Innocent: A Tale of Modern Life

The Green Mummy

Fergus Hume

The Green Mummy is a late‑Victorian detective tale that opens in the wake of a murder that has already been…

Twenty-Five Ghost Stories

The collection opens with a richly detailed, first‑person recounting of a storm‑laden night in a grand…

'Firebrand' Trevison

Charles Alden Seltzer

‘Firebrand’ Trevison is a Western story that begins not with a gunfight but with a flurry of letters written…

The Lock and Key Library: Classic Mystery and Detective Stories: Modern English

The volume is a nineteenth‑ and early‑twentieth‑century anthology that gathers short mystery and detective…

The Yellow Crayon

E. Phillips Oppenheim

The Yellow Crayon is a turn‑of‑the‑century social mystery by E.

Aladdin & Co.: A Romance of Yankee Magic

Herbert Quick

Aladdin & Co. is a sprawling, early‑twentieth‑century melodrama that plunges the reader straight into the…