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…
A Fair Mystery
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Charlotte M. Brame and Charlotte M Brame
(Written by Charlotte M. Brame under the pen name Bertha M. Clay.)Honest Mark Brace is about to lose his farm, land of his ancestors, home t…
The Honor of the Name
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Émile Gaboriau
Monsieur Lecoq is a captivating mystery, historical and love story: Around 11 o'clock, on the evening of Shrove Sunday 18.., close to the ol…
Out of Death's Shadow
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Nicholas Carter
Nick Carter is a fictional private detective who first appeared in 1886 in dime store novels. Over the years, different authors, all taking …
The Benson Murder Case
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S. S. Van Dine
The Benson Murder Case – A Philo Vance Story is the first of a series of twelve popular mysteries set in New York during the Jazz Age. S. S.…
That Affair at Elizabeth
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Burton Egbert Stevenson
A bride-to-be vanishes and mystery is born. Before it is solved, its pursuers uncover madness, treachery, and a grave in a cellar. Summary …
The Red House Mystery
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A. A. Milne
Author A. A. Milne is best known to the world as the creator of Winnie-the-Pooh. Yet Milne was versatile, having written dozens of plays, h…
The Gutting of Couffignal
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Dashiell Hammett
Dashiell Hammett’s hardboiled detective is assigned by his agency to guard a stash of wedding presents on an exclusive Bay Area island. Jus…
Nisida
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Alexandre Dumas
This story details the many crimes (attempted rape, assault, filicide, etc.) surrounding a significant historical confrontation between a fi…
La Constantin
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Alexandre Dumas
Dumas chronicles the court intrigues that led to the execution of Marie La Roux Constantin. La dame Constantin was known by French nobility …
The Secret of Casa Grande
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Helen Randolph
While visiting their friend, Florence, at her home in Mexico, Jo Ann and Peggy noticed a barred window which has no opening into any of the …
A Prince of Swindlers
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Guy Boothby
The year 18-- was a momentous one in Great Britain. Not only did the nation receive most of the world's royalty for months on end, but the …
The Photographer's Evidence
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Nicholas Carter
Nick Carter is a fictional detective who first appeared in 1886 in dime store novels. Over the years, different authors, all taking the nom …
Amusement Only
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Richard Marsh
This is a collection of 12 short stories of mystery and humor, which are, as the title says, for amusement only. (Summary by Carolin)
Silver Blaze
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Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
A famous race horse disappears a week before an important race; the trainer is found dead on the desolate moor and the police are completely…
Grave Danger
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Frank Kane
Johnny Liddell cleans up the crime-ridden New York water front by making a dope charge stick against the head of the "organization"…