Detective Fiction
The Crooked Cross
Bartley is to visit his friend Carter for the summer but sends his friend Pelt ahead to a town in New York. Pelt, Carter and Carter's friend…
The Whispering Lane
Following the death of her beloved fiancé Roderick, Miss Danby is hounded relentlessly by Dr. Slanton who wants to marry her to acces…
The Blue Car Mystery
The story opens conventionally with a murdered man found on the floor of his library in Washington D.C. As the plot unfolds several possible…
Sin In Their Blood
He Never Looked for Trouble - It Came to Him Naturally! MATT ISN'T LOOKING FOR TROUBLE in spite of his reputation as the toughest private ey…
Death Below the Dam
The body was found at five-thirty of a dark March morning, hanging head down in a tree, ten feet from the ground. There was a small, clean b…
Strip, Wench...or Die!
Rip Austin knew that curvaceous Sally Vaughn had been murdered for her insurance money, but how could he prove it when the local vice lords …
The Twenty-Six Clues
While entertaining visitors to his private crime museum Mr. Calvin Norwood is shocked to find the body of a murdered woman has been left on …
Great Detective Stories
Allan Pinkerton, founder of the Pinkerton Detective Agency, wrote a number of "great detective stories", which he claimed were &qu…
The Continental Op
The Continental Op - no hard-boiled private detective has ever been boiled harder. The nameless Pinkerton op from the Continental Detective …
The Secret of the Old Clock
The first book in the Nancy Drew mystery series. Did old Josiah Crowley leave behind a second will? Nancy Drew is determined to find out bef…
The Eye Of Osiris
This is one of many famous novels written by R. Austin Freeman that includes the character of Dr. John Thorndyke. Dr. Thorndyke is a legal e…
The Ponson Case
Sir William Ponson is found dead. His son and his nephew look uneasy to the eyes of Inspector Tanner of Scotland Yard and naturally the dili…
The Maxwell Mystery
Phillip Maxwell is well known for his lavish dinner parties and all who are privileged to be invited to Maxwell Chimneys always look forward…
The Female Detective
This 1864 collection of stories is one of the first books featuring a female detective character. Andrew Forrester (pseudonym of James Reddi…
Red Hot Ice
A Case of Corpses... They piled up so fast that private-eye Johnny Liddell figured he was ahead if he found them still warm. It started when…
The Dorrington Deed-Box
Six stories of cases involving the dishonest Horace Dorrington, a cheerfully unrepentant detective who is willing to stoop to theft, blackma…
Gold-Killer
The 1920's are off to a R.I.P. Roaring start as a serial strangler dubbed Gold-Killer is squeezing the life out of New York's wealthiest men…
The Mark of Cain
Murder mystery #8 by the prolific American author Carolyn Wells, featuring her famous detective, Fleming Stone (though that detective isn’t …
The Dark Eyes of London
Detective inspector Holt is recalled from his continetal holiday to investigate the mysterious death of a stranger found on the Thames emban…
The Speckled Band
The Speckled Band: An Adventure of Sherlock Holmes is a three-act play adapted by British writer Arthur Conan Doyle from his similarly title…