"Engel captures the spirit of Doyle's tone in the Holmes sagas without it being a stilted or pale imitation . . . A lively, engaging page-turner." —Curled Up With a Good Book Howard Engel is the award-winning writer whose Benny Cooperman mysteries garner rave international reviews—fans stretch from Canada to Japan, England, Germany, Italy, Spain, Denmark, and the United States. His latest, Mr. Doyle & Dr. Bell, is a brilliant departure from the Cooperman series. The year is 1879, and in Edinburgh, Alan Lambert has been tried, convicted, and sentenced to hang for the murder of a dazzling opera star and her lover. But Lambert's brother believes he's innocent and pleads with Dr. Bell, a celebrated professor of anatomy, to uncover the truth. Bell agrees and sets out to crack the case with his keen powers of deduction and the help of his student, Arthur Conan Doyle. "Charming . . . [This book] will satisfy the craving of...

It's autumn 1925, and a killer uncannily like England's Jack the Ripper is stalking the city streets of Paris and preying on young women.Michael Ward is a journalist newly arrived to the Left Bank. When he falls in with Jason Waddington, an expatriate American writer who introduces him to the cafe scene and his crowd of writers and artists, Ward soon discovers that Jack de Paris is not the only trouble afoot in the City of Light. Rumor has it that Waddington has written a damaging roman a clef about his friends, and tempers are rising even as fear of the killer grips the city. When the body of Laure Duclos is found, it seems their circle has finally been touched by Jack. But Ward has his doubts and begins to wonder whether Laure was truly Jack de Paris's latest victim, or if someone else was using the serial killer as a convenient cover to protect themselves. In a feat of literature reminiscent of Caleb Carr's The Alienist, Howard Engel blends intriguing historical fact with...

Benny Cooperman was expecting his time in Toronto to be spent watering plants, feeding gerbils and sampling the local sandwich shops, but a house-sitting gig for his brother soon leads to another case for the endearing private detective. A dealer in rare books asks Benny to investigate the theft of a rare Jewish manuscript from his home. But before Benny can make any sense of the obsessive world of antique book collectors, his client turns up dead and the robbery isn't at all what it seems. This novella featuring Engel's beloved sleuth is a treat for fans, and offers a chance for new readers to get acquainted with Benny Cooperman, "the great Canadian detective," star of twelve critically acclaimed and bestselling novels.

Benny is recovering in a Toronto hospital from a serious blow to the head. He has a condition called alexia sine agraphia; in layman's terms, it means he can still write but cannot read. And his memory has been affected too: although he can quote lines from his high-school production of Twelfth Night, he finds himself brushing his teeth with his shaving cream.When Benny learns that he was found unconscious beside a dead woman in a dumpster, he figures he must have been close to solving a case. With his girlfriend Anna working as field agent and two Toronto cops reluctantly sharing their discoveries, Benny tries to piece together the events that led to a murder―and his own injuries.Book 11 in the Benny Cooperman Mystery series.

Benny Cooperman is slowly going crazy. It's winter in Grantham, Ontario, and he has nothing better to do than watch the frost creeping in under his door. Nothing, that is, until blue-eyed, long-legged Muriel Falkirk enters his office because her boyfriend, the notorious Johnny Rosa, has gone missing.It's been ten years since Johnny pulled off a sensational kidnapping, and he's served his time. But now he's skipped parole—or been murdered—and Muriel wants to know where he is. But a lot of other people do, too, most of them interested in the unrecovered half-million-dollar ransom. Benny joins The Ransom Game in this witty and intriguing thriller only to discover that nobody plays by the rules.Book 2 in the Benny Cooperman Mystery series.

The remarkable journey of an award-winning writer struck with a rare and devastating affliction that prevented him from reading even his own writingOne hot midsummer morning, novelist Howard Engel picked up his newspaper from his front step and discovered he could no longer read it. The letters had mysteriously jumbled themselves into something that looked like Cyrillic one moment and Korean the next. While he slept, Engel had experienced a stroke and now suffered from a rare condition called alexia sine agraphia, meaning that while he could still write, he could no longer read. Over the next several weeks in hospital and in rehabilitation, Engel discovered that much more was affected than his ability to read. His memory failed him, and even the names of old friends escaped his tongue. At first geography eluded him: he would know that two streets met somewhere in the city, but he couldn't imagine where. Apples and grapefruit now looked...

Benny Cooperman, Grantham's soft-boiled private eye, finds himself mixed up in the art world. More out of water a fish can't get. After all, Benny only heard of Picasso last year, and now he's hot on the trail of some missing paintings by Wallace Lamb—a trail that leads him to some of Grantham's illustrious elite who buy, trade, and sometimes steal pictures. As this private eye soon learns, art can lead to murder—Benny's own client is found dead and the shoes peeking under the curtains at the scene of the crime belong to Benny!Book 6 in the Benny Cooperman Mystery series.

Benny is, as always, desperate for paying work, but he flatly refuses an invitation to work for Grantham's most notorious crime boss. But Benny doesn't have much of a choice when Abram Wise has him kidnapped in the middle of the night and makes him an ultimatum: either Benny takes the case, or his parents and girlfriend may run into some very bad luck. This mobster's got a long list of enemies in town, but which one is out to kill him?Book 9 in the Benny Cooperman Mystery series.

Hollywood's elite has gathered on the shores of Niagara Falls for the making of the epic thriller Ice Bridge. But when Benny Cooperman wanders onto the set, he's not looking for a bit part—he's doggedly tracking down a woman who is missing from Grantham, Cooperman's hometown and usual beat.Has she been hit with a lust for stardom? Or is her lust for something a little more conventional—but a lot more dangerous? Benny finds himself having to hobnob with movie celebrities—and with murder!Book 3 in the Benny Cooperman Mystery series.

Benny Cooperman, the working-stiff private eye, is back, this time trying to sort out the kerfuffle surrounding the plumbing, a dead old woman, and a crooked politician.It all starts with a noisy toilet. Benny's janitor, Kogan, is too preoccupied with the death of his girlfriend, Lizzy Oldridge, an elderly woman who appears to have starved to death. Lizzy may have died hungry, but she had plenty of money, and somehow former alderman and mayoralty candidate Thurleigh Ramsden, an unsavoury character if there ever was one, has gained control of it. As Benny gets enmeshed in the case the body count increases alarmingly—but what's happened with the plumbing?Book 8 in the Benny Cooperman Mystery series.

"Meet Benny Cooperman, a Jewish private eye from--of all places--Grantham, Ontario,a small, rather dilapidated industrial town not far from Niagara Falls. Business hasn't been too good lately, but it begins to puck up when the attractive wife of a local real estate operator, Chester Yates, hires him to run a check on her husband. Benny quickly closes the case when he discovers the seemingly innocent cause of Mrs. Yates' worries; closes it, that is, until later that evening when he is stunned to hear that Chester Yates has committed suicide. Or is it suicide? Why would a man buy a bicycle two hours before shooting himself in the head? Benny starts to investigate and finds himself unraveling a complex web involving a mysterious psychiatrist, shady eminent citizens, and soon a few more suicides--or murders..........................."

Vanessa Moss, an executive with the National Television Corporation, thinks somebody's trying to kill her. To protect herself, she engages the services of old classmate and gumshoe Benny Cooperman to go undercover as her personal assistant. Benny discovers a warren of competing executives, backbiting lawyers, arrogant producers, and sycophantic flunkies. But when an NTC employee is murdered, Benny finds out that taking care of Vanessa Moss is a seductive but risky business.Book 10 in the Benny Cooperman Mystery series.

When Rabbi Meltzer and the President of Grantham's synagogue knock on Benny's office door, they aren't looking to sell raffle tickets. Of that much, he's sure. They need his help in tracking down a missing lawyer who has disappeared with the life savings of half of the Jewish community. Benny knows he'll never see a dime out of it, but what can you do? It's summer in the city—and it's going to be a hot one.Book 5 in the Benny Cooperman Mystery series.

Beloved private eye Benny Cooperman is ready to hang up his gumshoes after an attack leaves him with lingering memory problems. But then an old chum goes missing...Hot on the trail of Jake Grange, a schoolfriend who ran a scuba diving business, Benny heads to Murinam, an exotic place with the feel and look of a former French colony. There, Benny encounters a bon-vivant priest, a pretty marine biologist, and an eccentric Englishman in search of kosher food. Of course any of these charming locals could be responsible for Jake's disappearance. But when dead bodies start to appear under the sunny tropical skies, Benny knows he must be getting somewhere. With its sure-footed plot and trademark wry humour, East of Suez proves to be one of Benny Cooperman's most memorable cases.

Benny Cooperman's idea of untamed nature is a dandelion growing through a crack in the sidewalk. So what's he doing in a rowboat in Algonquin Park?What starts out as a simple babysitting assignment turns nasty, and before he's even had time to work on his tan, Benny Cooperman's up to his waterline in cults, black flies, and murder!Book 4 in the Benny Cooperman Mystery series.