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
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 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
