Crime & Mystery Fiction

The Burglars' Club: A Romance in Twelve Chronicles

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Henry Augustus Hering


'He's one of us,' the burglar explained. 'You see, we are men who have pretty well exhausted the pleasures of life. We've all been in the Ar…

The Square Emerald

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Edgar Wallace


What appears to be a straightforward case of blackmail develops into an exciting, complex web for our heroine, a feisty girl detective attac…

The Old Ladies

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Hugh Walpole


“Quite a number of years ago there was an old rickety building on the rock above Seatown in Polchester, and it was one of a number in an old…

The Marie Antoinette Romances, Vol 2: The Mesmerist's Victim

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Alexandre Dumas


This 2nd volume of the Marie Antoinette Romances continues the intrigues of "Balsamo, The Magician" and adds to them the schemes o…

The Listener and Other Stories

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Algernon Blackwood


Algernon Blackwood, noted maestro of weird fiction, in his second collection of stories gives us some of his best and most well-known tales …

Celebrated Crimes, Vol. 8: Part 2: Vaninka

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Alexandre Dumas


The story of Vaninka, generally regarded as the most fictionalized of Dumas’ Celebrated Crimes series, occurs during the short and eccentric…

The Amethyst Cross

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Fergus Hume


Things look bleak for Lesbia Hales. Her father does not let her marry the man she loves. Her mother is dead. She has to keep secrets in orde…

The Man Who Was Thursday (Version 2)

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G. K. Chesterton


Subtitled by the author as a "Nightmare", this is a fantasy, comic thriller about a plot to end the world by a group of anarchists…

Celebrated Crimes, Vol. 5: Derues, La Constantin

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Alexandre Dumas


Dumas, with the assistance of several friends, compiled Celebrated Crimes, an eight-volume collection of essays on famous criminals and crim…

Stories in Black and White

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Various


This is a collection of short mystery stories, written in very different styles by eight different authors. - Summary by Carolin

The Criminal from Lost Honour

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Friedrich Schiller


"In the whole history of man there is no chapter more instructive for the heart and mind than the annals of his errors. On the occasion…

The Marie Antoinette Romances, Vol 3: The Queen's Necklace (Version 2)

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Alexandre Dumas


This 3rd volume of the Marie Antoinette Romances begins a decade after the close of "The Mesmerist’s Victim” and is based on a real sca…

The Man Who Knew

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Edgar Wallace


Saul Arthur Mann is a meticulous and eccentric individual. His life revolves around the gathering of every fact and statistic he can possibl…

The Fellowship of the Frog

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Edgar Wallace


In this story, a small village in rural England is the unlikely site of multiple mysterious goings-on. Dick Gordon, a young public prosecuto…

Number Seventeen

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Louis Tracy


The number Seventeen refers (at first) to the London apartment of a young widow who is strangled (off-scene) at the beginning of the book. H…

The Viaduct Murder

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Ronald Knox


A badly battered corpse is found on the golf links. The first verdict was suicide; but four leisurely gentlemen staying at the country club …

The Stolen Singer

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Martha Bellinger


Agatha Redmond, a popular soprano, is kidnapped in New York City by thugs unknown, shortly after she learns of a hefty inheritance from a fr…

The Adventuress

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Arthur B. Reeve


Another adventure in the series starring scientist/detective Craig Kennedy, a Sherlock Holmes type of character. This one features family fe…

Cradock Nowell Vol. 3

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Richard Doddridge Blackmore


Cradock Nowell: a Tale of the New Forest is a three-volume novel by R. D. Blackmore published in 1866. Set in the New Forest and in London, …

The House Opposite

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Elizabeth Kent


While trying to escape the heat, a doctor witnesses some strange behavior of his neighbors. Suddenly, everyone and no one become suspects in…

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