Mystery Books

The Bradys and the Girl Smuggler

Francis W. Doughty

The Bradys and the Girl Smuggler is a mystery and detective story written by Francis W. Doughty, an American screenwriter and novelist. Doughty held unorthodox views about the age of humans...

The Gray Madam

Anna Katharine Green

The Gray Madam is a short mystery story written by Anna Katharine Green, an American poet and novelist. She was one of the first writers of detective fiction in America and distinguished herself ..

The Continental Classics, Volume XVIII., Mystery Tales

Various Authors

The Continental Classics, Volume XVIII., Mystery Tales Including Stories by Feodor Mikhailovitch Dostoyevsky, Jörgen ilhelm Bergsöe and Bernhard Severin Ingemann.RUSSIAN MYSTERY STORIES:Alexander Serg..

The Poisoned Pen

Arthur B. Reeve

The Poisoned Pen is a short mystery stories collection written by Arthur Benjamin Reeve,  an American mystery writer. He is best known for creating the series character Professor Craig Kennedy, s..

The Man Who Was Thursday - A Nightmare

G. K. Chesterton

The Man Who Was Thursday: A Nightmare is a political thriller written by G.K. Chesterton, an English writer, philosopher, lay theologian, and literary and art critic. He has been referred to as t..

Dyke Darrel the Railroad Detective

Frank Pinkerton

Dyke Darrel investigates an audacious train robbery that included the murder of a friend, and embarks on a man-hunt. High Victorian serial melodrama at its best! (Summary by Sibella Denton)...

In the Mayor's Parlour

J. S. Fletcher

In the Mayor's Parlour is a mystery and detective story written by Joseph Smith Fletcher, an English journalist and author. He wrote more than 230 books on a wide variety of subjects, both fiction and..

An Antarctic Mystery

Jules Verne

An Antarctic Mystery is a two-volume novel by Jules Verne. Written in 1897, it is a response to Edgar Allan Poe's 1838 novel The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket. It follows the adventures ..