Crime, Thrillers and Mystery

The Phantom 'Rickshaw, and Other Ghost Stories

Rudyard Kipling

Rudyard Kip‑Khan’s The Phantom ‘Rickshaw, and Other Ghost Stories opens with a vivid, almost theatrical…

The Yellow Crayon

E. Phillips Oppenheim

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

Ghost Stories of an Antiquary

M. R. James

M. R. James’s Ghost Stories of an Antiquary gathers together a handful of his celebrated English horror…

The Secret of the Night

Gaston Leroux

The Secret of the Night is a detective‑mystery that plunges the reader straight into the tangled affairs of a…

The Grand Babylon Hôtel

Arnold Bennett

The Grand Babylon Hôtel is a fast‑moving, first‑person mystery set in the world of London’s high‑society…

The case-book of Sherlock Holmes

Arthur Conan Doyle

The Case‑Book of Sherlock Holmes gathers the twelve short stories Doyle added to the famous detective’s canon…

The Hound of the Baskervilles

Arthur Conan Doyle

The work is a Sherlock Holmes detective story set on the bleak Dartmoor landscape, where the famed private…

By Advice of Counsel

Arthur Cheney Train

By Advice of Counsel is a legal‑themed adventure that follows the bustling cases of the fictional firm Tutt &…

The Insidious Dr. Fu Manchu

Sax Rohmer

The Insidious Dr. Fu‑Manchu is a detective‑mystery adventure that thrusts its protagonists into a night‑time…

At the mountains of madness

H. P. Lovecraft

The story is presented as a first‑person scientific report from a Miskatonic University expedition to…

Fantômas

Souvestre, Pierre; Allain, Marcel

The novel is a French detective adventure that plunges the reader straight into a tangled investigation in…

The mystery of the Blue Train

Agatha Christie

The novel is a classic Agatha Christie detective tale that opens with a cryptic love‑letter about precious…

The Big Four

Agatha Christie

The story is a classic Christie detective adventure, starring the celebrated Belgian sleuth Hercule Poirot…

Children of the Whirlwind

Leroy Scott

The novel is a gritty blend of romance and crime, set in a world of ex‑convicts and underworld schemers.

The Zeppelin's Passenger

E. Phillips Oppenheim

The Zeppelin’s Passenger is a World‑War‑I era historical novel that opens with a leisurely autumn walk…

Weird Tales, Volume 1, Number 4, June, 1923: The unique magazine

Various

Weird Tales, Volume 1, Number 4 (June 1923) presents a single, self‑contained story titled “The Evening…

Weird Tales, Volume 1, Number 1, March 1923: The unique magazine

Various

Weird Tales, Volume 1, Number 1 (March 1923) is a single‑issue pulp magazine that assembles twenty‑two short…

The Czar's Spy: The Mystery of a Silent Love

William Le Queux

The novel is a classic spy‑mystery that begins with a tense, private meeting in a Scottish manor.

A Woman at Bay; Or, A Fiend in Skirts

Nicholas Carter

The story is a classic detective yarn featuring the hard‑boiled sleuth Nick Carter and his resourceful…

The secret of Father Brown

G. K. Chesterton

The story opens with Father Brown, the unassuming Catholic priest‑detective, interrogating a suspect in a…

Madeline Payne, the Detective's Daughter

Lawrence L. Lynch

Lawrence L. Lynch’s “Madeline Payne, the Detective’s Daughter” is a detective‑mystery story that thrusts its…

The Diamond Coterie

Lawrence L. Lynch

The Diamond Coterie is a detective‑mystery that opens with a vivid, almost theatrical chase through the…

The Missing Will

Agatha Christie

The story opens with Miss Violet Marsh, a determined young woman, seeking the help of Hercule Poirot to…

Unnatural death

Dorothy L. Sayers

Unnatural Death gathers together a series of short pieces by Dorothy L.