"The Grand Babylon Hotel" is a work by Arnold Bennett published in 1902. The novel tells the story of the mysterious disappearance of a German prince. The...
The Wisdom Of Father Brown
"The Wisdom of Father Brown" (1914) is a collection of twelve stories by G.K. Chesterton, featuring his empathetic detective Father Brown. Sherlock Holmes might be...
Whose Body?
The stark naked body was lying in the tub. Not unusual for a proper bath, but highly irregular for murder — especially with a pair of gold pince-nez deliberately perched...
The Riddle Of The Sands
The Riddle of the Sands: A Record of Secret Service is a 1903 novel by Erskine Childers. The book, which enjoyed immense popularity in the years before World War I, is an early...
Orchids To Murder
Amos Lee Mappin is visited by the surly and self-centered Major Dunphy, dependent on his beautiful actress granddaughter, Mary Stannard. Mary has disappeared, and the detective...
The Innocence Of Father Brown
"The Innocence of Father Brown" (1911) is the first collection of stories starring the empathetic detective Father Brown. Sherlock Holmes might be sexier, but GK...
The Mystery Of The Yellow Room
The Mystery of the Yellow Room is one of the first locked room mystery crime fiction novels written by the author of The Phantom of the Opera (ISBN: 9781909676657). It is the...
They Wouldn’t Be Chessmen
Nahendra Nao, heir to the Maharajah of Chitipur, unwisely lets Elsie Marsh of the Casino de Paris wear his ancestral pearls, which react badly to her skin. In order to restore...
The House Of The Arrow
When Boris Waberski, brother-in-law of the wealthy widow Mrs. Harlowe, attempts to talk her English solicitors into advancing him money on his expectations as her heir, he is...
The Diamond Master
Jacques Heath Futrelle (1875 – 1912) was an American journalist and mystery writer. He is best known for writing short detective stories featuring Professor Augustus S. F....
