"Edgar Award-winning editor Otto Penzler's new anthology brings together the most cunning, resourceful, and brilliant female sleuths in mystery fiction. A Vintage Crime/Black Lizard Original. For the first time ever, Otto Penzler gathers the most iconic women of the detective can...
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Mary Roberts Rinehart earned the nickname "The American Agatha Christie" by producing a vast body of tightly plotted mystery and detective fiction that influenced many subsequent writers in the genre. In The Man in Lower Ten , Rinehart's detective delves into a man's mysterious ...
The Detection Club was founded by the creme de la crime of British crime writing in 1930 and its members included Agatha Christie, Dorothy L. Sayers, Anthony Berkeley and the Club's first president, G. K. Chesterton. The Detection Club was a way for crime writers to get together,...
Known as the American Agatha Christie, Mary Roberts Rinehart wrote romances in addition to the mysteries with which she rose to widespread acclaim. The Window at the White Cat contains elements of both genres, focusing on a misbegotten love triangle that veers wildly toward a t...
It is August 1935 and the Duke of Mersham is hosting one of his influential parties, bringing together public figures interested in improving Anglo-German relations. One of his guests is General Sir Alistair Craig VC, who swallows poison in the duke's excellent port and dies just...
A murder mystery featuring Lord Edward Corinth and Verity Browne It is February 1939 and Lord Edward Corinth embarks on his most important investigation yet. It is clear that Britain will soon be at war and will depend on Winston Churchill's leadership. But when MI5 learns that...
In this classic mystery from "American Agatha Christie" Mary Roberts Rinehart, a terrible crime unfolds amidst the worst possible circumstances-devastating flooding that has incapacitated the city of Allegheny, Pennsylvania. When a boarding-house operator finds some damning clues...
Mary Roberts Rinehart rose to literary acclaim as a mystery writer and eventually became known as the "American Agatha Christie." In Sight Unseen , Rinehart strays somewhat from the formula that made her famous, incorporating supernatural elements into the mystery at the heart o...
An isolated country house sets the scene for a wartime mystery from the #1 New York Times -bestselling author known as the American Agatha Christie. As far as Carol Spencer is concerned, the war has spoiled everything. She and Don had been engaged for years and were on the ...
Murder visits a seaside mansion in this gothic mystery from the #1 New York Times -bestselling author known as the American Agatha Christie. The house called Sunset has been Marcia's summer home for her entire life. Both of her parents died there, and she and her brother spen...
A middle-aged man in search of adventure, Bobby Roberts answers an advert in The Times and is dispatched to Milan, to collect a harmless package from a scientist. However, he very soon gets caught up in a terrifying murder...
Often referred to as the "American Agatha Christie," Mary Roberts Rinehart did much to popularize and refine the mystery genre in the United States. The Street of Seven Stars follows an American musician, Harmony Wells, to Austria, where she has gone to hone her violin skills. ...
A murder mystery featuring Lord Edward Corinth and Verity Browne. Verity Browne and Lord Edward Corinth are attending a memorial in Westminster when the service is interrupted by a young woman's desperate cry for help. Too late, they find Maude Pitt-Messanger's father slumped i...
A murder mystery featuring Lord Edward Corinth and Verity Browne. After six months in New York, Lord Edward returns to London only for his old sparring partner, Verity Browne, to convince him to investigate a murder in Madrid. Her lover, David Griffith-Jones, has been convicted...
Mary Roberts Rinehart earned the nickname "The American Agatha Christie" by producing a vast body of tightly plotted mystery and detective fiction that influenced many subsequent writers in the genre. In The Man in Lower Ten , Rinehart's detective delves into a man's mysterious ...
"Prizewinning Finnish author Karo Hamalainen's English-language debut is a literary homage to Agatha Christie and a black comedy locked-room mystery about murder, mayhem, and morality in our cynical modern world. Three cell phones ring in an opulent London apartment. The calls g...
Two reclusive sisters. A crumbling mansion. A dead doppelg ä nger. The New York Times bestseller from the author known as the American Agatha Christie. The Birches was one of the grand mansions of the 1920s, with a ballroom, tennis courts, and, of course, a swimming pool...