Detective Fiction
The Carved Lions
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Mary Louisa Molesworth
When two life sized carved lions from the east are given as a gift to an English household, the children of the house are enchanted, especia…
Inspector French and the Cheyne Mystery
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Freeman Wills Crofts
A railway engineer by training, Freeman Wills Crofts often relied on railway themes for his plots, with careful attention to details and sch…
The Adventures of the Eleven Cuff-Buttons
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James Francis Thierry
The Adventures of the Eleven Cuff-Buttons: Being one of the Exciting Episodes in the Career of the Famous Detective Hemlock Holmes as Record…
A Broken Bond
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Nicholas Carter
Nick Carter is a fictional private detective who first appeared in 1886 in dime store novels. Over the years, different authors, all taking …
The Man Without a Conscience
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Nicholas Carter
Nick Carter is a fictional detective who first appeared in 1886 in dime store novels. Over the years, different authors, all taking the nom …
The Ghost Beyond the Gate
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Mildred A. Wirt Benson
PENNY PARKER is a teen-aged sleuth and amateur reporter with an uncanny knack for solving unusual, sometimes bizarre mysteries. The only da…
Ziska
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Marie Corelli
The story revolves around the mysterious Princess Ziska, who captivates a set of European tourists who are spending time in exotic Egypt. Th…
Captain Sparkle, Pirate
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Nicholas Carter
Nick Carter is a fictional detective who first appeared in 1886 in dime store novels. Over the years, different authors, all taking the nom …
The Pagan's Cup
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Fergus Hume
A quiet seaside village with an old church and older family and its tyrannical head who tries to mould her adopted son to her whims, the vic…
The Step on the Stair
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Anna Katharine Green
Green's last published detective novel, The Step on the Stair is typical of her earlier mysteries. Quenton is in love with Orpha, and thinks…
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 Cat Saw Murder
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Dolores Hitchens
Detective Lieutenant Stephen Mayhew has been heard to complain that the murder of the Sticklemann woman was the damnedest case that he ever …
A Woman at Bay
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Nicholas Carter
Nick Carter is a fictional detective who first appeared in 1886 in dime store novels. Over the years, different authors, all taking the nom …
As A Thief In The Night
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R. Austin Freeman
As one of the many stories written by R. Austin Freeman this book includes the most interesting character of Dr. Thorndyke. He commands the …
The Steel Hammer
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Louis Ulbach
A large inheritance greatly transforms the lives of three people: a good man, who would have inherited at least a part of the fortune if his…
Snarled Identities
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Nicholas Carter
Nick Carter is a fictional detective who first appeared in 1886 in dime store novels. Over the years, different authors, all taking the nom …
Clara Vaughan, Vol. II
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Richard Doddridge Blackmore
CLARA VAUGHAN, the young heroine, narrator, and namesake for R. D. Blackmore’s early detective novel, is determined to solve the mystery of …
The Twin Mystery
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Nicholas Carter
Nick Carter is a fictional detective who first appeared in 1886 in dime store novels. Over the years, different authors, all taking the nom …
The Adventure of the Blue Carbuncle
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Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Sherlock Holmes is involved in a simple case of finding the owner of a battered hat and a dead goose. Or so he thinks. All too soon this hat…
A Scandal in Bohemia
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Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
This story, found in The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, is one of the best in my opinion. Is it possible for the machine like brain of this…