Christmas has served as a fertile background for mystery fiction for a long time, perhaps because...

John Dickson Carr is famous for his puzzling 'impossible crime' plots in which corpses are discov...

Edgar Award winner Otto Penzler selects stories that highlight the greatest American authors of t...

A Shakespearean actor-turned-sleuth wonders if a suicide's been staged—and suspects the members o...

Dr. Gideon Fell investigates multiple impossible crimes in this celebrated mystery from the maste...

A hardboiled rare book detective seeks a literate killer to clear an innocent man.Joel Crisp know...

Fifteen suspenseful tales from the Golden Age of the mystery genre.The art of the suspense story ...

Perry Mason solves a murder in a mining town in this whodunit from one of the bestselling authors...

When a box of bootleg liquor washes up on the shores of Cape Cod, it brings a whole lot of troubl...

Edgar Award winner Otto Penzler selects stories that highlight the greatest American authors of t...

A surgeon is murdered in mid-air with only his fellow airplane passengers as possible suspects in...

A teenage boy sets out to avenge his father in this noir novel from the author of Specialty of th...