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First published in 1929, public domain. A collection of eight short stories featuring Gabriel Gale, an eccentric poet and portrait-painter. Gale’s madness is the madness of insight and he uses this gift to solve or prevent crimes committed by madmen.
The story is set around a small boarding house in Bolton Spa and its owners and lodgers. It focuses on the eccentric collection of summer residents, mostly there to try and recover their health, overseen by the domineering former Indian Army Colonel Chase. According...
Earl Derr Biggers' mystery ''The Black Camel'' was first published in 1929. The death of Hollywood actress Shelah Fane in her Waikiki beach house brings Charlie Chan of the Honolulu police to seek the identity of the killer. The story behind her murder is linked with...
First published in 1929, ''The Eye in the Museum'' is the first book in J. J. Connington’s series featuring Superintendent Ross of Scotland Yard. This ‘golden-age’ mystery centers on a young woman, Joyce Hazlemere, and her wealthy Aunt Evelyn. The aunt, who can become...
First published in 1929, now public domain, this is a classic Hallowe'en mystery from pullitzer-winning Frances Noyes Hart. It's Hallowe'en, 1928. A group of friends gathers at the country home of a rich young widow, somewhere near Washington. At first, it seems that...
First published in 1929, now public domain, ''Hitty: HerFirst Hundred Years'' is the classic tale told from the point-of-view of an inanimate doll named Hitty, who was constructed in the 1820s and traveled around the world, through many different owners. From...
A shipwreck brings many interested people to a hamlet. What is on the wreck that is so important? As dead bodies show up and a cach of dynamite is discovered on the wreck, some romance blooms. Eventually the various people are sorted into insurance investigators,...
First published by the Mystery League Inc., New York, 1930. On a night of fog Pussy Herridge stole the Hardway diamonds—and on the same night they were re-stolen. It was a grim trail that Dick Penhampton followed which led him to discover one of them on a dead man in...
First published in 1929, public domain. Lardner, American humorist and short-story writer, is known for his mordant wit, exemplified in satirical stories and sketches of American life in the early 20th century told in the language of athletes, stockbrokers, secretaries,...
“Magic for Marigold” is about an imaginative young girl whose father died before she was born, and she has an imaginary friend. Marigold Lesley is anything but ordinary. With her vivid imagination and infectious laughter, she charms everyone around her—even if her...
Originally published in Norwegian in 1927, this translation by Arthur G. Chater first published in 1929, public domain. It is Norway in the thirteenth century, a land rent by unremitting warfare and feebly lit by Christianity. Olav Audunsson was once an outlaw; now he...
This young couple who have just eloped get into a car accident and a heap of trouble when they stumble into a tramp and the Green Dragon Inn. They have to solve the mysteries of why the Inn was abandoned, who locked the cook in the cupboard, and why the Chinaman is...
The fishing port of Carmouth was a health resort on the South West Coast, but for two of the inhabitants, at least, it was to prove the opposite of healthy.
After the corpse of George Hawken had been found on the rocks near his Cornish home the coroner's jury brought in an open verdict. Hawken had been a respected but financially unsuccessful artist whose death benefited no one except one of his nephews, who inherited a...
Two old ladies, Miss Price and Miss Marsland, lived together in the Lodge Cottage. Old Miss Price’s death looked like a tragic accident: she must have slipped and fallen in the icy yard of the cottage when, wearing a duffle coat against the cold, she went to fetch a...
When Pauline Clobury is found murdered in the dark and the rain near the gate of Prior’s Farm, suspicion centers on her young husband whom she plans to divorce. But when a new development occurs at the greenhouse of the same estate, both Superintendent James Waghorn, of...
The story revolves around the mysterious murder of Mr. James Tovey, a well-known greengrocer, followed by another death in the same area.The narrative introduces various characters, including Mr. Tovey’s daughter Ivy, and the herbalist Mr. Elmer Ludgrove, who may play...
A businessman dies in an elevator in such a way that it seems as though no one could have committed the murder. A seemingly impossible murder in a private elevator draws two sleuths to the case. Inspector Hornbeam and Dr. Horatio Glass are at odds from the beginning,...
Mr. Wedgwood was puzzled. It was odd, he thought, as he looked from his bedroom window, that someone should leave a large closed car in the middle of his front yard, but what confused him even more was the shimmering brilliance it seemed to assume as the sun rose...
In Death of a Bridegroom, Inspector Jimmy Waghorn investigates the death of a man found hanging in his workshop on the morning of his wedding day. Initially, the death is believed a suicide, but doubts begin to arise and Dr. Priestley is brought in to assist the police...
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