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RED MONEY That’s what the gypsy woman called it. ‘Red money because it is tainted with blood!’ declared Mother Cockleshell, between her bouts of fortune telling amidst the Romany caravans parked in A …

A QUEER, unexpected streak of sunshine, which by some miracle had found its way through a pall of clouds and low-hanging mist, suddenly fell as though exhausted across the asphalt path of the Embankm …

John Gillum arrives in London from Australia apparently a wealthy man and then proceeds to cheerfully gamble his entire fortune away. During this period he cultivates the friendship of Mortimer, the …

In this elegant drama, Anna Katharine Green, one of the greatest mystery writers of all time, weaves a narrative with her usual consummate skill, and portrays her characters with exceptional sympathy …

I, for one, shouldn’t be sorry to go. She is getting too impossible!” “She is!” put in Anita; “every day she pounds us worse! I’d like to kill her!” The fierce words and would-be menacing glance of t …

In 1717, Chika’s greed leads him to the lairs of his village’s most-feared god, Alaogbaga. His pledge to the god is simple enough: ‘Protect me and make me rich, then take my life after fifteen years’ …

When his parents leave him alone in his house for the weekend, a teenager can’t get a woman off his mind. When he turns to a visitor for advice, the motto ‘Show don’t tell’ comes into play—vvwith dis …

Persons possessed of sluggish livers and tender hearts find two serious drawbacks to the enjoyment of a cruise at sea. It is exceedingly difficult to get enough walking exercise; and it is next to im …

‘It’s old Mr. Bartle, sir, ‘ he whispered. ‘He’s in your room there — dead ‘ ‘Dead?’ exclaimed Eldrick. ‘Dead ‘ Pratt shook his head again. ‘He came up not so long after you’d gone, sir, ‘ he said. …

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.  This work includes the followi …