Beautiful Sylvia Bain Atwood is overseeing her ailing father’s estate while her sister serves as his caregiver. But their father’s fortune has shadowy roots—and now one of his creditors is blackmailing the family. When the situation escalates to murder, defense lawyer Perry Mason will have his hands full.

“Millions of Americans never seem to tire of Gardner’s thrillers.” —The New York Times

The Language Wars reveals how battles over “proper” English have always been about more than grammar—they’re fights over class, politics, and power. From Shakespeare to text messaging, this sharp, witty history explores who controls language, why it matters, and what’s at stake in the war of words.

In this classic short story, Miss Marple attempts to solve the unexplainable murder of a baronet who was stabbed, with no one around him in sight.

Nobel Peace Prize–winning author

This collection of the work of Albert Schweitzer—humanitarian, philosopher, musician—stands as a testament to the great man’s thinking and a powerful expression of hope in mankind.

Martin Gilbert chronicles "Churchill’s War," beginning with the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941 and culminating in the triumph of V-E Day on May 8, 1945—the end of the war in Europe.

When a country vineyard full of tourists is stained by a murder, it’s up to Detective Inspector Thanet to root out the killer—lest the vineyard’s tidy rows of grapes run red with blood, in this “absorbing” English police procedural (Publishers Weekly).

After her divorce, a woman moves to coastal Maine and forms some new attachments in this “thoroughly enjoyable and cozy tale” (Library Journal).

In the small New England town of Nashoba, all of the religious sects are in good health—except for the congregation at the Old West Church, whose members are dropping like flies. What started out looking like coincidental heart failure begins to look like serial murder. Transcendentalist scholar Homer Kelly—a dabbler in the investigation of violent crimes—is on the case.

The Shaggy Man goes searching for his brother Tik-Tok as warlike royals stir up trouble in this imaginative adventure in the Oz series.