Detective Books
Decidedly Odd
Edwin BalmerThe sentence ended with a bump, as Cuthbert Edwards slammed his receiver back upon its hook. The psychologist, who would have recognized the name—even if not forewarned by the communication he had rec..
The Longsnozzle Event
Hal AnnasZitts eyed the round arm with interest. "Elementary," he said. "People are always wanting me to investigate something, and they always try to palm off that trash called gold. They never offer anything..
The Secret of Chimneys
Agatha ChristieAnthony had by now well mastered his duties. In addition to making the necessary arrangements of travel, they included soothing down irritable old gentlemen when their dignity was ruffled, seeing that..
The Millbank Case - A Maine Mystery of To-day
George Dyre EldridgeThe house is near the road on the easterly side. The winter snows are too deep to warrant building far from the travelled roads, and for the same reason the buildings are connected one with another, u..
A Son of Ishmael - A Novel
L. T. MeadePeople talked a good deal about him, for he had an air of mystery which tantalised curiosity. He was tall, well set up, and strikingly handsome—too dark, perhaps, for the conventional Englishman, but ..
Keeban
Edwin BalmerWe couldn’t get any further than that; Jerry and I went to New York the next day and poked about the district where Davis claimed to have met Jerry, but we couldn’t find trace of anybody like him. Jer..
Special Detective (Ashton-Kirk)
John Thomas McIntyreSHTON-KIRK is a young man of means and position. The unusual has a sort of fascination for him; his subtle perception, and keen, direct habit of mind cause him to delight in the investigation of those..
Oliver Bright's Search
Edward StratemeyerOliver Bright’s Search, the second volume of the Bound to Succeed Series, relates the adventures of a manly American youth who goes West to locate a mine in which his invalid father owns a large inter..