Classic Mysteries: 140 books

Four hard-boiled detective and mystery tales.

Perplexing tale of a detective who collars a criminal, and is then accused of murdering the still living perpetrator.  Great pulp fiction thriller.

A collection of twenty detective and suspense tales by Robert Barr.

A hard-boiled thriller, hard to put down.

Un roman classique et conte d'aventure de Pierre Loti.

Unusual tale of a young woman who meets soemone who thinks he knows her, but does not. Then, she finally realizes that there is someone in town who looks just like her. She sets out to find this person, and there is where the adventure begins, alnong with the mquestion: Who IS this girl?

Lionel Maxwell is a sculptor who discovers in Paris a book concerning the legend of the White Priests--immortals offered by Ormuzd to Ahriman as a gesture of good faith. Maxwell joins an expedition to seek out the legendary beings, before returning home to construct a statue based on what he's seen...

Here is a collection of purportedly true tales of the supernatural. Hauntings, ghosts, apparitions, and even a haunted bar of soap adorn these pages. Not for the squeamish or easily frightened.

A humorous tale of mystery, espionage, and romance.

Guy Boothby's famous creation of Dr. Nikola has become familiar to every reader of fiction.

The mystery has to do with the murderous rites of the 'Brotherhood of the Dew,' a superstitious sect of the Zulus on the borders of Natal, who had a horrible way of sacrificing human beings in order to bring rain at times of drought. This is only discovered after the mysterious disappearance of two...

A man witnesses what he believe to be a murder in the house next door. An amateur detective, he seeks to solve the strange dichotomy that he was sure he witnessed. A truly engrossing thriller.

A mystery/thriller about an English gentleman who becomes involved in circumstances surrounding a murder in his building. Most of the action takes place in London, with an interlude in France.

An mystery full of international intrigue, beginning in Victoria Station, London, and ending in an Arab bazaar.