Austin: 1740 books

The mythical hunting duo Jack and Sarah are back, this time taking things to the extreme, cold weather that is. When they are sent to a remote town in Alaska to investigate a report of something nasty lurking in the mountain's they are soon thrown into a cold turmoil. With two people already missing...

When a man is found floating beneath the skin of a green-skimmed pond one morning, Dr Thorndyke becomes embroiled in an astonishing case. This wickedly entertaining detective fiction reveals that the victim was murdered through a lethal injection and someone out there is trying to cover it up.

From The Further Adventures of Romney Pringle, a collection of short stories about an engaging crook and literary agent who lives in Furnival's Inn, cycling everywhere no matter what the scam…

The history upon which I am now embarking abounds in incidents so amazing that, as I look back on them, a something approaching to skepticism contends with my vivid recollections and makes me feel almost apologetic in laying them before the reader. Some of them indeed are so out of character with...

When a store of priceless jewels vanishes without a trace, the brilliant Dr. Thorndyke and his skilled associate, Mr. Polton, are called in to chase a thief who leaves no trace.

Dr Oldfield finds himself caught one night in a police hunt. When he stumbles upon a policeman struck dead by an unknown assailant, Oldfield determines to piece together what happened. What unravels is a story of ingenious theft involving diamonds and the remains of an artist’s body found in a kiln....

Humphrey Challoner is an eccentric collector and amateur scientist who has put his vast fortune to work funding his many unusual interests and obsessions. When his beloved wife is murdered, Challoner decides to take the law into his own hands and dispense justice on his own terms. The Uttermost Farthing provides an interesting view of how far one man will go to right a wrong.

The Case of the White Footprints is a murder mystery set in Margate. A lady has been found dead in her room in a boarding house. At first glance it looks like a clear case of suicide, but then the two doctors attending the death spot a set of white footprints in paint on the red linoleum of...

Mr Pottermack is a law abiding, settled, homebody who has nothing to hide until the appearance of the shadowy Lewison, a gambler and blackmailer with an incredible story. It appears that Pottermack is in fact a runaway prisoner, convicted of fraud and Lewison is about to spill the beans, unless he...

The National Portrait Gallery is the opening setting for this delightful mystery of theft and fraud. A painter copies diligently from a watercolour one morning when an enigmatic musician suddenly appears and causes mayhem with his musical interludes, hopping from one picture to another and giving...

This collection reprints eight of Freeman's best Dr. Thorndyke stories. Every device used in these stories was previously tested by the author. As a special feature in this collection, "31 New Inn," the story that established the character of Dr. Thorndyke, is reprinted for the first time...

Set in the rambling rural countryside of nineteenth century England, this selection of stories takes the reader through a myriad cast of suspicious characters and scenarios. Meet the widow anxious to bury her husband before the autopsy. Meet the artist who’s brushes have never been used. Meet the...

In this tightly plotted novel, we follow the bizarre career of a man who loathes criminals. After Humphrey Challoner finds his wife killed by the bullet of a robber in his home, he vows to catch the man. Mr. Challoner is a wealthy savant, and he saved the fingerprints of the robber as well as some...

Helen Vardon finds herself in a predicament after overhearing her father and a man named Otway arguing about funds that have gone missing from a trust. Believing that it’s the only way to save her father from going to prison, Helen agrees to marry Otway, who’s many years her senior. But their...