Detective Fiction
The Lost Stradivarius
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John Meade Falkner
The Lost Stradivarius (1895), by J. Meade Falkner, is a short novel of ghosts and the evil that can be invested in an object, in this case a…
Clouds Cover the Campus
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Daniel A. Lord
On an American college campus, in the early years of World War II, a professor from Germany is murdered and the plans for a new bomb sight h…
The Exploits of Juve
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Marcel Allain
Fantômas was introduced a few years after Arsène Lupin, another well-known thief. But whereas Lupin draws the line at murder, F…
Weapons of Mystery
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Joseph Hocking
Justin Blake receives an invitation from his old school-fellow Tom Temple to join him and his family for the Christmas holidays in Yorkshire…
The Rebel Rose
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Justin Mccarthy
The Rebel Rose is the story of Mary Stuart Beaton, a descendant of Mary Queen of Scots who has come to London in the hope of having her fami…
The Secret of the Old Mill
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Franklin W. Dixon
The Secret of the Old Mill is the third volume of the original The Hardy Boys Mystery Stories. This book was written for the Stratemeyer Syn…
The Rome Express
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Arthur Griffiths
The passengers in the sleeping car of the Rome Express were just woken and informed that they will reach Paris soon, and a bustle ensues. On…
A Flurry in Diamonds
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Thomas E. Price
The diamonds are gone--vanished! But who could have taken them? And how? With each plot twist author Thomas E. Price (writing as Amos Chiptr…
Graustark
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George Barr Mccutcheon
The Graustark novels are stories of court intrigue, royal disguise, and romance similar to Anthony Hope's 1894 novel, The Prisoner of Zenda,…
The D'Arblay Mystery
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R. Austin Freeman
Stephen Gray is a recent graduate of medicine. As he is walking through a sleepy English village he stumbles upon a tragedy involving a beau…
Anybody But Anne
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Carolyn Wells
Narrated in the first person by Raymond Sturgis, Anne's old high-school beau, the story opens with a lavish house party hosted by the Van Wy…
Trent's Last Case
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Edmund Clerihew Bentley
Trent's Last Case (US title The Woman in Black) is actually the first novel in which gentleman sleuth Philip Trent appears. The novel is a w…
A Study in Scarlet
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Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Arthur Conan Doyle’s novel A Study in Scarlet marked the first appearance of fictional private detective Sherlock Holmes and his assistant, …
The Social Gangster
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Arthur B. Reeve
This is a collection of 12 detective short stories by American fiction writer Arthur B. Reeve (1880-1936). What makes these stories so inter…
The Second Latchkey
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Charles Norris Williamson
Jewelry thefts, society parties, clairvoyance, and romance marks this mystery, which is set in England and the US in the early 20th century.…
The Clue of the Gold Coin
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Helen Wells
Vicki Barr is a popular mystery series for girls published by Grosset & Dunlap from 1947 to 1964. This book is volume 12 of The Vicki Ba…
The Open Door and The Portrait
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Margaret O. Oliphant
Two stories "of the seen and unseen" with mysterious occurrences by Margaret O. Oliphant, originally published in 1881. (Summary b…
The Unpleasantness at the Bellona Club
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Dorothy L. Sayers
The author’s fourth Lord Peter Wimsey mystery, set shortly after the Great War, begins with the discovery of old general Fentiman’s body sea…
The Door with Seven Locks
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Edgar Wallace
Dick Martin is on his last day on the job at Scotland Yard, having planned to retire early due to an inheritance windfall, when he becomes e…
A Fair Mystery
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Charlotte M. Brame and Charlotte M Brame
(Written by Charlotte M. Brame under the pen name Bertha M. Clay.)Honest Mark Brace is about to lose his farm, land of his ancestors, home t…