Mystery Books

The thinking machine

Jacques Futrelle

For the world’s most brilliant criminologist, every mystery has a solutionHis name is Professor Augustus S. F. X. Van Dusen, but to the newspapers he is known as “The Thinking Machine...

The Red House Mystery

A. A. Milne

The Red House Mystery is a "locked room" whodunnit by A. A. Milne, published in 1922. It was Milne's only mystery novel. The setting is an English country house, where Mark Ablett has been entert..

Library of the World's Best Mystery and Detective Stories

Various Authors

Library of the World's Best Mystery and Detective Stories is a collection of short mystery stories by most popular authors.HENRI RENÉ ALBERT GUY DE MAUPASSANT (1850-93).The NecklaceThe Man with the Pa..

The Riddle of the Sands

Erskine Childers

A WORD about the origin and authorship of this book. In October last (1902), my friend 'Carruthers' visited me in my chambers, and, under a provisional pledge of secrecy, told me frankly the whole of ..

The After House

Mary Roberts Rinehart

The After House is a detection fiction novel written by Mary Roberts Rinehart...

The Angel of Terror

Edgar Wallace

The Angel of Terror is mystery fiction novel written by Edgar Wallace. The hush of the court, which had been broken when the foreman of the jury returned their verdict, was intensified as th..

The Attic Murder

S. Fowler Wright

The Attic Murder is a detective fiction novel written by The Attic Murder...

Historical Mysteries

Andrew Lang

These Essays, which appeared, with two exceptions, in The Cornhill Magazine, 1904, have been revised, and some alterations, corrections, and additions have been made in them. 'Queen Oglethorpe,' in wh..