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Jennie is called upon to impersonate the Princess von Steinheimer at the Duchess of Chiselhurst’s Ball. Third in the Jennie Baxter series. Includes an introduction by John Betancourt. …

“Another gripping novel from Classic Detective Presents”…When an elderly pawnbroker is murdered in the London parish of Paddington, a young, down on his luck writer is accused of the crime. But then …

Émile Gaboriau was a renowned 19th century French writer who wrote a number of mystery classics that helped revolutionize the genre. This is one of his most famous works. …

The story takes place at the end of the nineteenth century at the World’s Fair in Chicago. Carl Masters is one of a legion of secret service men – employed to keep the multitudes safe, and be on the …

“Another gripping novel from Classic Detective Presents”…When Mr. Thomas Lyne, poet, poseur. and owner of Lyne’s Emporium insults a cashier, Odette Rider, she resigns. Having summoned detective Jack …

On the surface, the crime seems simple. A bank’s secure safe is robbed. One of the two men who holds the key must be guilty. One key-holder is the bank’s owner who lives above the bank with his famil …

Roger Sloane is a young American living on the Cote d’Azur during the late 1920’s. He meets an old classmate who is wandering Europe after inheriting a title in England. Together the two friends, alo …

Yes I’m not mistaken at all _It’s the same woman _ whispered the tall, good-looking young Englishman in a well-cut navy suit as he stood with his friend, a man some ten years older than himself, at o …

Frank Lucius Packard (1877-1942), a Canadian Novelist and railway engineer, wrote the Jimmie Dale mysteries and other works. Doors of the Night is quite possibly his greatest mystery novel, and highl …

Though he did work for a small-town newspaper, Ken Svederup had been around, and to him the expense-paid trip he had won for a front-page news beat seemed pretty phony. But never look a gift horse… …