A hidden treasure is suspected, some criminals with a plan show up, and the Three Investigators end up right in the middle.

Searching for a legendary pirate treasure, the three investigators find a band of modern day pirates.

Searching for a legendary pirate treasure, the three investigators find a band of modern day pirates.

A pigeon with a missing toe leads three young sleuths to a group of ingenious thieves.

Searching for a legendary pirate treasure, the Three Investigators find a band of modern day pirates.

A case involving an Egyptian mummy which whispers, but only to one man.

“The Lynley books constitute the smartest, most gratifyingly complex and impassioned mysteries now being published.”—Entertainment Weekly The career of playwright Joy Sinclair comes to an abrupt end on an isolated estate in the Scottish Highlands when someone drives an eighteen-inch dirk through her neck. Called upon to investigate the case in a country where they have virtually no authority, aristocratic Detective Inspector Thomas Lynley and his partner, Detective Sergeant Barbara Havers, grapple for both a motive and a murderer. Emotions run deep in this highly charged drama, for the list of suspects soon includes Britain’s foremost actress, its most successful theatrical producer, and the woman Lynley loves. He and Havers must tread carefully through the complicated terrain of human relationships while they work to solve a case rooted in the darkest corners of the past and the unexplored regions of the human heart.