Crime & Mystery Fiction

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Frank L. Packard - Jimmie Dale and the Phantom Clue

Jimmie Dale, alias The Gray Seal, alias Smarlinghue, is back in the criminal underworld of New York. He is desperately trying to find the criminal called the Phantom, alias Gentleman Laroque, in order to protect...

Anna Simon 10 hours 17 minutes Jimmie Dale

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Carolyn Wells - Chain of Evidence

The Mystery: ”Mr. Stone," I began, «if three persons spent the night in an apartment so securely locked on the inside that there was no possible means of ingress, and if in the morning it was found that one of...

Richard Kilmer 7 hours 19 minutes

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Augustus Mayhew - Paved With Gold

The expressed goal of this book is to «write a truthful account of the miseries of criminal life» (from the preface). Thus, this book tells the story of Philip, a child who grew up in the workhouse until running away...

Bridget Herbes and 2 more 24 hours 48 minutes

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Carolyn Wells - Technique of the Mystery Story

For one, I have never been one of those who apologize for my frank and never-ending delight in mystery stories. Their mazes have led me unwearied through miles of printed pages, and if only the problem has been worth...

Lynn Lee and 15 more 11 hours 15 minutes

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Grant Allen - Recalled to Life

A woman is haunted by a terrible event she witnessed in her youth but is unable to make sense of — a murder, the sight of which is so traumatic that it drives every memory of life up to that moment from her mind. The...

Jacquerie 5 hours 19 minutes

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Children's Fiction

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Mildred A. Wirt Benson - Wishing Well

PENNY PARKER is a teen-aged sleuth and amateur reporter with an uncanny knack for uncovering and solving unusual, sometimes bizarre mysteries. The only daughter of widower Anthony Parker, publisher of the «Riverview...

Cheryl Adam 4 hours 41 minutes

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Bertram Mitford - Heath Hover Mystery

A stranger appears in the middle of the night at Heath Hover while John Seward Mervyn is tending the modest location in a wooded area near a pond. Legends abound regarding Heath Hover; legends such as one's inability...

Roger Melin 9 hours 56 minutes

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Sir Arthur Conan Doyle - His Last Bow (version 3)

His Last Bow: Some Reminiscences of Sherlock Holmes is a collection of previously published Sherlock Holmes stories by Arthur Conan Doyle, including the titular short story, «His Last Bow. The War Service of Sherlock...

David Clarke 7 hours 10 minutes

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Action & Adventure Fiction

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Mildred A. Wirt Benson - Behind the Green Door

Penny Parker is a teen-aged sleuth and amateur reporter with an uncanny knack for uncovering and solving unusual, sometimes bizarre mysteries. The only daughter of widower Anthony Parker, publisher of the «Riverview...

Cheryl Adam 4 hours 36 minutes

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Frank L. Packard - Further Adventures of Jimmie Dale

In the previous book of adventures , we met Jimmie Dale, a wealthy playboy by day, who at night put on a disguise and became The Gray Seal, a daredevil entering businesses or homes and cracking safes, always leaving...

Anna Simon 10 hours 31 minutes Jimmie Dale

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Carolyn Wells - Mystery Girl

Was it murder or suicide? All entrances to the study where the body was found were locked from the inside. The future college president and groom-to-be had no known cause for suicide, yet no clues in either direction...

Roger Melin 8 hours 8 minutes

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Guy Boothby - Doctor Nikola Returns

Guy Boothby’s character Doctor Antonio Nikola was one of the first great diabolical criminal masterminds. He was a Victorian forerunner to Fu Manchu and a sometime literary rival to Sherlock Holmes. He was ruthless in...

Peter John Keeble 7 hours 46 minutes

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Stolen Bacillus and other stories H. G. Wells

Eight Keys to Eden Mark Clifton

Songs of Innocence and Experience (version 2) William Blake

Russian Realities and Problems: Lectures delivered at Cambridge in August 1916

Short Story Collection Vol. 081

Around the World with the Children Frank G. Carpenter

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