When a marriage proposal appears imminent for the beautiful--if rebellious--Lady Rose Summer, her father wants to know if her suitor's intentions are honorable. He calls on Captain Harry Cathcart, the impoverished younger son of a baron, to do some intelligence work on the would-be fiancé, Sir Geoffrey Blandon. But when Harry is caught between his client's desire for discretion and his suspicion that murder may have been committed, he enlists the...

Trick of the Mind, Cassandra Chan's clever outing for these best friends, written in the classic tradition with a delightfully modern voice all its own, is a charming story that mystery lovers are sure to enjoy. Scotland Yard Detective Sergeant Jack Gibbons has been shot twice, and even after the surgery, he isn't out of the woods and may still be in danger because he can't remember how it all happened. While his colleagues dig into his personal...

When a middle-aged widower turns up dead in a small Cotswolds town, supposedly the victim of an accident, Scotland Yard sleuth Jack Gibbons enlists the aid of his friend, Phillip Bethancourt, to uncover the truth about the wealthy businessman's death.

The 16th century English sleuth, Nicholas Segalla, tries to penetrate a plot against Queen Mary Tudor, whose reign is turning into a bonfire of heretics at the stake. Segalla suspects Bloody Mary, as she is known, is slowly being poisoned. By the author of The Time of Death at Mayerling.

A master of deductive reasoning who can solve the most difficult crimes by spotting obscure clues overlooked by others, dilettante sleuth Sherlock Holmes was the hero of sixty stories written by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle between 1887 and 1927. He even rose from the dead after Doyle tried to dispatch him in his twenty-fourth adventure, and readers protested. Here, in one volume, are all four full-length novels and fifty-six short stories about the colourful...