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The Lost House
Austin Ford, the London correspondent of the New York Republic, is spending some idle time in the American Embassy chatting with the Second …
The House of the Whispering Pines
The country club house The Whispering Pines was closed for the winter, but only one day after he locked the place personally, the narrator s…
The House in the Mist
It was a night to drive any man indoors. Not only was the darkness impenetrable, but the raw mist enveloping hill and valley made the open r…
A Mysterious Disappearance
Lady Dyke disappears mysteriously, and barrister and hobby detective Claude Bruce appears to be one of the last persons to have seen her. A …
X Y Z - A Detective Story
"Sometimes in the course of his experience, a detective, while engaged in ferreting out the mystery of one crime, runs inadvertently up…
The Amethyst Box
On the evening before his marriage, Sinclair loses a precious curiosity from his collection: an amethyst box, containing a tiny flask of dea…
The Stowmarket Mystery, or, a Legacy of Hate
Another case for Reginald Brett, barrister and hobby detective: David Hume-Frazer is in some trouble. He was the prime suspect in the murder…
The Albert Gate Mystery
A new case for barrister and hobby detective Reginald Brett: The imperial diamonds were sent by the Sultan to London, to be cut in Albert Ga…
The Ruby and the Caldron
A valuable ruby is lost during a disturbance in the snow before a ball at The Evergreens. A detective is called for right away to recover it…
The Doctor, his Wife, and the Clock
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 …
The Staircase at the Heart's Delight
Detective Ebenezer Gryce tells the story of the case with which he begun his career in 1840. Several wealthy men were drowned and washed ash…
The Filigree Ball
[The Moore House] was standing when Washington was a village. It antedates the Capitol and the White House. Built by a man of wealth, it bea…
An Essay on Crimes and Punishments
Beccaria's treatise On Crimes and Punishments, which condemns disproportionate and irrational penalties in general as well as torture and th…
The Bronze Hand
A political society secretly operates in Baltimore. When he tries to help his beautiful neighbor Miss Calhoun recover a stolen ring which mi…
Satan's Diary
"Satan's Diary", Andreyev's last work, was completed by the great Russian a few days before he died in Finland, in September, 1919…
The Princess Aline
Morton Carlton, an easy-going, rich young artist, has never taken the concepts of love and marriage all that seriously -- until by accident …
The Little Gray Lady
As every Christmas for the last 20 years, the Little Gray Lady lights a candle in her room and spends the evening alone, thinking of a great…
Der Maigraf
Rambert hat sich bei der ersten Gelegenheit der Armee angeschlossen und ist einige Jahre durch das Land gezogen. Als der Krieg aber vorbei i…
Der Freiwerber
Dies ist die Geschichte von Friedrich Stievel, Konrektor am örtlichen Gymnasium. Friedrich ist ein außerordentlich schüchter…
The Amateur
On the steamer on his way to London, Austin Ford meets a young woman, who is going to London to find her missing husband. Being a specialist…