Detective Books

Never-Fail Blake

Arthur Stringer

Never-Fail Blake is a detective short story written by Arthur Stringer, a Canadian novelist, screenwriter, and poet who later moved to the United States. He published 45 works of fiction and 15 other ..

Revenge!

Robert Barr

Revenge! is a collection of mystery & detective fiction short stories written by Robert Barr, a Scottish-Canadian short story writer and novelist. Elements of the style of Alfred Hitchcock ma..

Anderson Crow, Detective

George Barr McCutcheon

Anderson Crow, Detective is a mystery fiction novel written by American playwright George Barr McCutcheon, who created a fictional European country named Graustark for his novels. He is also..

The Big Bow Mystery

Israel Zangwill

The Big Bow Mystery is an early locked-room mystery novel written by British novelist Israel Zangwill, who was a close associate of Theodor Herzl. A man is horribly murdered in his bedroom, ..

The Golden Scorpion

Sax Rohmer

The Golden Scorpion is a mystery novel written by English novelist Sax Rohmer, best remembered for his creation of fictional character criminal Dr. Fu Manchu.Excerpts:He glanced at the luminous d..

The Teeth of the Tiger

Maurice LeBlanc

The Teeth of the Tiger is a mystery story starring fictional character Arsène Lupin, written by French novelist Maurice LeBlanc, whose other novels include "Arsène Lupin," "The Hollow N..

The Devil's Paw

E. Phillips Oppenheim

A beautiful, intelligent young woman – is she a traitorous spy or a patriot? An aristocratic soldier permanently injured during the war – is he a patriot or is there more to him than meets the eye? A ..

The Rover Boys on Snowshoe Island

Edward Stratemeyer

The Rover Boys on Snowshoe Island is mystery novel written by Edward Stratemeyer, an American publisher and writer of children's fiction and the author of "The Rover Boys At School," "The Rover Boys O..