When New York’s most hated gossip columnist turns up dead, the cops deem it a suicide. The bigwigs at the New York Gazette don’t agree, so they hire Nero Wolfe and Archie Goodwin to investigate. Nero and Archie soon discover that they have a lot of boldfaced names on their suspect list. Which one had the mettle to pull the trigger?

“Outstanding ... Goldsborough again demonstrates an impressive ability to emulate Rex Stout’s narrative voice.” —Publishers Weekly, starred review

Graham Greene shares his love affair with reading in this collection of essays, memories, and critical considerations, both affectionate and tart. From Dickens to Wilde, this is a collection of literary criticism and personal reflections by a master “unmatched...in his uncanny psychological insights” (The New York Times).

Four brilliant mysteries

When a killer strikes an ad agency, a college reunion, and the English countryside, it’s up to aristocratic detective Lord Peter Wimsey to find the culprit. 

“Truly remarkable stories.” —New York Times

In the primeval rainforest of Washington’s Olympic Peninsula, the skeletal remains of a murdered man are discovered—and plying his calipers as the world’s foremost forensic anthropologist, Gideon Oliver determines that the weapon was a primitive bone spear of a type not seen for the last ten thousand years...

Edgar Award–winning author

Gideon Oliver is distracted from his English honeymoon by a nagging question: Who’d want to steal a 30,000-year-old parieto-occipital calvarial fragment? The purloined bone may be the key to a cold-blooded murder...

On an excavation site in the Yucatán, the forensic anthropologist must team up with a Mayan Indian police inspector to solve an ancient riddle—and a modern murder.

“The whole world is Gideon Oliver’s playing field in Elkins’s stylish mysteries.” —New York Times Book Review

While accompanying his forest-ranger wife at a conference in Alaska, Gideon is called in to investigate a decades-old murder-by-avalanche—and other disturbing events around Glacier Bay. Everyone agrees how fortunate it is that the famed Skeleton Detective is on the scene. Everybody, that is, but the person who wants ancient history to stay that way—and who believes that murder is the surest way to keep the past buried.

At a gathering of fellow scientists in Oregon, Gideon Oliver tries to figure out who would steal the bones of a deceased colleague—and even more puzzling, why...

“A likable, down-to-earth, cerebral sleuth.” —Chicago Tribune

When the manager of Tahiti’s Paradise Coffee Plantation falls from a cliff, one of his relatives suspects foul play. What he needs is evidence, and who better to provide it than his friend the Skeleton Detective?