The Puzzle of the Happy Hooligan

Stuart Palmer

• Hardcover | Engels | An American Mystery Classic
• Hildegarde Withers is just your average school teacher--with above-average skills in the art of deduction. The New Yorker often finds herself investig... Lees meer

Cat's Paw

Roger Scarlett

• Hardcover | Engels | An American Mystery Classic
• Martin Greenough's walled-off mansion is the last remaining holdout in the Boston parkland known as the Fenway--and the fact that it eluded condemnati... Lees meer

The Birthday Murder

Lange Lewis

• Paperback | Engels | An American Mystery Classic
• A successful writer and a B-movie director seem like the perfect match in the Hollywood Hills and, with him working to produce her novel for an upcomi... Lees meer

Vultures in the Sky

Todd Downing

• Paperback | Engels | An American Mystery Classic
• The journey of the Mexico City-bound Pullman seems ill-fated from the outset -- what with the engine troubles and the threat of an impending railway s... Lees meer

The Dutch Shoe Mystery

Ellery Queen

• Paperback | Engels | An American Mystery Classic
• When Ellery Queen, described by the London Times as "the logical successor to Sherlock Holmes," is invited by his friend, a doctor, to witness an oper... Lees meer

Murder on B Deck

Vincent Starrett

• Hardcover | Engels | An American Mystery Classic
• For the passengers aboard the Latakia, the transatlantic journey from New York to Cherbourg promises weeks of rest and relaxation, no matter what clas... Lees meer

The Fabulous Clipjoint

Fredric Brown

• Hardcover | Engels | An American Mystery Classic
• In the rough edges of 1940s Chicago, the discovery of a corpse in an alleyway isn't always enough to cause a big stir--especially when the victim is k... Lees meer

Rocket to the Morgue

Anthony Boucher

• Paperback | Engels | An American Mystery Classic
• Legendary science fiction author Fowler Faulkes may be dead, but his creation, the iconic Dr. Derringer, lives on in popular culture. Or, at least, th... Lees meer

Golden Age Bibliomysteries

Otto Penzler

• Hardcover | Engels | An American Mystery Classic
• Of crime fiction's many sub-genres, none is so reflexive and so intriguing as the "bibliomystery" stories that involve crimes set, somehow, in the wor... Lees meer

The Mad Hatter Mystery

John Dickson Carr

• Paperback | Engels | An American Mystery Classic
• At the hand of an outrageous prankster, top hats are going missing all over London, snatched from the heads of some of the city's most powerful people... Lees meer

The Case of the Shoplifter's Shoe

Erle Stanley Gardner

• Paperback | Engels | An American Mystery Classic
• Sleuthing attorney Perry Mason can't resist a good mystery, so when he sees an older woman being accused of shoplifting during a department store outi... Lees meer

Death from a Top Hat

Clayton Rawson

• Paperback | Engels | An American Mystery Classic
• Now retired from the tour circuit on which he made his name, master magician The Great Merlini spends his days running a magic shop in New York's Time... Lees meer

Obelists at Sea

C Daly King, Martin Edwards

• Paperback | Engels | An American Mystery Classic
• The smoking room on a transatlantic cruise ship is bound to be a hotbed of activity -- but it's less common for it to be the site of a murder. Yet, wh... Lees meer

Cat's Paw

Roger Scarlett

• Paperback | Engels | An American Mystery Classic
• Martin Greenough's walled-off mansion is the last remaining holdout in the Boston parkland known as the Fenway--and the fact that it eluded condemnati... Lees meer

The Adventures of Ellery Queen

Ellery Queen

• Hardcover | Engels | An American Mystery Classic
• For Ellery Queen, there is no puzzle that reason cannot solve. In his time, he has faced down killers, thugs, and thieves, protected only by the might... Lees meer

Murder on B Deck

Vincent Starrett

• Paperback | Engels | An American Mystery Classic
• For the passengers aboard the Latakia, the transatlantic journey from New York to Cherbourg promises weeks of rest and relaxation, no matter what clas... Lees meer

Golden Age Locked Room Mysteries

• Hardcover | Engels | An American Mystery Classic
• For devotees of the Golden Age mystery, the impossible crime story represents the period's purest form: it presents the reader with a baffling scenari... Lees meer

Home Sweet Homicide

Craig Rice

• Paperback | Engels | An American Mystery Classic
• Unoccupied and unsupervised while mother is working, the children of widowed crime writer Marion Carstairs find diversion wherever they can. So when t... Lees meer

The American Gun Mystery

Ellery Queen

• Paperback | Engels | An American Mystery Classic
• When a washed up Hollywood cowboy-turned-circus rodeo actor is shot dead in the midst of his performance at a New York sports-palace, in front of thou... Lees meer

The Album

Mary Roberts Rinehart

• Paperback | Engels | An American Mystery Classic
• Even in the early 1930s, Crescent Place is a neighborhood out of the past. The five Victorian mansions and the remote patch of pasture placed between ... Lees meer

The Red Right Hand

Joel Townsley Rogers

• Paperback | Engels | An American Mystery Classic
• After the death of Inis St. Erme, Dr. Henry Riddle retraces the man's final moments, searching for the moment of his fatal mis-step. Was it when he an... Lees meer

Headed for a Hearse

Jonathan Latimer

• Hardcover | Engels | An American Mystery Classic
• Robert Westland's date with the executioner is just around the corner when he finally decides to fight the murder rap sending him to the electric chai... Lees meer

The Bigger They Come

Erle Stanley Gardner

• Hardcover | Engels | An American Mystery Classic
• Bertha Cool is the gruff, tough-talking, corpulent head of her private detective agency, opened after the death of her husband; Donald Lam is her meek... Lees meer

The Widening Stain

W Bolingbroke Johnson

• Paperback | Engels | An American Mystery Classic
• For the staff of the library at the center of The Widening Stain , it's easy enough to dismiss the death of a woman who fell from a rolling ladder as ... Lees meer