American Mystery Classics

In this early serial killer novel, Ellery Queen stalks a mass murderer through the streets of 1940s New York.Author: Ellery QueenPublisher: American Mystery ClassicsPublication Date: Sep 17,...

A wealthy dilettante is on the trail of a killer with a penchant for theatrics in this cozy mystery by the author of Murder on ?B? Deck. A strange sight greets Chicago haberdashery clerk Rufus Ker as...

A movie star fears for her life on a train journey from Los Angeles to New York...Author: Dorothy B. HughesPublisher: American Mystery ClassicsPublication Date: December 03, 2019Number of Pages: 264...

In these classic mystery tales, literature is a matter of life or deathAuthor: Otto PenzlerPublisher: American Mystery ClassicsPublication Date: Jul 11, 2023Number of Pages: 480 pagesLanguage:...

Fifteen puzzling tales from the masters of the mystery genreAuthor: Otto PenzlerPublisher: American Mystery ClassicsPublication Date: Jul 02, 2024Number of Pages: NA pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding:...

A speakeasy performer is murdered in this pioneering mystery from the mother of the police procedural.Author: Helen ReillyPublisher: American Mystery ClassicsPublication Date: Feb 06, 2024Number of...

The body of Herbert Endicott is discovered by his wife at 8:37 PM, dead in his walk-in closet. The circumstances seem suspicious but there is no evidence of foul play, so Lieutenant Valcour, New...

The body of Herbert Endicott is discovered by his wife at 8:37 PM, dead in his walk-in closet. The circumstances seem suspicious but there is no evidence of foul play, so Lieutenant Valcour, New...

C. Daly King's debut mystery is a tale of murder, travel, and psychiatry set aboard a luxury transatlantic linerAuthor: Martin Edwards, C. Daly KingPublisher: American Mystery ClassicsPublication...

Three desperate men converge in the midst of an annual carnival in Santa FeAuthor: Dorothy B. Hughes, Sara ParetskyPublisher: American Mystery ClassicsPublication Date: March 02, 2021Number of Pages:...

"I came here to make a dead man change his mind."So begins a creepy and unusual mystery celebrated to this day as one of the greatest "impossible crime" novels of all time. When a family's promise to...

"I came here to make a dead man change his mind."So begins a creepy and unusual mystery celebrated to this day as one of the greatest "impossible crime" novels of all time. When a family's promise to...

It's homicide on the high seas in this "A 1 mystery" by the Edgar Award-winning author Q. Patrick (Kirkus Reviews).Author: Q. PatrickPublisher: American Mystery ClassicsPublication Date: May 07,...

Eleven confounding problems in deduction for Golden Age super-sleuth Ellery Queen.Author: Ellery QueenPublisher: American Mystery ClassicsPublication Date: Sep 19, 2023Number of Pages: 336...

When her husband is murdered using a method from one of her books, a screenwriter becomes the main suspectAuthor: Lange LewisPublisher: American Mystery ClassicsPublication Date: Aug 01, 2023Number...

In a nightmare scenario, Frank Townsend has an apparently minor accident on his way home but he arrives to find his wife gone and doesn't recognize his apartment. He had gone to work on a normal day...

In a nightmare scenario, Frank Townsend has an apparently minor accident on his way home but he arrives to find his wife gone and doesn't recognize his apartment. He had gone to work on a normal day...

A police detective seeks the rationale between seemingly-unrelated murders, connected only by the appearance of a beautiful woman each timeAuthor: Cornell Woolrich, Eddie MullerPublisher: American...

The "Codfish Sherlock Holmes" solves a whodunnit in 1930s Cape CodAuthor: Phoebe Atwood TaylorPublisher: American Mystery ClassicsPublication Date: May 31, 2022Number of Pages: 288 pagesLanguage:...

Years ago, Alden Leeds struck it rich when he discovered a vein of gold. Now, aging and single, he finds himself surrounded by family waiting patiently to inherit his fortune. When he announces his...

Years ago, Alden Leeds struck it rich when he discovered a vein of gold. Now, aging and single, he finds himself surrounded by family waiting patiently to inherit his fortune. When he announces his...

Otto Penzler presents American mystery classics--Cover. 9781613162132 1613162138 264 Cats http://books.google...

A drunken man is shot dead on his doorstep in this classic mystery starring the "observant [and] appealing" seventy-year-old sleuth (Publishers Weekly).Author: Dolores HitchensPublisher: American...

Elizabeth Bell runs a quiet household, with no family and no more than the usual number of servants. She passes her time thinking about crime and working on her biography of a relative. When a young...

Elizabeth Bell runs a quiet household, with no family and no more than the usual number of servants. She passes her time thinking about crime and working on her biography of a relative. When a young...

For more than a year, Kit McKittrick languished in a Fascist prison in Spain where he was tortured by a limping jailor known only as Wobblefoot. He escaped with the help of a childhood friend from...

For more than a year, Kit McKittrick languished in a Fascist prison in Spain where he was tortured by a limping jailor known only as Wobblefoot. He escaped with the help of a childhood friend from...

Death stalks the halls of a New York City mansion in this celebrated Philo Vance mystery.Author: S S van DinePublisher: American Mystery ClassicsPublication Date: Jun 25, 2024Number of Pages: NA...

Asey Mayo, the "Codfish Sherlock Holmes," investigates the murder of a traveling performer.Author: Phoebe Atwood TaylorPublisher: American Mystery ClassicsPublication Date: Apr 16, 2024Number of...

A house party turns a millionaire's hacienda hideaway into a crime scene in this classic whodunnit from an Edgar Award?winning Grand Master. The Godfrey family is vacationing among the picturesque...