A veteran con man who defrauded countless Fort Connor residents shows up in and everyone—including the House of Lambspun knitters—is up in arms, especially Barbara. Released for good behavior, he’s back to ruin more lives until he’s found dead in his car.
An omnibus of twelve short stories in the Detective Inspector Rebus mystery series revolving around an Edinburgh detective.
Wyoming Sheriff Walt Longmire’s daughter, Cady, is getting married in two weeks, and the wedding locale arrangements have just gone up in smoke signals.
Mr. and Mrs. North have invited their closest friends—an ex-aviator, a mysterious doctor, and New York Police Department’s own Lt. William Weigand—to join them on this glittering retreat, but the joviality ends when Weigand finds Helen Wilson lying across the path, a knife buried in her neck. A member of the group surely killed her, and unless the Norths act quickly, the murderer will strike again.
Raynaud Shade, a dangerous sociopath who confessed to murdering a boy ten years ago, is leading the FBI and Walt through a blizzard to the burial site.
THE NORTHS MEET MURDER in the top-floor studio of the old house in which they live. Long left vacant, Mrs. North decides it is just the place for a party and takes her husband up to check it out when they find a murdered man in the bathtub! With no clue, Detective Weigand begins spinning his web and gathering into it the most amazing conglomeration of information. With the aid of Mrs. North’s “hunches” Weigand carries through to a brilliant, entertaining and fascinating conclusion.
Nick and Nora Charles are a rich, glamorous couple who solve homicides in between wisecracks and martinis. At once knowing and unabashedly romantic, The Thin Man is a murder mystery that doubles as a sophisticated comedy of manners.
Francesca Rossi and her husband have opened a cooking school in Italy, and Tom suggests a visit to celebrate their anniversary. It’s a beautiful start until murder.
It’s 92 B.C. and eighteen-year-old Gordianus embarks on the adventure of a lifetime: a far-flung journey to see the Seven Wonders of the World. Not yet called “the Finder”, Gordianus encounters a mystery at each of the Wonders to challenge his powers of deduction.
When Marcus Crassus’ overseer is found hideously murdered with a note left, a mysterious client hires Gordianus the Finder to find out the truth about the murder. Before Crassus’ vow to slaughter his remaining slaves in three days.