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The second collection of award-winning stories featuring Gordianus the Finder chronicles the previous untold adventures from the early career of Gordianus--when his adopted son was still a mute boy, and his wife Bethesda, was but his slave.Steven Saylor's Roma Sub Rosa series of novels, set in the l... More

Murder is hardly the best way for Lord Peter and his bride, the famous mystery writer Harriet Vane, to start their honeymoon. It all begins when the former owner of their newly acquired estate is found quite nastily dead in the cellar. And what Lord Peter had hoped would be a very private and romant... More

It is Friday evening before Labor Day weekend. Americans are hitting the highways in droves; the radio crackles with warnings of traffic jams and crashed cars. Steve Hogan and his wife, Nancy, have a long drive ahead--from New York City to Maine, where their children are in camp. But Steve wants a d... More

When con artist Kidd learns of a colleague's death, he doesn't buy the story his friend was caught raiding the files of a high-tech corporation. Kidd thinks it was what his friend already knew that got him killed. Now Kidd and LuEllen infiltrate the firm to discover its secrets, but meet an unknown ... More

The naked body was lying in the tub. Not unusual for a proper bath, but highly irregular for murder--especially with a pair of gold pince-nez deliberately perched before the sightless eyes. What's more, the face appeared to have been shaved after death. In this, his first murder case, Lord Peter unt... More

Benedetta "Bennie" Rosato is a maverick lawyer who prosecutes police misconduct and excessive-force cases, and business at her firm of Rosato & Biscardi has never been better. Then, without warning, a savage murder tears the firm apart. All evidence points to Bernie, who has motive aplenty and an un... More

Recovering from an unhappy love affair, a mystery writer seeks solace on a barren beach--deserted but for the body of a young man with his throat cut. A Lord Peter Wimsey mystery.Filled with hundreds of specific examples and organized into a coherent framework of practical concepts that can be appli... More

Rustic old Riddlesdale Lodge was a Wimsey family retreat with country pleasures and the thrill of the hunt--until the game turned up human and quite dead. The accused murderer was Lord Peter's own brother.... More

Now collected in a single volume, mysteries featuring Sayers's Lord Peter Wimsey, the aristocratic amateur sleuth introduced in 1923, are attractively repackaged for a new generation of readers. Features "The Image in the Mirror", "Tallboys", and many more.One of the founding mothers of mystery, Dor... More

In this Lord Peter Wimsey whodunit, mystery writer Harriet Vane attends her Oxford reunion, known as the "Gaudy". But the festivities are haunted by a series of ghastly warnings which threaten murder. Soon Harriet and her paramour, Lord Peter Wimsey, find themselves ensnared in a nightmare of terror... More

The wealthy woman was dead--a trifle sooner that expected. The intricate trail of horror and senseless murder led from a beautiful Hampshire village to a fashionable London flat and a deliberate test of amour--staged by the debonair sleuth Lord Peter Wimsey.The wealthy old woman was dead -- a trifle... More

Old General Fendman was definitely dead, but no one knew exactly when he had died--and the time of death was the determining factor in a half-million-pound inheritance.... More

Whether it's poker or trial law, wisecracking Rita Morrone plays to win, especially when she takes on the defense of the Honorable Fiske Hamilton, a prominent federal judge accused of sexual harassment. From the Edgar Award-winning author of Final Appeal and Legal Tender.Whether it's poker or trial ... More

When ad man Victor Dean falls down the stairs in the offices of Pym's Publicity, a respectable London advertising agency, it looks like an accident. Then Lord Peter Winsey is called in, and he soon discovers there's more to copywriting than meets the eye--cocaine, blackmail and wanton women can be r... More

Gourmet, orchid-growing sleuth Nero Wolfe and his dashing assistant, Archie Goodwin, are confronted with a medley of murder and mayhem featuring three baffling clues--an ear of corn, a shoeshine, and a bloodstained tie... More

Mystery novelist Harriet Vane knows all about poisons, and when her fiance dies in a manner described in one of her books, a jury of her peers think a hangman's noose is the answer. But Lord Peter Wimsey is determined to find Harriet innocent--and make her his wife. Originally published in 1930.Myst... More