Detective Books

Jacqueline of Golden River

H. M. Egbert

Jacqueline seems to have contracted a touch of amnesia, as she is found in an apartment with a dead man, and with a weapon in her hand. But she remembers nothing of any incident, remembers not her nam..

Mary Louise in the Country

L. Frank Baum

The Bluebird Books is a series of novels popular with teenage girls in the 1910s and 1920s. The series was begun by L. Frank Baum using his Edith Van Dyne pseudonym, then continued by at least three o..

The Crooked House

Brandon Fleming

The Crooked House is a collection of 30+ mystery & detective stories written by Brandon Fleming. List of stories below.I A STRANGE RIDDLE II THE CROOKED HOUSE III THE ENDLESS GARDEN..

The Adventure of the Bruce-Partington Plans

Arthur Conan Doyle

The Adventure of the Bruce-Partington Plans is one of the 56 Sherlock Holmes short stories written by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. It is one of eight stories in the cycle collected as His Last Bow, and is ..

The Adventure of the Cardboard Box

Arthur Conan Doyle

The Adventure of the Cardboard Box is one of the 56 short Sherlock Holmes stories written by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. It is the second of the twelve Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes in most British editions ..

32 Caliber

Donald McGibeny

A suspicious accident reveals itself to be a murder! Our story is narrated by a lawyer who turns detective in order to uncover the real murderer, and leads us on a chase through Bolshevik headquarters..

The Blotting Book

E. F. Benson

The Blotting Book is a detective mystery novel written by Edward Frederic Benson, an English novelist, biographer, memoirist, archaeologist and short story writer. Excerpts:Mr. Taynton lived in a..

His Last Bow

Arthur Conan Doyle

His Last Bow: Some Reminiscences of Sherlock Holmes is a collection of previously published Sherlock Holmes stories by Arthur Conan Doyle, including the titular short story, "His Last Bow. The War Ser..