Melisende's Library

Synopsis: Max Spitzkopf, the Yiddish Sherlock Holmes, “heads the famous Viennese detective bureau Blitz . . . He’s bold as a lion and takes...

Synopsis: For devotees of the Golden Age mystery, the impossible crime story represents the period’s purest form: it presents the reader wi...

Synopsis: You may have been introduced to the magic of the greatest of English detectives by reading the books by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle or...

The enormous explosion of crime fiction over the last decade means that more people are looking for a good mystery than ever before. Many o...