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“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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

Like ‘The Mystery of the Yellow Room’, ‘The Secret of the Night’ is a Joseph Rouletabille mystery written by Gaston Leroux in 1913. Gaston Leroux, perhaps best known as the author of ‘The Phantom of …

Somewhere in London a madman was at large. And then one night there came a knock at the door of a quiet lodging house in the Marylebone Road. . . . This novel, based on the Jack the Ripper murders, w …

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. …

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 …

I spent a miserable night. I went to bed early, and lay awake till daybreak. The hideous nightmare of the green ray kept me awake for many nights to come. The General agreed with me that we must wast …

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 …