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A Prince of Swindlers - Guy Boothby
A Prince of Swindlers - Guy Boothby
- Author: Guy Boothby
- Genre: Detective Fiction
The year 18-- was a momentous one in Great Britain. Not only did the nation receive most of the world's royalty for months on end, but the well-to-do gentleman, Simon Carne spent much of the social season in London. On friendly terms with royalty,...
Blindfolded - Earle Ashley Walcott
Blindfolded - Earle Ashley Walcott
- Author: Earle Ashley Walcott
- Genre: Detective Fiction
Giles Dudley is called upon by his cousin Henry Wilton to assist him in San Francisco, but the reason for the summons is not at all clear. Dudley answers the summons, only to find himself immediately wrapped in the middle of mystery and intrigue,...
The Diamond Master - Jacques Futrelle
The Diamond Master - Jacques Futrelle
- Author: Jacques Futrelle
- Genre: Detective Fiction
A perfect diamond worth millions is mailed, in a plain package, to a diamond dealer. Then he finds that identical diamonds were delivered to other diamond dealers. Where did the gems come from? Who sent them? And why? (Introduction by Dawn)...
The Orange-Yellow Diamond - J. S. Fletcher
The Orange-Yellow Diamond - J. S. Fletcher
- Author: J. S. Fletcher
- Genre: Dramatic Readings / Detective Fiction
A novelist finds himself struggling to make ends meet. In his effort to raise a bit of money to get him by, he finds himself in the middle of a mystery. Murder, theft, and love, all the ingredients for a wonderful reading. Please note: There is some...
The Hemlock Avenue Mystery - Lily A. Long
The Hemlock Avenue Mystery - Lily A. Long
- Author: Lily A. Long
- Genre: Detective Fiction
"The Hemlock Avenue Mystery" is one of a series of mysteries written by Lily Augusta Long using the pseudonym Roman Doubleday. A lawyer is accused of killing a rival lawyer, both having battled in court on numerous occasions. A newspaper reporter...
The Agony Column - Earl Derr Biggers
The Agony Column - Earl Derr Biggers
- Author: Earl Derr Biggers
- Genre: General Fiction / Detective Fiction
English romantic adventure starring a young American in London and inspired by the personal ads (agony columns) in the London papers. In this treacherous tale of murder and intrigue young American Geoffrey West tracks a killer from the posh dining...
Library of the World's Best Mystery and Detective Stories, Volume 3 - Various
Library of the World's Best Mystery and Detective Stories, Volume 3 - 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 Secret of the Night - Gaston Leroux
The Secret of the Night - Gaston Leroux
- Author: Gaston Leroux
- Genre: Detective Fiction
Gaston Leroux, perhaps best known as the author of The Phantom of the Opera in its novel form, was also the author of a popular series of mystery novels featuring a young journalist cum detective named Joseph Rouletabille. It is most likely that...
The Hound of the Baskervilles (version 2) - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
The Hound of the Baskervilles (version 2) - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
- Author: Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
- Genre: General Fiction / Detective Fiction
The Hound of the Baskervilles is the third of four crime novels by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle featuring the detective Sherlock Holmes. Originally serialised in The Strand Magazine from August 1901 to April 1902, it is set largely on Dartmoor in Devon in...
The Steel Hammer - Louis Ulbach
The Steel Hammer - Louis Ulbach
- Author: Louis Ulbach
- Genre: Historical Fiction / Detective Fiction
A large inheritance greatly transforms the lives of three people: a good man, who would have inherited at least a part of the fortune if his uncle hadn't passed away before altering the will, his cousin, who inherits all but is prevented from...
The Black Star - Johnston McCulley
The Black Star - Johnston McCulley
- Author: Johnston McCulley
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction / General Fiction / Detective Fiction
The Black Star was a master criminal who took great care to never be identifiable, always wore a mask so nobody knew what he looked like, rarely spoke to keep his voice from being recognized, and the only mark left at the scenes of the crimes which...
The Seven Secrets - William Le Queux
The Seven Secrets - William Le Queux
- Author: William Le Queux
- Genre: General Fiction / Detective Fiction
A true βwhodunitβ with as many twists and turns as an English country road. Old man Courtenay is found murdered in his bed. Dr. Ralph Boyd is summoned to Courtenay Manor to examine the slain man and discovers a clue that might solve the case. But,...
The Sword of Damocles - Anna Katharine Green
The Sword of Damocles - Anna Katharine Green
- Author: Anna Katharine Green
- Genre: Detective Fiction
Anna Katharine Green is best known as one of the first women detective writers, and The Sword of Damocles, first published in 1881, does indeed include several mysteries. There is a very brief appearance by her famous detective, Mr Gryce, but at the...
The Clue of the Gold Coin - Helen Wells
The Clue of the Gold Coin - Helen Wells
- Author: Helen Wells
- Genre: Detective Fiction
Vicki Barr is a popular mystery series for girls published by Grosset & Dunlap from 1947 to 1964. This book is volume 12 of The Vicki Barr Air Stewardess Series.When a shipment of priceless gold doubloons being transported on her flight from New...
Arsène Lupin versus Herlock Sholmes - Maurice Leblanc
Arsène Lupin versus Herlock Sholmes - Maurice Leblanc
- Author: Maurice Leblanc
- Genre: Detective Fiction / Published 1900 onward
The story of an exciting test of wits between world-class thief Arsène Lupin and master detective Herlock Sholmes. Translated from the French. - Summary by Andy Harrington...
The Whispering Eye, A Black Hood Novel - G. T. Fleming-Roberts
The Whispering Eye, A Black Hood Novel - G. T. Fleming-Roberts
- Author: G. T. Fleming-Roberts
- Genre: Detective Fiction
Hunted by the police ... framed for robbery and murder by the Eye, master fiend and vicious ruler of the underworld ... loathed by Barbara Sutton the girl who loves him ... the BLACK HOOD had to face the blazing purgatory of this murder master's...
The Valley of Fear - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
The Valley of Fear - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
- Author: Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
- Genre: Detective Fiction
Doyle's final novel featuring the beloved sleuth, Sherlock Holmes, brings the detective and his friend to a country manor where they are preceded by either a murder or a suicide. A secretive organization lies culprit and an infiltration of it is in...
A Study In Scarlet (Version 6) - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
A Study In Scarlet (Version 6) - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
- Author: Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
- Genre: Crime & Mystery Fiction / Detective Fiction / Published 1800 -1900
A Study in Scarlet is a detective mystery novel written by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, introducing his new characters, "consulting detective" Sherlock Holmes and his friend and chronicler, Dr. John Watson, who later became two of the most famous...
Five Continental Op Stories - Dashiell Hammett
Five Continental Op Stories - Dashiell Hammett
- Author: Dashiell Hammett
- Genre: Detective Fiction
Before Sam Spade chased the black bird in The Maltese Falcon and Nick and Nora Charles stirred their first martinis in The Thin Man, the Continental Op walked early twentieth century San Franciscoβs mean streets for the Continental Detective Agency....
The Circular Study - Anna Katharine Green
The Circular Study - Anna Katharine Green
- Author: Anna Katharine Green
- Genre: Detective Fiction
In this well-plotted, character-driven mystery, Detective Gryce receives a cryptic message calling him to the scene of a βstrangeβ crime. He soon finds that the adjective is correct, for in a quiet brownstone house in a respectable New York City...
The Beetle - Richard Marsh
The Beetle - Richard Marsh
- Author: Richard Marsh
- Genre: Horror & Supernatural Fiction / Detective Fiction
A story about a mysterious oriental figure who pursues a British politician to London, where he wreaks havoc with his powers of hypnosis and shape-shifting, Marsh's novel is of a piece with other sensational turn-of-the-century fictions such as...
The Club of Queer Trades - G. K. Chesterton
The Club of Queer Trades - G. K. Chesterton
- Author: G. K. Chesterton
- Genre: Detective Fiction
A collection of six wonderfully quirky detective stories, featuring the 'mystic' former judge Basil Grant. Each story reveals a practitioner of an entirely new profession, and member of the Club of Queer Trades. (Summary by David Barnes)...
The Woman in White - Wilkie Collins
The Woman in White - Wilkie Collins
- Author: Wilkie Collins
- Genre: Epistolary Fiction / Detective Fiction
The Woman in White is an epistolary novel written by Wilkie Collins in 1859, serialized in 1859-1860, and first published in book form in 1860. It is considered to be to the first mystery novel, and is widely regarded as one of the first (and...
The Crimson Cryptogram - Fergus Hume
The Crimson Cryptogram - Fergus Hume
- Author: Fergus Hume
- Genre: Detective Fiction
Young Dr Ellis, a struggling new physician, is enjoying a quiet evening smoking and enjoying conversation with his journalist friend Cass, when their mysterious neighbour, Mrs Moxton, bursts in upon them with startling news - her husband has been...
The Silent House - Fergus Hume
The Silent House - Fergus Hume
- Author: Fergus Hume
- Genre: General Fiction / Detective Fiction
A mystery about a "locked door" murder committed in a house that has a reputation for being haunted. In the first half of the book, the murderer appears to be easy to figure out. The second half of the book, however, is filled with plot twists and...
Scarhaven Keep - J. S. Fletcher
Scarhaven Keep - J. S. Fletcher
- Author: J. S. Fletcher
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction / General Fiction / Detective Fiction
The northern English sea coast provides a compelling backdrop for this genre of writing; a mysterious disappearance, a love interest, and plot twists 'se mijotent' to produce an intriguing read. (Summary by Cate Barratt)...
The Murders in the Rue Morgue - Edgar Allan Poe
The Murders in the Rue Morgue - Edgar Allan Poe
- Author: Edgar Allan Poe
- Genre: Detective Fiction
The Murders in the Rue Morgue" is a short story written by Edgar Allan Poe in 1841. Poe referred to it as a "tale of ratiocination" featuring the brilliant deductions of C. Auguste Dupin; it is today regarded as one of the first detective stories...
The Valley of Fear (Version 3) - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
The Valley of Fear (Version 3) - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
- Author: Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
- Genre: Detective Fiction
Receiving a mysterious cypher message from a Fred Porlock, apparent agent of the infamous Professor Moriarty, Holmes and Watson set about deciphering the message, taking them into the mysterious murder of John Douglas. The connection between the...
The Great White Queen - William Le Queux
The Great White Queen - William Le Queux
- Author: William Le Queux
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction / General Fiction / Detective Fiction
How to describe this book? In a word β savage. For those regular Librivox Le Queux mystery listeners, this book is a step in a different direction by the author. The book starts out like most Le Queux. Our hero, Richard Scarsmere, befriends an...
The Mysteries of Paris - Volume 1 - Eugène Sue
The Mysteries of Paris - Volume 1 - Eugène Sue
- Author: Eugène Sue
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction / Fantastic Fiction / Detective Fiction
The Mysteries of Paris (French: Les Mystères de Paris) is a novel by Eugène Sue which was published serially in Journal des débats from June 19, 1842 until October 15, 1843. Les Mystères de Paris singlehandedly increased the circulation of Journal...
A Flurry in Diamonds - Thomas E. Price
A Flurry in Diamonds - Thomas E. Price
- Author: Thomas E. Price
- Genre: Detective Fiction
The diamonds are gone--vanished! But who could have taken them? And how? With each plot twist author Thomas E. Price (writing as Amos Chiptree) takes the reader (and the diamonds) off in a new direction. ( Tom Penn)...
The Middle Temple Murder (version 2) - J. S. Fletcher
The Middle Temple Murder (version 2) - J. S. Fletcher
- Author: J. S. Fletcher
- Genre: Detective Fiction
A classic English murder mystery story, set in the legal center of London draws the reluctant attention of a journalist as he makes his way home after a long night on the job. But his newshound instincts kick in. Who is the elderly man? What was he...
A Coin Of Edward VII - Fergus Hume
A Coin Of Edward VII - Fergus Hume
- Author: Fergus Hume
- Genre: Detective Fiction
A family celebrates Christmas and its flaws are gently exposed by the house guest Mrs. Parry. Giles is engaged to the wealthy Daisy, yet is clearly in love with the governess Anne Denham. Things come to a head when Daisy is murdered. Who would...
The Boarded Up House - Augusta Huiell Seaman
The Boarded Up House - Augusta Huiell Seaman
- Author: Augusta Huiell Seaman
- Genre: Children's Fiction / General Fiction / Detective Fiction
What is the secret of the old boarded up house? And what is the answer to the mystery of the long lost letter that is found in it? Best friends Joyce and Cynthia - along with their dog "Goliath", are determined to find out in this pre-Nancy Drew...
R. Holmes and Co. - John Kendrick Bangs
R. Holmes and Co. - John Kendrick Bangs
- Author: John Kendrick Bangs
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction / General Fiction / Detective Fiction
Raffles Holmes is introduced in these stories as the son of the great Sherlock Holmes. He is also revealed to be the grandson of A.J. Raffles, a gentleman thief pursued by Sherlock Holmes many years earlier. This apparently contradictory family...
The Stretton Street Affair - William Le Queux
The Stretton Street Affair - William Le Queux
- Author: William Le Queux
- Genre: Detective Fiction
Hugh Gabriel has recently been repatriated from the war and has rejoined his old firm as an electrical engineer. On the way to visit his uncle one night, he is asked by a servant if he would be willing to meet with his wealthy master who is in some...
A Double Barreled Detective Story - Mark Twain
A Double Barreled Detective Story - Mark Twain
- Author: Mark Twain
- Genre: Detective Fiction
A Double Barrelled Detective Story is a novel by Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens), in which Sherlock Holmes finds himself in the American west. At a mining camp in California, Fetlock Jones, a nephew of Sherlock Holmes, kills his master, a silver-miner,...
The Gerrard Street Mystery and Other Weird Tales - John Charles Dent
The Gerrard Street Mystery and Other Weird Tales - John Charles Dent
- Author: John Charles Dent
- Genre: Horror & Supernatural Fiction / Detective Fiction / Short Stories
John Charles Dent, the author of the following remarkable stories, was born in Kendal, Westmorland, England, in 1841. His parents emigrated to Canada shortly after that event, bringing with them, of course, the youth who was afterwards to become the...
The Lone Wolf - Louis Joseph Vance
The Lone Wolf - Louis Joseph Vance
- Author: Louis Joseph Vance
- Genre: General Fiction / Detective Fiction / Romance
The Lone Wolf is the first of eight books in a series featuring the jewel thief turned private detective Michael Lanyard. With his identity betrayed and the police on his heels, he must fly from Paris, which is made much more difficult by his...
Bobs, a Girl Detective - Grace May North
Bobs, a Girl Detective - Grace May North
- Author: Grace May North
- Genre: Detective Fiction / Action & Adventure
This is a great short chapter mystery book for girls. It is similar to Nancy Drew. Bobs is one of the four sisters whose parents die, leaving them with the responsibility of caring for themselves. They have to work together to be cheerful through...