Crime, Thrillers and Mystery

The Plymouth Express Affair

Agatha Christie

The story opens aboard the Plymouth Express, where a nervous Lieutenant Simpson discovers a concealed…

The Hunter's Lodge Case

Agatha Christie

The Hunter’s Lodge Case is a compact detective story that places the celebrated Belgian sleuth, Hercule…

The Grell Mystery

Frank Froest

The Grell Mystery is a detective tale set against the rain‑slicked streets of early‑twentieth‑century London.

In Jeopardy

Van Tassel Sutphen

In In Jeopardy Van Tassel Sutphen weaves a hybrid of inheritance drama, romance, and mystery set against a…

The Albert Gate Mystery Being Further Adventures of Reginald Brett, Barrister Detective

Louis Tracy

The Albert Gate Mystery is a detective adventure starring Reginald Brett, a barrister who doubles as a…

"And That's How It Was, Officer"

Ralph Sholto

The work is an epistolary science‑fiction romp that begins as a letter addressed to a police officer, in…

Supermind

Garrett, Randall; Janifer, Laurence M.

Supermind is a mid‑century science‑fiction thriller that blends bureaucratic intrigue with a hint of the…

The Bishop's Secret

Fergus Hume

The Bishop’s Secret is a Victorian‑era detective tale set amid the cloistered world of a small English…

Project Cyclops

Thomas Hoover

Project Cyclops is a high‑octane techno‑thriller that launches its narrative amid the glittering Aegean Sea,…

The Stretton Street Affair

William Le Queux

The Stretton Street Affair is a first‑person detective narrative by William Le Queux, introduced through the…

The Mystery of a Turkish Bath

Rita

The novel, written under the pen name Rita, belongs to the juvenile‑fiction strand of late‑nineteenth‑century…

The Girl and the Bill An American Story of Mystery, Romance and Adventure

Bannister Merwin

The novel opens on a bustling State Street in Chicago, where the practical‑minded lawyer Robert Orme watches…

Anderson Crow, Detective

George Barr McCutcheon

Anderson Crow, Detective thrusts the reader straight into a chaotic night in the small Midwestern town of…

The Crooked House

Brandon Fleming

The Crooked House is a detective‑mystery that begins with a vivid, almost theatrical encounter in a London…

Project Daedalus

Thomas Hoover

Project Daedalus is a high‑octane espionage thriller that launches the reader straight into a tangled web of…

The Lure of the Mask

Harold MacGrath

The Lure of the Mask is a turn‑of‑the‑century urban fantasy that plunges the reader straight into a…

The Launch Boys' Adventures in Northern Waters

Edward Sylvester Ellis

The story opens with a brisk exchange between a self‑styled detective, Stockham Calvert, and three teenage…

Crooked Trails and Straight

William MacLeod Raine

Crooked Trails and Straight is a fast‑moving Western that thrusts the reader straight into the dust‑choked…

The Man Who Knew

Edgar Wallace

The novel opens in a dim laboratory where a masked chemist conducts a pungent experiment, his work…

The Mandarin's Fan

Fergus Hume

The Mandarin’s Fan is a detective‑mystery novel by Fergus Hume, the author of the celebrated The Mystery of a…

The Red Seal

Natalie Sumner Lincoln

The Red Seal opens in a bustling Washington courtroom in the winter of 1918, where a tangled web of…

Priscilla's Spies

George A. Birmingham

The novel opens with a triumphal school‑yard celebration, where Frank Mannix, a prefect at Haileybury, is…

A Bid for Fortune; Or, Dr. Nikola's Vendetta

Guy Boothby

A. Boothby’s A Bid for Fortune; Or, Dr. Nikola’s Vendetta is a late‑Victorian adventure that blends intrigue…

The Confessions of Arsène Lupin

Maurice Leblanc

The work is an adventure tale that places the legendary gentleman thief Arsène Lupin at a relatively early…