Mystery Books

The Red House Mystery

A. A. Milne

The Red House Mystery is a "locked room" whodunnit by A. A. Milne, published in 1922. It was Milne's only mystery novel. The setting is an English country house, where Mark Ablett has been entert..

Library of the World's Best Mystery and Detective Stories

Various Authors

Library of the World's Best Mystery and Detective Stories is a collection of short mystery stories by most popular authors.HENRI RENÉ ALBERT GUY DE MAUPASSANT (1850-93).The NecklaceThe Man with the Pa..

The Riddle of the Sands

Erskine Childers

A WORD about the origin and authorship of this book. In October last (1902), my friend 'Carruthers' visited me in my chambers, and, under a provisional pledge of secrecy, told me frankly the whole of ..

The After House

Mary Roberts Rinehart

The After House is a detection fiction novel written by Mary Roberts Rinehart...

The Attic Murder

S. Fowler Wright

The Attic Murder is a detective fiction novel written by The Attic Murder...

Historical Mysteries

Andrew Lang

These Essays, which appeared, with two exceptions, in The Cornhill Magazine, 1904, have been revised, and some alterations, corrections, and additions have been made in them. 'Queen Oglethorpe,' in wh..

Tales of Terror and Mystery

Arthur Conan Doyle

Tales of Terror and Mystery is a collection of horror short stories written by Arthur Conan Doyle. Tales of TerrorThe Horror of the HeightsThe Leather FunnelThe New CatacombThe Case of Lady Sanno..

Sir Percy Leads the Band

Baroness Emmuska Orczy

First published in 1936, Sir Percy Leads the Band is (chronologically) the second of the Scarlet Pimpernel series by Baroness Orczy. The novel is set in January and February 1793 and follows on from t..