This stellar anthology of 16 new short stories that pay homage to the great detective includes whodunits by S.J. Rozan, Phillip and Jerry Margolin, Colin Cotterill, and Charles Todd. Other contributors include Lee Child, Neil Gaiman, Laura Lippman, Margaret Maron, and Jacqueline Winspear.

Linnet Doyle is young, beautiful, and rich. She's the girl who has everything -- including the man her best friend loves. Linnet and her new husband take a cruise on the Nile, where they meet the brilliant detective Hercule Poirot. It should be an idyllic trip, yet Poirot has a vague, uneasy feeling that something is dangerously amiss...

In one of London's most elegant shops, a decorative doll in green velvet adopts some rather human, and sinister, traits ... A country gentleman is questioned about a murder that has yet to be committed ... In summoning spirits, a medium is drawn closer to the world of the dead than she ever imagined possible ... In a small country church, a dying man's last word, sanctuary, becomes both an elegy and a clue to a crime. A collection of stories by Agatha...

"A Postman murdered while delivering cards on Christmas morning. A Christmas pine growing over a forgotten homicide. A Yuletide heist gone horribly wrong. When there's as much murder as magic in the air and the facts seem to point to the impossible, it's up to the detective's trained eye to unwrap the clues and neatly tie together an explanation (preferably with a bow on top). Martin Edwards has once again gathered the best of these seasonal stories...

"From the animal mysteries of Arthur Conan Doyle and F. Tennyson Jesse through to more modern masterpieces of the subgenre from Christianna Brand and Penelope Wallace, this anthology celebrates one of the liveliest and most imaginative species of classic crime fiction. The collection includes an introduction on animals in detective fiction by Martin Edwards. Since the dawn of the crime fiction genre, animals of all kinds have played a memorable part...

The arrival of a gluttonous woman at the Tommel Castle Hotel in the Scottish Highlands has the hotel's staff and guests thoroughly disgusted, especially when the woman is later found murdered.

An omnibus collection of 16 Sherlock Holmes tales is set at the height of his sleuthing prowess and finds him working with a young Winston Churchill during the famed siege of Sydney Street discovering a lost epic poem by Lord Byron and more.

A series of adventures featuring Sherlock Holmes, who let his brain compute the information he shrewdly observed; the resulting deductions and unexpected additional talents thrilled his faithful chronicler Dr Watson.

In this follow-up to the acclaimed In the Company of Sherlock Holmes, expert Sherlockians Laurie King and Les Klinger put forth the question: What happens when great writers/creators who are not known as Sherlock Holmes devotees admit to being inspired by Conan Doyle stories? While some are highly-regarded mystery writers, others are best known for their work in the fields of fantasy or science fiction. All of these talented authors, however share...