Crime, Thrillers and Mystery

Occasion ... for Disaster

Garrett, Randall; Janifer, Laurence M.

This story is a mid‑century science‑fiction tale that blends bureaucratic intrigue with a hint of the…

The Damned Thing 1898, From "In the Midst of Life"

Ambrose Bierce

Ambrose Bierce’s “The Damned Thing,” first published in 1898 as part of his collection In the Midst of Life,…

Celebrated Crimes (Complete)

Alexandre Dumas

Celebrated Crimes is a sweeping compendium of notorious historical episodes, assembled by Alexandre Dumas…

Lone Star Planet

Piper, H. Beam; McGuire, John J.

Lone Star Planet is a mid‑century science‑fiction adventure that launches its protagonist, Stephen Silk,…

Peter the Brazen: A Mystery Story of Modern China

George F. Worts

Peter the Brazen is a detective‑mystery set against the bustling backdrop of early twentieth‑century China.

The Hand in the Dark

Arthur J. Rees

The Hand in the Dark is a classic detective‑mystery that opens amid the aftermath of a murder at a country…

The Empty House and Other Ghost Stories

Algernon Blackwood

The volume gathers a handful of Algernon Blackwood’s ghost tales, each set in an English landscape where the…

Tales of Terror and Mystery

Arthur Conan Doyle

The volume gathers two of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s longer pieces, each presented as a first‑person account…

The Big Fix

George O. Smith

The Big Fix is a short‑story collection that centers on a single, razor‑sharp episode of telepathic intrigue…

The Return of Sherlock Holmes

Arthur Conan Doyle

The Return of Sherlock Holmes is a late‑Victorian detective narrative that continues the famed…

The Riddle of the Sands

Erskine Childers

The Riddle of the Sands is a covert‑adventure tale set against the backdrop of early‑twentieth‑century naval…

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 Ambulance Made Two Trips

Murray Leinster

Murray Leinster’s “The Ambulance Made Two Trips” is a short‑fiction piece that blends science‑fiction…

Mr. Standfast

John Buchan

The novel opens on a weary British officer returning from the Western Front, his mind a tangle of medals,…

The House on the Borderland

William Hope Hodgson

The House on the Borderland is a speculative adventure that begins with a disorienting, almost dream‑like…

Time Crime

H. Beam Piper

The story opens in the middle of a bustling alien plantation, where the Paratime Police officer Kiro Soran is…

The Daughter of Anderson Crow

George Barr McCutcheon

The Daughter of Anderson Crow is a slice‑of‑life novel set in a small New York State town, where the everyday…

Washington Confidential

Lait, Jack; Mortimer, Lee

Washington Confidential is a hard‑boiled exposé that treats the nation’s capital as a crime‑infested…

The Seven Dials mystery

Agatha Christie

The Seven Dials mystery is a detective story set in an English country house, featuring the fictional…

The Red House Mystery

A. A. Milne

The Red House Mystery is a British detective tale set in an English country house, introduced through a…

Terminal Compromise

Winn Schwartau

The novel is a didactic, tech‑savvy narrative that follows the unlikely partnership of Pierre, a music‑theory…

Paul Clifford — Complete

Edward Bulwer Lytton

The work is a nineteenth‑century melodrama that follows the fortunes of Paul Clifford, a young man whose…

The Mystery of the Yellow Room

Gaston Leroux

The Mystery of the Yellow Room is a classic detective tale that centers on the baffling murder of…

Friday, the Thirteenth: A Novel

Thomas William Lawson

Thomas William Lawson’s Friday, the Thirteenth is a fast‑moving novel that plunges the reader straight into a…