Detective Books
Pink Ears
Murray LeinsterThe clerk slipped from the room and telephoned frantically, while he gave orders that assured the continued presence of every one of the hotel employees and a careful note of every guest who left the ..
The Plymouth Express Affair
Agatha ChristieHalliday rang the bell, and gave a short order to the footman. A few minutes later Jane Mason entered the room, a respectable, hard-featured woman, as emotionless in the face of tragedy as only a good..
Straight to the Goal
Nicholas CarterWhen they walked across the drawbridge at the nearest of the four great gates of the city, and passed under the portcullis, escorted by a dozen of the guards of the high priest Calaman, the latter cam..
The Secret of Shangore
Nicholas CarterNick Carter always had been interested in the vast unknown stretches of Asia, and what he had heard of Bolongu, the Land of the Golden Scarab, had been of a nature to make him long to go there.There w..
The Traitors of the Tropics
Nicholas CarterImmediately behind came Chick, with a pointed beard, dark spectacles, and carrying a black leather medical case in his gloved hand. In his dark clothing and high hat, he was the very picture of a well..
A Point of Testimony
Simon PokagonClearbrook was a small settlement of well-to-do society people, who wished to live near but not in New York. The houses were rather pretentious, with well-kept grounds, and picturesque flower-beds, bu..
Salted For a Million
Nicholas CarterThat will come later. For the present, carry out your present policy—keep in the background, and do{26}n’t go about the city very much. Do not even communicate with your sister. Leave that part of it ..
Following a Chance Clew
Nicholas CarterThough fully twenty minutes had elapsed since the woman had received the injury, her condition had not changed in the least. Nick had felt certain that the night was so warm that no harm would result ..