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As Kay Tracey walks into the flower shop, a smiling young stranger hails her with, "Hello there. Grand party last night, wasn't it?" Kay has never seen him before! Neither does she know any of several other people who greet her that morning as an old friend. Mistaken...
Kay's friend, Sissy Weller, unexpectedly learns that she is to inherit a fortune if she can prove that her real name is Christine Cleveland. The mystery is how anybody could connect Sissy with Christine when Sissy is adopted and has no knowledge of her true identity....
Kay tries to thwart the evil plans of a weird gypsy. This teen mystery follows 16-year-old sleuthKay Tracey as she uncovers a mystery involving a vanishing portrait of a gypsy, a missing heir, a stolen treasure, and a criminal gang. Kay investigates a mysterious...
"I can't put my name to this." Kay is taken aback when Mrs. Van Hutton refuses to sign a paper prepared by her lawyer, Bill Tracey. When Kay notices that Mrs. Van Hutton has a secret meeting with a man named Stannovi, Kay suspects that Stannovi is influencing Mrs. Van...
Danger follows Kay as she searches for a priceless violin, investigating the theft of a priceless Stradivarius violin from her friend Rosa. Kay uncovers a mystery involving a mysterious key, a dishonest antique dealer, and her rival, Ethel Eaton. Kay finds her friend...
The thieves start back to the freight car for another load of stolen goods. This is Kay’s chance. Quickly she lets herself into the shack and lifts the trap-door. In the dark cellar, dimly lighted by the lamp, she sees many crates and boxes, undoubtedly the thieves’...
Teenage sleuth Kay Tracy investigates a stolen money mystery at a country fair, uncovers secrets regarding a missing baby found near a farm, and outwits criminals to save her aunt's inheritance. Can Kay find the missing clue and outwit the mysterious stranger? Kay, her...
“Silence for the Murderer” is a 1949 Inspector French mystery by Freeman Wills Crofts about a blackmailed ex-soldier, Frank Roscoe, who gets involved in a swindle with a woman named Dulcie Heath, leading to the suspicious death (ruled suicide) of Roscoe's wealthy...
''Murder in Absence'' by Miles Burton (John Rhode) is about two seemingly separate crimes: first, the baffling murder of estate agent Rufus Jones in English market town Hembury, followed by an investigation into suspicious activities on a Norwegian freighter in the...
''A Will in the Way'' by Miles Burton (John Rhode) is a 1947 detective novel featuring Inspector Arnold and amateur sleuth Desmond Merrion, focusing on the suspicious death of Dilys Botesdale, wife of a man recovering in a mental institution, with the investigation...
The story of Genghis Khan. What is the mystery that surrounds Genghis Khan? More gigantic in historical literature than Alexander the Great, the Caesars, Napoleon, or Hitler... 750 years ago, Genghis Khan, the great Mongolian warlord conquered half the world. A nomad, a...
The Crook's Shadow by J. Jefferson Farjeon is a classic British mystery novel about a Scotland Yard detective, Inspector Edward Strood, hunting a master jewel thief aiming for a fortune in diamonds aboard a yacht in Cornwall, mixing suspenseful cat-and-mouse pursuit...
These Lovers Fled Away (1955) by Howard Spring is an epic, intergenerational British family saga spanning from the Boer War to World War II. Narrated by Chad Boothroyd, the novel follows the complex, long-lasting romantic entanglements and social changes affecting a...
“Top Storey Murder” by Anthony Berkeley is a classic mystery featuring gentleman sleuth Roger Sheringham, who investigates the strangulation of a reclusive woman, Miss Adelaide Barnett, in her top-floor flat, a seemingly simple burglary gone wrong that Scotland Yard...
''The Layton Court Mystery'' by Anthony Berkeley is a classic Golden Age locked-room mystery, introducing amateur sleuth Roger Sheringham, about the apparent suicide of wealthy Victor Stanworth at his country estate, Layton Court, which Sheringham investigates,...
''Dunkerley's'' by Howard Spring is about the Dunkerley family, now wealthy from their successful penny journal Hard Facts, as their children come of age amidst family secrets, romance, ambition, and conflict in late 19th-century England, leading to drama and a...
This is a very Irish and poetic work of prose from a great writer little read these days. The story is based on ancient Irish hero tales, particularily 'The Hostel of Da Derga'. It is a very simple but engaging tale of four brothers, sons of a swordmaker, living in Gaul...
Death at the Helm (1941) is a Golden Age detective novel featuring recurring amateur sleuth, Dr. Lancelot Priestley, where Inspector Waghorn investigates the poisoning of two people on a grounded motor cruiser, a complex "howdunnit" rich in botanical details about...
The Vanishing Diary (1961) by John Rhode (Miles Burton) is the last installment in the Dr. Lancelot Priestley series, featuring Superintendent Jimmy Waghorn.The plot centers on a family dispute over a historic diary, locked in a double-sealed box, which vanishes,...
''Situation Vacant'' by Miles Burton (John Rhode) is a 1946 detective novel about a series of mysterious deaths in an English village, revolving around two secretaries to the same woman at a manor house, with Inspector Arnold and sleuth Desmond Merrion uncovering a...
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