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The Stillwater Tragedy
Thomas Bailey Aldrich was an American poet, novelist and editor. Of his many books of poetry and fiction, he may be best known for his semi…
The Dragon's Secret
Sixteen year old Leslie Crane has come to the New Jersey shore as a companion to ailing Aunt Marcia, whose doctor has sent her there for a s…
The Man with the Black Cord
A baffling disappearance. A bedroom door locked from the inside. A housekeeper with something to hide. Will retired policeman turned privat…
The Haunted Bookshop
Roger Mifflin is the somewhat eccentric proprietor of The Haunted Bookshop, a second-hand bookstore in Brooklyn that is "haunted by the…
The Case of Miss Elliott
A sequel to the stories published in The Old Man in the Corner, this second book in the series includes twelve new mysterious cases that The…
The Green Jacket
An early example of the female private detective, Jennette Lee’s Millicent Newberry made her first appearance in The Green Jacket in 1917 an…
Exterior to the Evidence
"Exterior to the Evidence" is a mystery novel by J. S. Fletcher originally published in The Black Mask, a magazine of mystery and …
The Case of the Lamp That Went Out
"The Case of the Lamp That Went Out" is one of the earlier Joseph Muller stories by Austrian author, Auguste Groner, originally pu…
A Master of Mysteries
"It so happened that the circumstances of fate allowed me to follow my own bent in the choice of a profession. From my earliest youth t…
The Slipper Point Mystery
When fourteen year old Sally Carter shares her secret about When fourteen year old Sally Carter decides to share the secret she has discover…
Constance Dunlap
Constance Dunlap is a young woman who in Chapter 1 turns amateur criminal in order to to save her husband from disgrace and imminent arrest.…
The Sorceress of the Strand
From the moment Madame Sara arrived on the scene, she has taken London society by storm. Madame is both beautiful and mysterious, but it so…
The Mystery of the Four Fingers
A fabulously rich gold mine in Mexico is known by the picturesque and mysterious name of The Four Fingers. It originally belonged to an Azte…
The House on the Downs
Mark Brandon, a writer from Australia is in England to visit an old friend, Sir Quenton Rotherdene. However, while walking across the Downs…
Unravelled Knots
Unravelled Knots is the third and final installment of the Old Man in the Corner stories by Baroness Orczy. After a break of several years,…
The Terriford Mystery
The Terriford Mystery is a 1924 novel by prolific English author, Marie Belloc Lowndes. The story revolves around handsome Harry Garlett an…
The Lady in Blue
A Joseph Muller Mystery originally published in 1905 in German as "Die blaue Dame" (The Blue Lady). Translated by American writer…
The Heart of a Mystery
The Heart of Mystery by L. T. Meade and Robert Eustace was published in 1901 in six installments in the Windsor Magazine, Vol. 14. The stori…
The Brotherhood of the Seven Kings
"THAT a secret society, based upon the lines of similar institutions so notorious on the Continent during the last century, could ever …
The Devil's Pool
George Sand (the pen name of Amantine-Lucile-Aurore Dupin 1804-1876) is famous for flaunting the conventions of behavior expected of women o…