Skip to main content

Shopping Cart

You're getting the VIP treatment!

Item(s) unavailable for purchase
Please review your cart. You can remove the unavailable item(s) now or we'll automatically remove it at Checkout.
itemsitem
itemsitem

Recommended For You

Loading...
  • The Herring-Seller's Apprentice

    by L.C. Tyler ...
    Series Book 1 - The Ethelred and Elsie Mysteries
    In this Edgar-nominated cozy series opener, a second-rate British crime novelist and his quirky agent investigate his devious ex-wife's murder.A mediocre mystery-writer (and thus a purveyor of red herrings), Ethelred Tressider has even less interest in writing his books than his (dwindling) fan base has in reading them, and his agent—the pesky, nosy, vulgar, chocolate-chomping Elsie—has no ... Read more

    $1.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Book of Extraordinary Impossible Crimes and Puzzling Deaths

    The Best New Original Stories of the Genre

    This anthology draws together some of the best new stories of mystery and murder—compiled by the Anthony Award–winning crime fiction editor.This anthology collects the most original stories of murder by some of mystery fiction's most inventive talents from the United States and United Kingdom. With innovative new takes on locked-room mysteries and impossible crimes, these short stories are full of ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • A Cruel Necessity

    by L.C. Tyler ...
    Series Book 1 - The John Grey Mysteries
    For fans of Lindsey Davis and Iain Pears—A lawyer stands accused of murder in this historical mystery series opener set in Cromwell's England.Two-time Edgar nominee L. C. Tyler is best known for his series featuring Ethelred and Elsie— a third-rate novelist and his gloriously vulgar agent, respectively. And so he should be: He's twice won Britain's "Last Laugh" award for the Best Humorous Mystery ... Read more

    $8.69 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Fire

    by L.C. Tyler ...
    Series Book 4 - The John Grey Mysteries
    It's the Autumn of 1666, and the Great Fire is still burning, the ashes of hundreds of houses and shops and St. Paul's Cathedral choking the air. The people, too, are choking, raging at the French, the Dutch, at the foreigners who—they are certain—lit the torch. Lord Arlington, the Secretary of State, might conceivably be interested in harnessing this anger; it can be so useful, at times, to have ... Read more

    $8.69 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Plague Road

    by L.C. Tyler ...
    Series Book 3 - The John Grey Mysteries
    A politically sensitive murder is detected amid the chaos of a deadly plague in this "stellar . . . well-crafted" mystery set in Restoration London ( Publishers Weekly, starred review).It's 1665, and the Black Death has London in its hideous grip. It's bad news for everyone . . . almost. For a mysterious killer, it presents an opportunity to hide a dead body among a city full of them. But as ... Read more

    $8.69 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • A Masterpiece of Corruption

    by L.C. Tyler ...
    Series Book 2 - The John Grey Mysteries
    In this mystery by the author of Crooked Herring, a lawyer in Cromwell's England receives dangerous info that could stop a murder—or get him killed.John Grey is a newly minted lawyer and would-be ladies' man with a bad habit of poking his nose into other people's business and getting tangled up in intrigue. That's unfortunate, because a mis-delivered letter from royalists has left Grey with more ... Read more

    $1.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Ten Little Herrings

    by L.C. Tyler ...
    Series Book 2 - The Ethelred and Elsie Mysteries
    In this Edgar-nominated cozy mystery, a sub-par literary agent and her crime-writing client must ferret out a murderer in a French hotel.Ethelred Tressider is eager to pack in his career a mid-level mystery author—and happy to leave his (deservedly) long-suffering agent, Elsie, holding the bag. But Elsie has tracked Ethelred from England to his hideout, a run-down hotel hosting a stamp-collectors' ... Read more

    $8.69 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Herring in the Library

    by L.C. Tyler ...
    Series Book 3 - The Ethelred and Elsie Mysteries
    From the author of Ten Little Herrings, murder is on the menu when a two-bit British crime writer and his sub-par agent dine at a country estate.Ethelred and Elsie are an unlikely duo: he's a deeply mediocre mystery writer, and she's his deeply nosy, chocolate-chomping agent. And yet they are stuck with one another, if only because their combined sleuthing abilities are much more impressive than ... Read more

    $8.69 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Herring on the Nile

    by L.C. Tyler ...
    Series Book 4 - The Ethelred and Elsie Mysteries
    From the author of The Herring in the Library, a struggling mystery author takes an Egyptian cruise for inspiration only to become surrounded by murder.Ethelred Tressider's career is not, let's face it, what one might call glittering. In fact, it's barely what one might call capable of paying the gas bill. To be honest, this is not surprising: Ethelred lost any real interest in writing mystery ... Read more

    $8.69 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Crooked Herring

    by L.C. Tyler ...
    Series Book 5 - The Ethelred and Elsie Mysteries
    From the author of Herring on the Nile, a fellow novelist's plea for help plunges a mid-list mystery writer and his agent into a murder investigation."You don't believe me, do you?" asked Henry. "That I might have killed somebody." Well, really. The genuine murderer—the real pro—tends to keep track of that sort of thing. And besides, there is no dead body to speak of. Understandably, Ethelred, our ... Read more

    $1.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Farewell My Herring

    The witty crime romp

    by L. C. Tyler ...
    Series Book 10 - The Herring Mysteries
    Ethelred Tressider and his agent Elsie Thirkettle have been invited to lecture on a creative writing course at Fell Hall, a remote location in the heart of ragged countryside that even sheep are keen to shun. While Ethelred's success as a writer is distinctly average, Elsie sees this as an opportunity to scout for new, hopefully more lucrative, talent. But heavy snow falls overnight, trapping ... Read more

    $8.09 USD

  • The Maltese Herring

    by L. C. Tyler ...
    Series Book 8 - The Herring Mysteries
    Dr Hilary Joyner is neither well liked nor well respected among his academic peers. However, he believes his next project will bring him the recognition he deserves. He's working to uncover the truth behind the 'buried treasure story', a local Sussex legend involving two invaluable golden statues, fabled to be hidden among the religious houses in the county.Although his latest book deadline is ... Read more

    $8.09 USD