Detective Fiction

ISBN-10: 1936661195

ISBN-13: 9781936661190

Whilst Robert B. Parker handed in early 2010, the realm misplaced nice males: Parker himself, iconic American crime author whose books have offered greater than 6 million copies world wide, and his best-known construction, Spenser. Parker's Spenser sequence not just prompted the paintings of numerous of today's writers, yet can also be credited with reviving and endlessly altering the genre.

In Pursuit of Spenser deals a glance at Parker and to Spenser in the course of the eyes of the writers he encouraged. Editor Otto Penzler-- owner of 1 of the oldest and biggest secret expert bookstores within the nation, New York's The Mysterious bookstore, and popular secret fiction editor whose credit comprise sequence editor for the simplest American Crime Writing and most sensible American secret tales, between many others (and approximately whom Parker himself as soon as wrote, "Otto Penzler is familiar with extra approximately crime fiction than most folk find out about anything")-- collects a few of today's bestselling secret authors to debate Parker, his characters, the sequence, and their impression at the world.

From Hawk to Susan Silverman to Jesse Stone and Sunny Randall, from the series’ Boston milieu to Parker’s personal tackle his personality, In Pursuit of Spenser will pay tribute to Spenser, and Parker, with affection, humor, and a deep appreciation for what either have left at the back of.

By Andrea Camilleri

ISBN-10: 1101466030

ISBN-13: 9781101466032

Inspector Salvatore Montalbano wakes from unusual goals to discover a gruesomely bludgeoned horse carcass in entrance of his seashore domestic. whilst his males got here to enquire, the carcass has disappeared, leaving just a path within the sand. Then his house is ransacked and the inspector is bound that the crimes are associated. As he negotiates either the glittering underworld of horseracing and the Mafia's connection to it, Montalbano is aided through his illiterate housekeeper, Adelina, and a Proustian reminiscence of linguate fritte. Longtime enthusiasts and new readers alike should be charmed through Montalbano's combination of unorthodox tools, depression self-reflection, and love of excellent nutrition.

By Gertrude Chandler Warner

ISBN-10: 1453221425

ISBN-13: 9781453221426

Henry, Jessie, Violet, and Benny used to stay on my own in a boxcar. Now they've got a house with their grandfather, and they're solving up the previous Bugbee condominium, a spooky mansion of their local! The Aldens are assisting the center and arms staff repair an outdated property. the home is bursting with collections of its mysterious and whimsical former proprietor. but if the contents of the home are auctioned off, the Aldens realize that a lot of the gathering is lacking! And that's no longer the single secret waiting for the Aldens during this unusual mansion. because the little ones discover, they arrive throughout hidden rooms, mystery passageways, and unusual noises coming from the partitions. The Aldens are made up our minds to profit the key of the Bugbee condo . . . yet are they the one ones?

By Susan Wittig Albert

Ex-lawyer and herb-shop owner China Bayles is investigating the secret of retired Texas Ranger shot lifeless along with his wife's gun...and whilst attempting to deal with a few mysteries approximately her personal courting after she overhears a suspicious cell conversation...

ISBN-10: 1434446816

ISBN-13: 9781434446817

The Detective Megapack offers 30 selection mysteries, spanning the Victorian age via glossy instances. From Dashiell Hammet to Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, from Vincent Starrett to Johnston McCulley—there is anything for each fan of detective tales!

ARSON PLUS, through Dashiell Hammett

IT TORE THE chuckle FROM MY THROAT, by means of Meriah L. Crawford

THE TAGGART project, by means of Vincent Starrett

TOMORROW'S useless, by way of David Dean

THE FLAMING PHANTOM, by means of Jacques Futrelle

MESSAGE within the SAND, by way of John L. French

THE ASSISTANT assassin, through Dashiell Hammett

ALL'S good THAT ENDS good, via C. J. Henderson

THE crimson THUMB MARK, by means of R. Austin Freeman

MONSIEUR LECOQ, by way of Emile Gaboriau

THE MURDERS within the RUE MORGUE, through Edgar Allan Poe

HELL-BENT FOR THE MORGUE, by way of Don Larson

DEATH OF THE FLUTE, through Arthur J. Burks

OH FANNY, by way of Raymond Lester

CLANCY, DETECTIVE, by means of H. Bedford-Jones

THE TATTOOED guy, by means of William J. Makin

TRIGGER males, by means of Eustace Cockrell

BUTTERFLY OF loss of life, via Harold Gluck

MY BONNIE LIES..., via Ted Hertel

THUBWAY THAM, type PLATE, by way of Johnston McCulley

THE homicide AT TROYTE'S HILL, via Catherine Louisa Pirkis

THE AFFAIR OF THE hall exhibit, via Victor L. Whitechurch

SECRET advice, via Vincent H. O'Neil

THE 5 ORANGE PIPS, by means of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

BLACK dawn, through Jack Halliday

THE LION'S SMILE, by way of Thomas W. Hanshew

THE NAIL, via Pedro de Alarçon

THE ROME show, by way of Arthur Griffiths

IN THE FOG, by way of Richard Harding Davis

OFFICER DOWN, by means of Robert J. Mendenhall

By Rex Stout

ISBN-10: 0307755894

ISBN-13: 9780307755896

Unique book: 1965

Hired to aid society widow Rachel Bruner foil bothersome Feds, Nero Wolfe and his capable assistant Archie get in over their heads with hugely knowledgeable G-men who're adept at insects, tails, and

By Andrea Camilleri

ISBN-10: 1440623341

ISBN-13: 9781440623349

Within the 3rd ebook in Andrea Camilleri's Inspector Montalbano sequence, the urbane and perceptive Sicilian detective exposes a viper's nest of presidency corruption and foreign intrigue in a compelling new case. while an aged guy is stabbed to dying in an elevator and a crewman on an Italian fishing trawler is machine-gunned by means of a Tunisian patrol boat off Sicily's coast, purely Montalbano suspects the hyperlink among the 2 incidents. His research results in the gorgeous Karima, an impoverished housecleaner and someday prostitute, whose younger son steals different schoolchildren's midmorning snacks. yet Karima disappears, and the younger snack thief's life—as good as Montalbano's—is at the line...

By G. H. Ephron

ISBN-10: 1466863307

ISBN-13: 9781466863309

While a bomb detonates outdoor a Harvard legislations college development, killing numerous together with a legislations pupil who used to be counseling Jackie Kelvinski, a girl attempting to get out of an abusive marriage, Jackie is afraid that the bomb was once trigger via her volatile husband. Annie Squires, an investigator assisting her out, attempts to persuade her that's not going, yet Jackie's now not listening. And sooner than the Cambridge police get very some distance of their research to figure out who can have dedicated one of these crime, a moment lethal bomb explodes, this time at a Cambridge courthouse.

The bomb narrowly misses forensic neuropsychologist Dr. Peter Zak, past due for a gathering within. Peter, without warning in the direction of the motion that he'd wish to be, has the same opinion to aid the police via profiling the bomber from a few anti-government fliers chanced on on the crime scene. yet have been they honestly written by means of the culprit? Or is the bomber's reason extra own, possibly directed at Jackie, or Peter, or one other objective? Delving deeper into the brain of the felony, Peter needs to paintings quick sooner than extra lives are misplaced, together with probably his personal.

Guilt, G. H. Ephron's most modern exciting mental suspense novel, is an engaging and amazing novel approximately rationale and homicide, survivor's guilt and felony culpabilty--and attempting to remain one step prior to a killer.

By Douglas Adams

Cherished, bumbling Detective Dirk lightly returns during this standalone novel from Douglas Adams, the mythical writer of 1 of the main liked technological know-how fiction novels of all time, The Hitchhiker's advisor to the Galaxy.

When an explosion is going off on the passenger check-in table at London's Heathrow Airport, the unexplainable occasion is deemed an act of God. for personal investigator Dirk lightly, it's his activity to determine which god might do this type of unusual factor. meanwhile, certainly one of his consumers is murdered and his conflict with the cleansing girl over his unbelievably filthy fridge involves a standoff. Is all of it attached? Or is that this simply one other stretch of coincidences within the lifetime of off-kilter super-sleuth Dirk Gently?

The follow-up to Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency, The lengthy darkish Tea-Time of the Soul is an unforgettable novel of inimitable wit, humor, and unlimited mind's eye.

By Steve Fisher

ISBN-10: 1936456168

ISBN-13: 9781936456161

Note: First released in 1951

Dorothy was once a skilled younger actress suffering for attractiveness and Rhea had the facility to put her in a starring function in a Broadway play. whilst she arrived at Rhea's kingdom domestic Dorothy stumbled on Rhea loss of life of a gradual poison. And within the unusual condo there looked to be sinister forces that pulled at Dorothy with a malevolent function. Then one evening a prowler entered her room and, as Dorothy watched the menacing shadow technique, she knew the killer had come for her!