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Donald McGibeny

A suspicious accident reveals itself to be a murder! Our story is narrated by a lawyer who turns detective in order to uncover the real murderer, and leads us on a chase through Bolshevik headquarters..

The Accused

Harold Daniels

The Accused is a fine crime story made finer by the courtroom trial.  The plot, the atmosphere, and the characterization in The Accused (1958) by American crime writer Harold R. Daniels are so re..

The Monkey's Paw

W. W. Jacobs

The Monkey's Paw is a supernatural short story by author W. W. Jacobs first published in England in the collection The Lady of the Barge in 1902. In the story, three wishes are granted to the owner of..

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..

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..

The Circle of Zero

Stanley G. Weinbaum

If there were a mountain a thousand miles high and every thousand years a bird flew over it, just brushing the peak with the tip of its wing, in the course of inconceivable eons the mountain would be ..

The Hunted Woman

James Oliver Curwood

This adventurous story of a woman in peril begins "It was all new - most of it singularly dramatic and even appalling to the woman who sat with the pearl-gray veil drawn closely about her face. For ei..

A Poor Wise Man

Mary Roberts Rinehart

Mary Roberts Rinehart offers a superb blend of romance and suspense amidst political tensions in this story set in early 20th Century America. The characters are compelling and representative of the v..