Mystery Books

The Mystery of the Boule Cabinet

Burton Egbert Stevenson

The Mystery of the Boule Cabinet is a detective novel written by Burton Egbert Stevenson, who was an American author, anthologist, and librarian.Three men are dead. Killed by a very powerful pois..

The Pawns Count

E. Phillips Oppenheim

The Pawns Count is a detective novel written by English novelist E. Phillips Oppenheim, whose major works are in thriller genre.It is during World War I. A chemist, Sandy Graham, has discovered a new ..

A Husband by Proxy

Jack Steele

A Husband by Proxy is a detective and mystery novel set on Inheritance and succession written by Jack Steele.Excerpts:While he stood there a shadow fell upon the glass. Someone was standing ..

The Adventure of the Red Circle

Arthur Conan Doyle

The Adventure of the Red Circle is one of the 56 Sherlock Holmes short stories written by Arthur Conan Doyle. It is included in the anthology His Last Bow.Mrs. Warren, a landlady, comes to 221B Baker ..

The Breaking Point

Mary Roberts Rinehart

Mary Roberts Rinehart -- "America's Agatha Christie," as she used to be called -- set this story in a New York suburban town, shortly after the end of the first world war. Dick Livingstone is a young,..

The Valley of Fear

Arthur Conan Doyle

The Valley of Fear is the fourth and final Sherlock Holmes novel by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. It is loosely based on the Molly Maguires and Pinkerton agent James McParland. The story was first published..

The Lost House

Richard Harding Davis

Austin Ford, the London correspondent of the New York Republic, is spending some idle time in the American Embassy chatting with the Second Secretary, when suddenly a note is brought in. This note is ..

The Bronze Hand

Anna Katharine Green

The Bronze Hand is a mystery story written by Anna Katharine Green.HER room was on the ground floor of the house we mutually inhabited, and mine directly above it, so that my opportunities for se..