Crime & Mystery Fiction
Stories in Black and White
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Various
This is a collection of short mystery stories, written in very different styles by eight different authors. - Summary by Carolin
The Stolen Singer
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Martha Bellinger
Agatha Redmond, a popular soprano, is kidnapped in New York City by thugs unknown, shortly after she learns of a hefty inheritance from a fr…
The Yellow Face
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Fred M. White
Who is Nostalgo ? Posters with his unsettlingly grinning face are appearing on scaffolds all over London. A murdered body, horribly disfigur…
Blotted Out
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Elisabeth Sanxay Holding
The story about a young man who immigrates to the US and is contacted by a mysterious woman. - Summary by Howard Skyman
The House Opposite
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Elizabeth Kent
While trying to escape the heat, a doctor witnesses some strange behavior of his neighbors. Suddenly, everyone and no one become suspects in…
Cradock Nowell
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Richard Doddridge Blackmore
Cradock Nowell: a Tale of the New Forest is a three-volume novel by R. D. Blackmore published in 1866. Set in the New Forest and in London, …
An African Millionaire
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Grant Allen
"My name is Seymour Wilbraham Wentworth. I am brother-in-law and secretary to Sir Charles Vandrift, the South African millionaire and f…
The Smuggler of King's Cove
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Sylvanus Cobb, Jr and Sylvanus Cobb, Jr.
Young Percy Maitland is a naval pilot and guides his late father's brig to safety, thereby saving the ship, her crew and cargo despite being…
The Strange World of Harry Houdini
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Various
In 1924, the odd and wonderful Weird Tales Magazine published a series of stories written (or ghost-written in at least one instance) by not…
Night Fears and Other Stories
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L. P. Hartley
When one thinks of fear, terrors in the night creeping upon you may come to mind. L. P. Hartley does feature some of these kinds of fears. I…
Number Seventeen
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J. Jefferson Farjeon
A thriller about a down-and-out sailor finding his way in London. The book followed a successful play that was filmed by Alfred Hitchcock, …
Tales of Terror
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Various
A thrilling collection of spooky and sinister stories of murder, mayhem and mystery awaits within! This anthology collects classics of horr…
The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes
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Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Dr. Watson sits down again to ruminate over his notes of all the mysteries he has joined Sherlock Holmes in investigating. In the “Memoirs o…
A Strange Disappearance
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Anna Katharine Green
Housekeeper Mrs. Daniels brings to Detective Ebenezer Gryce and his assistant Q the case of a serving girl who has vanished from the househo…
An American Tragedy
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Theodore Dreiser
The saga of Clyde, Roberta, and Sondra continues in volume 2 of 2. Social-climbing Clyde Griffiths wants nothing more than to marry the weal…
The Impossibles
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Laurence M. Janifer
FBI Agent Kenneth Malone is back with another case, this one involving a gang of car thieves that only steal Red 1972 Cadillacs. The only pr…
The Trevor Case
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Natalie Sumner Lincoln
The nation's capital was astir at the untimely and curious death of the young wife of the Attorney General, Edmund Trevor. She had obviously…
The Yellow Holly
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Fergus Hume
Fergus Hume, one of the most prolific authors of the 19th century serves up a spellbinding mystery quite equal to that of his most famous bo…
Nothing More Than Murder
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Jim Thompson
Joe Wilmot is a big fish in a small pond, running the premiere movie house in town with a wife who hates him and a housemaid who wants to ge…
The Shooting Party
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Anton Chekhov
"The Shooting Party" is a mystery, set in the Russian countryside. The story revolves around the murder of a beautiful young woman…