Detective Fiction
The Social Gangster
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Arthur B. Reeve
This is a collection of 12 detective short stories by American fiction writer Arthur B. Reeve (1880-1936). What makes these stories so inter…
The Clue of the Gold Coin
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Helen Wells
Vicki Barr is a popular mystery series for girls published by Grosset & Dunlap from 1947 to 1964. This book is volume 12 of The Vicki Ba…
The Unpleasantness at the Bellona Club
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Dorothy L. Sayers
The author’s fourth Lord Peter Wimsey mystery, set shortly after the Great War, begins with the discovery of old general Fentiman’s body sea…
The Open Door and The Portrait
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Margaret O. Oliphant
Two stories "of the seen and unseen" with mysterious occurrences by Margaret O. Oliphant, originally published in 1881. (Summary b…
The Door with Seven Locks
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Edgar Wallace
Dick Martin is on his last day on the job at Scotland Yard, having planned to retire early due to an inheritance windfall, when he becomes e…
Red Harvest
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Dashiell Hammett
This novel from 1929 introduces Hammett's recurring and always unnamed character, the "Continental Op," who works for the Continen…
The Just Men of Cordova
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Edgar Wallace
Once again our vigilante heroes lend their great talents to serve against those outwith the law; The setting is the Spanish city of Cordova,…
Homicide Hussy
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Atha Mcguire
In that bedlam of mad-women - in that nightmare world of twisted souls - Johanna knew she was sane.... Some of them tried to kill her, some …
The Secret of the Old Clock
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Mildred A. Wirt Benson
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 Dark Eyes of London
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Edgar Wallace
Detective inspector Holt is recalled from his continetal holiday to investigate the mysterious death of a stranger found on the Thames emban…
The Dumpling
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Coulson Kernahan
Assigned to write an exposé on London opium dens a newspaperman unexpectedly finds himself the key to foiling an anarchistic plot to …
The Mystery at Lilac Inn
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Mildred A. Wirt Benson
When the Crandall family jewels are stolen from the Lilac Inn, Nancy Drew is on the case! With multiple suspects, Nancy follows the clues w…
The Bungalow Mystery
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Mildred A. Wirt Benson
In the third book of the series, Nancy Drew comes to the aid of new friend Laura Pendleton. As Laura, whose mother recently died, meets her …
The Roman Hat Mystery
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Ellery Queen
A disreputable lawyer is discovered dead by poisoning during the performance of a play in New York City. Not only that, despite being sold o…
The Bungalow Mystery
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Mildred A. Wirt Benson
The third book in the Nancy Drew Mystery Stories. Join Nancy on her most exciting adventure yet as she gets caught on a lake in a storm, rac…
The Secret of the Old Clock
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Mildred A. Wirt Benson
In the first book of the series, intrepid teenage sleuth, Nancy Drew, searches for the true will of the late Josiah Crowley, a wealthy busin…
Masterpieces of Mystery
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Joseph Lewis French
A selection of detective mysteries by a variety of well known authors. This collection is edited by Joseph Lewis French. - Summary by Miche…
It Walks By Night
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John Dickson Carr
A ghastly crime... Monsieur de Saligny was found in a card-room of a gambling palace and secret opium den, knelt in supplication, the bloody…
The Girl From Scotland Yard
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Edgar Wallace
This is another of the fine detective mysteries written by Edgar Wallace during the early part of the twentieth century. This particular sto…
The Law of the Four Just Men
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Edgar Wallace
The first six of the stories in this collection were originally published under the title "Some Adventures of the Four Just Men" i…