After ten years in England, expatriate American Bill Bryson was gripped by an urge to return to the land of his youth. Borrowing his mother's old Chevrolet, Bryson travelled 13,978 miles through...

Hercule Poirot proves his genius and mastery at solving murders in three entertaining mysteries: 'The Under Dog, Four-and-Twenty Blackbirds,' and 'The Dream.'

Plantagenet Palliser, the Duke of Omnium and former Prime Minister of England, is widowed and wracked by grief.Struggling to adapt to life without his beloved Lady Glencora, he works hard to...

Eleven years after his own thoughtlessness drove his son away from home, a businessman hires Nero Wolfe to track down the young man so that he can make amends. But soon the cops come calling. They...

The daughter of a distinguished soldier, Bess Crawford follows in his patriotic footsteps, volunteering to serve her country as a nurse during the Great War. In 1916, she promises Lieutenant...

The dreams of Ginny and Jack overtake them without warning into the minds of two inhabitants of the Kalpa--a would-be warrior, Jebrassy, and an inquisitive explorer, Tiadba. In turn, the dreams of...

From one of America’s most talented historians and winner of a LA Times Book Prize comes a brilliant new account of Richard Nixon that reveals the riveting back story to the red state/blue state...

Who owns the Eustace Diamonds? Lizzie Eustace claims that Sir Florian Eustace, her late husband, gave them to her. But Mr Camperdown, the family solicitor, insists that they are an heirloom, to be...

Paige Donahue has always lived in her sister Camille’s shadow. As children, Camille had the grades, the friends, and their parent’s love, while Paige was left with hand-me-downs and criticism....

Thirteen-year-old Natalie Gallagher is trying to escape: from her parents' ugly divorce and from the vicious cyber-bullying of her former best friend. Adrift, confused, she is a girl trying to...

Madame Vastra, the fabled Lizard Woman of Paternoster Row, knew death in many shapes and forms. But perhaps one of the most bizarre of these was death by snow... On a cold day in December, two...

A dozen ingenious tales involving mystery and adventure, with subjects ranging from a stolen rajah's emerald to a necklace discovered in a basket of cherries to a mystery writer's bizarre...

In the chill of the Cold War, two Norwegians are shot dead after straying into Soviet wilderness, killings that will bind together three people in a web of treachery and passion: Halvard Starheim,...

When Lucie Montgomery visits Washington, D.C., she doesn't expect that her reunion with old friend Rebecca Natale is a setup. But Rebecca disappears into thin air after running an errand for her...

In this classic mystery, murder strikes close to home. Lord Peter is on vacation when he hears that a dead body has been found at the Wimsey family retreat, and that Lord Peter's brother, the Duke...