Crosswords get the Hollywood treatment in this mystery featuring PI Rosco Polycrates and master puzzle solver Belle Graham  Jamaica Nevisson-or Cassandra Lovett, as she's known to the adoring fans of her daytime soap-has vanished without a trace. She and her pal Genie Pepper went pleasure yachting off Nantucket, only to end up lost at sea. So far, only the charred hull of the boat has turned up. Called in by Pepper's husband, Massachusetts detective...

On special assignment with Military Intelligence, Detective-Inspector Bonaparte leaves his familiar Australian outback environment for Melbourne and a nearby mountain resort. Although out of his element with city people, Bony displays his characteristic skills to interpret some puzzling clues in the search for a wily killer... The complex half-caste Bony is, I think, my favourite fictional detective of the past twenty years. - Anthony Boucher, The...

Lady Rose Summer, the wayward Edwardian debutante who keeps getting mixed up in disreputable adventures, would swear she is not a jealous woman. After all, she knows her engagement to private detective Captain Harry Cathcart is only a ploy to keep her parents from shipping her off to India to find a husband. But then Harry's latest client Dolores Duval-- a vision of curves with a seductive parisian accent starts appearing everywhere at his side. And...

"It's 1956, and Lee Plunkett has taken over the family business as a private investigator despite his reluctance to follow in his father's footsteps. When murder intrudes on a group of ghost seekers, Lee is asked to solve the case by a cop on the verge of retirement. At the urging of his perpetual fiancée Audrey, Lee enlists the help of Mr. O'Nelligan, a scholarly Irishman with a keen eye for solving mysteries. The duo is drawn into a murder investigation...

Scott's satisfying fourth installment of his Ben Abbott series hinges on the murder of Billy Tiller, a greedy developer determined to ruin the small town charm of Newbury, Conn., with a string of tacky starter palaces. When he's found dead the police arrest a young environmental activist, Jeff Kimball. Ira Levy, Kimball's lawyer, asks Abbott, realtor-cum-PI, to dig around. Abbott doesn't want to take the case he despised everything Tiller stood for...

Robert McCall is a former veteran of the British Army and the CIA with a shadowy past. He breaks away from "the company" after getting disillusioned with his cloak-and-dagger life. He seeks atonement by offering his services to the public through an advertisement in the newspaper, allowing his clients to equalize the odds against those who would do them harm.

Graphic novel adaptation of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's mystery in which Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson travel to the bleak wastes of Dartmoor, England to solve the mystery surrounding the late Sir Charles Baskerville and a ghostly hound.