Eclectic Crime Fiction
Explore a curated list of eclectic crime fiction books, featuring thrilling mysteries, noir tales, and unconventional detective stories for every crime fiction enthusiast.
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Dashiell Hammett: Complete Novels (LOA #110)
by Dashiell Hammett
Presents five novels by Dashiell Hamilton, all published between 1929 and 1934.
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Maigret in Holland
by Georges Simenon
A teacher is found murdered, and Maigret is presented with two clues and a gaggle of suspects. The Inspector, however, is preoccupied with a suspicious pathway nearby. An absorbing study of human appetites suppressed to the bursting point by small-town respectability. Translated by Geoffrey Sainsbury. A Helen and Kurt Wolff Book
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The Big Sleep
by Raymond Chandler
The renowned novel from the crime fiction master, with the "quintessential urban private eye" (Los Angeles Times), Philip Marlowe. • Featuring the iconic character that inspired the film Marlowe, starring Liam Neeson. One of The Atlantic’s Great American Novels of the Past 100 Years A dying millionaire hires private eye Philip Marlowe to handle the blackmailer of one of his two troublesome daughters, and Marlowe finds himself involved with more than extortion. Kidnapping, pornography, seduction, and murder are just a few of the complications he gets caught up in. “Chandler seems to have created the culminating American hero: wised up, hopeful, thoughtful, adventurous, sentimental, cynical and rebellious.” —The New York Times Book Review
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The Galton Case
by Ross Macdonald
Lew Archer returns in this gripping mystery, widely recognized as one of acclaimed mystery writer Ross Macdonald's very best, about the search for the long lost heir of the wealthy Galton family. Almost twenty years have passed since Anthony Galton disappeared, along with a suspiciously streetwise bride and several thousand dollars of his family's fortune. Now Anthony's mother wants him back and has hired Lew Archer to find him. What turns up is a headless skeleton, a boy who claims to be Galton's son, and a con game whose stakes are so high that someone is still willing to kill for them. Devious and poetic, The Galton Case displays MacDonald at the pinnacle of his form.
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The Complete Sherlock Holmes #2 Boxed Set
by Arthur Conan Doyle
Titles include "Sherlock Holmes, Volume 1" and "Sherlock Holmes, Volume 2".
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Chained!
by Lauren Henderson
Kidnapped from the set of the BBC set where she has been working as a stunt double, Sam Jones discovers that she has become the victim of mistaken identity as she tangles with a gang of overzealous animal rights activists. By the author of Black Rubber Dress.
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The Burglar who Thought He was Bogart
by Lawrence Block
The Edgar Award-winning author of The Burglar who Traded Ted Williams returns with his seventh installment in the hilarious series. Bernie has a new girlfriend, but burlgars cannot live on love alone so he agrees to do a job for an eccentric stranger. All Bernie has to do is infiltrate a posh East Side apartment and remove a black leather portfolio. It's almost too easy to be true.
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The Getaway
by Jim Thompson
Doc McCoy knows everything there is to know about pulling off the perfect bank job. But there are some things he has forgotten--such as a partner who is not only treacherous but insane and a wife who is still an amateur. Worst of all, McCoy has forgotten that when the crime is big and bloody enough, there is no such thing as a clean getaway.
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Arkansas Traveler
by Earlene Fowler
Benni Harper is thrilled to be back in her hometown, but her joy soon fades after she realizes the town is in the middle of a heated battle over the merging of two church congregations.
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Sacred
by Dennis Lehane
A dying billionaire hires private investigators Patrick Kenzie and Angela Gennaro to retrieve his beautiful, grieving daughter from an exploitative cult, luring them into a world of ubiquitous deception and danger. Reprint.
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N Is for Noose
by Sue Grafton
Female detective Kinsey Millhone becomes involved in the case of a double murder in Carson City and a detective who dies trying to investigate it
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Sick Puppy
by Carl Hiaasen
Independently wealthy eco-terrorist Twilly Spree teaches a flagrant litterbug a lesson--and leaves the offender's precious Range Rover swarming with hungry dung beetles. When he discovers the litterer is one of the most powerful political fixers in Florida, the real Hiaasen-style fun begins.
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And Then There Were None
by Agatha Christie
One by one, the guests arrived at the mansion on Indian Island, summoned by a mysterious host. And one by one, with terrifying meticulousness, they were stalked by a cunning murderer. Utterly baffling...and yet there was a pattern, concealed in a nursery rhyme hanging over the fireplace.
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Cinnamon Skin
by John Dann MacDonald
Chilean terrorists come close to ending Travis McGee, but he survives for one more adventure.
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Sugarplum Dead
by Carolyn Hart
It's getting to look a lot like Christmas on the sea island of Broward's Rock, South Carolina. At the Death on Demand mystery bookstore, owner Annie Darling's Yuletide preparations have to be put on hold thanks to several rather inconvenient distractions -- including murder. Across the windswept isle, in the spacious, spooky mansion of Marguerite Dumaney Ladson, a motley crew is gathering for the onetime movie star's gala Xmas/birthday bash. And when it turns deadly, it's Annie who has to prove the innocence of the most disturbing suspect: her own deadbeat dad.
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The Complete Tales & Poems of Edgar Allan Poe
by Edgar Allan Poe
This collection of 73 short stories and 48 poems includes many masterpieces by American writer Edgar Allan Poe.
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Bleeders
by Bill Pronzini
When Jay Cohalan, who is being blackmailed by his unhappy wife, is murdered and the blackmail money and the wife both turn up missing, the Nameless Detective descends into San Francisco's underworld of drug dealers, extortionists, and other "bleeders" tof
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Busman's Honeymoon
by Dorothy L. Sayers
Murder is hardly the best way for Lord Peter and his bride, the famous mystery writer Harriet Vane, to start their honeymoon. It all begins when the former owner of their newly acquired estate is found quite nastily dead in the cellar. All too quickly, what Lord Peter had hoped would be a very private and romantic stay in the country has turned into a most baffling case, with a misspelled "notise" to the milkman at its center and a dead man who's been discovered in a most intriguing condition: with not a spot of blood on his smashed skull and not a penny less than six hundred pounds in his pocket.
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The Cat who Went Up the Creek
by Lilian Jackson Braun
The tranqil vacation peace of Quill and his pals is shattered by the discovery of a body floating down a creek.
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Point Deception
by Marcia Muller
When journalist Guy Newberry arrives in a small seaside community to investigate several unsolved murders, the body of a woman washes up at nearby Point Deception, forcing Guy and sheriff's deputy Rhoda Swift to work together to stop a deranged killer.
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The Deadhouse
by Linda A. Fairstein
Assistant D.A. Alexandra Cooper investigates the murder of Manhattan professor Lola Dakota, a crime whose only clue lies in "The Deadhouse," the Roosevelt Island site where smallpox patients were sent to die in the nineteenth century.
