Mystery Books

The Great White Queen

William Le Queux

The Great White Queen is a mystery and lost race novel written by William Tufnell Le Queux, an Anglo-French journalist and writer who wrote more than 100 novels in his lifetime.The hero, Richard ..

The Mayor's Wife

Anna Katharine Green

The Mayor's Wife is a mystery novel written by American poet and novelist Anna Katharine Green who was called "the mother of the detective novel" for her legally accurate stories.Miss Saunders is..

The Mystery of the Boule Cabinet

Burton Egbert Stevenson

The Mystery of the Boule Cabinet is a detective novel written by Burton Egbert Stevenson, who was an American author, anthologist, and librarian.Three men are dead. Killed by a very powerful pois..

The Pawns Count

E. Phillips Oppenheim

The Pawns Count is a detective novel written by English novelist E. Phillips Oppenheim, whose major works are in thriller genre.It is during World War I. A chemist, Sandy Graham, has discovered a new ..

A Husband by Proxy

Jack Steele

A Husband by Proxy is a detective and mystery novel set on Inheritance and succession written by Jack Steele.Excerpts:While he stood there a shadow fell upon the glass. Someone was standing ..

The Adventure of the Red Circle

Arthur Conan Doyle

The Adventure of the Red Circle is one of the 56 Sherlock Holmes short stories written by Arthur Conan Doyle. It is included in the anthology His Last Bow.Mrs. Warren, a landlady, comes to 221B Baker ..

The Breaking Point

Mary Roberts Rinehart

Mary Roberts Rinehart -- "America's Agatha Christie," as she used to be called -- set this story in a New York suburban town, shortly after the end of the first world war. Dick Livingstone is a young,..

The Valley of Fear

Arthur Conan Doyle

The Valley of Fear is the fourth and final Sherlock Holmes novel by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. It is loosely based on the Molly Maguires and Pinkerton agent James McParland. The story was first published..