Mystery Books

Average Jones

Samuel Hopkins Adams

Average Jones is a mystery story written by Samuel Hopkins Adams, an American writer, best known for his investigative journalism and muckraking.Excerpts:Average Jones had come by his nickname inevita..

The Yellow Claw

Sax Rohmer

The Yellow Claw is a 1915 crime novel by Arthur Henry Sarsfield Ward, known better under his pseudonym, Sax Rohmer. The story features Gaston Max, a Parisian criminal investigator and master of disgui..

Ambrotox and Limping Dick

Oliver Fleming

Ambrotox and Limping Dick is mystery story written by Oliver Fleming, one of the pen names used by the British-born writer Philip Macdonald.Excerpts:Randal Bellamy's country house was a place of ..

Never-Fail Blake

Arthur Stringer

Never-Fail Blake is a detective short story written by Arthur Stringer, a Canadian novelist, screenwriter, and poet who later moved to the United States. He published 45 works of fiction and 15 other ..

Revenge!

Robert Barr

Revenge! is a collection of mystery & detective fiction short stories written by Robert Barr, a Scottish-Canadian short story writer and novelist. Elements of the style of Alfred Hitchcock ma..

Stories of Mystery

Rossiter Johnson

Stories of Mystery is a collection of short mystery stories written by various reknoned authors and edited by American author Rossiter Johnson, who is best known for his multi volume of work of&n..

The Tempting of Tavernake

E. Phillips Oppenheim

The Tempting of Tavernake is a mystery novel written by the English novelist Edward Phillips Oppenheim, who was one of the most successful thriller stories.Excerpts:They stood upon the roof of a ..

Anderson Crow, Detective

George Barr McCutcheon

Anderson Crow, Detective is a mystery fiction novel written by American playwright George Barr McCutcheon, who created a fictional European country named Graustark for his novels. He is also..