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The Duke in the Suburbs

Edgar Wallace

The Duke in the Suburbs is a mystery story written by Richard Horatio Edgar Wallace, an English writer. Born into poverty as an illegitimate London child, Wallace left school at the age of 12. He..

The Hunted Outlaw

Anonymous

The Hunted Outlaw Donald Morrison, The Canadian Rob Roy is a crime fiction story written by anonymous author.Excerpts:Psychology strips the soul and, having laid it bare, confidently classifies every ..

La Constantin

Alexandre Dumas

La Constantine is based upon a series of historical records. An intimate knowledge of history is provided in these pages. The factors that led to major crimes in European history are discussed. The wo..

The Yellow Claw

Sax Rohmer

The Yellow Claw is a 1915 crime novel by Arthur Henry Sarsfield Ward, known better under his pseudonym, Sax Rohmer. The story features Gaston Max, a Parisian criminal investigator and master of disgui..

The Countess of Saint Geran

Alexandre Dumas

The Countess of Saint Geran is a true crime work of French author Alexandre Dumas and part of his series of novels "Celebrated Crimes", a narrative of true incidents of murders of rulers in vario..

A Reversible Santa Claus

Meredith Nicholson

A Reversible Santa Claus tells the humorous and exciting story of a burglar who reforms on Christmas Eve and returns the things he had stolen, subsequently acting like and impressing St. Nick...

The Firm of Girdlestone

Arthur Conan Doyle

The Firm of Girdlestone is a novel by British author Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. It was first published in 1890 by Chatto and Windus in London, England. In 1915 a silent film adaptation The Firm of Girdle..

The Mystery of the Boule Cabinet

Burton Egbert Stevenson

The Mystery of the Boule Cabinet is a detective novel written by Burton Egbert Stevenson, who was an American author, anthologist, and librarian.Three men are dead. Killed by a very powerful pois..