Mystery Books

The House of a Thousand Candles

Meredith Nicholson

A top ten bestseller of 1906, The House of a Thousand Candles is part adventure/mystery and part romance. The book begins with young Jack Glenarm returning from various exploits in Europe and Africa f..

Uncle Abner, Master of Mysteries

Melville Davisson Post

Fourteen mysteries from the pages of the Saturday Evening Post, the Metropolitan, Red Book, and Pictorial Review magazines featuring Uncle Abner, who solves crimes in the pre-Civil War West Virginia h..

The Lerouge Case

Emile Gaboriau

Bougival is a pleasant riverside village, peopled on Sundays by crowds of boating parties. Trifling offences are frequently heard of in its neighbourhood, but crimes are rare.The commissary of police ..

The Joker

Edgar Wallace

Leonardo da Vinci could stand by the scaffold using the dreadful floor as his desk; and sketch the agonies of malefactors given to the torture. Mr Harlow, no great lover of painters, thought well of L..

La main froide

Fortuné Du Boisgobey

La main froide by Fortuné Du Boisgobey is a French mystery novel written by Fortuné Du Boisgobey...

Affair in Araby

Talbot Mundy

Affair in Araby is a highly exciting adventure story featuring James Schuyler Grim, better known as Jimgrim. Jimgrim is an American secret service agent employed by the British and stationed in Jerusa..

Greenmantle

John Buchan

Greenmantle is the second of five Richard Hannay novels by John Buchan, first published in 1916 by Hodder & Stoughton, London. It is one of two Hannay novels set during the First World War, the ot..

Pharos the Egyptian

Guy Newell Boothby

Pharos the Egyptian is a mystery novel written by Guy Newell Boothby, a prolific Australian novelist and writer, noted for sensational fiction in variety magazines around the end of the nineteent..