Mystery & Thriller
The String of Pearls
The tale of Sweeney Todd has had many incarnations, most famously the stage and movie musical by Stephen Sondheim. But it all started in 184…
The Lost Stradivarius
The Lost Stradivarius (1895), by J. Meade Falkner, is a short novel of ghosts and the evil that can be invested in an object, in this case a…
Elusive Isabel
Elusive Isabel transports listeners to the political intrigue of early 20th-century Washington, D.C., where espionage and conspiracy intertw…
Trent's Last Case
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 w…
The Open Door and The Portrait
The Open Door and The Portrait presents two intriguing tales by Margaret O. Oliphant that delve into the realms of the seen and unseen. In t…
Graustark
The Graustark novels are stories of court intrigue, royal disguise, and romance similar to Anthony Hope's 1894 novel, The Prisoner of Zenda,…
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes introduces readers to the brilliant detective Sherlock Holmes and his loyal companion, Dr. John Watson, as…
The Secret Agent
The Secret Agent is Conrad's dark, and darkly comic story of a band of spies, anarchists, agents-provocateurs plotting and counter-plotting …
The Mystery
The idea was to write a whole novel in the month of November, based on the guidelines of the National Novel Writing Month. The twist is that…
Die Elixiere des Teufels
Der Bruder Medardus ist ein hoch angesehenes, für seine feurigen Predigten bekanntes Mitglied der Klostergemeinde. Als ihm die Aufsicht…
The Yellow Sheet
An atomic bomb explodes in the mountains of Montana. But was there really a bomb? And was it really in Montana, or in Tokyo? Are Liz and Eli…
The Four-Pools Mystery
The Four-Pools Mystery invites listeners into a gripping tale of intrigue and justice set against the backdrop of a post-Civil War plantatio…