Best of
Mystery

1975

The Further Adventures of Sherlock Holmes: The War of the Worlds


Manly Wade Wellman - 1975
    The world's greatest detective, Sherlock Holmes, along with his friend Professor Challenger embark on one of their most dangerous adventures to date... to discover the nature and intent of their extra-terrestrial attackers.

Stranger at Wildings


Madeleine Brent - 1975
    It is the story of a spirited young woman of eighteen who has left an unhappy, uncertain past in England and made a new life for herself as a trapeze artist in a small touring circus...But that forgotten past will stumble upon her one day, beside a stream in Hungary, where the circus has pitched its tents for a time. It will come in the form of a mysterious young man-handsome, appealing, yet curiously remote-whose appearance is the beginning of a strange, dangerous intrigue that involves deception, romance, disappearance and, in the end, the revelations of a family's darkest secrets.

High Stakes


Dick Francis - 1975
    But his winning streak is about to come to a fast end when he discovers trouble in his own stables—trouble that could bring about his own termination if he doesn’t watch his step…

Where Are the Children?


Mary Higgins Clark - 1975
    She changed her name, dyed her hair, and left California for the windswept peace of Cape Cod. Now remarried, she has two more beloved children, and the terrible pain has begun to heal -- until the morning when she looks in the backyard for her little boy and girl and finds only one red mitten. She knows that the nightmare is beginning again....

Crocodile on the Sandbank


Elizabeth Peters - 1975
    The first allowed her to indulge in her life's passion. Without the second, the mummy's curse would have made corpses of them all.

Baroni


Alfred Harris - 1975
    But Baroni's hopes are constantly thwarted by his venal, unappreciative boss and sabotaged by his ambitious young partner. They want Baroni to spend his final days investigating a recent murder that could lead to the headline-making arrest of an underworld kingpin. The problem is, Baroni is obsessed with the apparent, accidental death of a woman who fell five stories from her apartment window. Baroni is convinced that her henpecked, but likeable husband pushed her...and he's willing to risk his badge, and his meager pension, to prove it.

The Clairvoyant Countess


Dorothy Gilman - 1975
    As a psychic to the public, Madame Karitska has seen a lot.But when a chance encounter with Detective-Lieutenant Pruden of the Police Department catapults her into the unforseen, she must use all of her resources to keep danger--and death--at bay....

The First Rex Stout Omnibus: Featuring Nero Wolfe And Archie Goodwin: " The Doorbell Rang " , " The Second Confession " And " More Deaths Than One "


Rex Stout - 1975
    

The Tattooed Potato and Other Clues


Ellen Raskin - 1975
    Readers will enjoy "an intricate, one-of-a-kind comedy".--School Library Journal.

The Wrong Case


James Crumley - 1975
    He's up to his third drink of the morning when an attractive young woman walks into his office and asks him to find her brother. He takes on what seems a routine missing-person case in hopes of getting to know her better, but finds himself involved in what is most definitely the wrong case. Everyone is a victim, one way or another, of a crime that took place long before the novel begins.

The Great Hort Hunt


Mary Burg Whitcomb - 1975
    And Tee-Bo, with his friends Cam and Carly McRoe, was just the dog to solve it....

A Murder is Announced / After the Funeral


Agatha Christie - 1975
    

Where Are The Children? (Condensed)


Mary Higgins Clark - 1975
    

The Charlotte Armstrong Festival: Three Great Novels of Supense (The Gift Shop, Lemon in the Basket, The Balloon Man)


Charlotte Armstrong - 1975
    And then slowly, relentlessly, the evil and the violence begin to take over. To all appearances the wealthy and talented Tylers are a fulfilled, happy family. No one would have guessed the streak of unsuspected madness that lay hidden deep in one of them. Then one day a young prince from the Middle East arrives, seeking medical aid and sanctuary among the Tylers -- and the evil uncoils. Like a growing thing an atmosphere of horror begins to wind itself around the family until it finally explodes in an act of violence that threatens not only the Tylers but the destiny of a whole country.The Balloon ManThis harrowing story of an innocent young woman who falls victim to the savage consequences of her husband's "bad trip" on LSD, she reveals herself directly in touch with the dark forces that so deeply disturb contemporary society.