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On a wet and windy silent night in the sleeping city of London, the body of a man is found sprawled across Millfield Lane. So begins an ill wind and the puzzle of an intriguing stranger in this encha …

A Poor Wise Man mixes romantic fiction with political analysis. This engrossing story begins, ‘The city turned its dreariest aspect toward the railway on blackened walls, irregular and ill-paved stre …

Arthur Morrison was a British writer best known for novels about London’s East End, as well as detective fiction works that featured the character Martin Hewitt. …

A rather interesting and quite complex classic mystery encompassing a murder which occurs in a quiet cathedral town and involving a myriad of characters all of which keep the reader quite puzzled thr …

Alchemy is generally understood to have been that art whose end was the transmutation of the so-called base metals into gold by means of an ill-defined something called the Philosopher’s Stone; but e …

The narrative begins with the auction by the US Government of fictional Spencer Island, located 460 miles off the California coast. The island is uninhabited and there are only two bidders, William W …

The mystery has to do with the murderous rites of the ‘Brotherhood of the Dew, ‘ a superstitious sect of the Zulus on the borders of Natal, who had a horrible way of sacrificing human beings in order …

The first of Cottrel Hoe’s tales of Jennie Baxter, a Victorial journalist-sleuth, as Jennie seeks a job at the Daily Bugle—but has to prove herself by out-scooping the men. Includes an introduction b …

Wealthy Bohemian artist Rowland Sinclair and his lively companions are sailing homewards to Australia on the RMS Aquitania. The ship embodies luxury and civilised respite from the tensions of the Dep …

While visiting the United States, the wife of young British aristocrat Lord Waldmere goes missing in New York City under mysterious circumstances. He tell his story to Nick Carter, and Nick accepts t …