Crime & Mystery Fiction

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…

The Strange Case of Mortimer Fenley

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Louis Tracy


At the country estate of Mortimer Fenley, artist John Trenholme works at an oil painting of Sylvia, the financier’s beautiful ward. She has …

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…

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 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…

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 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 …

The Smuggler of King's Cove

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Sylvanus Cobb, Jr and Sylvanus Cobb, Jr.


Young Percy Maitland is a naval pilot and guides his late father's brig to safety, thereby saving the ship, her crew and cargo despite being…

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…

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, …

An African Millionaire: Episodes in the Life of the Illustrious Colonel Clay

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Grant Allen


"My name is Seymour Wilbraham Wentworth. I am brother-in-law and secretary to Sir Charles Vandrift, the South African millionaire and f…

The Yellow Face

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Fred M. White


Who is Nostalgo ? Posters with his unsettlingly grinning face are appearing on scaffolds all over London. A murdered body, horribly disfigur…

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 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…

Short Mystery and Suspense Collection 011

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Various


We present you with our 11th collection of short mystery and suspense stories. Several are taken from the magazine Weird Tales and they are …

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…

Blotted Out

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Elisabeth Sanxay Holding


The story about a young man who immigrates to the US and is contacted by a mysterious woman. - Summary by Howard Skyman

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…

No. 17 (Number Seventeen)

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J. Jefferson Farjeon


A thriller about a down-and-out sailor finding his way in London. The book followed a successful play that was filmed by Alfred Hitchcock, …

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 …

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