Crime & Mystery Fiction
The Poet and the Lunatics
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G. K. Chesterton
The same pen that wrote the famous Father Brown stories here presents another volume of equally delightful mystery and murder stories with a…
Weird Tales Double Feature: The Skull and The Bodymaster
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Harold Ward
Horror author Harold Ward is perhaps most well-known for his Doctor Death series of stories published in the 1930s. Before that, Ward relea…
The Danvers Jewels
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Mary Cholmondeley
Colonel Middleton is entrusted by his critically ill military superior, Sir John Danvers, with carrying some valuable family jewels from Ind…
The Big Midget Murders
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Craig Rice
The Big Midget is the hit of the show in Jake Justus's night club, until someone puts an abrupt end to the Midget. Why were eleven unmatched…
Kate Plus Ten
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Edgar Wallace
In the era when this story was written it was unusual to have a woman portrayed as a criminal mastermind. However in this case Edgar Wallace…
The Haunting of Low Fennel and Other Stories
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Sax Rohmer
Sax Rohmer, creator of legendary criminal mastermind Fu Manchu, brings together a collection of seven stories that are equal parts thrilling…
His Darling Sin
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Mary Elizabeth Braddon
Grace Perivale is young, beautiful and rich. She and her beloved husband are the center of high society. Until Hector suddenly and unexpecte…
Number Six
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Edgar Wallace
The master criminal Caesar Valentine is rich, suave and seemingly untouchable. He has confounded Scotland Yard time and time again, stealin…
Benighted
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John Boynton Priestley
Phillip and Margaret Waverton, along with a cheerful young acquaintance Roger Penderel, finds themselves driving through a terrible storm wi…
The Unholy Three
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Tod Robbins
Ladies and gentlemen! Step right up and put your eyes on the most bizarre crime spree you will ever bear witness to! See the broad-shouldere…
The Hole in the Wall
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Arthur Morrison
A lively story about a pub, and those who ran it, at the end of the 19th century in the East End Dockland of London, with its poverty-strick…
The Leading Lady
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Geraldine Bonner
A murder mystery set against the backdrop of the theater on a peaceful Maine island. An intriguing whodunnit as multiple suspects emerge and…
The Layton Court Mystery
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Anthony Berkeley
A Roger Sheringham mystery In a typical English country house, a murder is committed. The wealthy Victor Stanworth, who'd been playing host …
Rich Crooks
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Gordon Young
"Seated in a restaurant in New York City, Don Everhard suddenly finds himself involved in an insidious plot, the entanglements of which…
Baby Moll
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John Farris
MY NAME IS PETE MALLORY and I used to play smart gun for a big-time operator named Macy Barr. But I quit. Now Macy's empire was crumbling an…
The Horror Expert
Read by Ben Tucker
Frank Belknap Long
"She'll insert the knife so delicately that the man won't feel any pain at all. Just a warm gratefulness, an intoxicating sort of happi…
Clean Break
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Lionel White
Johnny Clay has a masterful plan to rob a racetrack on the busiest day of the year. To pull it off, he will recruit not hardened profession…
The Thrill Book Vol. I No. 4, April 15, 1919
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Perley Poore Sheehan
Welcome to Issue #4 of the exciting and influential pulp magazine The Thrill Book, a noted precursor to the mighty Weird Tales! In this iss…
Die Typhusmarie
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Hanns Heinz Ewers
Sieben Männer finden sich heimlich zusammen, um Gericht über eine angesehene Dame derGesellschaft zu halten, von der sie über…
The House of Evil
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William Le Queux
Intrigue and murder stemming from excessive greed in upper-class society of England in the early twentieth century.