This file includes: The Face and the Mask, From Whose Bourne, The Heralds of Fame, In a Steamer Chair and Other Shipboard Stories, In the Midst of Alarms, Jennie Baxter Journalist, Lord Batranleigh Abroad, One Day's Courtship, The O'Rudy, A Prince of Good Fellows, Revenge! A Rock in the Baltic, The Strong Arm, The Sword Maker, The Triumphs of Eugene Valmont, and A Woman Intervenes. According to Wikipedia: "Robert Barr (September 16, 1849 October 21, 1912) was a British-Canadian novelist, b...

Murder Under The Mistletoe gathers Christmas-season mysteries in which domestic warmth, ritual festivity, and winter seclusion become instruments of suspense. Its selection ranges from detective puzzles and locked-room enigmas to comic crime, sensation narrative, and psychologically alert tales of deception. Yuletide settings—houses bright with holly, crowded gatherings, railway journeys, and snowbound streets—sharpen the genre's enduring contrast between communal celebration and concealed...

"99 Science Fiction Short Stories" brings together some of the finest sci fi short stories ever crafted. Featuring gems from masters of the genre, such as H.G Wells , Robert Barr , PKD, Marion Zimmer Bradley, Norton, and many, many more!

The Detective Fiction Collection brings together 28 of the greatest detective classics ever written, by the greatest authors to ever live.Featuring:IN A GROVE, by Ryūnosuke AkutagawaFANTOMAS, by Marcel AllainTHE TRIUMPHS OF EUGENE VALMONT, by Robert BarrTHE WOMAN IN BLACK, by E.C. BentleyTHE ISLAND MYSTERY, by George BirminghamFOUR MAX CARRADOS DETECTIVE STORIES, by Ernest Bramah SmithTHE WISDOM OF FATHER BROWN, by G.K. Chesterton

BLOODY, BLOODY CHRISTMAS gathers the festive season's shadow literature: mysteries, thrillers, Gothic visitations, detective puzzles, and ironic seasonal reversals. Against familiar images of hearth, charity, snow, and reunion, these works disclose concealment, danger, crime, and the uncanny. The volume ranges from sensation fiction and supernatural terror to comic misdirection, moral allegory, and the developing logic of detective narrative, making Christmas not merely a setting but a pre...

This carefully edited collection contains the greatest tales of the legendary British sleuths and investigators, including Sherlock Holmes, Hercule Poirot, Father Brown, Tommy and Tuppence, Dr. Thorndyke and many others: Sherlock Holmes Series: A Study in Scarlet The Sign of Four The Hound of the Baskervilles The Valley of Fear The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes The Return of Sherlock Holmes His Last Bow Father Brown Stories: The Innocence of Father Brown The ...

Classic mystery novel, first published in 1894.

Classic novel. According to Wikipedia: "Robert Barr (September 16, 1849 October 21, 1912[1]) was a British-Canadian novelist, born at Glasgow, Scotland. He immigrated to Upper Canada at age four and was educated in Toronto at Toronto Normal School. Barr was headmaster of the Central School, Windsor, Ontario, and in 1876 became a member of the staff of the Detroit Free Press, in which his contributions appeared under the signature "Luke Sharp." In 1881 he removed to London, to establish the...

The 'Christmas Mystery Special' anthology stitches together a rich tapestry of narrative intrigue and seasonal enigma, fashioned by a constellation of seminal literary figures. This collection spans a diverse array of styles, from the detective tales of fog-laden Victorian London streets to the eerie whispers of ghostly visitations on Christmas Eve. The anthology's essence captures the unique juxtaposition of warmth and mystery that the holiday season provides. Notably, the volume includes...

Christmas Under the Veil of Mystery gathers holiday tales in which festivity, domestic intimacy, and winter's enclosing darkness become occasions for detection, deception, and revelation. Spanning puzzle plots, sensation fiction, comic misdirection, supernatural unease, and criminal adventure, the volume places the Christmas setting in productive tension with murder and mystery. Its range extends from the locked-room-like intricacies and evidentiary logic of classic detection to Gothic atm...

The Unusual Suspects surveys the formative richness of crime and mystery fiction, bringing together tales of deduction, burglary, psychological suspense, courtroom intrigue, and comic misdirection. Its range extends from Gothic atmospherics and sensation-fiction revelations to the tightly patterned puzzles of the Golden Age, revealing how the genre continually tests the boundaries between evidence, concealment, and narrative surprise. Stories of impossible crimes, elusive thieves, suspicio...

SUMMERTIME MADNESS – Murder Mysteries to Keep You Relaxed gathers the many pleasures of classic crime fiction beneath an invitingly ironic seasonal title. Its murders, thefts, disappearances, and ingenious deductions move from Gothic unease and sensation fiction to the clipped puzzle, comic caper, locked-room enigma, and early hard-edged adventure tale. Memorable investigations, gentleman thieves, eccentric sleuths, and domestic secrets demonstrate how mystery converts social disorder into...