Fiction books

The Green Mummy

Fergus Hume

The Green Mummy is a late‑Victorian detective tale that opens in the wake of a murder that has already been…

Twenty-Five Ghost Stories

The collection opens with a richly detailed, first‑person recounting of a storm‑laden night in a grand…

'Firebrand' Trevison

Charles Alden Seltzer

‘Firebrand’ Trevison is a Western story that begins not with a gunfight but with a flurry of letters written…

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 Yellow Crayon

E. Phillips Oppenheim

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

Aladdin & Co.: A Romance of Yankee Magic

Herbert Quick

Aladdin & Co. is a sprawling, early‑twentieth‑century melodrama that plunges the reader straight into the…

I demagoghi O, I misteri di Livorno

Cesare Monteverde

Il romanzo di Cesare Monteverde si presenta come un’opera di finzione che intreccia dialoghi teatrali e…

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…

Damiano: Storia di una povera famiglia

Giulio Carcano

Il romanzo di Giulio Carcano è una narrazione di finzione che si dipana tra le strade di Milano del primo…

Flamsted quarries

Mary E. Waller

Flamsted Quarries is a work of fiction by Mary E. Waller, first published in 1910 and illustrated by G.

La cuerda del ahorcado Últimas aventuras de Rocambole: I El Loco de Bedlam

Ponson du Terrail

Agatha's Husband: A Novel

Dinah Maria Mulock Craik

Agatha’s Husband is a Victorian‑era romance that opens on a quiet Sunday in Bloomsbury Church, where the…

Daisy Ashford: Her Book

Ashford, Daisy; Ashford, Angela

This volume gathers the remaining short fiction of Daisy Ashford, the child author whose early work “The…

The Dominant Dollar

Will Lillibridge

The Dominant Dollar is a work of fiction that opens with a dense, almost theatrical exchange between two men,…

Mistress Anne

Temple Bailey

The work is a turn‑of‑the‑century domestic tale that opens on a snow‑laden New Year’s morning, when the…

La carità del prossimo

Vittorio Bersezio

Il romanzo di Vittorio Bersezio è un affresco di vita urbana ambientato nella Torino dei primi decenni del…

A Romantic Young Lady

Robert Grant

The novel opens with a detailed portrait of a young woman’s upbringing, framed by the contrasting influences…

From Place to Place

Irvin S. Cobb

The work is a short‑story collection by Irvin S. Cobb, and it opens with a meticulous portrait of Tobias…

Seelenverkäufer: Das Schicksal einer Deutsch-Amerikanerin

M. Gontard-Schuck

Der Roman „Seelenverkäufer: Das Schicksal einer Deutsch‑Amerikanerin“ von M.

Anderson Crow, Detective

George Barr McCutcheon

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

Donn Byrne

Don Byrne’s *The Wind Bloweth* is a sprawling work of fiction that opens with a lyrical meditation on the…

Quilito

Carlos María Ocantos

Quilito, de Carlos María Ocantos, se presenta como una novela de ficción que abre con una escena doméstica…

Margarita's Soul: The Romantic Recollections of a Man of Fifty

Josephine Daskam Bacon