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Library of the World's Best Mystery and Detective Stories, Volume 4 - Various
Library of the World's Best Mystery and Detective Stories, Volume 4 - Various
- Author: Various
- Genre: Horror & Supernatural Fiction / Detective Fiction / Suspense / Espionage / Political & Thrillers
In the six volumes of the Library of the World's Best Mystery and Detective Stories, Julian Hawthorne presents us thrilling and mysterious short stories from all corners of the world. Some of the stories appeared in this collection for the first...
The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (version 3) - Robert Louis Stevenson
The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (version 3) - Robert Louis Stevenson
- Author: Robert Louis Stevenson
- Genre: General Fiction / Horror & Supernatural Fiction / Detective Fiction
The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde is the original title of a novel written by the Scottish author Robert Louis Stevenson that was first published in 1886. It is about a London lawyer named Gabriel John Utterson who investigates strange...
Trent's Last Case (The Woman in Black) - Edmund Clerihew Bentley
Trent's Last Case (The Woman in Black) - Edmund Clerihew Bentley
- Author: Edmund Clerihew Bentley
- Genre: Detective Fiction
Trent's Last Case (US title The Woman in Black) is actually the first novel in which gentleman sleuth Philip Trent appears. The novel is a whodunit whose unique place in the history of detective fiction is because it is at the same time the first...
The History of the Caliph Vathek - William Beckford
The History of the Caliph Vathek - William Beckford
- Author: William Beckford
- Genre: General Fiction / Horror & Supernatural Fiction / Detective Fiction
This is one of the earliest Gothic novels. The Caliph Vathek is one of the wealthiest and most powerful men who ever lived. But this is not enough for him. He seeks also forbidden knowledge, and doesn't care who he has to hurt to get it. Aided by...
The Crevice - William J. Burns
The Crevice - William J. Burns
- Author: William J. Burns
- Genre: Detective Fiction
The sudden death of wealthy and prominent financier, Pennington Lawton from an apparent heart attack, followed by the shocking revelation of his impending bankruptcy, leaves his sole heir and only daughter, Anita, distraught and nearly penniless....
Amusement Only - Richard Marsh
Amusement Only - Richard Marsh
- Author: Richard Marsh
- Genre: Humorous Fiction / Detective Fiction
This is a collection of 12 short stories of mystery and humor, which are, as the title says, for amusement only. (Summary by Carolin)...
The Return of Sherlock Holmes (version 2 Dramatic Reading) - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
The Return of Sherlock Holmes (version 2 Dramatic Reading) - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
- Author: Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
- Genre: Dramatic Readings / Detective Fiction
The Return of Sherlock Holmes is set three years after the detective fell to his death in the Reichenbach Falls in his final struggle with Moriarty. Or did he? In the first story of the series Holmes explains to Watson what really happened that day,...
The Lady from Nowhere - Fergus Hume
The Lady from Nowhere - Fergus Hume
- Author: Fergus Hume
- Genre: General Fiction / Detective Fiction
A mysterious woman is found murdered in a yellow boudoir. Who is she and where does she come from? Detective Absalom Gebb is on the case. (Introduction by MaryAnn)...
The Case of the Pool of Blood in the Pastor's Study - Grace Isabel Colbron
The Case of the Pool of Blood in the Pastor's Study - Grace Isabel Colbron
- Author: Grace Isabel Colbron
- Genre: Detective Fiction
Joseph Muller, police detective, travels to a remote Hungarian village to discover the truth behind the murder of a beloved village Pastor. (Introduction by Dawn)...
The Expressman and the Detective - Allan PINKERTON
The Expressman and the Detective - Allan PINKERTON
- Author: Allan PINKERTON
- Genre: Detective Fiction
Allan Pinkerton (1819-1884), a Scotsman by birth and a barrel-maker by trade, settled in Chicago in its infancy and founded the Pinkertons, the world's first detective agency. Though events associated with the agency after his death have tarnished...
The Peril Finders - George Manville Fenn
The Peril Finders - George Manville Fenn
- Author: George Manville Fenn
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction / Detective Fiction
In California settlers are trying to make a living working as fruit-growers. Problems with blights and insects mean that the crops are failing. A prospector arrives and tells stories of ancient cities where there is a lot of gold. He then dies. Some...
Carnacki, the Ghost Finder - William Hope Hodgson
Carnacki, the Ghost Finder - William Hope Hodgson
- Author: William Hope Hodgson
- Genre: Detective Fiction / Short Stories
Thomas Carnacki was a detective of the supernatural, created for a series of short stories by Wiliam Hope Hodgson. Hodsgon, also a noted photographer and bodybuilder, might have created more stories for this intrepid sleuth of the occult, but he...
Raffles, Further Adventures of the Amateur Cracksman - E. W. Hornung
Raffles, Further Adventures of the Amateur Cracksman - E. W. Hornung
- Author: E. W. Hornung
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction / Detective Fiction
Raffles, Further Adventures of the Amateur Cracksman (also published as The Black Mask) is the second collection of stories in the Raffles series. After the dark turn of events at the end of The Gift of the Emperor, Bunny's done his time and, his...
Three Thousand Dollars - Anna Katharine Green
Three Thousand Dollars - Anna Katharine Green
- Author: Anna Katharine Green
- Genre: General Fiction / Detective Fiction
This short story by Anna Katharine Green revolves around a plot to steal some goods secured safely within an impenetrable vault within the confines of Mr. Stoughton's business concern. Nobody seems to have any clue as to how the vault can be...
Graustark - George Barr McCutcheon
Graustark - George Barr McCutcheon
- Author: George Barr McCutcheon
- Genre: Detective Fiction / Romance
The Graustark novels are stories of court intrigue, royal disguise, and romance similar to Anthony Hope's 1894 novel, The Prisoner of Zenda, and its sequels. They were popular best-sellers at the time they were published and the original editions...
Four Max Carrados Detective Stories - Ernest Bramah
Four Max Carrados Detective Stories - Ernest Bramah
- Author: Ernest Bramah
- Genre: Detective Fiction / Short Stories
Ernest Bramah is mainly known for his 'Kai Lung' books - Dorothy L Sayers often used quotes from them for her chapter headings. In his lifetime however he was equally well known for his detective stories. Since Sherlock Holmes we have had French...
The Mystery of the Hidden Room - Marion Harvey
The Mystery of the Hidden Room - Marion Harvey
- Author: Marion Harvey
- Genre: Detective Fiction
A classic mystery/detective story in the Sherlock Holmes tradition, the hidden room suggested by the title of this book does not remain a mystery for very long as the book progresses. Written in the first person, the husband of his (Carlton Davies)...
Murder in the Gunroom - H. Beam Piper
Murder in the Gunroom - H. Beam Piper
- Author: H. Beam Piper
- Genre: Detective Fiction
The Lane Fleming collection of early pistols and revolvers was one of the best in the country. When Fleming was found dead on the floor of his locked gunroom, a Confederate-made Colt-type percussion .36 revolver in his hand, the coroner's verdict...
Tom Ossington's Ghost - Richard Marsh
Tom Ossington's Ghost - Richard Marsh
- Author: Richard Marsh
- Genre: General Fiction / Detective Fiction
Madge and Ella have lived at Clover Cottage for six weeks when a series of strange events begin to occur. A gentleman who arrives asking for a piano lesson from Madge, suddenly bolts out the back door and over the hedge when he sees a rough-looking...
The Return of Sherlock Holmes - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
The Return of Sherlock Holmes - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
- Author: Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
- Genre: Detective Fiction
Having left Sherlock Holmes apparently deceased at the conclusion of The Final Problem (in The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes), we now find that he is alive after all! In this collection, first published in 1905, the great detective causes Watson to...
The Master Mystery - Arthur B. Reeve
The Master Mystery - Arthur B. Reeve
- Author: Arthur B. Reeve
- Genre: General Fiction / Detective Fiction
While Harry Houdini didn't rise to fame as a screen actor, silent film makers of the day sought to capitalize on his fame. The Master Mystery was Houdini's first such attempt, and it was embraced by the viewing public, leading to other screen roles...
Trent's Last Case (Version 2) - Edmund Clerihew Bentley
Trent's Last Case (Version 2) - Edmund Clerihew Bentley
- Author: Edmund Clerihew Bentley
- Genre: Detective Fiction
This is one of a series of EC Bentley novels featuring the highly erudite artist qua reporter / detective, Philip Trent. In it, Trent is sent to a charming English seaside village to cover the murder of Sigsbee Manderson for a large London...
No Clue! A Mystery Story - James Hay
No Clue! A Mystery Story - James Hay
- Author: James Hay
- Genre: Detective Fiction
βNo Clue! A Mystery Storyβ finds detective Jefferson Hastings at the home of wealthy but eccentric Arthur Sloane one hot summer night, when two other guests at Sloanehurst stumble across the body of young Mildred Brace lying dead on the lawn....
The Flaming Forest - James Oliver Curwood
The Flaming Forest - James Oliver Curwood
- Author: James Oliver Curwood
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction / Detective Fiction / Romance
A tale of mystery, romance, and honor, as David Carrigan must choose between his duty as an officer of the law and a girl who holds him captive; a girl who Carrigan thinks he may have fallen in love with no less! Who is this strange girl Jean-Marie,...
The Case of Jennie Brice - Mary Roberts Rinehart
The Case of Jennie Brice - Mary Roberts Rinehart
- Author: Mary Roberts Rinehart
- Genre: Detective Fiction
The flood brings in not only the muddy waters but a series of suspicious clues that convinced Mrs. Pitman, a boarding house keeper, that a murder has been committed at her boarding house. Jennifer Ladley aka Jennie Brice is missing and with the help...
The Doctor, his Wife, and the Clock - Anna Katharine Green
The Doctor, his Wife, and the Clock - Anna Katharine Green
- Author: Anna Katharine Green
- Genre: Detective Fiction
A man has been shot dead in his house. Ebenezer Gryce is on the case, but he has no leads, no witnesses, no evidence -- until he decides to talk to the neighbors of the victim, a blind doctor and his beautiful wife.. - Summary by Carolin...
The Miss Florence Cusack Mysteries - L. T. Meade
The Miss Florence Cusack Mysteries - L. T. Meade
- Author: L. T. Meade
- Genre: Detective Fiction
Miss Florence Cusack was featured as an amateur detective who assists in solving crimes in five short stories authored by L. T. Meade and Robert Eustace that appeared in Harmsworth/London Magazine. Mr. Bovey's Unexpected Will, 1899 The Arrest of...
The Mystery of the Yellow Room - Gaston Leroux
The Mystery of the Yellow Room - Gaston Leroux
- Author: Gaston Leroux
- Genre: Detective Fiction
This crime novel was possibly the first to involve a 'locked room mystery', in which an attempted murder takes place, but with no obvious way for the perpetrator to have escaped. The author, Gaston Leroux, is better known as the author of The...
The House of the Whispering Pines - Anna Katharine Green
The House of the Whispering Pines - Anna Katharine Green
- Author: Anna Katharine Green
- Genre: General Fiction / Detective Fiction
The country club house The Whispering Pines was closed for the winter, but only one day after he locked the place personally, the narrator sees smoke come out of the chimney. He decides to investigate and enters the house. Hidden in the dark, he...
Ralestone Luck - Andre Norton
Ralestone Luck - Andre Norton
- Author: Andre Norton
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction / Detective Fiction
Rupert Ralestone is officially the Marquess of Lorne--but with no family money or prestige, the title is worthless. He and his younger brother and sister return to the old family homestead--Pirate's Haven. Their only hope is to find the family's...
Library of the World's Best Mystery and Detective Stories, Volume 1 - Various
Library of the World's Best Mystery and Detective Stories, Volume 1 - Various
- Author: Various
- Genre: Horror & Supernatural Fiction / Detective Fiction / Anthologies
In the six volumes of the Library of the World's Best Mystery and Detective Stories, Julian Hawthorne presents us thrilling and mysterious short stories from all corners of the world. Some of the stories appeared in this collection for the first...
The Red Headed League - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
The Red Headed League - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
- Author: Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
- Genre: Detective Fiction
"The Adventure of the Red-Headed League" is one of the 56 Sherlock Holmes short stories written by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. It first appeared in The Strand Magazine in August 1891. Conan Doyle ranked "The Red-Headed League" second in his list of his...
The Clue - Carolyn Wells
The Clue - Carolyn Wells
- Author: Carolyn Wells
- Genre: Detective Fiction
Once Carolyn Wells began, or re-invented her writing career, 'The Clue' was her initial book which strayed from children's writings into mysteries and detective stories. It is also when we are introduced to her most famous of detectives, Fleming...
32 Caliber - Donald McGibeny
32 Caliber - Donald McGibeny
- Author: Donald McGibeny
- Genre: Detective Fiction
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, country clubs, and a dry creek bed, before the...
The Brand of Silence - Johnston McCulley
The Brand of Silence - Johnston McCulley
- Author: Johnston McCulley
- Genre: General Fiction / Detective Fiction
Harrington Strong was a pseudonym used by author Johnston McCulley, creator of the character Zorro and many others. The Brand of Silence - A Detective Story finds Sidney Prale returning to New York after ten years during which he sought his fortune....
The Millionaire Baby - Anna Katharine Green
The Millionaire Baby - Anna Katharine Green
- Author: Anna Katharine Green
- Genre: Detective Fiction
A reward of five thousand dollars is offered, by Phil Ocumpaugh, to whoever will give such information as will lead to the recovery, alive or dead, of his six-year-old daughter, Gwendolen, missing since the afternoon of August the 16th, from her...
The Crimson Circle - Edgar Wallace
The Crimson Circle - Edgar Wallace
- Author: Edgar Wallace
- Genre: Detective Fiction
The Crimson Circle gang spreads fear by extortion and murder. Its members range from rich, powerful bankers to petty criminals, and none of them know each other. A beautiful young woman named Thalia Drummond appears to be involved in the gang too....
The Abandoned Room - Wadsworth Camp
The Abandoned Room - Wadsworth Camp
- Author: Wadsworth Camp
- Genre: General Fiction / Detective Fiction
The mystery of a secret room, scene of many murders, is unraveled by Carlos Paredes, the Panamanian Sherlock Holmes. (Summary by manybooks.net)...
The Avenger - E. Phillips Oppenheim
The Avenger - E. Phillips Oppenheim
- Author: E. Phillips Oppenheim
- Genre: Detective Fiction
Herbert Wrayson, a bachelor returns to his flat one night to find a young lady rifling his desk. He questions her and finds she thought she was in the apartment of his neighbor, Morris Barnes, who lives above him. While he is on the telephone, she...
The Innocence of Father Brown - G. K. Chesterton
The Innocence of Father Brown - G. K. Chesterton
- Author: G. K. Chesterton
- Genre: Detective Fiction
The Innocence of Father Brown (1911) is the first of five collections of mystery stories by G. K. Chesterton starring an unimposing but surprisingly capable Roman Catholic priest. Father Brown's ability to uncover the truth behind the mystery...
