Category Archives: Crime & Mystery Fiction
The House of a Thousand Candles
Author(s): Meredith Nicholson A top ten bestseller of 1906, The House of a Thousand Candles...
The Borough Treasurer
Author(s): J. S. Fletcher Messrs. Mallalieu and Cotherstone were outsiders who had built a prosperous...
The Black House in Harley Street
Author(s): J. S. Fletcher In the heart of London’s prestigious Harley Street stands a foreboding...
The Extraordinary Adventures of Arsène Lupin, Gentleman-Burglar (version 3)
Author(s): Maurice Leblanc A series of loosely related short stories of the early adventures of...
The House on the Marsh: A Romance
Author(s): Florence Warden Violet Christie is just 18 years old as she heads towards her...
The Girl From Malta
Author(s): Fergus Hume One evening as the P. and O.’s vessel “Neptune” steams away from...
The Adventures of a Man of Science
Author(s): L. T. MeadeClifford Halifax “We have taken down these stories from time to time...
Strange Disappearance (Version 2)
Author(s): Anna Katharine Green Housekeeper Mrs. Daniels brings to Detective Ebenezer Gryce and his assistant...
Stolen Idols
Author(s): E. Phillips Oppenheim Two temple statues, one with the most beautiful of features, the...
Sight Unseen
Author(s): Mary Roberts Rinehart A medium is brought to a neighborhood social club gathering as...
The Avalanche
Author(s): Gertrude Atherton Price Ruyler has been sent to San Francisco from New York to...
The Amateur Cracksman
Author(s): E. W. Hornung “I’d tasted blood, and it was all over with me. Why...
That Affair at Portstead Manor
Author(s): Gladys Edson Locke An English country home during a house party becomes the scene...
Outside the Prison
Author(s): Richard Harding Davis On Christmas Eve, journalist Bronson is sent to wait outside of...
Nancy Brandon’s Mystery
Author(s): Lilian C. Garis Nancy spends the summer with a cousin she hardly knows who...
Miss Maitland, Private Secretary
Author(s): Geraldine Bonner Semi-retired sleuth Molly Morgenthau Babbitts goes undercover as a governess to investigate...
Mrs. Balfame
Author(s): Gertrude Atherton Enid Belfame: 42 years old, 22 of them as a married woman;...
Mad Barbara
Author(s): Warwick Deeping It is the last quarter of the eighteenth century and a young...
Ravensdene Court
Author(s): J. S. Fletcher Leonard Middlebrook, a young attorney with, among other things, a bibliographical...
Money to Burn, An Adventure Story
Author(s): Reginald Wright Kauffman From the dedication: “On a train by day, or abed by...
Paved With Gold
Author(s): Augustus Mayhew The expressed goal of this book is to “write a truthful account...
Nightmare
Author(s): Cornell Woolrich Dark crime fiction author Cornell Woolrich (real name George Hopley) brings us...
Number Six
Author(s): Edgar Wallace The master criminal Caesar Valentine is rich, suave and seemingly untouchable. He...
Master of Mysteries
Author(s): L. T. MeadeRobert Eustace “It so happened that the circumstances of fate allowed me...
Owen Clancy’s Run Of Luck
Author(s): Burt L. Standish Owen Clancy befriends a lad he saves from peril. He and...
Number Seventeen
Author(s): Louis Tracy The number Seventeen refers (at first) to the London apartment of a...
Red Masquerade
Author(s): Louis Joseph Vance In the beginning of his career, Michael Lanyard alias The Lone...
Network of Crime
Author(s): Nicholas Carter Nick Carter is a fictional detective who first appeared in 1886 in...
Monsieur Lecoq Part 1: The Inquiry
Author(s): Émile Gaboriau Monsieur Lecoq is a captivating mystery, historical and love story : Around...
Melmoth The Wanderer
Author(s): Charles Robert Maturin One of the first horror novels, it tells the story of...