Crime & Mystery Fiction
A Network of Crime
Nick Carter is a fictional detective who first appeared in 1886 in dime store novels. Over the years, different authors, all taking the nom …
Nobody's Man
Brigadier general Andrew Tallente, late of Parliament, is implicated in the death of his male secretary, the son of a classmate at Eton. See…
Curlie Carson Listens In
It is early in the days of radio, and amateurs are using it more and more, and using it illegally. Enter Curlie Carson, who has the job of t…
An American Tragedy
Loosely based on a true story, this is the tale of Clyde Griffiths. At a young age, Clyde realizes that money and influence can get him the …
The Motor Girls on a Tour
In the second installment of the Motor Girls series, Cora and her friends embark on an exciting journey filled with mystery and adventure. A…
The Camera Fiend
A London schoolboy playing hooky is drawn in to the clutches of a creature evil beyond imagining.(summary by Judi Mason)
The Other House
A dramatic tale of passion and unrequited love, involving a deathbed promise, murder and a cover-up, all of which takes place in a tight-kni…
The Strange Case of Mortimer Fenley
At the country estate of Mortimer Fenley, artist John Trenholme works at an oil painting of Sylvia, the financier’s beautiful ward. She has …
Money to Burn
From the dedication: "On a train by day, or abed by night, you will read "Money to Burn" and immediately forget it--which is …
Outside the Prison
On Christmas Eve, journalist Bronson is sent to wait outside of Moyamensing Prison to report on the release of a certain infamous prisoner. …
The Willow Walk
As featured in The Best Short Stories of 1918, The Willow Walk is a trenchant tale of an elaborate heist by a dissolute man who gradually lo…
The Man Who Was Thursday
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…
Recalled to Life
A woman is haunted by a terrible event she witnessed in her youth but is unable to make sense of -- a murder, the sight of which is so traum…
The Benson Murder Case
The Benson Murder Case – A Philo Vance Story is the first of a series of twelve popular mysteries set in New York during the Jazz Age. S. S.…
Double Crossed
Clement Seadon is a young man of free spirit and a lust for a life of independence. However after receiving an odd request from a lawyer he …
The Red House Mystery
Author A. A. Milne is best known to the world as the creator of Winnie-the-Pooh. Yet Milne was versatile, having written dozens of plays, h…
The Square Emerald
What appears to be a straightforward case of blackmail develops into an exciting, complex web for our heroine, a feisty girl detective attac…
Celebrated Crimes, Karl-Ludwig Sand
This is the fourth volume of Alexandre Dumas' studies of celebrated crimes and their perpetrators. This volume is concerned with the story o…
Silver Blaze
A famous race horse disappears a week before an important race; the trainer is found dead on the desolate moor and the police are completely…
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…