Mystery & Thriller
The Case of the Pool of Blood in the Pastor's Study
Joseph Muller, police detective, travels to a remote Hungarian village to discover the truth behind the murder of a beloved village Pastor. …
Under Western Eyes
Under Western Eyes (1911) is a novel by Joseph Conrad. The novel takes place in St. Petersburg, Russia, and Geneva, Switzerland, and is vie…
The Amethyst Box
On the evening before his marriage, Sinclair loses a precious curiosity from his collection: an amethyst box, containing a tiny flask of dea…
The House in the Mist
It was a night to drive any man indoors. Not only was the darkness impenetrable, but the raw mist enveloping hill and valley made the open r…
Swamp Island
In this thrilling installment of the Penny Parker mystery series, young reporter Penny Parker finds herself entangled in a dangerous game of…
The Hound of the Baskervilles
The Hound of the Baskervilles is the third of four crime novels by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle featuring the detective Sherlock Holmes. Originall…
Basil
Basil, son of a father who values the family pedigree and who would not let him marry below his station, falls in love at first sight with a…
The Filigree Ball
[The Moore House] was standing when Washington was a village. It antedates the Capitol and the White House. Built by a man of wealth, it bea…
Arsène Lupin
This work was originally a four-act play written by Maurice Leblanc and Francis de Croisset, later novelized by Leblanc himself, translated …
The Double Traitor
The setting is the years prior to the outbreak of World War I. It is a time when Germany is outwardly preparing for war but Britain continue…
The Hermit of ---- Street
Delight Hunter spends her days looking out of her window at her handsome but very mysterious and reclusive next door neighbor. She walks st…
The Black Robe
The church has lost out on a valuable piece of land through wars and transfers. Father Benwell is determined to reclaim that property by the…
The Italian
The love story between a nobleman and a beautiful lady whom he meets in church leads both of them to unexpected places, as many people would…
The Phantom Town Mystery
Two girls from the East, out on a horseback ride in the mountains of Arizona, find a house in the mountains. The house's history reveals tha…
The Lifted Veil
George Eliot’s 1859 novella, The Lifted Veil, departs radically from the grounded realism of her longer and better known works, such as Midd…
Dead Men's Shoes
Sybil, a gentlewoman who has to work for a living, finally finds employment as her rich uncle's house keeper. Nothing could be better: she w…
The Eight Strokes of the Clock
The Eight Strokes of the Clock is a collection of eight short stories by Maurice Leblanc. The stories have his most famous creation, Ars&egr…
Under the Andes
Under the Andes was written by Rex Stout years before his creation of the immensely popular Nero Wolfe series of novels, and while perhaps h…
The Woman in the Alcove
"I was, perhaps, the plainest girl in the room that night. I was also the happiest—up to one o'clock. Then my whole world crumbled, or,…
The Clock Struck One
Fergus Hume was a prolific writer of Victorian murder mysteries and The Clock Struck One is another great example of his inventive plots. Ju…