Mystery Books
The Lerouge Case
Emile GaboriauBougival is a pleasant riverside village, peopled on Sundays by crowds of boating parties. Trifling offences are frequently heard of in its neighbourhood, but crimes are rare.The commissary of police ..
The Joker
Edgar WallaceLeonardo da Vinci could stand by the scaffold using the dreadful floor as his desk; and sketch the agonies of malefactors given to the torture. Mr Harlow, no great lover of painters, thought well of L..
La main froide
Fortuné Du BoisgobeyLa main froide by Fortuné Du Boisgobey is a French mystery novel written by Fortuné Du Boisgobey...
Affair in Araby
Talbot MundyAffair in Araby is a highly exciting adventure story featuring James Schuyler Grim, better known as Jimgrim. Jimgrim is an American secret service agent employed by the British and stationed in Jerusa..
Greenmantle
John BuchanGreenmantle is the second of five Richard Hannay novels by John Buchan, first published in 1916 by Hodder & Stoughton, London. It is one of two Hannay novels set during the First World War, the ot..
Pharos the Egyptian
Guy Newell BoothbyPharos the Egyptian is a mystery novel written by Guy Newell Boothby, a prolific Australian novelist and writer, noted for sensational fiction in variety magazines around the end of the nineteent..
Aunt Jane's Nieces in Society
L. Frank BaumWritten under pseudonym of Edith Van Dyne. The story continues the adventures of three cousins, Louise, Patsy and Beth,with their debuts in society and the appearance of suitors, one of whom is reject..
The Passenger from Calais
Arthur GriffithsAn army officer, and a mysterious lady with a maid and baby in tow, are the only passengers on the Engadine express from Calais. The lady is afraid that someone is following her. Who is she? And what ..