“It’s a cinch to stick up a bank nowadays…!” boasted Frank Heberdon, socially prominent young lawyer. Goaded by his friends into making the attempt he...

A collection of short mysteries featuring Madame Storey: “The Almost Perfect Murder”, “Murder in Masquerade”, “The Death Notice”, “Taken...

A fictionalized version of the author’s 3,000-mile canoe trip by himself through Northern Alberta. It is a romantic, exciting and adventurous novel, retracing his voyage.

In The Under Dogs Mr. Footner is in his finest form. In it he tells of the amazing detective skill of Rosika Storey alias Jessie Seipp, in the opinion of the New York police the...

At least five people wished Gavin Dordress, the playwright, dead the night of his ill-starred party. It was that night Gail Garrett and Bea Townley quarreled openly for the...

A young man intervenes to protect an eccentric elderly gentleman during a public disruption. He soon finds himself employed by the old man’s family as both bodyguard and...

Mrs. Ware from New York was very rich, but she’s dead. Did she die of natural causes or not? Friends, journalist, attorney, lieutenant, maid, major, butler and others. What...

I can not better put that extraordinary woman, my employer, before you than by describing my first meeting with her. It is easier to show her qualities in action than to describe...

Jack Chanty is a young man who romans the countryside in his river raft, singing songs. Then one day, he meets a young woman, and things change for him.

This is the fourth book of the successful mystery series Madame Rosika Storey, by Canadian author Hulbert Footner. Almost unknown today, Footner was a Canadian journalist and...