Detective Books

The Lost House

Richard Harding Davis

Austin Ford, the London correspondent of the New York Republic, is spending some idle time in the American Embassy chatting with the Second Secretary, when suddenly a note is brought in. This note is ..

The Bronze Hand

Anna Katharine Green

The Bronze Hand is a mystery story written by Anna Katharine Green.HER room was on the ground floor of the house we mutually inhabited, and mine directly above it, so that my opportunities for se..

The Mark of Cain

Carolyn Wells

The Mark of Cain is a mystery and detective story by Carolyn Wells.Mrs. Black glanced up from the evening paper she was reading and murmured an indistinct acquiescence.It was late June, yet the c..

Number Seventeen

Louis Tracy

The storm which had raged overnight must have cleared the skies for the following day, because Theydon never enjoyed an outing more than his trip to the famous motor track. His business there, however..

Ruth Fielding of the Red Mill

Alice B. Emerson

The sound of the drumming wheels! It had roared in the ears of Ruth Fielding for hours as she sat on the comfortably upholstered seat in the last car of the afternoon Limited, the train whirling her f..

An African Millionaire

Grant Allen

My name is Seymour Wilbraham Wentworth. I am brother-in-law and secretary to Sir Charles Vandrift, the South African millionaire and famous financier. Many years ago, when Charlie Vandrift was a small..

Timothy Crump's Ward - A Story of American Life

Jr. Horatio Alger

Miss Rachel was not much like her brother, for while the latter was a good-hearted, cheerful easy man, who was inclined to view the world in its sunniest aspect, Rachel was cynical, and given to misan..

Basil

Wilkie Collins

Basil, son of a father who values the family pedigree and who would not let him marry below his station, falls in love at first sight with a girl he sees on a bus. He stalks her and discovers she is M..