Category Archives: Detective Fiction
Voice From the Cave
Author(s): Mildred A. Wirt Benson Penny Parker and her father go on vacation accompanied by...
Under the Tiger’s Claws; or, A Struggle for the Right (Version 2)
Author(s): Nicholas Carter A prominent banker calls Nick Carter in to investigate $90,000 in missing...
Trent’s Last Case (Version 2)
Author(s): Edmund Clerihew Bentley This is one of a series of EC Bentley novels featuring...
Under the Tiger’s Claws
Author(s): Nicholas Carter Nick Carter is a fictional detective who first appeared in 1886 in...
Whose Body? (Version 2)
Author(s): Dorothy L. Sayers Whose Body? is the first of Dorothy Sayers’s famous Lord Peter...
X Y Z – A Detective Story
Author(s): Anna Katharine Green “Sometimes in the course of his experience, a detective, while engaged...
Unnatural Death
Author(s): Dorothy L. Sayers This is the third book in the Lord Peter Wimsey mystery...
Woman at Bay
Author(s): Nicholas Carter Nick Carter is a fictional detective who first appeared in 1886 in...
Trent’s Last Case (The Woman in Black)
Author(s): Edmund Clerihew Bentley Trent’s Last Case (US title The Woman in Black) is actually...
Ziska
Author(s): Marie Corelli The story revolves around the mysterious Princess Ziska, who captivates a set...
With Links of Steel
Author(s): Nicholas Carter Nick Carter is a fictional detective who first appeared in 1886 in...
Whispering Lane
Author(s): Fergus Hume Following the death of her beloved fiancé Roderick, Miss Danby is hounded...
Whose Body?
Author(s): Dorothy L. Sayers The novel begins with a telephone call to Wimsey from his...
The Woman in the Alcove
Author(s): Anna Katharine Green “I was, perhaps, the plainest girl in the room that night....
The Sign of the Four
Author(s): Sir Arthur Conan Doyle When a young lady approaches Sherlock Holmes looking for help...
The Tower Treasure (Version 4)
Author(s): Franklin W. Dixon A dying criminal confesses that his loot had been secreted in...
The Thousandth Woman
Author(s): E. W. Hornung E. W. Hornung was an English author and poet best known...
The Soul Scar
Author(s): Arthur B. Reeve Was the death of unsavory lawyer Vail Wilford a suicide? Or...
The Singing Bone or The Adventures of Dr. Thorndyke
Author(s): R. Austin Freeman In its original form, this book was published with the title,...
The Sword of Damocles
Author(s): Anna Katharine Green Anna Katharine Green is best known as one of the first...
The Sea Mystery
Author(s): Freeman Wills Crofts During a seemingly innocent fishing trip, a sunken crate with an...
The Valley of Fear (Version 2)
Author(s): Sir Arthur Conan Doyle John Douglas has been murdered at Birlstone manner, but Sherlock...
The Valley of Fear
Author(s): Sir Arthur Conan Doyle Doyle’s final novel featuring the beloved sleuth, Sherlock Holmes, brings...
The Twin Mystery
Author(s): Nicholas Carter Nick Carter is a fictional detective who first appeared in 1886 in...
The Wisdom of Father Brown
Author(s): G. K. Chesterton This is the second of five books of short stories about...
The Secret of the Silver Car
Author(s): Wyndham Martyn Before he went to join the Armed Forces in World War I...
The Stretton Street Affair
Author(s): William Le Queux Hugh Gabriel has recently been repatriated from the war and has...
The Secret of Casa Grande
Author(s): Helen Randolph While visiting their friend, Florence, at her home in Mexico, Jo Ann...
The Unpleasantness at the Bellona Club
Author(s): Dorothy L. Sayers The author’s fourth Lord Peter Wimsey mystery, set shortly after the...
The Scorched Face
Author(s): Dashiell Hammett Hammett’s Continental Op searches for two missing young women and finds more...