Category Archives: Detective Fiction
The Girl at Central
Author(s): Geraldine Bonner Molly Morganthau, day operator in the telephone exchange, helps to solve a...
The Chestermarke Instinct
Author(s): J. S. Fletcher Bank manager John Hornbury is missing, as are securities and jewels...
The Four Just Men
Author(s): Edgar Wallace In the atmosphere of political turmoil before the First World War it...
The Film Mystery
Author(s): Arthur B. Reeve The Film Mystery is one of eighteen detective novels by Arthur...
The Crevice
Author(s): William J. BurnsIsabel Ostrander The sudden death of wealthy and prominent financier, Pennington Lawton...
The Cat Saw Murder
Author(s): Dolores Hitchens Detective Lieutenant Stephen Mayhew has been heard to complain that the murder...
The Great Diamond Syndicate
Author(s): Nicholas Carter Nick Carter is a fictional detective who first appeared in 1886 in...
The Hound of the Baskervilles (version 3)
Author(s): Sir Arthur Conan Doyle The desolate, treacherous Devon moors. A bloodcurdling legend of a...
The Hampstead Mystery
Author(s): Arthur J. ReesJohn R. Watson A murder whodunit…Location: Hampstead, England.Victim: Sir Horace Fewbanks, a...
The Case of the Pool of Blood in the Pastor’s Study
Author(s): Auguste Groner Joseph Muller, police detective, travels to a remote Hungarian village to discover...
The Filigree Ball
Author(s): Anna Katharine Green [The Moore House] was standing when Washington was a village. It...
The Dark Road: Further Adventures of Chéri-Bibi
Author(s): Gaston Leroux One of a series of exciting adventure stories featuring Leroux’s criminal mastermind...
The Cask
Author(s): Freeman Wills Crofts Though he went on to write dozens of other novels over...
The Exploits Of Elaine
Author(s): Arthur B. Reeve The Exploits of Elaine It tells the story of a young...
The Gutting of Couffignal
Author(s): Dashiell Hammett Dashiell Hammett’s hardboiled detective is assigned by his agency to guard a...
The Expressman and the Detective
Author(s): Allan Pinkerton Allan Pinkerton (1819-1884), a Scotsman by birth and a barrel-maker by trade,...
The Golden Slipper, and Other Problems for Violet Strange
Author(s): Anna Katharine Green Miss Violet Strange is young, petite and attractive and has a...
The Case of Miss Elliott
Author(s): Baroness Emma Orczy A sequel to the stories published in The Old Man in...
The Clue of the Gold Coin
Mid-century juvenile mystery fiction frequently offered young women a vision of career-driven independence, and Helen...
The Hand of Fu-Manchu
Author(s): Sax Rohmer Further adventures of Nayland Smith and Doctor Petrie as they continue their...
The Dark House
Author(s): George Manville Fenn An extremely wealthy but reclusive man has died, leaving an eccentric...
The Eight Strokes of the Clock (Version 2)
Author(s): Maurice Leblanc The Eight Strokes of the Clock is a collection of short stories...
The Brotherhood of the Seven Kings
Author(s): L. T. MeadeRobert Eustace “THAT a secret society, based upon the lines of similar...
The Crooked Cross
Author(s): Charles J. Dutton Bartley is to visit his friend Carter for the summer but...
The Cat’s Paw
Author(s): Natalie Sumner Lincoln Susan Baird is found dead at her tea-table and all the...
The Extraordinary Adventures of Arsène Lupin, Gentleman-Burglar
Author(s): Maurice Leblanc A contemporary of Arthur Conan Doyle, Maurice Leblanc (1864-1941) was the creator...
The Club of Masks
Author(s): Allen Upward It was far from a simple case of opium poisoning — the...
The Dalehouse Murder
Author(s): Francis Everton An assorted group of young people gather in a Merchester house to...
The Green Rust
Author(s): Edgar Wallace A millionaire is taken suddenly ill, and sensing his mortality, he asks...
The Bat
Author(s): Mary Roberts Rinehart The novelization of the play of the same name that had...