Fiction

Emile Gaboriau's first detective novel, which introduces his amateur detective and young police officer named Monsieur Lecoq.

Emile Gaboriau (1833-1873) is an important figure in the history of detective fiction. A French journalist and novelist, he created the "roman policier" with a series of books involving private detective Monsieur Lecoq, who works logically.

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In the Paris evening papers of Tuesday, February 28, 1866, under the head of Local Items, the following announcement appeared: "A daring robbery, committed against one of our most eminent bankers, M. Andre Fauvel, caused great excitement this morning throughout the neighborhood of Rue de Provence.

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The Zeppelin's Passengerby Edward Phillips Oppenheim"Never heard a sound," the younger of the afternoon callers admitted, getting rid of his empty cup and leaning forward in his low chair.

E. Phillips Oppenheim was a popular 20th century writer best known for penning suspenseful thriller novels like The Mystery of Mr. Bernard Brown. 

The year is 1913. The disgraced and formerly penniless aristocrat Sir Everard Dominey returns from German East Africa a reformed and wealthy man determined to take his place in English society.

The year is 1913. The disgraced and formerly penniless aristocrat Sir Everard Dominey returns from German East Africa a reformed and wealthy man determined to take his place in English society.

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Peter Ruff and the Double-four This book, "Peter Ruff and the Double-four", by Edward Phillips Oppenheim, is a replication of a book originally published before 1912. It has been restored by human beings, page by page, so that you may enjoy it in a form as close to the original as possible.

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A murder is committed among the rich of a small town, and all the evidence seems to point to a beautiful young woman…

Jessie Dame calls Major Amery “The Sinister Man.” Secretary Ella Marlowe is the ward of Maurice Tarn, who has drunkenly but seriously proposed

King Kerry is going to buy London. This morning, he is on his way to buy shops in Oxford Street. Elsie Marion is late for work when she falls into conversation with him. Suddenly, two shots ring out. They miss, but King Kerry seems to know his attacker.

Lady's Stairs was a crazy wooden house overlooking and overhanging the creek between canal and river. You saw it from the lock that marked the place where canal ended and the broad, muddy estuary began, a sagging barn of a place, supported on huge wooden piles, with a dingy facade which had once been painted white, and then not painted again.

Dick Martin is leaving Scotland Yard. His final job, investigating a stolen book, takes him via a conversation with the librarian Sybil Lansdown to Gallows Cottage and a meeting with Doctor Stalletti.

When the body of the owner of a prominent department store is discovered in Hyde Park with a bullet wound, a card bearing four Chinese characters meaning “He brought this trouble upon himself,” and a bouquet of daffodils on his chest, Scotland Yard calls in Jack Tarling, a detective recently returned from China.

When Cartwright and Maxell visit the theater in Tangiers, Cartwright boldly liberates the Irish singer Miss O'Grady from her infamous surroundings, so angering the theater owner's son and the Spaniard Jose Ferreria