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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

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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

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

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

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

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 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 Man in the Brown Suit
The Murder On The Links
The Mysterious Affair at Styles
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

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 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
Dead Men's Money
The Herapath Property
In the Mayor's Parlour
The Markenmore Mystery
The Middle Of Things
The Orange-Yellow Diamond
The Middle Temple Murder
The Paradise Mystery
Ravensdene Court
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
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 Night of the Storm
The Poisoned Goblet
The Silent Dead
The Shadow of Larose
The Storm Breaks
Strychnine For Village Dogs
The Tragedy of the Silver Moon
The Vaults of Blackarden Castle
Wild Justice

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
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
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
A Thief in the Night

FERGUS HUME
The Bishop's Secret
A Coin of Edward VII: 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
The Mikado Jewel
The Mystery of a Hansom Cab
Madame Midas
The Millionaire Mystery
The Mystery Queen
The Opal Serpent    REVIEW
The Piccadilly Puzzle
The Pink Shop
The Purple Fern
The Red Bicycle
The Red-Headed Mane
Red Money
The Scarlet Bat
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
The Turnpike House
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
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The Confessions of Arsene Lupin
The Eight Strokes of the Clock (Collection)
The Extraordinary Adventures of Arsene Lupin, Gentleman-Burglar

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

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

A. G. MACDONELL
The Shakespeare Murders

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
Detective Stories
The Dorrington Deed-Box (Collection)
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 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 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

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 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 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 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 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
Anybody But Anne
A Chain of Evidence
The Clue
The Curved Blades
The Deep Lake Mystery
The Diamond Pin
Face Cards
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 Room With The Tassels
Spooky Hollow
Vicky Van
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

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

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