Top 100 Mystery & Detective Books

📘 And Then There Were None

Agatha Christie’s 1939 mystery, first titled Ten Little Niggers, revolves around a deadly puzzle on an isolated island, where a group of millionaires is killed one by one. It was later published as And Then There Were None.

Genre: Mystery & Detective Subgenre: Cozy Mystery

📘 Murder on the Orient Express

***While en route from Syria to Paris, in the middle of a freezing winter's night, the Orient Express is stopped dead in its tracks by a snowdrift.*** Passengers awake to find the train still stranded and to discover that a wealthy American has been brutally stabbed to death in his private compartment.

Genre: Mystery & Detective Subgenre: Private Investigator

📘 The A.B.C. Murders

There's a serial killer on the loose, bent on working his way though the alphabet. There seems little chance of the murderer being caught - until her makes the crucial and vain mistake of challenging Hercule Poirot to frustrate his plans . . .

Genre: Mystery & Detective Subgenre: Private Investigator

📘 The Murder of Roger Ackroyd

When Belgian detective Hercule Poirot returns to the English village of King's Abbot, he confronts the murder of industrialist Roger Ackroyd, unraveling a web of family secrets and hidden motives that reveal the culprit was nobody he expected.

Genre: Mystery & Detective Subgenre: Private Investigator

📘 The Complete Sherlock Holmes [4 novels, 56 stories]

Contains: - [Adventures of Sherlock Holmes](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL262421W/The_Adventures_of_Sherlock_Holmes) [Scandal in Bohemia](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL14930611W/A_Scandal_in_Bohemia) [Red-Headed League](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL262476W/The_Red-Headed_League) [Case of Identity](https://openlibrary.

Genre: Mystery & Detective Subgenre: Private Investigator

📘 Death on the Nile

The tranquillity of a cruise along the Nile was shattered by the discovery that Linnet Ridgeway ( Linnet Doyle) had been shot through the head. She was young, stylish, rich and beautiful. A girl who had everything... until she lost her life.

Genre: Mystery & Detective Subgenre: Historical Mystery

📘 The Mysterious Affair at Styles

Set in the summer of 1917 in an Essex country estate, the story follows the war-wounded Captain Arthur Hastings to the Styles St. Mary manor of his friend John Cavendish.

Genre: Mystery & Detective Subgenre: Private Investigator

📘 1st to Die

Four friends join the Women's Murder Club to investigate a serial killer stalking new couples in San Francisco.

Genre: Mystery & Detective Subgenre: Police Procedural

📘 Il nome della rosa

It is the year 1327. Franciscans in an Italian abbey are suspected of heresy, but Brother William of Baskerville’s investigation is suddenly overshadowed by seven bizarre deaths.

Genre: Mystery & Detective Subgenre: Historical Mystery

📘 The Hound of the Baskervilles

The Hound of the Baskervilles is the third of the four crime novels by British writer Arthur Conan Doyle featuring the detective Sherlock Holmes.

Genre: Mystery & Detective Subgenre: Private Investigator

📘 Killing floor

Ex-military policeman Jack Reacher is a drifter. He’s just passing through Margrave, Georgia, and in less than an hour, he’s arrested for murder. Not much of a welcome. All Reacher knows is that he didn’t kill anybody. At least not here. Not lately. But he doesn’t stand a chance of convincing anyone. Not in Margrave, Georgia. Not a chance in hell.

Genre: Mystery & Detective Subgenre: Private Investigator

📘 Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes [11 stories]

Contains: [Silver Blaze](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL1518358W/Silver_Blaze) [Adventure of the Yellow Face](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL20571966W/Adventure_of_the_Yellow_Face) [Stock-Broker's Clerk](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL20619319W/Adventure_of_the_Stockbroker's_Clerk) [Adventure of the Gloria Scott](https://openlibrary.

Genre: Mystery & Detective Subgenre: Private Investigator

📘 Along Came a Spider

A psychological thriller about a psychopathic serial kidnapper/murderer who calls himself the Son of Lindbergh, and a homicide detective with a Ph.D. in psychology who must outmaneuver him.

Genre: Mystery & Detective Subgenre: Police Procedural

📘 After the Funeral

When Cora is savagely murdered with a hatchet, the extraordinary remark she made the previous day at her brother Richard's funeral suddenly takes on a chilling significance. At the reading of Richard's will, Cora was clearly heard to say: 'It's been hushed up very nicely, hasn't it.

Genre: Mystery & Detective Subgenre: Private Investigator

📘 The Mystery of the Blue Train

Bound for the Riviera, detective Hercule Poirot has boarded Le Train Bleu, an elegant, leisurely means of travel, free of intrigue. Then he meets Ruth Kettering. The American heiress bailing out of a doomed marriage is en route to reconcile with her former lover.

Genre: Mystery & Detective Subgenre: Private Investigator

📘 Murder on the Links

Belgian detective Hercule Poirot is summoned to France after receiving a distressing letter with a urgent cry for help.

Genre: Mystery & Detective Subgenre: Private Investigator

📘 The Sign of Four

The Sign of the Four (1890), also called The Sign of Four, is the second novel featuring Sherlock Holmes written by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. ---------- Also contained in: [Adventures of Sherlock Holmes](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL20624138W) [Adventures of Sherlock Holmes](https://openlibrary.

Genre: Mystery & Detective Subgenre: Private Investigator

📘 The Body in the Library

The very-respectable Colonel and Mrs Bantry have awakened to discover the body of a young woman in their library. She is wearing evening dress and heavy make-up, which is now smeared across her cold cheeks.

Genre: Mystery & Detective Subgenre: Cozy Mystery

📘 The Moonstone

One of the first English detective novels, this mystery involves the disappearance of a valuable diamond, originally stolen from a Hindu idol, given to a young woman on her eighteenth birthday, and then stolen again. A classic of 19th-century literature.

Genre: Mystery & Detective Subgenre: Historical Mystery

📘 The Secret Adversary

Tommy Beresford and Prudence 'Tuppence' Cowley are young, in love… and flat broke. Just after Great War, there are few jobs available and the couple are desperately short of money. Restless for excitement, they decide to embark on a daring business scheme: Young Adventurers Ltd.—"willing to do anything, go anywhere.

Genre: Mystery & Detective Subgenre: Private Investigator

📘 The Case-Book of Sherlock Holmes

The Illustrious Client The Blanched Soldier The Adventure Of The Mazarin Stone The Adventure of the Three Gables The Adventure of the Sussex Vampire The Adventure of the Three Garridebs The Problem of Thor Bridge The Adventure of the Creeping Man The Adventure of the Lion's Mane The Adventure of the Veiled Lodger The Adventure of Shoscomb...

Genre: Mystery & Detective Subgenre: Private Investigator

📘 Pila rumal ni gath

Genre: Mystery & Detective Subgenre: Historical Mystery

📘 The Woman in White

The Woman in White famously opens with Walter Hartright's eerie encounter on a moonlit London road. Engaged as a drawing master to the beautiful Laura Fairlie, Walter is drawn into the sinister intrigues of Sir Percival Glyde and his 'charming' friend Count Fosco, who has a taste for white mice, vanilla bonbons and poison.

Genre: Mystery & Detective Subgenre: Historical Mystery

📘 The Red House Mystery

This is probably one of the top classics of "golden age" detective fiction. Anyone who's read any mystery novels at all will be familiar with the tropes -- an English country house in the first half of the twentieth century, a locked room, a dead body, an amateur sleuth, a helpful sidekick, and all the rest.

Genre: Mystery & Detective Subgenre: Cozy Mystery

📘 Crooked House

Three generations of the Leonides family live together in a large, if somewhat crooked looking, house. Then the wealthy patriarch, Aristide, is murdered. Suspicion falls on the whole household, including Aristide's two sons, his widow – fifty years his junior – and even his three grandchildren.

Genre: Mystery & Detective Subgenre: Cozy Mystery

📘 The Murder at the Vicarage

***Murder at the Vicarage (1930)is the first Miss Marple mystery book by Agatha Christie.*** Miss Jane Marple is a village busybody who applies human nature to crimes. Colonel Protheroe, magistrate universally despised, was shot in his study, unheard.

Genre: Mystery & Detective Subgenre: Cozy Mystery

📘 The Thursday Murder Club

Welcome to... THE THURSDAY MURDER CLUB In a peaceful retirement village, four unlikely friends meet weekly in the Jigsaw Room to discuss unsolved crimes; together they call themselves The Thursday Murder Club.

Genre: Mystery & Detective Subgenre: Cozy Mystery

📘 The Westing Game

Sixteen people were invited to the reading of the very strange will of the very rich Samuel W. Westing. They could become millionaires, depending on how they played the game. The not-quite-perfect heirs were paired, and each pair was given $10,000 and a set of clues (no two sets of clues were alike).

Genre: Mystery & Detective Subgenre: Cozy Mystery

📘 A Murder Is Announced

The villagers of Chipping Cleghorn, including Jane Marple, are agog with curiosity over an advertisement in the local gazette which read: 'A murder is announced and will take place on Friday October 29th, at Little Paddocks at 6:30 p.m.

Genre: Mystery & Detective Subgenre: Cozy Mystery

📘 The Murders in the Rue Morgue

"The Murders in the Rue Morgue" is a short story by Edgar Allan Poe published in Graham's Magazine in 1841. It has been described as the first modern detective story; Poe referred to it as one of his "tales of ratiocination". C. Auguste Dupin is a man in Paris who solves the mystery of the brutal murder of two women.

Genre: Mystery & Detective Subgenre: Private Investigator

📘 One Arranged Murder

Genre: Mystery & Detective Subgenre: Cozy Mystery

📘 Murder in Three Acts

Sir Charles Cartwright should have known better than to allow thirteen guests to sit down for dinner. For at the end of the evening one of them is dead—choked by a cocktail that contained no trace of poison. Predictable, says Hercule Poirot, the great detective. But entirely unpredictable is that he can find absolutely no motive for murder.…

Genre: Mystery & Detective Subgenre: Private Investigator

📘 Tripwire

Ex-military policeman Jack Reacher is lying low in Key West, digging up swimming pools by hand. He is not at all pleased when a private detective starts asking questions about him. But when the detective, Costello, turns up dead with his fingertips sliced off, Reacher realizes it is time to move on.

Genre: Mystery & Detective Subgenre: Private Investigator

📘 4:50 from Paddington

Agatha Christie’s audacious mystery thriller, reissued with a striking new cover designed to appeal to the latest generation of Agatha Christie fans and book lovers. For an instant the two trains ran together, side by side. In that frozen moment, Elspeth witnessed a murder.

Genre: Mystery & Detective Subgenre: Cozy Mystery

📘 Roses Are Red

Detective Alex Cross investigates a series of bank robberies with a mysterious criminal named the Mastermind, who demands precise instructions and will kill bank employees if the demands are not followed to the letter.

Genre: Mystery & Detective Subgenre: Police Procedural

📘 Five Little Pigs

Sixteen years after Caroline Crale has been convicted of the murder of her husband, Amyas Crale, her daughter, Carla Lemarchant, approaches Poirot to investigate the case. Poirot embarks optimistically upon an unprecedented challenge, but soon fears that the case may be as cut and dried as it had first appeared.

Genre: Mystery & Detective Subgenre: Private Investigator

📘 Män som hatar kvinnor

Mikael Blomkvist, ekonomireporter, döms till fängelse för förtal av finansmannen Wennerström, och beslutar sig för att ta time out från sitt jobb på tidskriften Millennium. I samma veva får han ett ovanligt uppdrag. Henrik Vanger, tidigare en av landets främsta industriledare, vill att Blomkvist ska skriva släkten Vangers historia.

Genre: Mystery & Detective Subgenre: Private Investigator

📘 Death in the Clouds

From seat number nine, Hercule Poirot is almost ideally placed to observe his fellow air travelers on this short flight from Paris to London. Over to his right sits a pretty young woman, clearly infatuated with the man opposite.

Genre: Mystery & Detective Subgenre: Private Investigator

📘 Lord Edgware Dies

Poirot had been present when Jane bragged of her plan to 'get rid of' her estranged husband. Now the monstrous man was dead, but how could Jane have stabbed Lord Edgware to death in his library at exactly the same time she was seen dining with friends? And what could be her motive now that the aristocrat had vinally granted her a divorce?

Genre: Mystery & Detective Subgenre: Private Investigator

📘 Sleeping Murder

"Let sleeping murder lie": this is the proverb (a variation on "Let sleeping dogs lie") which is not obeyed by twenty-one-year-old New Zealander Gwenda Reed, who has recently married and now comes to England to settle down there.

Genre: Mystery & Detective Subgenre: Cozy Mystery

📘 Hercule Poirot's Christmas

On the night before Christmas, cruel, tyrannical, filthy rich Simeon Lee is found in his locked bedroom with his throat cut. Now Hercule Poirot must put his deductive powers to the test to solve one of his most chilling cases - and to prevent a clever killer from spilling more blood.

Genre: Mystery & Detective Subgenre: Private Investigator

📘 The Cellar

Sixteen-year old Summer Robinson doesn't think anything ever happens in the small town of Long Thorpe, England. But she strays from a party and is snatched by a man who calls himself “Clover.” He forces Summer into his cellar, where she finds three other young women who were kidnapped just like her.

Genre: Mystery & Detective Subgenre: Private Investigator

📘 Violets Are Blue

D.C. Detective Alex Cross has seen a lot of crime scenes. But even he is appalled by the gruesome murders of two joggers in San Francisco's Golden Gate Park - killings that look more like the work of savage beasts than humans. Local police are horrified and even the FBI is baffled.

Genre: Mystery & Detective Subgenre: Police Procedural

📘 Truly Devious

Ellingham Academy is a famous private school in Vermont for the brightest thinkers, inventors, and artists. It was founded by Albert Ellingham, an early twentieth century tycoon, who wanted to make a wonderful place full of riddles, twisting pathways, and gardens. Shortly after the school opened, his wife and daughter were kidnapped.

Genre: Mystery & Detective Subgenre: Private Investigator

📘 Hallowe'en Party

Mystery writer Ariadne Oliver has been invited to a Hallowe’en party at Woodleigh Common. One of the other guests is an adolescent girl known for telling tall tales of murder and intrigue -- and for being generally unpleasant.

Genre: Mystery & Detective Subgenre: Private Investigator

📘 They Do It with Mirrors

E-book exclusive extras:1) Christie biographer Charles Osborne's essay on They Do It with Mirrors;2) "The Marples": the complete guide to all the cases of crime literature's foremost female detective.

Genre: Mystery & Detective Subgenre: Cozy Mystery

📘 "A" is for Alibi

A IS FOR AVENGER. A tough-talking former cop, private investigator Kinsey Millhone has set up a modest detective agency in a quiet corner of Santa Teresa, California. She's a twice-divorced loner with few personal possessions and fewer personal attachments but with a soft spot for underdogs and lost causes. A IS FOR ACCUSED.

Genre: Mystery & Detective Subgenre: Private Investigator

📘 The Man in the Brown Suit

Newly-orphaned Anne Beddingfeld is a nice English girl looking for a bit of adventure in London. But she stumbles upon more than she bargained for! Anne is on the platform at Hyde Park Corner tube station when a man falls onto the live track, dying instantly. A doctor examines the man, pronounces him dead, and leaves, dropping a note on his way.

Genre: Mystery & Detective Subgenre: Cozy Mystery

📘 At Bertram's Hotel

**An old-fashioned London Hotel is not quite as reputable as it makes out… When Miss Marple comes up from the country for a holiday in London, she finds what she’s looking for at Bertram’s Hotel: traditional decor, impeccable service and an unmistakable atmosphere of danger behind the highly polished veneer.

Genre: Mystery & Detective Subgenre: Cozy Mystery

📘 A Caribbean Mystery

As Miss Marple sat basking in the Caribbean sunshine, she felt mildly discontented with life. True, the warmth eased her rheumatism, but here in paradise nothing ever happened. Eventually, her interest was aroused by an old soldier's yarn about strange coincidence.

Genre: Mystery & Detective Subgenre: Cozy Mystery

📘 The Mirror Crack'd from Side to Side

E-book exclusive extras:1) Christie biographer Charles Osborne's essay on The Mirror Crack'd from Side to Side;2) "The Marples": the complete guide to all the cases of crime literature's foremost female detective.

Genre: Mystery & Detective Subgenre: Cozy Mystery

📘 One Shot

Six shots. Five dead. One heartland city thrown into a state of terror. But within hours the cops have it solved: a slam-dunk case. Except for one thing. The accused man says: You got the wrong guy. Then he says: Get Reacher for me. And sure enough, ex–military investigator Jack Reacher is coming.

Genre: Mystery & Detective Subgenre: Private Investigator

📘 Naked in Death

It is the year 2058, and technology now completely rules the world. But Lieutenant Eve Dallas knows that the irresistible impulses of the human heart are still ruled by just one thing-passion. Crime and punishment is her business. Murder her speciality.

Genre: Mystery & Detective Subgenre: Police Procedural

📘 The Valley of Fear

Even Sherlock Holmes, well-accustomed to the bizarre, finds the elements of this case unusual; the scene of the crime, a moated English country house; the wapon, a very American sawed-off shotgun; the bereaved, strangely dry-eyed; and the solution, backward in time and deep in a VALLEY OF FEAR...

Genre: Mystery & Detective Subgenre: Private Investigator

📘 The Hard Way

In Lee Child's astonishing new thriller, ex--military cop Reacher sees more than most people would...and because of that, he's thrust into an explosive situation that's about to blow up in his face. For the only way to find the truth--and save two innocent lives--is to do it the way Jack Reacher does it best: the hard way....

Genre: Mystery & Detective Subgenre: Private Investigator

📘 Cat & Mouse

Alex Cross uncovers a new pair of rivals and a mysterious serial murderer in Washington and Paris, seeking revenge and justice for Gary Soneji's suicide and the murder of his fiancee.

Genre: Mystery & Detective Subgenre: Police Procedural

📘 His Last Bow [8 stories]

The adventure of Wisteria lodge.--The adventure of the cardboard box.--The adventure of the red circle.--The adventure of the Bruce-Partington plans.--The adventure of the dying detective.--The disappearance of Lady Frances Carfax.--The adventure of the devil's foot.--His last bow.

Genre: Mystery & Detective Subgenre: Private Investigator

📘 The Seven Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle

***Gosford Park* meets *Groundhog Day* by way of Agatha Christie and *Black Mirror* – the most inventive story you'll read** Tonight, Evelyn Hardcastle will be killed ... Again It is meant to be a celebration but it ends in tragedy. As fireworks explode overhead, Evelyn Hardcastle, the young and beautiful daughter of the house, is killed.

Genre: Mystery & Detective Subgenre: Historical Mystery

📘 Aspettando L'Onda Gigante

"The Thea Sisters are five fun, lively students at Mouseford Academy on Whale Island, who want to be real, live journalists, just like their hero, Thea Stilton.

Genre: Mystery & Detective Subgenre: Cozy Mystery

📘 Cover Her Face

When a sly and sensuous young woman who had used her body and her brains to climb the social ladder is murdered by someone who had clearly decided that the wages of sin should be death, it falls to Inspector Adam Dalgliesh to find out who the killer is.

Genre: Mystery & Detective Subgenre: Police Procedural

📘 The Man Who Was Thursday

Can you trust yourself when you don't know who you are? Syme uses his new acquaintance to go undercover in Europe's Central Anarchist Council and infiltrate their deadly mission, even managing to have himself voted to the position of 'Thursday'. In a park in London, secret policeman Gabriel Syme strikes up a conversation with an anarchist.

Genre: Mystery & Detective Subgenre: Police Procedural

📘 The Big Bad Wolf

Alex Cross investigates a network of slave traders who are buying and selling beautiful women as slaves.

Genre: Mystery & Detective Subgenre: Police Procedural

📘 The Secret of Chimneys

A bit of adventure and quick cash is all that good-natured drifter Anthony Cade is looking for when he accepts a messenger job from an old friend. It sounds so simple: deliver the provocative memoirs of a recently deceased European count to a London publisher.

Genre: Mystery & Detective Subgenre: Police Procedural

📘 Sparkling Cyanide

Six people sit down to a sumptuous meal at a table laid for seven. A sprig of rosemary -- 'rosemary for remembrance' -- marks the empty place. It is the first anniversary of the horrific death by cyanide-laced champagne of the beautiful and troublesome Rosemary Barton.

Genre: Mystery & Detective Subgenre: Cozy Mystery

📘 Murder in Mesopotamia

E-book exclusive extras: Christie biographer Charles Osborne's essay on Murder in Mesopotamia; "The Poirots": the complete guide to all the cases of the great Belgian detective.

Genre: Mystery & Detective Subgenre: Private Investigator

📘 Pattern Recognition

One of the most influential and imaginative writers of the past twenty years turns his attention to London - with dazzling results.Cayce Pollard owes her living to her pathological sensitivity to logos.

Genre: Mystery & Detective Subgenre: Private Investigator

📘 The Cuckoo's Calling

After losing his leg to a land mine in Afghanistan, Cormoran Strike is barely scraping by as a private investigator. Strike is down to one client, and creditors are calling. He has also just broken up with his longtime girlfriend and is living in his office.

Genre: Mystery & Detective Subgenre: Private Investigator

📘 Nancy Drew 40

When Nancy Drew receives a valuable moonstone as a gift from an unknown person, she is amazed and puzzled. But it is only the first of several startling events in this complex mystery that challenge the ingenuity of the pretty sleuth.

Genre: Mystery & Detective Subgenre: Private Investigator

📘 Whose Body?

The first of the Lord Peter Wimsey mysteries, in which the suave and witty gentleman foregoes a rare-book auction to investigate the presence of a bespectacled nude body in an architect's bathtub near the Wimsey's Denver estate

Genre: Mystery & Detective Subgenre: Private Investigator

📘 The Thirteen Problems

This book consists of several mini stories of unsolved murders and crimes. A group of people each try to solve the mysteries and the person who told the story reveals the true solution.

Genre: Mystery & Detective Subgenre: Cozy Mystery

📘 Weep No More, My Lady

Elizabeth Lange, a grieving actress, investigates her sister's murder at a luxury spa in Pebble Beach.

Genre: Mystery & Detective Subgenre: Private Investigator

📘 Running blind

Jack Reacher is back, dragged into what looks like a series of grisly serial murders by a team of FBI profilers who aren't totally sure he's not the killer they're looking for, but believe that even if he isn't, he's smart enough to help them find the real killer.

Genre: Mystery & Detective Subgenre: Private Investigator

📘 The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency

A charming and clever women detective, Precious Ramotswe, solves mysteries in Botswana's small town of Midsomin, South Africa, from 1986 to 1997, facing dangers and love in the process. The novel is beloved by readers worldwide for its clever dialogue and characters who are as flawed as the rest of us.

Genre: Mystery & Detective Subgenre: Private Investigator

📘 Curtain

wheelchair-bound Poirot returns to Styles, the venue of his first investigation, where he knows another murder is going to take place… The house guests at Styles seemed perfectly pleasant to Captain Hastings; there was his own daughter Judith, an inoffensive ornithologist called Norton, dashing Mr Allerton, brittle Miss Cole, Doctor Franklin and...

Genre: Mystery & Detective Subgenre: Private Investigator

📘 Echo Burning

Ex-military cop Jack Reacher returns in this latest in the award-winning series critics call "spectacular" (The Seattle Times), "relentless" (Denver Post), and "perfect" (The New York Times Book Review). Reacher is hitching through the heat of West Texas and getting desperate for a ride.

Genre: Mystery & Detective Subgenre: Private Investigator

📘 Cards on the Table

It was the match-up of the century: four sleuths--Superintendent Battle of Scotland Yard; Mrs. Ariadne Oliver, famed writer of detective stories; Col.

Genre: Mystery & Detective Subgenre: Private Investigator

📘 The City & The City

Inspector Tyador Borlú must travel to Ul Qoma to search for answers in the murder of a woman found in the city of Besźel.

Genre: Mystery & Detective Subgenre: Police Procedural

📘 Murder is Easy

Luke Fitzwilliam, a retired colonial policeman has returned to England and chances to converse on a train with a woman who reminds him of a favorite aunt. She informs him that she is reporting three murders to Scotland Yard and is hoping to prevent a fourth, that of a village doctor.

Genre: Mystery & Detective Subgenre: Police Procedural

📘 Cross

Alex Cross, the FBI agent, returns as a psychologist in D.C., tracking a serial rapist that resurfaces from a past case involving his wife's murder.

Genre: Mystery & Detective Subgenre: Police Procedural

📘 The ruby in the smoke (Sally Lockhart #1)

"Beware the seven blessings" When she first utters there words, sixteen-year-old Sally Lockhart doesn't know their meaning. But when an employee of her late father hears them, he dies of fear. Thus begins Sally's terrifying journey into the seamy underworld of Victorian London, in search of clues that will solve the puzzle of ther father's death.

Genre: Mystery & Detective Subgenre: Historical Mystery

📘 The Sittaford Mystery

M-U-R-D-E-R. It began as an innocent parlor game intended to while away the hours on a bitter winter night. But the message that appeared before the amateur occultists at the snowbound Sittaford House was spelled out as loud and clear as a scream. Of course, the notion that they had foretold doom was pure bunk.

Genre: Mystery & Detective Subgenre: Cozy Mystery

📘 The Clocks

Sheila Webb, typist-for-hire, has arrived at 19 Wilbraham Crescent in the seaside town of Crowdean to accept a new job. What she finds is a well-dressed corpse surrounded by five clocks. Mrs Pebmarsh, the blind owner of No. 19, denies all knowledge of ringing Sheila’s secretarial agency and asking for her by name — yet someone did.

Genre: Mystery & Detective Subgenre: Private Investigator

📘 I, Alex Cross

You can't runDetective Alex Cross is pulled out of a family celebration and given the awful news that a beloved relative has been found brutally murdered. Alex vows to hunt down the killer, and soon learns that she was mixed up in one of Washington's wildest scenes. And she was not this killer's only victim.

Genre: Mystery & Detective Subgenre: Police Procedural

📘 The Surgeon (Jane Rizzoli, Book 1)

If it's gripping, it's Gerritsen. The terrifying first Jane Rizzoli bestseller.In Boston, there's a killer on the loose. A killer who targets lone women, who breaks into their apartments and performs terrifying ritualistic acts of torture on them before finishing them off.

Genre: Mystery & Detective Subgenre: Police Procedural

📘 The secret of the old clock

Nancy Drew's keen mind is tested when she searches for a missing will.

Genre: Mystery & Detective Subgenre: Cozy Mystery

📘 The Alienist

The year is 1896, the place, New York City. On a cold March night New York Times reporter John Schuyler Moore is summoned to the East River by his friend and former Harvard classmate Dr. Laszlo Kreizler, a psychologist, or "alienist.

Genre: Mystery & Detective Subgenre: Historical Mystery

📘 The Daughter of Time

Inspector Alan Grant of Scotland Yard, recuperating from a broken leg, becomes fascinated with a contemporary portrait of Richard III that bears no resemblance to the Wicked Uncle of history.

Genre: Mystery & Detective Subgenre: Historical Mystery

📘 Joyland

Verano de 1973. Carolina del Norte. El joven universitario Devin Jones consigue trabajo en un pequeño parque de atracciones llamado Joyland. Allí se encarga de las tareas de mantenimiento, se disfraza de la mascota del parque o entretiene a los niños.

Genre: Mystery & Detective Subgenre: Historical Mystery

📘 Elephants Can Remember

E-book exclusive extras:1) Christie biographer Charles Osborne's essay on Elephants Can Remember;2) "The Poirots": the complete guide to all the cases of the great Belgian detective."The Ravenscrofts didn’t seem that kind of person.

Genre: Mystery & Detective Subgenre: Private Investigator

📘 The Hollow

E-book exclusive extras:1) Christie biographer Charles Osborne's essay on The Hollow;2) "The Poirots": the complete guide to all the cases of the great Belgian detective.

Genre: Mystery & Detective Subgenre: Private Investigator

📘 Step on a Crack

A police detective in New York City must save the world from a mastermind terrorist.

Genre: Mystery & Detective Subgenre: Police Procedural

📘 Memory Man

Amos Decker's life changed forever-- twice. The first time was on the gridiron. A big, towering athlete, he was the only person from his hometown of Burlington ever to go pro. But his career ended before it had a chance to begin.

Genre: Mystery & Detective Subgenre: Police Procedural

📘 Third Girl

Three young women share a London flat. The first is a coolly efficient personal secretary; the second an artist. The third interrupts Hercule Poirot's breakfast of 'Brioche' and 'Chocolat' insisting she is a murderer – and then promptly disappears.

Genre: Mystery & Detective Subgenre: Cozy Mystery

📘 Tom Sawyer, Detective

Tom Sawyer, Detective follows Twain's popular novels The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, and Tom Sawyer Abroad. In this novel, Tom turns detective, trying to solve a murder. Twain plays with and celebrates the detective novel, wildly popular at the time.

Genre: Mystery & Detective Subgenre: Private Investigator

📘 3rd Degree

The Women's Murder Club takes on a new challenge in this gripping thriller from James Patterson's bestselling series, 3rd Degree.

Genre: Mystery & Detective Subgenre: Police Procedural

📘 Pop goes the weasel

Detective Alex Cross discovers a series of chilling murders in Washington, D.C., threatening his love and investigation into the mysterious British diplomat, Geoffrey Shafer.

Genre: Mystery & Detective Subgenre: Police Procedural

📘 The Seven Dials Mystery

Brings back several characters from an earlier novel, *The Secret of Chimneys*, in a story that can best be described as a John Buchan thriller told by P.G. Wodehouse. (https://agathachristie.fandom.

Genre: Mystery & Detective Subgenre: Private Investigator

📘 Sherlock Holmes

I meet Mr. Sherlock Holmes Adventure of the Speckled Band Naval Treaty Case of Identity Adventure of the Blue Carbuncle Red-Headed League Final Problem

Genre: Mystery & Detective Subgenre: Private Investigator

📘 Mrs. McGinty's Dead

Poirot, disillusioned by the "senseless cruel brutality" of modern crime, pays no attention to the sad case of Mrs McGinty, an old woman apparently struck dead by her lodger for thirty pounds that she kept under a floorboard.

Genre: Mystery & Detective Subgenre: Private Investigator

📘 Déjà Dead

Un beau jour d'été à Montréal, sur la table de dissection du laboratoire de médecine légale de la police provinciale, arrive un cadavre découvert dans l'ancien parc du Grand Séminaire. Le docteur Temperance Brennan est chargé d'autopsier ce qu'il reste d'une femme découpée en morceaux.

Genre: Mystery & Detective Subgenre: Police Procedural