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The Singing Bone
[english | 1912]R Austin Freeman
Excerpts: [... mixed himself a stiff jorum, he fell to upon the biscuits with evident gusto. Brodski was a deliberate feeder, and at present appeared to be somewhat ...... hissed as the fat, pungent smoke rose from it sluggishly to the chimney. Nineteen minutes to eight! It was time to start. He took up the poker and carefully ...... an enclosing fence with or without a gate, and any other facts ...]
Genres: [fiction | mystery detective | short stories] Downloads: 91
The Sinister Man
[english | 1924]Edgar Wallace
Excerpts: [... been a good friend of yours. Do you want me to read any more? He stopped her with a gesture. Stuff! A newspaper invention: these fellows are always ...... man. Elsa saw him stagger through his office like one in a dream, and wondered what was the reason for his white face and trembling hands. Left alone, ...... doing the girl a service to get her away for a day or two. I want you ...]
Genres: [fiction | mystery detective] Downloads: 139
The Sins Of Severac Bablon
[english | 1914]Sax Rohmer
Summary: [Excerpt:Theres half a score of your ancestral halls said Julius Rohscheimer that I could sell up to-morrow morning!Of the quartet that heard his words no two members seemed quite similarly impressed.The pale face of Adeler the great financiers confidential secretary expressed no emotion whatever. Sir Richard Haredale flashed contempt from his grey eyesonly to veil his scorn of the mans vulgarity ...]
Genres: [fiction | mystery detective] Downloads: 250
The Sleuth Of St Jamess Square
[english | 1920]Melville Davisson Post
Summary: [A collection of 16 mystery short stories: The Thing on the Hearth The Reward The Lost Lady The Cambered Foot The Man in the Green Hat The Wrong Sign The Fortune Teller The Hole in the Mahogany Panel The End of the Road The Last Adventure American Horses The Spread Rails The Pumpkin Coach The Yellow Flower Satire of the Sea The House by the Loch.]
Genres: [fiction | mystery detective | short stories] Downloads: 38
The Somnambulist And The Detective
[english | 1875]Allan Pinkerton
Summary: [The mental characteristics of Allan Pinkerton were judgment as to facts knowledge of men the ability to concentrate his faculties on one subject and the persistent power of will. A mysterious problem of crime against which his life was devoted presented to his thought was solved almost in an instant and seemingly by his intuitions. With half-closed eyes he saw the scene in which the wrong was ...]
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The Square Emerald
[english | 1926]Edgar Wallace
Summary: [The Square Emerald By Edgar Wallace Halcyon Classics by Edgar Wallace. THE SQUARE EMERALD is another procedural mystery from the king of British whodunit authors Edgar Wallace. Richard Horatio Edgar Wallace 1875-1932 was an English crime writer journalist novelist screenwriter and playwright. Wallace is most famous today as the co-creator of KING KONG. He is also known for the J. G. Reeder ...]
Genres: [fiction | mystery detective] Downloads: 174
The Stoneware Monkey
[english | 1938]R Austin Freeman
Summary: [The Stoneware Monkey by R Austin Freeman. This book contains a very cogent critique and satire of modern art pottery and its critics a very witty book. Has some nice eccentric characters such as the humbug Bunderby one of Freeman s specialties. The plot is also ingenious with poisoning by arsenic and the destruction of a body in a pottery kiln. The Scotland Yard detective Inspector Blandy is a ...]
Genres: [fiction | mystery detective] Downloads: 264
The Stowmarket Mystery
[english | 1904]Louis Tracy
Summary: [A mystery novel featuring Reginald Brett Barrister Detective an insightful Sherlockian investigator.]
Genres: [fiction | mystery detective] Downloads: 396
The Strange Case Of Mortimer Fenley
[english | 1915]Louis Tracy
Summary: [When John Trenholme artist accepted a welcome commission from a magazine editor to journey down to a certain old Hertfordshire village and make a series of sketches of its imperiled beauties he looked forward to nothing more exciting than an agreeable wholly peaceful little expedition. Certainly he did not in the least expect to get mixed up with a murder and to find himself one of the most ...]
Genres: [fiction | mystery detective] Downloads: 361
The Street Of Seven Stars
[english | 1914]Mary Roberts Rinehart
Summary: [Harmony Wells studying in Vienna to be a great violinist suddenly realizes that her money is almost gone. She meets a young ambitious doctor who offers her chivalry and sympathy and together with world-worn Dr. Anna and Jimmie the waif they share their love and slender means.]
Genres: [fiction | mystery detective | romance] Downloads: 125
The Stretton Street Affair
[english | 1922]William Le Queux
Summary: [Mr. Le Queux breaks all records for speed and thrills. And he tells you too about orosin that newly discovered poison a drop of which on cigar or cigarette renders the smoker unconscious. A gripping detective and mystery story. Every page presents a baffling situation and all lead to the most unusual climax of the times.]
Genres: [fiction | mystery detective] Downloads: 204
The Talleyrand Maxim
[english | 1920]Joseph Smith Fletcher
Summary: [Nesta left alone gave herself up to deep thought and to a careful reckoning of her position. She was longing to confide in some trustworthy person or persons for Pratts revelations had plunged her into a maze of perplexity. But her difficulties were many. First of all she would have to tell all about the terrible charge brought by Pratt against her mother. Then about the second which he professed ...]
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The Teeth Of The Tiger
[english | 1914]Maurice Leblanc
Summary: [The Teeth Of The Tiger by Maurice Leblanc. This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923. This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages poor pictures errant marks etc. that were either part of the original artifact or were introduced by the scanning process. We believe this work is culturally important and despite the imperfections have elected to bring it ...]
Genres: [fiction | action adventure | mystery detective] Downloads: 328
The Trial For Murder
[english | 1865]Charles Dickens
Excerpts: [... that what they could relate in such wise would find no parallel or response in a listener's internal life, and might be suspected or laughed at. A truthful ...... It cannot be referred to my inheritance of any developed peculiarity, nor had I ever before any at all similar experience, nor have I ever had ...... aware of a flash-rush-flow-I do not know what to call it,-no word I can ...]
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The Triumphs Of Eugene Valmont
[english | 1906]Robert Barr
Summary: [The Triumphs of Eugene Valmont (1906) brings together tales of the multifarious exploits of Robert Barrs elegant and cunning sleuth Valmont a brilliantly ironic parody of Sherlock Holmes. Exhibiting the crucial combination of realism and imagination that characterizes the finest crime writing the stories exude playfulness and blend mystery and quasi-Gothic thrills with humorous detours and ...]
Genres: [fiction | mystery detective | humorous] Downloads: 477
The Valley Of Fear
[english | 1915]Arthur Conan Doyle
Summary: [The plot of the novel is based very loosely on the real-life activities of the Molly Maguires and particularly of Pinkerton agent James McParland.The novel is divided into two parts: in the first Holmes investigates an apparent murder and discovers that the body belongs to another man and in the second the story of the man originally thought to have been the victim is told.]
Genres: [fiction | mystery detective] Downloads: 169
The Valley Of Ghosts
[english | 1922]Edgar Wallace
Excerpts: [... the citizens? One Mr Merrivan. There was nothing said for a little while, then: A curious lot of people. Wilmot is a rum fish. I can't quite get ...... Salter smiled. Then I should have called you 'Doctor', he said. Edinburgh, of course. Andy agreed. I've a weakness for doctors. ...... hands, the very way a man sat down to table and unfolded his napkin, had a meaning to this ...]
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The Vanished Messenger
[english | 1914]Edward Phillips Oppenheim
Summary: [Excerpt:There were very few people upon Platform Number Twenty-one of Liverpool Street Station at a quarter to nine on the evening of April 2possibly because the platform in question is one of the most remote and least used in the great terminus. The station-master however was there himself with an inspector in attendance. A dark thick-set man wearing a long travelling ulster and a Homburg hat ...]
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The Voice In The Fog
[english | 1915]Harold Macgrath
Summary: [Exit Voice and Loyalty (1970) is a treatise written by Albert O. Hirschman. The work hinges on a conceptual ultimatum that confronts consumers in the face of deteriorating quality of goods: either exit or voice. In many regards the treatise is a polemical piece Hirschman uses his analysis of exit and voice in order to strike at the foundational assumptions of liberalism as supported by Friedrich ...]
Genres: [fiction | mystery detective] Downloads: 40
The Weapons Of Mystery
[english | 1890]Joseph Hocking
Excerpts: [... old bachelor of thirty, for my usual work? Nevertheless it did, so I put on my overcoat, and went away in the direction of Hyde Park in order, if possible, ...... to those who understand some of the secrets of spiritualism. Nay, more than that. There are occult laws of the soul which, if understood by some powerful ...... to form hasty judgments concerning people, which, of course, ...]
Genres: [fiction | mystery detective] Downloads: 71