Fiction

Originally published in 1913, this collection of classic Arsene Lupin short stories presents more puzzling criminal actions and involvements of the French hero-thief and his band of devil-may-care men.

This is a pre-1923 historical reproduction that was curated for quality. Quality assurance was conducted on each of these books in an attempt to remove books with imperfections introduced by the digitization process.

The Circular Staircase, Mary Roberts Rinehart’s classic tale of murder and intrigue in a pre-World War I mansion, is evocative yet strangely modern, a sort of CSI: Downton Abbey, with butlers and maids sprinkled in amongst the bodies and evidence.

Lawrence Blakely, an attorney-in-law carrying important papers, stumbles on a murder aboard a train. Meanwhile, his bag containing the valuable documents has been stolen, along with his clothes, and he's being accused of the killing when the train is wrecked. Blakely and a mysterious young woman may be the car's only survivors.

Cornelia Van Gorder does not scare easily and is excited to be playing detective, but after stumbling upon a corpse, Cornelia realizes that it is no game and that she is hot on the trail of an evil killer known as The Bat. Reissue.

Convinced that a murder has been committed in her boarding house after discovering a series of suspicious clues, Mrs. Pittman, unsupported by the police, begins an informal investigation. Reprint.

This is a story of love, intrigue and adventure in a European court. In this story Mrs. Rinehart combines mystery, heart interest, and excitement of her past successes into a story that will be hailed as the most interesting of all her stories.

Tish Carberry, Aggie, and Lizzie embark on three more outrageous adventures in More Tish.

When Sidney takes K. Le Moyne in as a border, her future becomes irretrievably entwined with the mystery that enshrouds his past.

When Tom and Huck are invited to stay on Tom's uncle's farm in Arkansas, they jump at the opportunity to escape the tedium of a long winter at home.

This is a pre-1923 historical reproduction that was curated for quality. Quality assurance was conducted on each of these books in an attempt to remove books with imperfections introduced by the digitization process.

“One episode simply melts away as the next takes over” (The New York Times) in this deliciously sinister turn-of-the-century tale of a French evil genius run rampant. Three appalling crimes leave all of Paris aghast

Book Excerpt : ...your lace negligée. It took me quite a time to finish, and I thought you'd probably like it as soon as possible.""Oh, I thought it had already come. I'm very glad you brought it. There would have been a fine row if it hadn't been ready for me to wear this evening."

When artist John Trenholme accepts a welcome commission from a magazine editor to journey down to an old Hertfordshire village and make a series of sketches he did not in the least expect to get mixed up with a murder, and to find himself to be one of the most important witnesses.

Louis Tracy (1863 - 1928) was a British journalist, and prolific writer of fiction. He used the pseudonyms Gordon Holmes and Robert Fraser, which were at times shared with M. P. Shiel, a collaborator from the start of the twentieth century.

"Taxi, sir? Yes, sir. No. 4 will be yours." A red-faced, loud-breathing commissionaire, engaged in the lucrative task of pocketing sixpences as quickly as he could summon cabs, vanished in a swirl of macintoshes and umbrellas.

Louis Joseph Vance (1879-1933) was an American novelist. His character Michael Lanyard ("The Lone Wolf"), appeared in 8 books and 24 films between 1917 and 1949, as well as radio and TV series.

Five Weeks in a Balloon is an adventure novel by Jules Verne. It is the first Verne novel in which he perfected the "ingredients" of his later work, skillfully mixing a plot full of adventure and twists that hold the reader's interest with passages of technical, geographic, and historic description

IT was night at Tahiti, in the Society Islands. The trade-wind had died away, and a bright flood of shimmering moonlight poured down upon the slumbering waters of a little harbour a few miles distant from Matavai Bay, and the white curve or beach that fringed the darkened line of palms shone and glistened like a belt of ivory under the effulgence of its rays.

This Halcyon Classics ebook contains three works by screenwriter and novelist Leigh Brackett. Brackett (1915-1978) wrote dozens of works during a nearly forty-year career, including screenplays for The Big Sleep (1945), Rio Bravo (1959), The Long Goodbye (1973) and The Empire Strikes Back (1980). Brackett was a versatile writer, penning space opera like BLACK AMAZON OF MARS, along with detective stories, westerns, and other works.