Detective Fiction

The Ashiel Mystery - A Detective Story

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Mrs. Charles Bryce


Just as the adopted Juliet Byrne finds out the truth about her family, her father is murdered. Luckily the brilliant chocolate-munching Dete…

In the Bishop's Carriage

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Miriam Michelson


Nancy 'Nance' Olden, a young and very pretty woman, is an accomplished liar and thief. Raised in a horrific orphanage, called the Cruelty by…

The Other Side of the Door

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Lucia Chamberlain


It's 1865 in the city of San Francisco. Pretty, young Ellie Fenwick is walking to the market early one morning to surprise her father with s…

The Tenth Clew and Other Continental Op Stories

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Dashiell Hammett


Biographer Nathan Ward has called “The Tenth Clew” Dashiell Hammett’s “first real jewel of a story.” In it, Hammett’s nameless Continental D…

The Mikado Jewel

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Fergus Hume


A widow has been murdered in the home of a relative on a foggy night in London town when all residents were off on to the theatre, and one t…

The Black Bag

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Louis Joseph Vance


Mr. Philip Kirkwood, a not so successful painter, receives a visitor from his home town in America, who wants him to do him an unspecified f…

The False Faces

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Louis Joseph Vance


This is the second book in the Lone Wolf series. Michael Lanyard had turned his back on his career as gentleman-thief and started a respecta…

Martin Hewitt, Investigator

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Arthur Morrison


Here are seven mystery stories featuring Martin Hewitt, Detective, and narrated (of course) by his (nameless) sidekick. Arthur Morrison cert…

Tom Ossington's Ghost

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Richard Marsh


Madge and Ella have lived at Clover Cottage for six weeks when a series of strange events begin to occur. A gentleman who arrives asking for…

The Singing Bone or The Adventures of Dr. Thorndyke

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R. Austin Freeman


In its original form, this book was published with the title, "The Singing Bone." It was later republished as "The Adventures…

The Seen and the Unseen

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Richard Marsh


Is it true that people can literally be scared to death ? Is it possible to photograph astral projections ? What happens if you play with a …

Man Overboard

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Francis Marion Crawford


Peculiar happenings aboard the schooner Helen B. Jackson when one night during a storm, the small crew found themselves diminished by one. S…

The Golden Slipper, and Other Problems for Violet Strange

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Anna Katharine Green


Miss Violet Strange is young, petite and attractive and has a wealthy father. She also has the knack for solving problems. This collection c…

Murder at Bridge

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Anne Austin


Inhabitants of the small town of Hamilton joke that they are afraid of being the dummy when playing Bridge, for fear of being murdered. Mean…

The Middle Temple Murder (version 2)

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J. S. Fletcher


A classic English murder mystery story, set in the legal center of London draws the reluctant attention of a journalist as he makes his way …

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