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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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

Any reasonable summary of this book’s plot would give away too much of the mystery it describes, so suffice it to say that it is a definite ‘page-turner.’ Right from the first chapter, when we learn …

Cleek is a master of disguise, an able assistant to the head of Scotland Yard, and a former criminal. Hanshew’s best-known creation was the consulting detective Hamilton Cleek, known as ‘the man of t …

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 …

While trailing a suspect, Nick witnesses a woman being stabbed, which propels him into a new case involving Doc Helstone’s ruthless gang—and stolen diamonds. …