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THE MAYWRITE LIBRARY E-TEXTS OF CLASSIC & GOLDEN AGE MYSTERY NOVELS AND SHORT STORIES This list of titles kicks off an ongoing project to provide links to free e-texts of classic and Golden Age mystery novels and short stories. A number of the websites mentioned host other works by the authors in question, so it's well worth checking the area around the scene of the crime to see what other offerings are available. Suggestions for links are always welcome so feel free to trot a cyber along to maywrite@earthlink.net Thanks! Clicking on REVIEW following selected texts will take you to Mary's review of the book. Look here for a list of all Mary's reviews _________________ HERBERT ADAMS The Body In The Bunker The Chief Witness Death Of A Viewer The victim is shot in a room full of people watching TV. Disappointing entry in the Bennion series, although interesting from a l950s political and social history point of view.     FULL REVIEW Exit the Skeleton The Judas Kiss SAMUEL HOPKINS ADAMS Average Jones stories Excellent and inventive collection of short mystery stories relating cases solved by a man who investigates suspicious advertisements.FULL REVIEW The Flying Death MAX AFFORD Blood On His Hands The Dead Are Blind Owl of Darkness Poison Can Be Puzzling The Sheep and the Wolves A. J. ALAN My Adventure at Chiselhurst THOMAS BAILEY ALDRICH The Stillwater Tragedy HARRIETTE ASHBROOK A Most Immoral Murder CYNTHIA ASQUITH (COMPILER) The Black Cap: New Stories of Murder & Mystery (Collection) F. H. ATKINS A Studio Mystery ANNE AUSTIN Murder At Bridge H. C. BAILEY Call Mr. Fortune (Collection) Mr. Fortune's Practice EDWIN BALMER & WILLIAM MACHARG The Achievements of Luther Trant JOHN KENDRICK BANGS R. Holmes & Co.: Being the Remarkable Adventures of Raffles Holmes, Esq., Detective and Amateur Cracksman by Birth Short stories involving Raffles Holmes, grandson of the former and son of the latter, narrated in Rafflian tone. Literary fun-poking, but also enjoyable in their own right.     FULL REVIEW ANNA MAYNARD BARBOUR That Mainwaring Affair J. J. BELL Till The Clock Stops    REVIEW PETER BARON The Round Table Murders Murder In Wax ROBERT BARR The Triumphs of Eugene Valmont From Whose Bourne A man's spirit returns in order to gain justice for his widow, now on trial for poisoning him although it transpires at least two other parties have possible motives for wishing to remove him from this world.    FULL REVIEW Revenge! (Collection) Anthology of short stories about various types of revenge, a number of which feature twist endings, some predictable but some not.     FULL REVIEW H. BEDFORD-JONES The Case of Colette Clancy, Detective The Mardi Gras Mystery FRANCIS BEEDING Death Walks in Eastrepps The Norwich Victims The Woman He Had To Kill E. F. BENSON The Blotting Book E. C. BENTLEY Trent's Last Case GUY BERTON Art Thou The Man? LYNTON BLOW The Moth Murder GUY BOOTHBY The Childerbridge Mystery The Duchess of Wiltshire's Diamonds The Mystery of the Clasped Hands ERNEST BRAMAH The Coin of Dionysius Four Max Carrados Detective Stories The Game Played In The Dark Max Carrados Mysteries More Max Carrados Mysteries Smothered In Corpses NELLIE BLY The Mystery of Central Park MARJORIE BOWEN The Chinese Apple MARY ELIZABETH BRADDON Charlotte's Inheritance The Cloven Foot MAX BRAND Six Golden Angels PERCY JAMES BREBNER Christopher Quarles: College Professor and Master Detective    REVIEW The Master Detective: Being Some Further Investigations of Christopher Quarles T. C. BRIDGES The Man From Montevideo AIDAN de BRUNE The Carson Loan Mystery Dr. Night The Kahm Syndicate The Three Snails MRS CHARLES BRYCE The Ashiel Mystery: A Detective Story JOHN BUCHAN Greenmantle Excellent WWI mystery/thriller in which Richard Hannay of The 39 Steps and friends seek the mysterious Greenmantle in order to thwart German plans to use him to grab the middle east. Their only lead: three words scribbled on a bit of paper.     FULL REVIEW The Thirty-Nine Steps The Three Hostages  REVIEW ELLIS PARKER BUTLER The Hard-Boiled Egg Philo Gubb, Correspondence-School Detective (Collection) Philo Gubb's Greatest Case PAUL CADE Death Slams The Door CHARLES WADSWORTH CAMP The Abandoned Room: A Mystery Story   REVIEW BERNARD CAPES The Skeleton Key JULIUS CHAMBERS Seven, Seven, Seven, City: A Tale of the Telephone G. K. CHESTERTON The Incredulity of Father Brown (Collection) The Innocence of Father Brown (Collection) Four Faultless Felons The Man Who Was Thursday The Paradoxes of Mr Pond G. K. CHESTERTON & MAX PEMBERTON The Donnington Affair RICHARD WASHBURN CHILD The Vanishing Men ERSKINE CHILDERS The Riddle Of The Sands AGATHA CHRISTIE The A.B.C Murders The Big Four The Man in the Brown Suit The Murder of Roger Ackroyd The Murder On The Links The Mysterious Affair at Styles The Mystery of the Blue Train Poirot Investigates (Collection) The Secret Adversary OCTAVUS ROY COHEN Gray Dusk Midnight A woman takes a taxi late on a freezing December night but when it arrives at its destination she has disappeared, leaving only a suitcase -- and the corpse of a well-dressed man who did not enter the vehicle with her.    FULL REVIEW Six Seconds of Darkness G. D. H. AND MARGARET COLE Death In The Quarry GRACE ISABEL COLBRON & AUGUSTA GRONER The Case of the Golden Bullet The Case of the Lamp That Went Out The Case of the Pocket Diary Found In The Snow The Case of the Pool of Blood in the Pastor's Study The Case of the Registered Letter WILKIE COLLINS The Dead Alive The Law and the Lady The Moonstone The Woman in White J. J. CONNINGTON The Sweepstake Murders CONTINENTAL CLASSICS Mystery Tales (Collection) BENNET COPPLESTONE The Lost Naval Papers ARTHUR CRABB Ghosts: A Samuel Lyle Mystery Story Samuel Lyle, Criminologist FREEMAN WILLS CROFTS The Cask Inspector French's Greatest Case The Pit Prop Syndicate J. FRANK DAVIS The Chinese Label RICHARD HARDING DAVIS In The Fog FREDERIC VAN RENSSELAER DAY & OTHERS The Crime of the French Cafe and Other Stories: Three Complete Stories of the Exploits of Nicholas Carter, America's Greatest Detective AIDAN DE BRUNE Aldebert Cay Wanted On The Phone The Carson Loan Mystery The Dagger and The Cord Doctor Night The Empty Match-Box Find This Man The Five-Minute Murder The Flirting Fool The Fortune Telling House The Grays Manor Mystery The Green Pearl The League of Five The Little Grey Woman The Murders At Madlands Saul and the Spinster The Shadow Crook The Three Snails Whispering Death Whiteface EARL DERR BIGGERS The Agony Column Behind That Curtain The Black Camel The Chinese Parrot The House Without A Key Keeper Of The Keys Seven Keys To Baldpate Seven Keys To Baldpate (play by George M. Cohan) CHARLES DICKENS Hunted Down The Mystery of Edwin Drood See also: The Puzzle of Dickens's Last Plot, Andrew Lang CHARLES DICKENS & WILKIE COLLINS No Thoroughfare CHARLES DICKENS, WILKIE COLLINS, ELIZABETH CLEGHORN GASKELL & ADELAIDE ANNE PROCTER A House To Let S S VAN DINE The Benson Murder Case    REVIEW The Bishop Murder Case    REVIEW The Canary Murder Case    REVIEW The Casino Murder Case The Dragon Murder Case    REVIEW The Greene Murder Case    REVIEW The Gracie Allen Murder Case The Kennel Murder Case    REVIEW The Kidnap Murder Case    REVIEW The Scarab Murder Case     REVIEW The Winter Murder Case    REVIEW DICK DONOVAN The Problem of Dead Wood Hall LAURENCE DONOVAN The Pin Up Girl Murders ROMAN DOUBLEDAY The Saintsbury Affair The Green Tree Mystery MARJORIE DOUIE The Pointing Man: A Burmese Mystery ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes The Casebook of Sherlock Holmes The Hound of the Baskervilles The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes The Return of Sherlock Holmes Round The Fire Stories   REVIEW A Sherlock Holmes Omnibus A Study in Scarlet GEORGE DYER The Long Death: A Catalyst Club Murder Mystery GEORGE EDGAR The Red Colonel GEORGE ALLAN ENGLAND The Alibi B. L. FARJEON Samuel Boyd of Catchpole Square: A Mystery J. J. FARJEON Fancy Dress Ball Thirteen Guests Seven Dead The Z Murders JOHN JEFFREY FARNOL The Loring Mystery CHARLES FELIX The Notting Hill Mystery GEORGE MANVILLE FENN The Dark House: A Knot Unravelled ARCHIBALD FIELDING The Case of the Two Pearl Necklaces The Charteris Mystery The Clifford Affair The Cluny Problem The Craig Poisoning The Eames-Erskine Case The Footsteps That Stopped Mystery At TheRectory Scarecrow The Tall House Mystery Tragedy at Beechcroft The Wedding Chest Mystery CORTLAND FITZSIMMONS Crimson Ice: A Hockey Mystery The Moving Finger: An Ethel Thomas Detective Story Sudden Silence: The Case of the Murdered Band-Leader BRANDON FLEMING The Crooked House J. S. FLETCHER The Borough Treasurer The Charing Cross Mystery The Chestermarke Instinct The Copper Box Dead Men's Money The Herapath Property In the Mayor's Parlour The Markenmore Mystery The Middle Of Things The Middle Temple Murder The Mystery of Ravensdene Court The Orange-Yellow Diamond The Paradise Mystery Paul Campenhaye, Specialist in Criminology The Safety Pin    REVIEW Scarhaven Keep The Talleyrand Maxim BRIAN FLYNN The Billiard Room Mystery HULBERT FOOTNER The Almost Perfect Murder: A Case Book of Madame Storey (Collection) The Casual Murderer Dangerous Cargo The Dark Ships Death of a Celebrity The Doctor Who Held Hands Easy to Kill The Folded Paper Mystery The Handsome Young Men The House With the Blue Door The Kidnapping of Madame Storey and Other Stories (Collection) Madame Storey Intervenes Madame Storey's Way Murder Runs In The Family    REVIEW The Obeah Murders Ramshackle House The Scarlet Bat Sinfully Rich Orchids To Murder The Richest Widow The Substitute Millionaire The Under Dogs Unneutral Murder The Velvet Hand (Collection) Who Killed the Husband? MARY FORTUNE The Murder at Ozers Traces of Crime MILES FRANKLIN Bring the Monkey GILBERT FRANKAU Who Killed Castelvetri? ARNOLD FREDERICKS The Film of Fear R. AUSTIN FREEMAN The Adventures of Dr. Thorndyke (Collection) As A Thief In The Night    REVIEW The Case of Oscar Brodski The Cat's Eye An inscribed locket is the key to a fortune in a story involving blue hair, a coded message based on Biblical verses, and a good luck charm made from the bone of a porcupine ant-eater.     FULL REVIEW A Certain Dr Thorndyke The D'Arblay Mystery Dr Thorndyke Intervenes The Eye of Osiris For The Defence, Dr Thorndyke The Great Portrait Mystery and Other Stories Helen Vardon's Confession The Jacob Street Mystery   REVIEW John Thorndyke's Cases Mr Polton Explains   REVIEW The Mystery of Angelina Frood Mr Pottermack's Oversight The Mystery of 31 New Inn The Penrose Mystery Pontifex, Son And Thorndyke The Puzzle Lock (Collection) The Red Thumb Mark The Shadow of the Wolf The reader knows whodunnit and why from the beginning, and thus follows Dr Thorndyke's reasoning as he investigates a case involving a missing man, forgery, and a murderer's ever-increasing web of lies.    FULL REVIEW A Silent Witness Dr Thorndyke and his colleagues have few clues to aid them in a mystery involving a missing man, a tiny reliquary, a pretty young artist, and more than one attempt to murder a newly qualfied doctor with no known enemies.    FULL REVIEW The Singing Bone The Stoneware Monkey   REVIEW The Red Thumb Mark The Uttermost Farthing: A Savant's Vendetta The Vanishing Man: A Detective Romance When Rogues Fall Out Antiques collector/fence swindles the wrong fellow criminal in a case which becomes connected with the murder of a familiar character in the Dr Thorndyke series.   FULL REVIEW JOSEPH LEWIS FRENCH (Editor) Masterpieces of Mystery: Detective Stories Masterpieces of Mystery: Mystic-Humorous Stories Masterpieces of Mystery: Riddle Stories FRANK FROEST The Grell Mystery JACQUES FUTRELLE The Chase of the Golden Plate The Diamond Master The Leak The Mystery of the Fatal Cipher The Mystery of the Flaming Phantom The Mystery of the Golden Dagger The Mystery of the Grip of Death The Mystery of the Man Who Was Lost The Mystery of the Ralston Bank Burglary The Mystery of a Studio The Problem of the Crystal Gazer EMILE GABORIAU The Lerouge Case Monsieur Lecoq The Mystery of Orcival ERLE STANLEY GARDNER Time For Murder ARTHUR GASK The Beachy Head Murder The Dark Highway The Dark Mill Stream The Deadly Tiger Snake The Destroyer The Dreadful Vigil Gentlemen of Crime The Grave Digger of Monks Arden The Hidden Door His Prey Was Man House With The High Wall The House on the Island Indiscretion of the Archdeacon The Judgment of Larose The Lonely House Man of Death Marauders by Night The Mystery of Fell Castle The Night of the Storm The Poisoned Goblet The Red Paste Murders The Silent Dead The Shadow of Larose The Storm Breaks Strychnine For Village Dogs The Tragedy of the Silver Moon The Unfolding Years The Vaults of Blackarden Castle Wild Justice RUFUS H. GILLMORE The Alster Case The Ebony Bed Murder The Mystery of the Second Shot ANNA KATHARINE GREEN That Affair Next Door Agatha Webb The Amethyst Box (Collection) The Chief Legatee The Circular Study Dark Hollow A Difficult Problem The Doctor, His Wife, and the Clock The Filigree Ball The Golden Slipper and Other Problems for Violet Strange The Gray Madam Hand and Ring The House In The Mist (Collection) The House of the Whispering Pines Initials Only The Leavenworth Case Lost Man's Lane Masterpieces of Mystery A Matter of Millions The Mill Mystery The Millionaire Baby The Mystery of the Hasty Arrow    REVIEW The Old Stone House and Other Stories One Of My Sons Room Number 3 and Other Detective Stories Seven to Twelve The Staircase At The Heart's Delight A Strange Disappearance The Woman In The Alcove GEORGE GRIFFITH Five Hundred Carats ARTHUR GRIFFITHS The Passenger from Calais The Rome Express   REVIEW THOMAS W. HANSHEW Cleek's Government Cases Cleek, the Master Detective Cleek: The Man of the Forty Faces Cleek of Scotland Yard (Collection) The Riddle of the Night MARY E. & THOMAS W. HANSHEW The Riddle of the Frozen Flame The Riddle of the Mysterious Light The Riddle of the Purple Emperor The Riddle of the Spinning Wheel:Being An exploit in the Career of Hamilton Cleek, Detective JULIAN HAWTHORNE Another's Crime: From The Diary of Inspector Byrnes Library of the World's Best Mystery and Detective Stories The Lock and Key Library: Classic Mystery and Detective Stories JAMES HAY JR No Clue: A Mystery Story The Winning Clue ANNIE HAYNES The Abbey Court Murder The Crime at Tattenham Corner The Crow's Inn Tragedy The Crystal Beads Murder The House in Charlton Crescent The Man with the Dark Beard Who Killed Charmian Karslake? GRACE LIVINGSTON HILL The Mystery of Mary JAMES HILTON Was It Murder?    REVIEW GORDON HOLMES A Mysterious Disappearance E. W. HORNUNG The Amateur Cracksman Mr Justice Raffles Raffles: Further Adventures of the Amateur Cracksman The Shadow of the Rope A Thief in the Night FERGUS HUME The Bishop's Secret The Black Carnation The Caravan Crime The Chinese Jar The Clock Struck One A Coin of Edward VII: A Detective Story The Crimson Cryptogram: A Detective Story The Disappearing Eye The Dwarf's Chamber For the Defence The Girl From Malta The Green Mummy The Indian Bangle The Lady From Nowhere The Lost Parchment The Mandarin's Fan A Midnight Mystery The Mikado Jewel The Mystery of a Hansom Cab Madame Midas The Millionaire Mystery The Mystery Queen The Opal Serpent    REVIEW The Peacock of Jewels The Piccadilly Puzzle The Pink Shop The Purple Fern The Red Bicycle The Red-Headed Man Red Money The Sacred Herb The Scarlet Bat The Sealed Message The Secret Passage The Silent House Locked house mystery involving a daughter determined to find her father's murderer, a suspicious Italian count, a large insurance settlement, and a man who abandoned his wife -- or was he driven out?   REVIEW The Spider The Solitary Farm A Son of Perdition The Third Volume Tracked By A Tattoo A Traitor in London The Turnpike House The Whispering Lane The White Room A Woman's Burden The Wooden Hand: A Detective Story The Yellow Holly CUTCLIFFE HYNE The Tragedy of a Third Smoker CHARLES ROSS JACKSON Quintus Oakes: A Detective Story HERBERT JENKINS Malcolm Sage, Detective   REVIEW EDGAR JEPSON The Loudwater Mystery OWEN JOHNSON Murder in Any Degree RONALD KNOX The Three Taps The Footsteps At The Lock FREDERIC ARNOLD KUMMER The Blue Lights: A Detective Story The Green God HERMAN LANDON The Back Seat Murder HILDA LAWRENCE Duet of Death MAURICE LEBLANC 813 Arsene Lupin Versus Herlock Sholmes The Confessions of Arsene Lupin The Eight Strokes of the Clock (Collection) The Extraordinary Adventures of Arsene Lupin, Gentleman-Burglar Memoirs of Arsene Lupin WILLIAM LE QUEUX The Crimes Club (Collection) Devil's Dice The Four Faces: A Mystery The House of Whispers The Hunchback of Westminster Hushed up! : A Mystery of London The Place of Dragons The Red Room The Secret of the Fox Hunter The Seven Secrets The Stretton Street Affair GASTON LEROUX The Mystery of the Yellow Room WILL LEVINREW Death Points A Finger LANGE LEWIS Meat For Murder NATALIE SUMNER LINCOLN I Spy The Man Inside The Red Seal The fiance of a rich young woman burgles her residence, but when he dies just after appearing in court she, her twin sister, and his business partner, asked in court to defend him as he has no legal representative, all claim not to have recognised him. Forgery, a murderous handkerchief, a disappearance, and stolen securities add to a complicated plot line.   FULL REVIEW ARMSTRONG LIVINGSTON The Monk of Hambleton E.C.R. LORAC Bats in the Belfry Death at Dyke's Corner Case in the Clinic Death Came Softly Fell Murder Murder by Matchlight Fire in the Thatch Accident by Design I Could Murder Her [AKA Murder of a Martinet] Murder in the Mill-Race [AKA Speak Justly of the Dead] Shroud of Darkness Murder in Vienna The Last Escape [AKA Dishonour Among Thieves] DANIEL A. LORD Murder In The Sacristy MARIE BELLOC LOWNDES The Lodger LAWRENCE LYNCH The Last Stroke: A Detective Story A. G. MACDONELL  The Shakespeare Murders WILLIAM MACHARG & EDWIN BALMER The Blind Man's Eyes ROBERT MACHRAY The Mystery of Lincoln's Inn WILLIAM MAGNAY The Hunt Ball Mystery   REVIEW RICHARD MARSH The Beetle: A Mystery The Goddess: A Demon A. E. W. MASON The Affair at the Semiramis Hotel At The Villa Rose Wealthy Madam Camille has been murdered and her young companion has gone missing, along with her employer's car and expensive jewelry. A tangled case, solved by the holidaying Inspector Hanaud of the Paris Surete.    FULL REVIEW The Ginger King The House in Lordship Lane The House of the Arrow The Prisoner in the Opal They Wouldn't Be Chessmen Witness For The Defence ALICE MacGOWAN & PERRY NEWBERRY The Million Dollar Suitcase ROSE MACAULAY The Mystery at Geneva JOHN T. McINTYRE Ashton-Kirk, Criminologist Ashton-Kirk, Investigator Ashton-Kirk, Secret Agent Ashton-Kirk, Special Detective L.T. MEADE The Ponsonby Diamonds L. T. MEADE & ROBERT EUSTACE The Blood-Red Cross The Face of the Abbot A Master of Mysteries The Secret of Emu Plain HUAN MEE The Russian Cipher A. A. MILNE The Red House Mystery BERTRAM MITFORD The Heath Hover Mystery CLEVELAND MOFFETT Through The Wall WALTER MOORE The Lone Inn ARTHUR MORRISON Adventures of Martin Hewitt The Case of Laker, Absconded The Dorrington Deed-Box (Collection) Martin Hewitt, Investigator The Red Triangle: Being Some Further Chronicles of Martin Hewitt, Investigator MEREDITH NICHOLSON House of a Thousand Candles GEORGE NORSWORTHY Crime At The Villa Gloria E. PHILLIPS OPPENHEIM The Black Box The Cinema Murder The Coroner's Dilemma The Evil Shepherd The Glenlitten Murder The Grassleyes Mystery Jeanne Of The Marshes Murder at Monte Carlo Sir Adam Disappeared The New Tenant Nicholas Goade, Detective The Rossheimer Tragedy The Vanished Messenger The Yellow Crayon BARONESS ORCZY Lady Molly of Scotland Yard The Old Man In The Corner Skin O' My Tooth Unravelled Knots: A Sequel To The Old Man In A Corner ISABEL OSTRANDER At One-Thirty RODRIGUES OTTOLENGUI An Artist in Crime Final Proof or The Value of Evidence (Collection)     REVIEW FRANK L. PACKARD Doors of the Night RANDALL PARRISH The Case and the Girl   REVIEW The Strange Case of Cavendish MAX PEMBERTON Jewel Mysteries From a Dealer's Note Book The Ripening Rubies EDEN PHILLPOTTS The Grey Room Number 87 (as by Harrington Hext) The Red Redmaynes   REVIEW CHARLES FELTON PIDGIN The Chronicles of Quincy Adams Sawyer, Detective FRANK PINKERTON Dyke Darrel, The Railroad Detective or The Crime of the Midnight Express H. BEAM PIPER Murder In The Gunroom CATHERINE LOUISA PIRKIS The Experiences of Loveday Brooke, Lady Detective (Collection) Collection featuring an early, if not the earliest, female detective. Her deductions are largely based on common sense but the author does not always play fair with the reader. The stories do however offer sidelights on contemporary social mores and attitudes.  FULL REVIEW EDGAR ALLAN POE The Mystery of Marie Roget The Murders In The Rue Morgue The Purloined Letter REBECCA N. PORTER The Rest Hollow Mystery MELVILLE DAVISSON POST The Bradmoor Murder The Sleuth of St. James Square   REVIEW Uncle Abner, Master of Mysteries HESKETH PRICHARD November Joe: Detective Of The Woods E. R. PUNSHON The Bittermeads Mystery   REVIEW WILLIAM MACLEOD RAINE Tangled Trails: A Western Detective Story CLIFFORD S. RAYMOND The Mystery of Hartley House ARTHUR J. REES The Hand In The Dark The Moon Rock The Shrieking Pit ARTHUR J. REES & JOHN R. WATSON The Hampstead Mystery The Mystery of the Downs ARTHUR B. REEVE The Artificial Paradise The Absolute Zero The Bacillus of Death The Bacteriological Detective The Beauty Mask The Black Hand Blood Will Tell The Curio Shiop The Deadly Tube The Demon Engine The Diamond Maker The Diamond Queen The Dream Doctor (Collection)   REVIEW The Ear In The Wall The Exploits of Elaine The Film Mystery The Firebug The Germ Letter The Gigolo Mystery The Gold of the Gods Guy Garrick The House of Death The Love-Meter The Master Counterfeiter The Master Mystery   REVIEW The Mystic Poisoner The Phantom Destroyer The Poisoned Pen The Sand-Hog The Seismograph Adventure The Silent Bullet The Sleep Maker The Social Gangster The Soul Analysis The Super Toxin The Smuggler The Soul Scar Spontaneous Combustion The Steel Door The Stolen War Secret The Sybarite The Tango Thief The Terror In The Air The Treasure Train The Truth Detector The Unofficial Spy The Voodoo Mystery The War Terror The White Slave The X-Ray Detective The Yeggman FRANCIS J. REYNOLDS Master Tales of Mystery (Collection) JOHN RHODE Dr Priestley Lays A Trap The Harvest Murder MARY ROBERTS RINEHART The Case of Jennie Brice The Circular Staircase The Confession    REVIEW Locked Doors The Man In Lower Ten    REVIEW Sight Unseen When A Man Marries   REVIEW The Window At The White Cat MARY ROBERTS RINEHART & AVERY HOPWOOD The Bat    REVIEW B. FLETCHER ROBINSON The Chronicles of Addington Peace SAX ROHMER Fire-Tongue    REVIEW The Golden Scorpion The Sins of Severac Bablon The Yellow Claw TYLER DE SAIX The Man Without A Head SAPPER The Eleventh Hour Fire Tongue     REVIEW The Music Room Ronald Standish (Collection)    REVIEW Was It Murder? DOROTHY L. SAYERS Hangman's Holiday (Collection) The Nine Tailors A Treasury of Sayers Stories (Collection) Whose Body? The Works of Dorothy Leigh Sayers AUGUSTA HUIELL SEAMAN The Slipper Point Mystery MELVIN L. SEVERY The Darrow Enigma    REVIEW The Mystery of June 13th    REVIEW M. P. SHIEL The Case of Euphemia Raphash Prince Zaleski (collection) The Race of Orven CHRISTOPHER ST JOHN SPRIGG The Corpse With The Sunburned Face HENRY DE VERE STACPOOLE The Cottage on the Fells Death of an Airman KAY CLEAVER STRAHAN The Meriwether Mystery CHESTER K. STEELE The Diamond Cross Mystery The Golf Course Mystery The Mansion of Mystery BURTON EGBERT STEVENSON The Mystery of the Boule Cabinet: A Detective Story That Affair At Elizabeth The Gloved Hand: A Detective Story The Holladay Case: A Tale ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde RALPH STRAUS The Most Maddening Story In The World The Room On The Fourth Floor JOSEPHINE TEY The Daughter of Time The Franchise Affair To Love and Be Wise The Man in the Queue Miss Pym Disposes A Shilling For Candles The Singing Sands LEE THAYER That Affair At The Cedars The Mystery of the Thirteenth Floor    REVIEW Q,E.D. PAUL & MABEL THORNE The Sheridan Road Mystery LOUIS TRACY The Albert Gate Mystery: Being Further Adventures of Reginald Brett, Barrister Detective    REVIEW A Mysterious Disappearance The Bartlett Mystery The de Bercy Affair Number Seventeen The tenant of Flat l7 is murdered. Furneaux and Winter, duelling detective partners, investigate, drawing a neighbour of the deceased into a case featuring, among other things, tiny ivory skulls and a London mansion under seige.    FULL REVIEW The Postmaster's Daughter Another novel starring arguing detectives Furneaux and Winter, called in to find the murderer of a well-known actress who showed up in a Sussex hamlet, only to die in the garden of a man who once proposed marriage to her.    FULL REVIEW The Stowmarket Mystery The Strange Case of Mortimer Fenley    REVIEW What Would You Have Done? MARK TWAIN A Double-Barrelled Detective Story LOUIS JOSEPH VANCE Alias The Lone Wolf The Black Bag 1906 thriller/romance in which a young American pursues criminals intent on jewel theft, in the process travelling by boat, rail, hansom cab, motor, and shank's pony and meeting a menacing, mysterious woman too often for it to be mere coincidence. The Lone Wolf Introduces Paris art connoisseur Michael Lanyard aka professional burglar The Lone Wolf. A band of criminals attempt to blackmail him and murder, romance, and an exciting aerial duel ensue while Lanyard struggles not to break a promise to reform made to the woman he loves. The False Faces Michael Lanyard aka The Lone Wolf seeks revenge for the death of his wife and child while also attempting to thwart German spies in order to get a vital document into the right hands just before the US enters WWI. E. CHARLES VIVIAN Accessory After Cigar for Inspector Head Seventeen Cards Shadow On The House HENRY WADE Constable, Guard Thyself CHARLES EDMONDS WALK The Paternoster Ruby    REVIEW EDGAR WALLACE Again The Three Just Men The Angel of Terror Widowed after being married to a prison escapee for less than an hour, the heroinne is rescued from an attempted kidnapping but then faces attempts to murder her for her newly acquired wealth.     REVIEW Big Foot Blue Hand   REVIEW The Brigand    REVIEW The Cobham Affair The Clue of the Twisted Candle   REVIEW The Clue of the New Pin The Clue of the Silver Key The Coat of Arms The Crimson Circle The Crook in Crimson The Daffodil Mystery An obnoxious man wearing slippers is found murdered in Hyde Park with a bunch of daffodils placed on his chest and a note in his waistcoat jacket written in Chinese characters and stating he brought his troubles on himself.    FULL REVIEW The Dark Eyes of London The Death Room The Door with Seven Locks The Face In The Night The Fellowship of the Frog Flat 2 The Flying Squad The Forger The Frightened Lady It was rather racy for l931, since one character admits they had been having an affair rather than hinting about it round the edges. There's an escapee from the local asylum who is said to be responsible for a spate of burglaries -- but he then returns stolen goods by breaking back into houses -- and murder and blackmail figure, not to mention echoes of crimes committed on two other continents and constant hints about eyebrows proving...something important! The Gaunt Stranger The Green Rust The Green Archer The Guv'nor The India-Rubber Men Jack O' Judgment     REVIEW A King By Night The Joker     REVIEW The Man At The Carlton The Man Who Knew The Man Who Passed The Melody of Death The Missing Million The Mind of Mr J. G. Reeder The Murder Book of Mr. J.G. Reeder (Collection) Mr J. G. Reeder Returns Mr Justice Maxell Red Aces Room 13 The Secret House   REVIEW The Square Emerald Blackmail, impersonation, murder, an ex-prisoner, and a badly-treated little girl form part of the puzzle in a case investigated by one of the first women detectives. The Squealer The Strange Countess The Stretelli Case and Other Mystery Stories (Collection) Terror Keep The Three Just Men The Three Oak Mystery The Twister The Valley of Ghosts White Face    REVIEW The Yellow Snake Romantic quietish thriller, in which the heroinne agrees to marry the hero sight unseen, but first the plans of a man intent on world domination must be scuttled. R. A. J. WALLING The Corpse In The Crimson Slippers The Man with the Squeaky Voice JOHN R. WATSON & ARTHUR J. REES The Hampstead Mystery The Mystery of the Downs JEAN WEBSTER The Four Pools Mystery CAROLYN WELLS All At Sea Anybody But Anne Anything But The Truth The Bronze Hand A Chain of Evidence The Clue The Crime in the Crypt The Curved Blades The Deep Lake Mystery The Diamond Pin The Doorstep Murders Face Cards The Fourteenth Key The Gold Bag The Luminous Face The Man Who Fell Through The Earth The Mark of Cain The Maxwell Mystery The Mystery Girl The Mystery of the Sycamore The Onyx Lobby Raspberry Jam The Roll-Top Desk Mystery The Room With The Tassels Spooky Hollow The Tapestry Room Murder The Umbrella Murder Vicky Van Wheels Within Wheels Where's Emily? The White Alley PATRICIA WENTWORTH The Case is Closed STEVEN WESTLAW The Mystery of Lombardy Chambers EDITH WHARTON A Bottle of Perrier ETHEL LINA WHITE Fear Stalks The Village The Man Who Loved Lions Midnight House Put Out The Light She Faded Into Air The Spiral Staircase aka Some Must Watch A murderer prowls around a gale-lashed, isolated though well secured country house, in which nine people have locked themselves for the night. The head of the family orders nobody else be admitted under any circumstances, but just as he announces this, there is a thunderous knocking at the front door...    FULL REVIEW    ANOTHER REVIEW They See In Darkness The Third Eye Wax   REVIEW The Wheel Spins FREDERICK MERRICK WHITE The Almedi Concession The Black Narcissus The Blue Daffodil A Call On The Phone The Case for the Crown The Courage of Despair A Crime On Canvas The Corner House The Crimson Blind An Eye For An Eye Found Dead In Barkstone Lane In The Express The Leopard's Spots The Man Called Gilray The Man Who Knew The Man Who Rang The Bell The Mazaroff Rifle The Midnight Guest The Missing Blade The Mystery of the Four Fingers The Mystery of the Ravenspurs    REVIEW The Mystery of Room Five On The Night Express The Other Side of the Chess Board The Pawn and the Rook Proof Positive The Slave of Silence Three of Them The Yellow Face VICTOR L. WHITECHURCH The Affair of the Corridor Express Murder At The Pageant A Warning In Red WIKISOURCE LIBRARY Mystery short stories and collections EMLYN WILLIAMS Night Must Fall (play) VALENTINE WILLIAMS Blind Guess Dead Man Manor The Man With The Club Foot Masks Off At Midnight Okewood of the Secret Service The Singing Kettle The Yellow Streak A. M. WILLIAMSON The Castle of the Shadows C.N. & A. M. WILLIAMSON The Second Latchkey H. FREEMAN WOOD The Passenger from Scotland Yard SYDNEY FOWLER WRIGHT The Attic Murder The Bell Street Murders Crime and Co. The Jordans Murder Murder in Bethnal Square The Rissole Mystery Three Witnesses Too Much For Mr Jellipot Was Murder Done? Who Murdered Reynard? ISRAEL ZANGWILL The Big Bow Mystery     REVIEW Cheating the Gallows _________________ | Home | Our Fiction | Mystery Newsletters | Blog | Links | News Other Appearances | New Reviews