Mystery / Detective titles at manybooks.net http://manybooks.net/ New Mystery / Detective additions to the manybooks.net library. Thousands of free books, pre-formatted for reading on your PDA - eReader, PDF, Plucker, iSilo, Doc, or zTXT eBooks for your Palm, Pocket PC, Zaurus or Rocketbook! en-us webmaster@manybooks.net Wed, 20 Aug 08 09:01:05 -0500 <![CDATA[The Paradoxes of Mr. Pond]]> http://manybooks.net/titles/chestertother080500421.html Author: G.K. Chesterton

Language: English

Published: 1937

I. The Three Horsemen of Apocalypse
II. The Crime of Captain Gahagan
III. When Doctors Agree
IV. Pond the Pantaloon
V. The Unmentionable Man
VI. Ring of Lovers
VII. The Terrible Troubadour
VIII. A Tall Story

]]> http://manybooks.net/titles/chestertother080500421.html <![CDATA[Ravensdene Court]]> http://manybooks.net/titles/fletcherjs2632426324-8.html

Author: J.S. Fletcher

Language: English

Published: 1922

]]> http://manybooks.net/titles/fletcherjs2632426324-8.html <![CDATA[Malcom Sage, Detective]]> http://manybooks.net/titles/jenkinshother08Malcom_Sage_detective.html

Author: Herbert Jenkins

Language: English

Published: 1921

]]> http://manybooks.net/titles/jenkinshother08Malcom_Sage_detective.html <![CDATA[The Master of Mysteries]]> http://manybooks.net/titles/burgessgother08The_Master_of_Mysteries.html Being an Account of the Problems Solved by Astro, Seer of Secrets, and His Love Affair with Valeska Wynne, His Assistant

Author: Gelett Burgess

Language: English

Published: 1912

This collection of short mysteries follows Astro, a man posing as a psychic detective who is, in fact, just a keen observer and student of human nature. Originally published anonymously, you can combine the first letter in each of the 24 short stories to get the following message: "The Author is Gelett Burgess"

]]> http://manybooks.net/titles/burgessgother08The_Master_of_Mysteries.html <![CDATA[The Rover Boys on the Plains]]> http://manybooks.net/titles/stratemeyere2618226182.html

The Mystery of Red Rock Ranch

Author: Edward Stratemeyer

Language: English

Published: 1906

The present tale tells of adventures on the mighty Mississippi River, and then on the great plains, where Dick, Tom and Sam, and some of their friends, have a variety of adventures and assist in unraveling the mystery surrounding a lonely ranch. Of course, their old enemy, Baxter, is bound to make himself known, but the Rover boys do not fail to take care of themselves, as of old.

]]> http://manybooks.net/titles/stratemeyere2618226182.html <![CDATA[The Secret House]]> http://manybooks.net/titles/wallaceedga2617626176-8.html

Author: Edgar Wallace

Language: English

Published: 1919

Scandalous periodical "The Gossip's Corner" is run by a supposed blackmailer whose identity has baffled the police -- until T.B. Smith, a singlularly acute Assistant Commisioner, gradually tracks the man to the Secret House.

]]> http://manybooks.net/titles/wallaceedga2617626176-8.html <![CDATA[A Successful Shadow]]> http://manybooks.net/titles/halseyha2617526175-8.html A Detective's Successful Quest

Author: Harlan Page Halsey

Language: English

Published: 1899

Those of our readers who read our narrative "Two Wonderful Detectives," will more especially enjoy the further adventures of Jack Alvarez. To those who did not read that narrative we will state that this remarkable detective had just solved a great mystery--one of the most remarkable detective feats ever accomplished.

]]> http://manybooks.net/titles/halseyha2617526175-8.html <![CDATA[Two Wonderful Detectives]]> http://manybooks.net/titles/halseyha2615526155.html Jack and Gil's Marvelous Skill

Author: Harlan Page Halsey

Language: English

Published: 1898

]]> http://manybooks.net/titles/halseyha2615526155.html <![CDATA[Tom Ossington's Ghost]]> http://manybooks.net/titles/marshricother08Tom_Ossingtons_Ghost.html

Author: Richard Marsh

Language: English

Published: 1898

]]> http://manybooks.net/titles/marshricother08Tom_Ossingtons_Ghost.html <![CDATA[A Coin of Edward VII]]> http://manybooks.net/titles/humeferg2606326063-8.html

A Detective Story

Author: Fergus Hume

Language: English

Published: 1903

The Philadelphia Item says: "This book is quite up to the level of the high standard which Mr. Hume has set for himself in 'The Mystery of a Hansom Cab' and 'The Rainbow Feather.' It is a brilliant, stirring adventure, showing the author's prodigious inventiveness, his well of imagination never running dry."

]]> http://manybooks.net/titles/humeferg2606326063-8.html <![CDATA[Skull-Face]]> http://manybooks.net/titles/howardrother08skull-face.html Author: Robert E. Howard

Language: English

Published: 1929

]]> http://manybooks.net/titles/howardrother08skull-face.html <![CDATA[The Double Life]]> http://manybooks.net/titles/lerouxgaother08double_life.html

Author: Gaston Leroux

Language: English

Published: 1904

Theophraste Longuet, retired rubber stamp manufacturer, is periodically possessed by the spirit of long-dead villain Cartouche in this feverish French melodrama. (Also known as The Man with the Black Feather.)

]]> http://manybooks.net/titles/lerouxgaother08double_life.html <![CDATA[Monsieur Lecoq]]> http://manybooks.net/titles/gaboriau86508650-8.html Volume 1: L'enquête

Author: Émile Gaboriau

Language: French

]]> http://manybooks.net/titles/gaboriau86508650-8.html <![CDATA[The Clue of the Silver Key]]> http://manybooks.net/titles/wallaceedgaother08Clue_of_the_Silver_Key.html

Author: Edgar Wallace

Language: English

Published: 1930

The story begins with the murder of Horace Tom Tickler, burglar, who is "taken for a ride" in the best Chicago fashion and then delivered to Scotland Yard in a stolen cab -- and all of England will be turned topsy-turvy until the clue of the silver key unmasks the ruthless murderer!

]]> http://manybooks.net/titles/wallaceedgaother08Clue_of_the_Silver_Key.html <![CDATA[Tracks in the Snow]]> http://manybooks.net/titles/charnwoodlother08Tracks_in_the_Snow.html Author: Lord Charnwood

Language: English

Published: 1906

A modern and eminently readable detective novel.

]]> http://manybooks.net/titles/charnwoodlother08Tracks_in_the_Snow.html <![CDATA[The Attic Murder]]> http://manybooks.net/titles/wrightsfother08attic_murder.html Author: S. Fowler Wright

Language: English

]]> http://manybooks.net/titles/wrightsfother08attic_murder.html <![CDATA[The Islington Mystery]]> http://manybooks.net/titles/machenarother08Islington_Mystery.html Author: Arthur Machen

Language: English

]]> http://manybooks.net/titles/machenarother08Islington_Mystery.html <![CDATA[The Young Railroaders]]> http://manybooks.net/titles/coombsf2586825868.html Tales of Adventure and Ingenuity

Author: Francis Lovell Coombs

Language: English

Published: 1909

]]> http://manybooks.net/titles/coombsf2586825868.html <![CDATA[The Radio Boys Trailing a Voice]]> http://manybooks.net/titles/chapmana2585825858-8.html or, Solving a Wireless Mystery

Author: Allen Chapman

Language: English

Published: 1922

]]> http://manybooks.net/titles/chapmana2585825858-8.html <![CDATA[The Mardis Gras Mystery]]> http://manybooks.net/titles/bedford-joneshother08Mardi_Gras_Mystery.html

Author: H. Bedford-Jones

Language: English

Published: 1920

]]> http://manybooks.net/titles/bedford-joneshother08Mardi_Gras_Mystery.html <![CDATA[The Just Men of Cordova]]> http://manybooks.net/titles/wallaceedgaother08just_men_of_cordova.html

Author: Edgar Wallace

Language: English

Published: 1917

]]> http://manybooks.net/titles/wallaceedgaother08just_men_of_cordova.html <![CDATA[The Girl and The Bill]]> http://manybooks.net/titles/merwinb2579925799-8.html

An American Story of Mystery, Romance and Adventure

Author: Bannister Merwin

Language: English

Published: 1909

]]> http://manybooks.net/titles/merwinb2579925799-8.html <![CDATA[On the Edge of the Arctic]]> http://manybooks.net/titles/saylerhl2578725787.html

or, An Aeroplane in Snowland

Author: Harry Lincoln Sayler

Language: English

Published: 1913

]]> http://manybooks.net/titles/saylerhl2578725787.html <![CDATA[Billie Bradley on Lighthouse Island]]> http://manybooks.net/titles/wheelerj2576225762.html The Mystery of the Wreck

Author: Janet D. Wheeler

Language: English

Published: 1920

]]> http://manybooks.net/titles/wheelerj2576225762.html <![CDATA[The Other Side of the Door]]> http://manybooks.net/titles/chamberlainl2572425724-8.html

Author: Lucia Chamberlain

Language: English

Published: 1909

]]> http://manybooks.net/titles/chamberlainl2572425724-8.html <![CDATA[The Mystery of the Bloody Hand]]> http://manybooks.net/titles/ewingjulother08bloody_hand.html Author: Juliana Horatia Ewing

Language: English

]]> http://manybooks.net/titles/ewingjulother08bloody_hand.html <![CDATA[The Diamond Coterie]]> http://manybooks.net/titles/lynchl2569525695-8.html

Author: Lawrence L. Lynch

Language: English

Published: 1882

A startling new detective story by the author of Shadowed by Three.

]]> http://manybooks.net/titles/lynchl2569525695-8.html <![CDATA[Midnight In Beauchamp Row]]> http://manybooks.net/titles/greenann2281022810.html Author: Anna Katharine Green

Language: English

Published: 1895

]]> http://manybooks.net/titles/greenann2281022810.html <![CDATA[The Staircase at the Heart's Delight]]> http://manybooks.net/titles/greenann2281122811-8.html Author: Anna Katharine Green

Language: English

Published: 1894

]]> http://manybooks.net/titles/greenann2281122811-8.html <![CDATA[A Difficult Problem]]> http://manybooks.net/titles/greenann2280722807.html Author: Anna Katharine Green

Language: English

Published: 1900

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