When Laura Radburn's tenant, Crystal Mar, is murdered, Laura finds herself unexpectedly appointed as legal guardian of Crystal's 4-year old child. Shortly after she takes Karma in, Laura begins receiving death threats. Is someone after the child--or is Laura herself the target? The appearance of a handsome ... more »

On an island off the coast of Maine, a man is found dead. There's no identification on the body. Only the dogged work of a pair of local newspapermen and a graduate student in forensics turns up any clues. But that's just the beginning of the mystery. Because the more they learn about the man and the ... more »

Product Info A shocking Sherlock Holmes story, too scandalous for Watson to publish during his lifetime--and perhaps too controversial even now. more »

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Deep in the hollows of Georgia's wild Appalachians, the ghost of a young girl can sometimes be seen in the moonlight, still wandering the paths of Black Pine Mountain, where she vanished more than fifty years ago. Now another little girl has gone missing, the only child of a troubled backwoods couple ... more »

THERE are places which appear, at first sight, inaccessible to romance; and such a place was Mr. Wardlaw's dining-room in Russell Square. It was very large, had sickly green walls, picked out with aldermen, full length; heavy maroon curtains; mahogany chairs; a turkey carpet an inch thick: and was lighted ... more »

A borderline-SF case for Holmes; one of the stories that Watson mentions in the sacred texts but never wrote up. The revolting Red Leech, Sanguisuga rufa, is even more sinister than it looks.... [Authorized by the Doyle estate.] more »

Product Info An old-fashioned 1920's English country house mystery featuring two cats playing P. G. Wodehouse's Bertie and Jeeves. more »

A SEARING NOVEL OF A DOWN- AND -OUT COP Award-wining mystery novelist Jerry Oster takes a major step forward in his most ambitious book yet. Busted Valentine is the story of Solitaire, a down-and-out cop with a busted heart, busted career, busted soul. Oster takes us inside Solitaire's melancholy head ... more »

The Mysterious Affair at Styles introduces Hercule Poirot, Agatha Christie's famous detective character with his little gray cells , absurd patent leather shoes, and magnificent mustaches. Poirot starred in more than 30 of Christie's novels, and in many movies. more »

Antoni Battista has spent his life in Chicago, shuffled from one foster home to another, and getting into more and more trouble as he grew older. However, after surviving a drive-by shooting -- in which he is an innocent victim -- Tony unexpectedly is given a chance at a new start. There's just one catch ... more »

The daughter of a diplomat disappears on a school field trip -- lured into the Santa Monica mountains and killed in cold blood. Her father denies the possibility of a political motive. There are no signs of struggle, no evidence of sexual assault, leaving psychologist Alex Delaware and his friend LAPD ... more »