Classic Mysteries: 140 books

A novel of romance and adventure, of love and valor, of mystery and hidden treasure. The hero is required to spend a whole year in the isolated house, which according to his grandfather's will shall then become his. If the terms of the will be violated the house goes to a young woman whom the will,...

He played high, loose and recklessly with the most dangerous partner--Death.

Gangsters, businessmen and politicians are indistinguishable from one another, and law and order are just signs that corruption is going smoothly. And the closest thing to a hero is a disillusioned mobster whose chief – and perhaps only remaining – virtues are that he doesn’t lie and that he...

An artist is hired to do a portrait of a man's wife.  But, he wonders, is this really a person, or is it an apparition?  Strange, evocative tale of romance and horror.

Lurid pulp novel of sex, murder, and hard-boiled detectives.  The book jackes says:  "Shannon was a woman who used sex like a weapon.  She could be a short cut to the top --- or a ticket to the morgue."

A man falls in love with a truly horrible but terribly beautiful woman.

The inside blurb says: Those of our readers who read our narrative "Two Wonderful Detectives," will more especially enjoy the further adventures of Jack Alvarez. To those who did not read that narrative we will state that this remarkable detective had just solved a great mystery--one of the most remarkable detective feats ever accomplished.

A long collection of very frightening, and sometimes 'true' ghost stories of the past.

Tightly woven, action packed tale of murder and suspense.

a suspenseful thriller by le Queux.

Cheerful, optimistic, and the most modest of men, Gerry Sant has seldom spoken of his own adventures. The son of a certain nobleman who must here remain nameless, and hence the scion of a noble house, he has graduated through all stages of the dark and devious ways of espionage.  You don't want to...

The author relates: In this story I have dealt with an extraordinary phase of modern life in London, which to the majority will come as a startling revelation. Some will, perhaps, declare that no such amazing state of things exists in this, the most enlightened age the world has known....

Is it possible in this day of enlightened justice for a man to be punished twice for the same crime? Double Jeopardy answers this question, at the same time uncovering the greatest of many loopholes in our modern jurisprudence. In this very human but striking novel are portrayed the calamities that...

A collection of a dozen interlinked short novels of mystery and romance, all told in the first person. Panned by some reviewers as utter trash, lauded by others as a work of genius---we will let the readers decide. Sultry and sexy, yet fast paced and literary, this is a work not to be missed.