"The Mystery of the Peacock's Eye," by Brian Flynn
The Crown Prince was being blackmailed, a young woman was murdered while at the dentist's - and a mysterious gem known as the Peacock's Eye Different threads leading to an unknown destination.
View Article"The Christmas Card Crime," Martin Edwards, ed.
Martin Edwards selects eleven classic short mystery stories, most from the Golden Age of English Detective Fiction, to provide some sinister holiday fare.
View Article"A Puzzle for Fools," by Patrick Quentin
Hearing a warning of murder can be unnerving. Hearing it in your own voice could push you into insanity.
View Article"The Case of the Fighting Soldier," by Christopher Bush
Did tension between regular army officers and "fighting" officers lead to murder?
View Article"Death in Dark Glasses," by George Bellairs
It began with a minor embezzlement - but it ended with disappearances and multiple murders.
View Article"N or M?" by Agatha Christie
In this Agatha Christie thriller, Tommy and Tuppence Beresford must identify two Nazi spies known only as "N" and "M" who are plotting the German invasion of England during World War II.
View Article"Rocket to the Morgue," by Anthony Boucher
The victim was stabbed inside a locked and bolted room, and witnesses insisted nobody could have entered - or left - the room. Police Lt. Marshall needs help from an inquisitive nun, Sister Ursula, to...
View Article"The Case of the Careless Kitten," by Erle Stanley Gardner
Banker Franklin Shore had run away from his wife a decade ago. Now somebody claiming to be Franklin Shore was on the phone, asking a family member to help him meet with lawyer Perry Mason....
View Article"The Two Tickets Puzzle," by J. J. Connington
Oswald Preston was a very unpleasant man. But was that sufficient reason to murder him on the train?
View Article"The Dutch Shoe Mystery," by Ellery Queen
The millionaire philanthropist died on her way to the operating room - strangled while waiting for the surgery. Ellery Queen realized that in order to determine the WHO, he'd need to uncover both the...
View Article"The Case of the Kidnapped Colonel," by Christopher Bush
The head of a critical military research team disappears, followed by murder. But there's more to Colonel Brende's abduction, and it could affect Britain's chances for survival in World War II.
View Article"Maigret and the Headless Corpse," by Georges Simenon
The body of a headless corpse turns up in a Parisian canal, and Inspector Maigret must find out who was killed - and why.
View Article"The Mad Hatter Mystery," by John Dickson Carr
Someone is stealing hats and other headgear - top hats, barrister's wigs and such - and leaving them in strangely appropriate places. Surely leaving one on top of a murder victim's body was not...
View Article"An Author Bites the Dust," by Arthur Upfield
The great Australian author Mervyn Blake is dead - and nobody knows what killed him. But DI Napoleon Bonaparte will find a most unusual way for a determined murderer to kill.
View Article"The Return of Mr. Campion," by Margery Allingham
More than a dozen short stories, many featuring Margery Allingham's most popular character, Albert Campion, including several of her earliest tales.
View Article"Charity Ends at Home," by Colin Watson
There’s an awful lot going on behind the closed doors of Flaxborough – lots of greed and corruption, and the usual assortment of sexual peccadilloes not to mention possible fraud on the part of various...
View Article"A Knife for Harry Dodd," by George Bellairs
Inspector Littlejohn knew he had to find a solution quickly before a determined murderer could strike again.
View Article"Bodies from the Library," ed. by Tony Medawar
Sixteen short stories, all virtually unknown, by some of the finest and best-known writers of Britain's Golden Age of Detective Fiction.
View Article"Music Tells All," by E.R. Punshon
Did the powerful piano music played by their neighbor hold the secret of two murders?
View Article"Maigret Goes to School," by Georges Simenon
Maigret takes time off from work to investigate a murder on his own, to help a schoolteacher who traveled to Paris to enlist Maigret's aid.
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