The Sign of the Four (1890), also called The Sign of Four, is the second novel in which we find investigator Sherlock Holmes as the protagonist.Miss Mary Morstan hires...
A Romance Of Two Worlds
A Romance of Two Worlds was Marie Corelli's first novel, published in 1886. It referenced the contemporary debate between creationism and evolution, as well as supernatural...
The Friday Edition
Snow isn't all that's falling in Denver, Colorado on Christmas Eve.A beautiful, young district attorney tumbles from her balcony to her death.Police suspect suicide, but the...
The Under Dogs
In The Under Dogs Mr. Footner is in his finest form. In it he tells of the amazing detective skill of Rosika Storey alias Jessie Seipp, in the opinion of the New York police the...
The Dead Alive
The Dead Alive is a novel written by Wilkie Collins based on the famous Boorn Brothers murder case, reprinted with a side by side examination of the case by Rob Warden in 2005 by...
The Riddle Of The Sands
The Riddle of the Sands: A Record of Secret Service is a 1903 novel by Erskine Childers. The book, which enjoyed immense popularity in the years before World War I, is an early...
Orchids To Murder
Amos Lee Mappin is visited by the surly and self-centered Major Dunphy, dependent on his beautiful actress granddaughter, Mary Stannard. Mary has disappeared, and the detective...
The Old Man In The Corner
A nameless, eccentric old man, sitting in the corner of a cozy London tea shop, uses pure deduction to solve a series of baffling crimes — from gruesome murders and cases of...
The Solution Of A Mystery
A man is charged with murder and his life is threatened with death if he does not confess. But he causes bewilderment by choosing not to speak. What's behind it? Is he...
The Mark Of Cain
A businessman Rowland Trowbridge was fatally wounded by an unknown attacker and his last words were: "Cain killed me." Did he refer to his nephew Kane Landon, or could...
