Crime, Thrillers and Mystery

The Old Stone House and Other Stories

Anna Katharine Green

The collection opens with a vivid, first‑person wander through a forgotten stone house deep in a New York…

Unwise Child

Randall Garrett

The novel opens in a vividly rendered slice of mid‑century Manhattan, where the bustling “Radio Row” of…

Boy Scouts in the Canal Zone; Or, The Plot Against Uncle Sam

G. Harvey Ralphson

The novel is an adventure story aimed at young readers, centered on a group of Boy Scouts from New York who…

Helen Vardon's confession

R. Austin Freeman

Helen Vardon’s confession is a Victorian‑era detective mystery that opens with a reflective, almost…

The Upper Berth; By the Waters of Paradise

F. Marion Crawford

The volume presents two short works by F. Marion Crawford, originally printed for Christmas annuals and now…

The Orchard Secret Arden Blake Mystery Series #1

Cleo F. Garis

The Orchard Secret Arden Blake Mystery Series #1 opens with a vivid arrival scene at Cedar Ridge College, a…

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The Mark of Cain

Andrew Lang

The Mark of Cain is a turn‑of‑the‑century social satire that opens amid the smoky bustle of a private dining…

Der Fall Vukobrankovics

Ernst Weiss

Der vorliegende Text ist ein Gerichtsprotokoll aus dem frühen Wien nach dem Ersten Weltkrieg.

Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Volume 55, No. 343, May 1844

Various

The volume you are opening is a single issue of Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine from May 1844, the 55th year…

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Uncanny Tales

Various

Uncanny Tales gathers a selection of short horror stories, each designed to unsettle the reader with a blend…

London Labour and the London Poor, Vol. 4

Henry Mayhew

London Labour and the London Poor, Vol. 4, is a nineteenth‑century social survey that turns its focus to the…

The Secret House

Edgar Wallace

The Secret House is a detective‑mystery short story by Edgar Wallace, set in a bustling office building that…

Much Darker Days

Andrew Lang

Much Darker Days is a sprawling, self‑conscious parody that opens with a bitter narrator who, after a failed…

Lives of the Most Remarkable Criminals Who have been Condemned and Executed for Murder, the Highway, Housebreaking, Street Robberies, Coining or other offences

The volume is a nineteenth‑century compilation of true‑to‑life sketches of Britain’s most infamous felons,…

That Sweet Little Old Lady

Garrett, Randall; Janifer, Laurence M.

The story is a mid‑century science‑fiction spy tale that drops the reader straight into a tense FBI briefing.

Armadale

Wilkie Collins

Wilkie Collins’s Armadale opens with a self‑conscious address to readers, warning that the novel may…

The Circular Staircase

Mary Roberts Rinehart

The novel is a mystery set in a country house, narrated by a middle‑aged, unmarried woman who has taken on…

The Mucker

Edgar Rice Burroughs

The Mucker reads as a gritty, street‑level adventure set in early‑20th‑century Chicago.

The Chronicles of Crime or The New Newgate Calendar. v. 2/2 being a series of memoirs and anecdotes of notorious characters who have outraged the laws of Great Britain from the earliest period to 1841

Camden Pelham

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Jianren Wu

The Jewel of Seven Stars

Bram Stoker

The Jewel of Seven Stars is a Victorian horror tale that opens with a richly descriptive, almost dream‑like…

The Law and the Lady

Wilkie Collins

Wilkie Collins’s The Law and the Lady opens as a Victorian romance wrapped in a mystery, set against the…