Crime, Thrillers and Mystery

Messengers of Evil Being a Further Account of the Lures and Devices of Fantômas

Souvestre, Pierre; Allain, Marcel

Messengers of Evil is a French detective tale by Pierre Souvestre and Marcel Allain, the creators of the…

Ravensdene Court

J. S. Fletcher

Ravensdene Court is a detective‑mystery adventure narrated by a London‑based antiquarian who is summoned in…

The Forsaken Inn: A Novel

Anna Katharine Green

The novel opens on a rain‑swept stretch of road between Albany and Poughkeepsie, where the weary narrator, on…

Oswald Langdon or, Pierre and Paul Lanier. A Romance of 1894-1898

Levi Jackson Hamilton

Levi Jackson Hamilton’s “Oswald Langdon or, Pierre and Paul Lanier” unfolds as a sprawling, episodic romance…

"No Clue!": A Mystery Story

James Hay

James Hay’s “No Clue!” is a detective‑mystery set in early‑twentieth‑century America, and the opening places…

The Ghost Breaker: A Novel Based Upon the Play

Goddard, Charles; Dickey, Paul

The Ghost Breaker is a melodramatic detective‑mystery that opens in a dimly lit Southern parlor, where the…

The Escape of Mr. Trimm His Plight and other Plights

Irvin S. Cobb

The work is a crime‑fiction short story that follows the fall of Hobart W.

The Opal Serpent

Fergus Hume

The Opal Serpent is a late‑Victorian detective‑mystery that begins with a domestic clash in the modest Essex…

Jack O' Judgment

Edgar Wallace

Jack O’ Judgment is a detective‑mystery that opens with a tangled web of intrigue surrounding “Snow” Gregory,…

The Strange Case of Mortimer Fenley

Louis Tracy

The Strange Case of Mortimer Fenley is a detective‑mystery framed by a vivid early‑twentieth‑century English…

Simon

J. Storer Clouston

The novel opens with a lone, furtive traveller navigating a night‑time railway through bleak moorland,…

The Banner Boy Scouts on a Tour; or, The Mystery of Rattlesnake Mountain

George A. Warren

The book is a juvenile adventure that blends Boy‑Scout camaraderie with a light mystery.

The Expressman and the Detective

Allan Pinkerton

The work is a nonfiction narrative that blends a detailed case study of a mid‑nineteenth‑century…

The Lion's Mouse

Williamson, C. N. (Charles Norris); Williamson, A. M.

The novel is an adventure story that also explores a tense man‑woman relationship, as indicated by its…

The Red Triangle: Being Some Further Chronicles of Martin Hewitt, Investigator

Arthur Morrison

The Red Triangle is a Victorian‑era detective tale that follows the private investigator Martin Hewitt as he…

In the Mayor's Parlour

J. S. Fletcher

The work is a detective‑mystery set in the historic market‑place of Hathelsborough, a town whose medieval…

The Green Rust

Edgar Wallace

The Green Rust opens on a tangled web of inheritance, betrayal and a dying millionaire’s desperate last…

The Thing from the Lake

Eleanor M. Ingram

The Thing from the Lake is a gothic tale set in rural Connecticut, catalogued under haunted‑house fiction,…

Masterpieces of Mystery in Four Volumes: Mystic-Humorous Stories

The volume gathers a selection of short, mystic‑humorous tales that hover between the rational and the…

The Herapath Property

J. S. Fletcher

The story opens in the third week of Selwood’s brief tenure as secretary to Jacob Herapath, a well‑known…

The La Chance Mine Mystery

Susan Morrow Jones

The La Chance Mine Mystery is a hard‑boiled detective tale set against the bleak, frozen landscape of…

A Stable for Nightmares; or, Weird Tales

Le Fanu, Joseph Sheridan; Young, Charles L. (Charles Lawrence), Sir

The work is a Victorian‑era ghost story that begins with a weary traveler hired by two elderly women to…

The Seven Secrets

William Le Queux

The Seven Secrets is a turn‑of‑the‑century detective novel by William Le Queux, a writer whose name was…

The Angel of Terror

Edgar Wallace

The Angel of Terror is a detective‑mystery that opens in the tense atmosphere of a London courtroom, where a…