Traditional Detective Mystery

Andy Carpenter's accountant, Sam Willis, receives a surprise call from Barry Price, a friend he hasn't spoken to in years. Barry needs Sam's financial acumen and Andy's legal expertise. But when Sam almost runs over an injured dog on the way to Barry's house, he can't drive off without waiting for help. By then, Barry's taken off on a private airplane headed to who-knows-where. Soon after they learn that Barry's plane has crashed, and they come to the terrifying realization that Sam was also supposed to have been killed on that plane.

This is a story from the The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes I collection.

Pub owner Maura Donovan hasn't seen her mother for over 20 years, so when she suddenly shows up in Maura's pub, Maura's not sure what to expect. Her mother is trying to find a life for herself back home and has taken up a position working with the new owners of the Crann Mor hotel just outside Skibbereen. That is until her new boss is found dead in the gardens, dumped down the hillside behind the hotel.

In England in the late 1920s, the Honourable Daisy Dalrymple Fletcher, on a convalescent trip to the countryside, goes to visit three old school friends in the area. Daisy and her husband Alec - Detective Chief Inspector Alec Fletcher, of Scotland Yard - go for a Sunday lunch with Daisy’s friends, where one of the women mentions a wine cellar below their house, which remains curiously locked, no key to be found. Alec offers to pick the lock, but when he opens the door, what greets them is not a cache of wine but the stench of a long-dead body.

It's June 1814, and the royal families of Austria, Russia, and the German states have gathered in London at the Prince Regent's invitation to celebrate the defeat of Napoleon and the restoration of monarchical control throughout Europe. But the festive atmosphere is marred one warm summer evening by the brutal murder of a disgraced British nobleman long thought dead.

Published in January 1922, The Secret Adversary is the second detective fiction novel by British crime novelist Agatha Christie. The book introduces the characters of Tommy Beresford and Prudence Tuppence Cowley, two out-of-work 20-somethings in post-war London. The two agree to form The Young Adventurers, Ltd, hiring themselves out with the slogan no reasonable offer refused. They are quickly enlisted to solve the mysterious disappearance of a young woman who was entrusted with sensitive diplomatic documents amid the sinking of the RMS Lusitania.

In a quiet country village, secrets abound. When young Abbie Campbell is knocked over and left for dead on the back road of the village of Little Melham, waves of shock ripple through the small community, threatening to expose long-kept secrets. For Ellie Saunders, the truth about that night puts both her marriage and the safety of her children in jeopardy - she has to protect her family, no matter what the cost.

The winter of 1139 will disrupt Brother Cadfael's tranquil life in Shrewsbury with the most disturbing events. Raging civil war has sent refugees fleeing north from Worcester. Among them are two orphans from a noble family, a boy of thirteen and an 18-year-old girl of great beauty, and their companion, a young Benedictine nun...

A man falls to his death in Western Scotland. From a distance another man watches. He approaches the body, tucks a book into the dead man's pocket, and leaves. When the Scottish police show visiting detective chief inspector Domenic Jejeune the book, he recognises it as a call for help. Back in Saltmarsh the brutal murder of a researcher has everyone looking at the man's controversial studies as a motive.

A spa stay turns into a homicidal holiday.... A bit snobbish and a trifle high strung, Sybil Foster prides herself on owning the finest estate in Upper Quintern and hiring the best gardener. In fact she is rapturous over the new asparagus beds when a visit from her unwelcome stepson sends her scurrying to a chic spa for a rest cure, a liaison with the spa's director...and an apparent suicide. Her autopsy holds one surprise, a secret drawer a second.

Breathless and painstakingly researched, this is a stunning debut mystery in which Sherlock Holmes unmasks Jack the Ripper. Lyndsay Faye perfectly captures all the color and syntax of Conan Doyle’s distinctive nineteenth-century London.

The lives of the inhabitants of Swevenings are disrupted only by a fierce competition to catch the Old Un, a monster trout known to dwell in a beautiful stream which winds past their homes. Then one of their small community is found brutally murdered; beside him is the freshly killed trout. Both died by violence - but Chief Detective Inspector Roderick Alleyn's murder investigation seems to be much more interested in the fish.... Scales of Justice was first published in 1955.

Maurice Questing was left to die in a pool of boiling mud. Chief Inspector Roderick Alleyn knew that any number of people could have killed him: the English exiles he'd hated, the New Zealanders he'd despised or the Maoris he'd insulted. Even the spies he'd thwarted - if he wasn't a spy himself.

Pourquoi Louis Kehlweiler dit l'Allemand, Marc, Lucien et Mathias - retranchés dans leur baraque pourrie de la rue Chasle à Paris -, s'intéressent-ils à un simplet à tête d'imbécile pas franchement sympathique, dont la culpabilité ne fait de doute pour personne, pas même pour eux ? Pourquoi tiennent-ils à sauver ce Clément Vauquer, un détraqué recherché par toutes les polices de Nevers et de Paris pour les assassinats effroyables d'au moins deux jeunes femmes ?

When Priscilla Halburton-Smythe brings her London playwright fiancé home to Lochdubh, everybody in town is delighted...except for love-smitten Constable Hamish Macbeth. Yet his affairs of the heart will have to wait. Vile, boorish Captain Bartlett, one of the guests at Priscilla's engagement party, has just been found murdered—shot while on a grouse hunt.

सुहास शिरवळकर यांनी लिहिलेल्या सर्वोत्तम क्राईम थ्रिलर्सपैकी एक कादंबरी म्हणजे - "चॅलेंज"! एक अतिशय मनोरंजक आणि पूर्णपणे वेधक कथन, ज्यामध्ये निळ्या डोळ्यांचा , सुशिंचा लाडका मानस पुत्र,बॅरिस्टर अमर विश्वास - स्वतःच जगदीश सेठींच्या खुनाच्या आरोपाखाली आरोपीच्या पिंजऱ्यात उभे राहतो ! आणि तिथूनच सुरु होतो खऱ्या खुन्याला शोधायचा एक रंजक प्रवास !वेस्टर्न रेल्वेच्या प्रवासात घडलेल्या सेठींच्या खुनात खरा हात कुणाचा होता ? तो एकटाच होता की त्याचे लागेबांधे आणखी कोणाशी होते ? या खुनामागचे नेमके कारण काय ?

सुहास शिरवळकरांच्या कादंबरीतील एक लाडका मानसपुत्र म्हणजे "फिरोज इराणी".जो अतरंगी आहे , हुशार आहे . गुन्हेगारांचा पण बाप आहे . "उस्ताद" या कथेतील निरनिराळी पात्रं फिरोजच्या अवतीभवती पिंगा घालतात . या कथेच्या प्रारंभीच फिरोजला त्याने न केलेल्या बँक दरोड्यात त्याला फसवण्यात येतं. या दरोड्याचा शोध घेताना होते एक खुनांची मालिका ज्यामध्ये फिरोझ अजून अडकत जातो. या असंख्य खुणांच्या मागे मास्टरमाईंड कोणाचं आहे ? नक्की मेजर सूर्यकांत अस्तित्वात होता कि तो आभास होता ?

धीरज शांतीदास २५ लाखांसाठी शेठ जमनादासला ट्रॅप करायचा प्रयत्न करतो पण तसे करताना तोच शेठच्या खुनाबद्दल पकडला जातो. सर्व पुरावे धीरज च्या विरोधात असतात पण त्याच्या निर्दोषपणा बद्दल एक वकिलाला खात्री असते. तो वकील म्हणजे ‘बॅरिस्टर अमर विश्वास!’ हि गुंतागुंत अमर कसा सोडवतो ? खरा खुनी धीरज कि अजून कोण ? आणि सर्वात महत्त्वाचे म्हणजे - हा खून का केला ?

When a stack of library materials is found at the scene of a hit-and-run, library director Lindsey Norris finds herself dragged into the investigation as the police try to link the driver of the stolen car to the person who borrowed the books. Before Lindsey can delve into the library's records, the victim of the hit-and-run, Theresa Houston, suffers another accident, and the investigation shifts from driver negligence to attempted homicide.

With their engaging plots, mellow Scottish ambiance, and droll humor, the Hamish Macbeth mysteries always provide a bonnie time. Death of an Addict continues the Hamish Macbeth tradition of superb entertainment, with some fascinating twists. When a recovering addict dies while recuperating near Lochdubh, our redheaded hero suspects foul play. To complete his investigation, Constable Macbeth must leave his idyllic home and travel to Amsterdam to match wits with big-time drug dealers.