Mrs McGinty died from a brutal blow to the back of her head. Suspicion fell immediately on her shifty lodger, James Bentley, whose clothes revealed traces of the victim's blood and hair. Yet something was amiss: Bentley just didn't look like a murderer. Poirot believed he could save the man from the ... more »

E-book exclusive extras: Christie biographer Charles Osborne's essay on Murder on the Orient Express; The Poirots: the complete guide to all the cases of the great Belgian detective. Just after midnight, a snowstorm stops the Orient Express dead in its tracks in the middle of Yugoslavia. The luxurious ... more »

A shattering tale of tragedy and horror from top ten New York Times bestselling author J.A. Jance. A desperate father's search for his runaway daughter has led him to the last place he ever expected to find her: backstage at the Oregon Shakespeare Festival. But the murders in this dazzling world of make ... more »

E-book exclusive extras: 1) Christie biographer Charles Osborne's essay on Sleeping Murder; 2) The Marples: the complete guide to all the cases of crime literature's foremost female detective. Soon after Gwenda Reed moves into her new home, odd things start to happen. Despite her best efforts to modernise ... more »

Frank Corso is a pariah -- a journalist once vilified for making up facts on a major crime story. Yet slow, sheltered Leanne Samples trusts no one but Corso to tell the world that her courtroom testimony that put Walter Leroy Trashman Himes on Death Row was a lie. Convicted of the savage slaying of eight ... more »

Jon Krakauer's literary reputation rests on insightful chronicles of lives conducted at the outer limits. In UNDER THE BANNER OF HEAVEN, he shifts his focus from extremes of physical adventure to extremes of religious belief within our own borders. At the core of his book is an appalling double murder ... more »

A veces lo que ya sabemos es el mayor estorbo contra el aprender. La espiritualidad cristiana es un ejemplo perfecto del hecho. Los evangelios no solamente dicen el cuento de Jesucristo. Son obras de maestría que están diseñadas para hacer entender en muchos niveles. Tal vez el nivel más importante es ... more »

A virgin with an outrageous to-do list hires a reluctant Prince Charming to help her live a whole lifetime in one short week. Too bad he's not interested in starred item No. 12: A one-night stand. Throw in a serial killer, a U.S. Marshal out for revenge, a hoodlum seeking redemption, and a family secret ... more »

A Chinese diplomat is decidedly deceased and the communist chairman's advisor is shanghaied while burrowing in the Bronx. The State Department is seeing red and a sour situation gets spicy. Now Remo Williams and his Korean mentor, Master Chiun, must save the abducted adviser and compromise the conspiracy ... more »

THRILLING EXPLOITS OF THE FAMOUS GENTLEMAN CAT BURGLAR Louis Joseph Vance's gentleman jewel thief's rule of working alone gave him the name Lone Wolf and the world a new expression in 1914 when the first adventures of Michael Lanyard appeared.  Now you can read the first four Lone Wolf novels in ... more »

E-book exclusive extras: 'Agatha Christie in Baghdad,' extensive selections from Agatha Christie: An Autobiography. Plus: Christie biographer Charles Osborne's essay on They Came to Baghdad. Agatha Christie first visited Baghdad as a tourist in 1927; many years later she would become a resident of the ... more »

Fourteen degrees below zero-cold enough to freeze the soul Lewis Ingraham is cold. He's lost his wife to cancer, his executive career, his once sure grip on the world around him. All that he can hold on to is his beautiful daughter Jay, a brilliant student who has become a struggling single mother. But ... more »