At a dog trainer's convention in New York, it's the humans that need to be housebroken. From animal psychics to shock-treatment disciplinarians, every method of dog training is represented in an atmosphere of extreme jealousy. When one of the trainers ends up dead, it's up to Rachel and Dash to collar the murderer before pandemonium breaks loose.

Miss Marple's first 70 years of solving crimes are celebrated with this new repackaged edition of a classic about the murder of a contemptible tycoon. When two less-deserving souls fall victim to the killer, Miss Marple is engaged to detect. The only link appears to be buried in a not-so-innocent verse.

Patricia Anne and Mary Alice head south for some fun in the sun and almost immediately find a dead body washed up on a quiet beach. And with their usual wit and uncanny wisdom, the sisters are soon upstaging the local cops and following a murky trail of dirty real estate deals, giant sea turtle habitats, and big money interests to catch a killer.

This explosive debut novel--sold to Tri Star Pictures for six figures--introduces Stephanie Plum, bounty hunter. Stephanie's assignment is to nail Joe Morelli, a former vice cop charged with murder--and the man who took her virginity at age 16. Powerful chemistry still exists between the two, making for one of the most original mysteries of the ...

Handsome Cambridge dropout Mark Callender died hanging by the neck with a faint trace of lipstick on his mouth. When the official verdict is suicide, his wealthy father hires fledgling private investigator Cordelia Gray to find out what led him to self-destruction. What she discovers instead is a twisting trail of secrets and sins, and the stron...

Bookseller Claire Malloy looks forward to meeting her favorite mystery writers at Farberville, Arkansas's first mystery convention. Soon Claire finds herself volunteered to run the show. When one of the attendees dies in a car accident, another disappears, and a crime-solving cat can't be located, Claire gets involved in a far too complicated ca...

Ex-policeman Bernie Gunther thought he'd seen everything on the streets of 1930s Berlin. But then he went freelance, and each case he tackled sucked him further into the grisly excesses of Nazi subculture. And even after the war, amidst the decayed, imperial splendour of Vienna, Bernie uncovered a legacy that made the wartime atrocities look lil...

This ghoul just wants to have fun! She also wants an occasional bad guy to sink her fangs into - because she never, ever takes Innocent Blood. Anne Parillaud is Marie, a vampire who imperils Pittsburgh when she fails to kill off one of her victims, mob boss Sal Macelli (Robert Loggia). Sal realizes what a lucky stiff he is: a vampire with deadly...

Washington D.C. is buzzing with activity when the King and Queen of England visit for a weekend. To add to the confusion created by their arrival, an assistant closely connected with the First Lady turns up strangled in a White House linen closet. Horrified, Eleanor is hot on the trail of a killer. Elliott Roosevelt is the son of Franklin and El...

Here is a presentation of two of the best-loved adventures of the most famous detective in the mystery tradition. Both of them are presented in their entirety. The adventures retold here are A Study In Scarlet in which the good Doctor Watson is first introduced to our hero by young Dr. Stamford; and The Sign Of Four, a wild and fast-paced tale o...

Two people have died in macabre accidents, one struck by lightning on Tahoe s highest mountain and one mowed down by a hit-and-run driver. In the middle of a controversial procedure to exhume one of the bodies, powerful businessman Quentin de Beers is killed. Charged with the murder, Quentin's angry grandson Jason won't talk, even to Nina Reilly...

During the opening of the summer session at Meadowbank, an exclusive institution for privileged young ladies, a tyrannical teacher is found shot to death. Then an illustrious headmistress bites the dust. And who better than Hercule Poirot to declaw the killer?

A fortune tellers' murder portends big trouble for amateur sleuth Judith McMonigle in the zany whodunit that started it all--Mary Daheim's first sensational Bed-and-Breakfast mystery.

The totally opposite, 60-something sisters Patricia Anne and Mary Alice are once again drawn into a murder. While attending a party for local folk artists, the gallery's owner dies of an apparent heart attack. But the girls soon learn that many of the artists had murderous designs on the victim. Original.

The story begins with my father, actually, and the fact that I'm the one who's answerable for his death. It was not my first crime, as you will see, but it was the one my mother couldn't forgive. With this startling confession, Elizabeth George begins her seventh crime novel featuring Lynley and Havers. From the author of Missing Joseph.

In this essential distillation of American suspense, 100 years worth of peerless tales are collected into a volume where giants of the genre abound: Raymond Chandler, Lawrence Block, Sue Grafton, Elmore Leonard, and Sara Paretsky.

True story about 13-year-old Phoebe, a free black, who, disguised as the housekeeper in the home of an American Revolutionary war general, was really a spy whose job was to guard his life.

Celebrate Miss Marple's first 70 years of solving crimes with this new repackaged edition. Screen queen Marina Gregg takes up residence in the village of St. Mary Mead. When a fan is poisoned, Miss Marple suspects the lethal cocktail was intended for someone else. If it was meant for Marina, then why?

From the author of One for the Money comes the second clever comic mystery featuring irrepressible bounty hunter Stephanie Plum. Here, Stephanie finds herself on the trail of a killer who happens to have a distant relative who's a vice cop with questionable ethics, a libido in permanent overdrive, and a habit of horning in on Stephanie's investi...