Mystery

The Athenian Murders

by José Carlos Somoza, Sonia Soto

2002

In a dual story set in ancient Greece and modern times, the idealistic Diagoras teams up with Heracles Pontor to solve the murders of young Pluto's Academy students, and the present-day translator of the ancient text pursues what he bel…

Emil and the Detectives

by Erich Kästner

1930

On his way to Berlin to visit his grandmother Emil fell asleep and had his money stolen by the man who shared his compartment. Altho he came from the country Emil was not stupid, and he determined to get that money back. He followed the man…

Trent's Last Case

by Edmund Clerihew Bentley

1995

A powerful and ruthless American capitalist is found dead in the garden of his English country house. But why is he not wearing his false teeth? Why is his young widow so relieved at his death? The artist and amateur detective Philip Trent …

Crime and Punishment

by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

1953

Raskolnikov commits murder. He then must deal both with the police, and his own guilty conscience. Determined to overreach his humanity and assert his untrammelled individual will, Raskolnikov, an impoverished student living in the St. Pete…

Crime and Punishment

by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

2019

Determined to overreach his humanity and assert his untrammeled individual will, Raskolnikov, and impoverished student living in the St. Petersburg of the Tsars, commits an act of murder and theft and sets into motion a story which, for its…

Spider's Web

by Charles Osborne, Agatha Christie

2000

Clarissa's efforts to dispose of the corpse in her drawing room before her husband arrives with an important foreign dignitary are threatened by the arrival of a police officer who has come in response to an anonymous tip about a murder…

The Complete Sherlock Holmes

by Arthur Conan Doyle

1927

Volume 1.…

Sleeping Murder

by Agatha Christie

1958

Mr. Parker Pyne, Detective

by Agatha Christie

1961

Short stories about an assortment of people who respond to an ad in the paper worded: Are you happy? If not, consult Mr. Parker Pyne, 17 Richmond Street.…

Fractured

by Karin Slaughter

2009

Ansley Park is one of Atlanta's most upscale neighbourhoods but in one gleaming mansion, in a teenager's lavish bedroom, a girl has been savagely murdered.…

The Door to Time

by Pierdomenico Baccalario

2006

Eleven-year-old twins Jason and Julia have just moved from London to an old mansion on the English coast. Their new home is filled with twisting tunnels and strange artifacts from around the world, and the twins can't wait to discover a…

Five Go Down to the Sea

by Enid Blyton

1961