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A Mysterious Disappearance
Lady Dyke disappears mysteriously, and barrister and hobby detective Claude Bruce appears to be one of the last persons to have seen her. A …
The Albert Gate Mystery
A new case for barrister and hobby detective Reginald Brett: The imperial diamonds were sent by the Sultan to London, to be cut in Albert Ga…
X Y Z - A Detective Story
"Sometimes in the course of his experience, a detective, while engaged in ferreting out the mystery of one crime, runs inadvertently up…
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…
The House of the Whispering Pines
The country club house The Whispering Pines was closed for the winter, but only one day after he locked the place personally, the narrator s…
The Doctor, his Wife, and the Clock
A man has been shot dead in his house. Ebenezer Gryce is on the case, but he has no leads, no witnesses, no evidence -- until he decides to …
The Ruby and the Caldron
A valuable ruby is lost during a disturbance in the snow before a ball at The Evergreens. A detective is called for right away to recover it…
The Amateur
On the steamer on his way to London, Austin Ford meets a young woman, who is going to London to find her missing husband. Being a specialist…
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…
The Thief
At a dinner party, a valuable coin is lost while being passed around among the guests to look at. One of the gentlemen insists to empty his …
The Stowmarket Mystery, or, a Legacy of Hate
Another case for Reginald Brett, barrister and hobby detective: David Hume-Frazer is in some trouble. He was the prime suspect in the murder…
The Make-Believe Man
Adventure was what our protagonist was looking for, when he boarded the steamer "Patience" for his holiday, and when one has a man…
The Princess Aline
Morton Carlton, an easy-going, rich young artist, has never taken the concepts of love and marriage all that seriously -- until by accident …
The Bronze Hand
A political society secretly operates in Baltimore. When he tries to help his beautiful neighbor Miss Calhoun recover a stolen ring which mi…
The Staircase at the Heart's Delight
Detective Ebenezer Gryce tells the story of the case with which he begun his career in 1840. Several wealthy men were drowned and washed ash…
The Seven Who Were Hanged
"I am very glad that "The Story of the Seven Who Were Hanged" will be read in English. The misfortune of us all is that we kn…
That Mother-in-Law of Mine
Here we were, only a month married, and spending our honeymoon at a most charming summer resort, where there was no excuse for getting out o…
Somewhere in France
When Captain Henri Ravignac married Marie Gessler, he was mistakenly thinking she was French. But Marie is in fact German, and her command o…
A Dash for a Throne
The young Count von Rudloff got himself into so much trouble with the Imperial Family in Berlin, that he sees no other way out of it than to…