Romance, sinister strangers, plenty of skulduggery, mysterious beauties cloaked in veils, dungeons and crypts, dreadfully wrapped mummies and evil doi...
Hester is an 1883 novel written by Margaret Oliphant.[1] It examines the cycle of history through the lives of the Vernon family. The book was publish...
A story about a girl who learns to see the world is it is and navigate in it. This is a vivid and charming story by Harriet Parr, who wrote under the...
The Able McLaughlins is a 1923 novel by Margaret Wilson first published by Harper & Brothers. It won the Pulitzer Prize for the Novel in 1924. It won...
Step into the enigmatic world of "The Strange Case of Mortimer Fenley" by Louis Tracy, where a web of mystery and intrigue awaits. In the heart of Lon...
The flood brings in not only the muddy waters but a series of suspicious clues that convinced Mrs. Pitman, a boarding house keeper, that a murder has...
May Agnes Fleming is renowned as Canada's first best-selling novelist. She wrote 42 novels, many of which have only been published posthumously.
The M...
Roger Mifflin is the somewhat eccentric proprietor of The Haunted Bookshop, a second-hand bookstore in Brooklyn that is "haunted by the ghosts of all...
Dr. Thorndyke, a renowned medico-legal expert, is drawn into the perplexing case of John Bellingham, an English gentleman and amateur Egyptologist who...
A lone woman enters an empty taxicab on a sleeting cold December midnight. She is never seen again. In her place is the dead body of a prominent socie...
In 'Man Overboard,' a storm on the schooner Helen B. Jackson leaves a crewmember missing. The crew suspects one of the twin Benton brothers vanished...
Joel Shore, a newly appointed captain of the whaling ship Nathan Ross, embarks on a perilous voyage to the Gilbert Islands in the Pacific Ocean. Drive...
In 'Blindfolded', Giles Dudley finds himself thrust into a perplexing situation when summoned to San Francisco by his cousin, Henry Wilton. The reaso...
In Sheridan Le Fanu's 'Wylder's Hand,' the arranged marriage between Mark Wylder and Dorkas Brenden is intended to end a bitter feud between their fam...
In "Riddle of the Frozen Flame," the enigmatic Hamilton Cleek, known as "The Man of the Forty Faces," confronts a chilling mystery in the desolate Fen...
Dans le Paris du XIXe siècle, une ambiance sombre et mystérieuse règne. Trois jeunes aristocrates allemands disparaissent sans laisser de trace, jetan...
The discovery of a body in a creek near the imposing 'House by the Lock' sets Noel Stanton on a quest to unravel a perplexing mystery. He suspects Car...
In einem englischen Herrenhaus ist ein tiefes Geheimnis verborgen. Die Gesellschafterin Sara Leeson, eine rätselhafte Figur, versteckt nach dem Tod ih...
A mysterious disappearance and a body found in the river set barrister and hobby detective Claude Bruce on a captivating journey to uncover the truth....
In 'Hushed Up!', a young man named Owen Biddulph becomes entangled in a web of mystery and danger when he meets a captivating young woman with a shado...
Stephen Knight, a young man engaged against his will, travels to Algiers to visit his old friend Nevill. On the journey, he meets Victoria, a charming...
'La Mosca' is a short story by Luigi Pirandello, first published in 1923. The story follows a young man who becomes obsessed with a fly that has lande...
Scarhaven Keep, nestled amidst the rugged beauty of the English sea coast, holds within its ancient walls a chilling mystery that threatens to unravel...
