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Veteran reporter Jack McEvoy makes a shocking discovery that connects a crime to other mysterious deaths across the country. But his inquiry hits a snag when he himself becomes a suspect.

This collection of seventeen classic mystery stories, dating from 1837 to 1914, traces the earliest history of popular detective fiction.

Chicago's legendary detective, V. I. Warshawski, knows her city's rotten underbelly better than most, but she's unable to avoid it when her goddaughter drags her into a fight over lakefront land use.

The Vermont Bureau of Investigation (VBI) has been pulled onto three cases at the same time; meanwhile, VBI head Joe Gunther has to take time off to care for his ailing mother.

While Joe Gunther and the VBI set about solving two murders, Sally Kravitz and Rachel Reiling combine their talents and resources to go where the police cannot.

It is the spring of 1895, and more than a decade of combating eldritch entities has cost Dr. John Watson his beloved wife Mary, and has nearly broken the health of Sherlock Holmes. Yet the companions do not hesitate when they are called to the infamous Bedlam lunatic asylum, where they find an inmate speaking in R'lyehian, the language of the Old Ones. Moreover, the man is horribly scarred and has no memory of who he is.

Sherlock Holmes and Dr. John Watson have battled R'lluhloig, the Hidden Mind that was once Professor James Moriarty, but Holmes's search for vengeance costs an old friend his life.

Sherlock Holmes deduces a connection between several deaths and a sinister drug lord who is seeking to expand his criminal empire.

Mystery Writers of America presents a collection of crime and mystery stories from some of the best contemporary authors, all of whom have been invited to put their own unique spin on what it means to recognize a certain day or event every year.

Vance Brewster and the two new ranch hands by his side, Stovepipe and Wilbur, are caught up in a brewing, trigger-happy Montana range war between the Rafter M and Three Rivers.