Collection: Mystery (Academy Use Only)

The Big Sleep, Chandler’s first novel, introduces Philip Marlowe, a private detective inhabiting the seamy side of Los Angeles in the 1930s, as he takes on a case involving a paralysed California millionaire, two psychotic daughters, blackmail and murder. In Farewell, My Lovely, Marlowe deals wi...

'My name is Sherlock Holmes. It is my business to know what other people don't know'. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes first introduced Arthur Conan Doyle's brilliant detective to the readers of The Strand Magazine. The runaway success of this series prompted a second set of stories, The Memoirs...

From the moment that Bruno decides that he should kill Guy's wife and that Guy kills Bruno's father, Guy Haines is trapped in a nightmare of shared guilt and an insidious merging of personalities.

From Ian Rankin, winner of the 1997 CWA Macallan Gold Dagger for fiction for Black & Blue, comes the early Inspector Rebus novels, gathered together in one volume for the first time.