butter

Because of the Cats


Because of the Cats

By Nicolas Freeling

Inspector Van der Valk #2 Bloemendaal aan Zee, that smugly prosperous little seaside town, has more television sets per ...


Love in Amsterdam


Love in Amsterdam

By Nicolas Freeling

First in the Inspector Van der Valk detective series Alluring and unstable, Elsa de Charmoy was a dangerous woman, and ...


Skin Deep


Skin Deep

By Peter Dickinson

Gold-Dagger winner for Best Crime Novel of the Year. It’s 1968 but one communal house in West London is steeped in ...


The Old English Peep Show


The Old English Peep Show

By Peter Dickinson

Americans may have Colonial Williamsburg, but for the Brits, there's "Old England," an elaborate theme-park that pays homage to a ...


King and Joker


King and Joker

By Peter Dickinson

The monarchy is not what it used to be. King Victor II may be the great-great-grandson of Queen Victoria, but ...


Such Pretty Toys


Such Pretty Toys

By S.F.X. Dean

The Second Book in the Professor Neil Kelly Series Having solved the murder of his vibrant young fiancée (see ...


By Frequent Anguish


By Frequent Anguish

By S.F.X. Dean

The First Book in the Professor Neil Kelly Series Professor Neil Kelly is passionate about language, about his scholarly ...


Forests of the Night


Forests of the Night

By David Stuart Davies

By all accounts, Pamela Palfrey was plain and painfully shy—the sort of girl that few people miss in the best ...


Nothing Can Rescue Me


Nothing Can Rescue Me

By Elizabeth Daly

The Sixth Book in the Henry Gamadge Series; first published in 1943 In mid-1943, and up to his elbows in ...


Evidence of Things Seen


Evidence of Things Seen

By Elizabeth Daly

The Fifth Book in the Henry Gamadge Series; originally published in 1943 In the sticky summer of 1943, and with ...


The House Without the Door


The House Without the Door

By Elizabeth Daly

The Fourth Book in the delightfully civilized Henry Gamadge series; originally published in 1942 Mrs. Vina Gregson should be sitting ...


Murders in Volume 2


Murders in Volume 2

By Elizabeth Daly

The Third Book in the Henry Gamadge series; originally published in 1941 “New York at its most charming” (New York ...


Dispatch From a Cold Country


Dispatch From a Cold Country

The Third Book in the Colin Burke Series Recalled to Washington and riding an editor's desk, journalist Colin Burke ...


Cover Story


Cover Story

The Second Book in the Colin Burke Series Journalist Colin Burke may have escaped with his life at the ...


Soviet Sources


Soviet Sources

The First Book in the Colin Burke trilogy “It was going to be a busy day. The Russians were committing ...


Love Lies Bleeding


Love Lies Bleeding

By Edmund Crispin

The Fifth Book in the Gervase Fen series; first published in 1948 Professor Gervase Fen is happy to step ...


Swan Song


Swan Song

By Edmund Crispin

The Fourth Book in the Gervase Fen Series; first published in 1947 Hurrah! With the Nazis routed, the British can ...


Midnight Come


Midnight Come

By Michael David Anthony

A Canterbury Cathedral Mystery An administrator at Canterbury Cathedral, Richard Harrison isn't much troubled by a nasty anonymous letter ...


The Becket Factor


The Becket Factor

By Michael David Anthony

A Canterbury Cathedral Mystery The first book in the Canterbury Cathedral series featuring retired Colonel Richard Harrison, who ...


Dancers in Mourning


Dancers in Mourning

By Margery Allingham

The Eighth Book in the Albert Campion Series Jimmy Sutane is London's favorite song-and-dance man, headlining at the Argosy Theatre, ...


Flowers for the Judge


Flowers for the Judge

By Margery Allingham

The Seventh Book in the Albert Campion Series The Barnabas publishing dynasty is no stranger to mystery; after all, the ...


The Fashion in Shrouds


The Fashion in Shrouds

By Margery Allingham

The Tenth Book in the Albert Campion Series It's always a treat to learn something--something that's actually ...


The Case of the Late Pig


The Case of the Late Pig

By Margery Allingham

The Ninth Book in the Albert Campion Series "Pig" Peters made Albert Campion's life a misery at prep school, ...


Sweet Danger


Sweet Danger

By Margery Allingham

The Fifth Book in the Albert Campion Series After centuries as a Balkan backwater, the sleepy town of Averna has--overnight--become ...


Death of a Ghost


Death of a Ghost

By Margery Allingham

The Sixth Book in the Albert Campion Series The painter John Lafcadio was brilliantly talented and, it appears, a bit ...


A Good Death


A Good Death

By Elizabeth Ironside

In Death in the Garden, Elizabeth Ironside journeyed into the past, to an almost mythical beautiful English garden, poised ...


Traitor’s Blood


Traitor’s Blood

By Reginald Hill

Lemuel Stanhope-Swift--sixth Viscount Bessacarr and semi-professional cad--has for ages been on the lam from British justice, holed up in a ...


Betrayal


Betrayal

By Karin Alvtegen

FIRST U.S. PUBLICATION Last January Felony & Mayhem brought Karin Alvtegen's Missing to the U.S.; this January we're issuing yet another Alvtegen title. "Alvtegen has once again proved herself a master of the art of harnessing complex emotions like guilt, regret, and deceit into a breathtakingly intelligent plot" - Nerrikes Allehande (Sweden)


A Funeral of Gondolas


A Funeral of Gondolas

By Timothy Holme

The second book in the Inspector Peroni mystery series Inspector Peroni is glad to be done with Verona, ...


Holy Disorders


Holy Disorders

By Edmund Crispin

The Second Book in the Gervase Fen series Gervase Fen - the eccentric Oxford don with a knack for ...


The Case of the Gilded Fly


The Case of the Gilded Fly

By Edmund Crispin

The First Book in the Gervase Fen Series by “one of the most literate mystery writers of the 20th ...


Paper Chase


Paper Chase

By Bob Cook

The four old spies are long past any James Bond-style exploits, and these days meet up mostly at the funerals ...


Disorderly Elements


Disorderly Elements

By Bob Cook

“There’s a recession on, you know.” These are not words that Michael Wyman wants to hear, particularly not from his employers, ...


Double Negative


Double Negative

By David Carkeet

A wry, funny, Edgar-nominee (and cult favorite) about, of all things, linguistics; one of the “100 Best Mysteries of the ...


The Cambridge Theorem


The Cambridge Theorem

By Tony Cape

The suicide of Simon Bowles looks open-and-shut: He left a note, he had a history of depression. But as Sergeant ...