選集・短編小説

亡き夫に唇を触れられたと語り出した義妹（「魂疫」）。縁切り神社で行われる、奇妙な“儀式”（表題作）。忌まわしき伝承を持つ鐘が鳴るとき（「声失せ」）。原因不明の熱に苦しむ息子に寄り添う私に近づいてきた女（「影祓え」）。

おしゃれで、潔癖で、自負心が強く、小柄な体格で風変わりなベルギー人が、“灰色の脳細胞”を駆使して、次々と難事件を解決する…

実は無類の怪談好きだった著者が、自ら体験あるいは学生時代から蒐集し続けている怪異譚の中から、とっておきの49篇を収録――深夜に帰宅したのは誰だったのか？（「夫の帰宅」）。

忍者はあなたのすぐそばに　明治維新でお役御免となったはずの忍者。しかし実は今もひっそり日本の平和を守っていた！　働く現代の忍びたちを描く、新・忍法帖。

1931年（昭和6年）に発表された短編です。
たびたび題名が「目羅博士」になるなどしましたが、ここでは発表当初の作品名にしました。

Hercule Poirot, Miss Marple, and Christie’s wildly unconventional investigator, Parker Pyne, all make appearances in The Regatta Mystery and Other Stories—a riveting collection of short stories featuring a host of murderous crimes of passion, pleasure, and profit. There's a body in a trunk...

Agatha Christie demonstrates her unparalleled mastery with Three Blind Mice and Other Stories—a classic compendium of mystery and suspense, crime and detection, whose title novella served as the basis for The Mousetrap, the longest running stage play in the history of the London theater. A...

It all started with a simple, yet sneakily difficult challenge from global best-selling author Harlan Coben: Pick a bird of prey, then use it as the inspiration for a brand-new story. The response from some of the best writers on the planet: Game on....

Benedict Cumberbatch reads these four new Sherlock Holmes stories by John Taylor: 'An Inscrutable Masquerade', 'The Conundrum of Coach 13', 'The Trinity Vicarage Larceny' and 'The 10.59 Assassin'. Inspired by Arthur Conan Doyle's original Sherlock Holmes stories, John Taylor has written four...

Paul Auster's signature work, The New York Trilogy, consists of three interlocking novels....

Father Brown is an eccentric priest with his own particular ways of dealing with crime....

A seemingly ordinary book group holds deadly secrets in this collection of connected stories from Karin Slaughter, Lee Child, B. A. Paris, and more of the world’s leading thriller writers.

Sherlock Holmes was created by British author Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. Referring to himself as a "consulting detective" in the stories, Holmes is known for his proficiency with observation, deduction, forensic science, and logical reasoning that borders on the fantastic....

An anthology featuring famous sleuths: Edgar Allan Poe's "The Purloined Letter", Arthur Conan Doyle's "The Crooked Man" and G.K. Chesterlon's "The Man in the Passage"....

Someone may have spiked this year's Irish coffee brew with murder! Irish Coffee Murder by Leslie Meier Part-time reporter Lucy Stone is writing a piece for the Courier about four Irish step dancing students from Tinker's Cove on the cusp of making it big. But the story becomes headline news for...

Fully dramatised adaptations of all 60 Sherlock Holmes stories, brought to life with a full cast of actors, sound effects and music Arthur Conan Doyle's legendary detective Sherlock Holmes and his dear friend Dr Watson are among the most enduringly popular fictional characters ever created...

After a lifetime spent in public relations, one-woman dynamo Agatha Raisin struggles to adapt to life in a quiet country village – but she soon finds that there is murder and mayhem aplenty to keep her busy. Among the cases she has to deal with are a poisoned quiche; a vet who has been...

Discover Japan's dark genius of mystery in this collection of nine chilling tales by Edogawa Ranpo, the master of psychological horror and suspense.

Every story of Chesterton's unassuming little priest detective, from the first four published collections: The Innocence of Father Brown (1911), The Wisdom of Father Brown (1914), The Incredulity of Father Brown (1926), and The Secret of Father Brown (1927)....

In Lace and Lies, the knitting shop's been chosen to appear on TV with celebrity knitting designer Teddy Lamont, but things go wrong on and off the camera, and somebody doesn't make it to the final credits....