Literary Collections

The Mill MysteryAuthor: Anna Katherine GreenPublisher: Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformPublication Date: Jul 28, 2015Number of Pages: 180 pagesBinding: Paperback or SoftbackISBN-10: 1515255433ISBN-13: 9781515255437

"The Mystery of the Hasty Arrow" from Anna Katharine Green. American poet and novelist (1846-1935).Author: Anna Katharine GreenPublisher: Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformPublication Date: Jul 28, 2015Number of Pages: 230 pagesBinding:...

"In the Mayor's Parlour" from J. S. Fletcher. British journalist and author (1863-1935).Author: J. S. FletcherPublisher: Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformPublication Date: Jul 31, 2015Number of Pages: 202 pagesBinding: Paperback or...

"Ravensdene Court" from J. S. Fletcher. British journalist and author (1863-1935).Author: J. S. FletcherPublisher: Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformPublication Date: Jul 31, 2015Number of Pages: 200 pagesBinding: Paperback or SoftbackISBN-10:...

Mallalieu and Cotherstone are successful businessmen in a Yorkshire town. Mallalieu is the mayor and Cotherstone the borough treasurer. A retired detective, Kitely, shatters their peaceful lives when he visits their office and informs them that he knows...

When John Horbury, the manager of a small bank in an English market town, disappears at the same time as some valuable jewels and securities from the bank, the bank's owners refuse to call in the police. When Mr Horbury's niece arrives she enlists the...

"Scarhaven Keep" from J. S. Fletcher. British journalist and author (1863-1935).Author: J. S. FletcherPublisher: Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformPublication Date: Jul 31, 2015Number of Pages: 184 pagesBinding: Paperback or SoftbackISBN-10:...

"The Middle of Things" from J. S. Fletcher. British journalist and author (1863-1935).Author: J. S. FletcherPublisher: Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformPublication Date: Jul 31, 2015Number of Pages: 186 pagesBinding: Paperback or...

This collection of literature attempts to compile many of the classic works that have stood the test of time and offer them at a reduced, affordable price, in an attractive volume so that everyone can enjoy them.Author: J. S. FletcherPublisher:...

When Jacob Herapath, an MP and well-known businessman, is found murdered in his office, the time of death is placed at midnight. However, his driver had left him at his home an hour earlier. With the addition of an allegedly forged will and two...

"The Rayner-Slade Amalgamation" from J. S. Fletcher. British journalist and author (1863-1935).Author: J. S. FletcherPublisher: Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformPublication Date: Jul 31, 2015Number of Pages: 198 pagesBinding: Paperback or...

Andrew Lauriston, a young writer, visits the premises of a pawnbroker only to find the man's dead body in suspicious circumstances. At first he is the prime suspect but is soon cleared of suspicion through the actions of his friends, John Purdie and...

A stranger to a small cathedral city falls to his death from some stairs in the cathedral. Was it an accident or murder? Bryce, a young egotistical assistant doctor, who always gets what he wants, decides to investigate, in the hope that he will find...

When John Mallathorpe, a wealthy industrialist, is killed in an accident, he is thought not to have made a will and the estate passes to his widowed sister-in-law and her children. Two years later an elderly bookseller finds the will in a book purchased...

"The Root of All Evil" from J. S. Fletcher. British journalist and author (1863-1935).Author: J. S. FletcherPublisher: Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformPublication Date: Jul 31, 2015Number of Pages: 186 pagesBinding: Paperback or...

Excerpt from In the Midst of Alarms: A Novel In the marble-floored vestibule of the Metropolitan Grand Hotel in Buffalo, Professor Stillson Renmark stood and looked about him with the anxious manner of a person unused to the gaudy splendor of the modern...

In some natures there are no half-tones; nothing but raw primary colours. John Bodman was a man who was always at one extreme or the other. This probably would have mattered little had he not married a wife whose nature was an exact duplicate of his own...

Lurine, was pretty, petite, and eighteen. She had a nice situation at the Pharmacie de Siam, in the Rue St. Honore. She had no one dependent upon her, and all the money she earned was her own. Her dress was of cheap material perhaps, but it was cut and...

In writing the following story, the author has had in view no purpose other than that of affording entertainment to such readers as are interested in problems of crime and their solutions; and the story itself differs in no respect from others of its...

This volume collects seven of Thorndyke's most puzzling stories, including "The Man with the Nailed Shoes," "The Moabite Cipher," "A Message from the Deep Sea," and many more.Author: R. Austin FreemanPublisher: Createspace Independent Publishing...

It was half-past eleven on the night of Wednesday, April 14th, when the well-known red limousine of Mr. Maverick Narkom, superintendent of Scotland Yard, came abruptly to the head of Mulberry Lane, which, as you may possibly know, is a narrow road...

54-40 or Fight Incipit CHAPTER I THE MAKERS OF MAPS There is scarcely a single cause in which a woman is not engaged in some way fomenting the suit.-Juvenal. "Then you offer me no hope, Doctor?" The gray mane of Doctor Samuel Ward waved like a fighting...

"Look at 'em come, Jesse! More and more! Must be forty or fifty families." Molly Wingate, middle-aged, portly, dark browed and strong, stood at the door of the rude tent which for the time made her home. She was pointing down the road which lay like an...

"[...] "Son," says he to me-he often called me that along of me being his segundo for so many years-"don't go away! I need you. I need something." Now I ain't nothing but a freckled cowpuncher, with red hair, and some says both my eyes don't track the...

Excerpt from The Mississippi Bubble: How the Star of Good Fortune Rose and Set and Rose Again Book II: The Door Of The West; The Storm; Au Large; The Pathway Of The Waters; Messasebe; Maize; The Brink Of Change; Tous Sauvages; The Dream; By The Hilt Of...

The Young Alaskans on the Missouri: Large Print By Emerson hough should think it was enough said his sister, laying down her work. The lady tapped her foot impatiently, a little frown gathering on her forehead. Uncle Dick smiled humorously as he glanced...

Excerpt from The Bee Hunters: A Tale of Adventure This region, in which the sound of the squatter's axe has not jet roused the slumbering echoes, is called the Far West. Here the Indians still reign as masters tracing paths on rapid mustangs, untamed as...

The Cross-CutAuthor: Courtnet Ryley CooperPublisher: Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformPublication Date: Sep 27, 2015Number of Pages: 178 pagesBinding: Paperback or SoftbackISBN-10: 1515327876ISBN-13: 9781515327875

At four o'clock in the morning everybody in the tent was still asleep, exhausted by the terrible march of the previous day. The hummocky ice and pressure-ridges that Bennett had foreseen had at last been met with, and, though camp had been broken at six...

Excerpt from The Log of a Cowboy: A Narrative of the Old Trail Days Just why my father moved, at the close of the civil war, from Georgia to Texas, is to this good hour a mystery to me. While we did not exactly belong to the poor whites, we classed with...