Detective Books

The Passenger from Calais

Arthur Griffiths

An army officer, and a mysterious lady with a maid and baby in tow, are the only passengers on the Engadine express from Calais. The lady is afraid that someone is following her. Who is she? And what ..

The Vertical City

Fannie Hurst

The Vertical City is a collection of mystery and detective stories written by Fannie Hurst, an American novelist and short-story writer whose works were highly popular during the post-World War I..

At the Villa Rose

A. E. W. Mason

At the Villa Rose is a collection of mystery and detective stories written by A. E. W. Mason, an English author and politician. He is best remembered for his 1902 novel of courage and coward..

The Green Mummy

Fergus Hume

The Green Mummy is a mystery story written by English novelist Fergus Hume. Excepts from the book below:The young man smiled and frowned and sighed and laughed in the space of thirty seconds—something..

A String of Pearls

Unknown

The tale of Sweeney Todd has had many incarnations, most famously the stage and movie musical by Stephen Sondheim. But it all started in 1846 with a serialized telling of the story titled “The String ..

The Room in the Dragon Volant

Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu

J. Sheridan LeFanu's Gothic mystery novel is narrated by Richard Beckett, a young Englishman abroad in Napoleonic-era France. He falls instantly in love with a mysterious and imperiled Countess, whom ..

The Bradys and the Girl Smuggler

Francis W. Doughty

The Bradys and the Girl Smuggler is a mystery and detective story written by Francis W. Doughty, an American screenwriter and novelist. Doughty held unorthodox views about the age of humans...

The Continental Classics, Volume XVIII., Mystery Tales

Various Authors

The Continental Classics, Volume XVIII., Mystery Tales Including Stories by Feodor Mikhailovitch Dostoyevsky, Jörgen ilhelm Bergsöe and Bernhard Severin Ingemann.RUSSIAN MYSTERY STORIES:Alexander Serg..