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The Adventure of Silver Blaze, published in 1892, is a classic Sherlock Holmes short story set on the bleak Dartmoor countryside. Just days before a major race, the celebrated racehorse Silver Blaze vanishes from his stable, and the horse's trainer is found dead nearby with a strange wound to the head. Holmes and Watson travel to the scene, where Scotland Yard is already investigating a local bookmaker as the chief suspect.

Utterly charming and ridiculously page-turning, Extraordinary Correspondance is a compelling work best described as Only Murders in the Building meets Sherlock Holmes On Baker Street in London is an old, very private bank. For over a century letters have arrived there from around the world...

Eventually, every story comes to an end. Thomas Austin has three weeks until his daughter is born. Three weeks to finish the nursery, keep the peace at home, and finally put the badge away for good. Then a priest is found murdered inside a confessional at St. Thomas Cathedral overlooking Elliott Bay. His throat has been cut and a decades-old NYPD case file placed beside the body. And on his right palm, a single carved word: AUSTIN. The file is from Austin’s first homicide as a rookie cop, the case that sent serial killer Alexi Chronich to prison for life.

Als die Leiche eines jungen Mannes im Grabmal eines mittelalterlichen Ritters gefunden wird, wird Gemeindepolizist Daniel Haze mit seinem ersten eigenständigen Mordfall betraut. Der Verdacht fällt sofort auf den einzigen Fremden, der kurz vor der Tat im Dorf Birch Hill angekommen ist, doch der amerikanische Captain erweist sich als eine unerwartete Hilfe. Als ehemaliger Soldat und erfahrener Chirurg ist Jason Redmond nicht nur bereit, Haze bei den Ermittlungen zu unterstützen, sondern riskiert auch seine eigene Sicherheit, um den Mörder zu fassen.

Some places look ordinary until one impossible detail changes everything. Rain falls across an entire valley except around one isolated house. A light appears inside an apartment with no electricity. Three antique keys belong to a house demolished decades ago. An abandoned railway platform is missing from modern maps. A drought reveals a forgotten village beneath a reservoir. And those are only the beginning. The Rain Stopped at One House is a collection of ten atmospheric mystery and suspense stories in which ordinary people encounter strange clues hidden inside familiar places.

Ten mysteries. Ten unexplained events. Countless clues waiting to be discovered. Someone Opened the Door is a collection of suspenseful mystery stories filled with strange disappearances, hidden rooms, forgotten records, abandoned places, mysterious figures, and unexpected discoveries. From an empty house showing signs of life to seven missing minutes, a strange door deep in the woods, and a midnight intrusion that leaves behind more questions than answers, each story begins with an ordinary moment that quickly becomes a mystery.

A stake-out at a trafficker way-station ends with Special Agent Jennifer Nash placed on forced leave. Until a government insider offers her a chance at redemption. All she has to do is accompany an elite Louisiana SWAT team on a takedown mission. But as she's shuttled by boat into the Atchafalaya Basin, she believes some of the unit might be compromised. The raid ends in disaster. And the police find themselves outnumbered in the middle of a criminal operation with a connected Cajun community and ruthless cartel members determined to put them down at all costs.

A Study in Scarlet, published in 1887, Arthur Conan Doyle's first Sherlock Holmes novel, introduces Dr. John Watson, a wounded army doctor who returns to London and takes lodgings with the eccentric consulting detective Sherlock Holmes at 221B Baker Street. When a man is found murdered in an empty house with the German word "RACHE" scrawled in blood on the wall, Scotland Yard is baffled and turns to Holmes.

The Hound of the Baskervilles, published in 1902, is one of Arthur Conan Doyle's most famous Sherlock Holmes novels. When Sir Charles Baskerville dies under mysterious circumstances on the desolate Devonshire moor, with enormous paw prints found near his body, the family physician turns to Holmes for help, citing an ancient legend of a demonic hound that haunts the Baskerville line. Holmes sends Dr. Watson to accompany the new heir, Sir Henry Baskerville, to the ancestral hall while he continues his own inquiries.

"[] the merriest collection of detective stories it has been our good fortune to encounter." The New York Times Book Review, September 1929 This short story collection from Queen of Crime Agatha Christie features her detectives Tommy and Tuppence Beresford solving mysteries one after the other...

In The Seven Dials Mystery, Queen of Crime Agatha Christie reintroduces characters from her earlier novel, The Secret of the Chimneys. This time, it's the murder of Gerald Wade, as well as the seven alarm clocks found in his room the next morning, that set Bill Eversleigh and Eileen "Bundle"...

A puzzling new Christmas mystery from USA Today bestselling author Alexandra Benedict! Rest. In. Pieces. On 1st of December, renowned puzzle setter, loner, and Christmas curmudgeon Edie O'Sullivan finds a hand-delivered present on her doorstep. Unwrapping it, she finds a jigsaw box and, inside...

The best stories are the ones we didn't know needed to be told. The small, rundown village of Great Diddling is full of stories?author Berit Gardner can feel it. The way the villagers avoid outsiders, the furtive stares and whispers in the presence of newcomers Berit can sense the edge of a...

Every garden has its secrets Eustacia Rose is a Professor of Botanical Toxicology with only her extensive collection of poisonous plants for company. Her life is quiet, her schedule is unchanging, and her closest friends are the specimens she tends to. But she does have one other hobby: watching...

Heading for the French Rivieria, recently retired detective Hercule Poirot boards Le Train Bleu in London. This luxury trip, however, quickly turns southin more ways than one. When the train arrives in Nice, France, American heiress Ruth Kettering is found murdered, and the Heart of Fire ruby...

General Fentiman is found dead on the afternoon of November 11 in his armchair at the Bellona Clubjust hours after the passing of his wealthy estranged sister. At ninety years old, his physician certifies death by natural causes. The important question, then, is not how he died, but when, as the...

Jolene Garcia is a local TV reporter in Phoenix, Arizona, splitting her time between covering general assignmentsanything from a monsoon storm to a newborn giraffe at the zooand special projects, stories that take more time to research and produce, stories that Jolene wants to tell. When word...

Summoned by letter, Holly Shaw and five of her cousinsvirtual strangers to each otherhave gathered at a grand house in the rugged wilds of Alaska. Equally unfamiliar to Holly is her great aunt Lydia, the woman who has called the family together and is dangling a massive inheritance before them...

Twelve years ago, eight friends ran an exclusive group at university: the Masquerade Murder Society. The mysteries they solved may have been grisly, and brilliantly staged, but they were always fictionaluntil their final Christmas Masquerade, when one of the group disappeared, never to be seen...

In Poirot Investigates, Agatha Christie presents eleven riveting short stories featuring the famous Belgian detective, Hercule Poirot. From high-stakes jewel thefts to baffling murders, Poirot faces a variety of complex and puzzling cases that challenge his remarkable intellect and investigative prowess. In these tales, Poirot must unravel a web of deception involving missing persons, secret identities, and shocking crimes, using his keen observation and logical deductions to reveal the truth.