Author: E. Phillips Oppenheim

Language: English

Published: 1905

When Lord Wolfenden saw, in the supper-room of the Milan Restaurant, a beautiful woman and became acquainted with her by saving the life of her elderly companion, the mysterious Mr. Sabin, as they leave the restaurant, he little knew the web of intrigue into which he was entering. It was impossible not to love the unknown, and it seemed equally impossible to marry her when her identity was known, but Mr. Oppenheim can be depended upon to give his plots that turn which is as admirable as it is unexpected, and this is one of the best of his many good and exciting books.

The Return of Arsène Lupin

Author: Maurice LeBlanc

Language: English

Published: 1917

In this dramatic story M. Leblanc is chiefly concerned with the mystery that surrounds the "Little Mother Coralie," a volunteer nurse working in a military hospital in Paris, and Captain Belval, one of her patients who has lost a leg in the war.

Author: Valentine Williams

Language: English

Published: 1932

Author: Kealan Patrick Burke

Language: English

Published: 2010

For Dean, it begins with a dare, one that comes with the threat of violence if he chickens out. All he has to do is date Stephanie Watts, a disfigured girl who is the pariah at their high school. Dean agrees, and soon discovers that there is much more to Stephanie Watts than anyone dared imagine, and deadlier secrets awaiting him...underneath. A free short story from the Bram Stoker Award-winning author of THE TURTLE BOY, THE HIDES, and VESSELS.

Author: Maurice LeBlanc

Language: English

Published: 1921

Another thrilling, whirlwind mystery--a maze of inscrutable riddles solved by this ingenious and compelling author upon the breath-holding pages of his greatest achievement, "The Three Eyes."

Language: English

Published: 1923

Author: Arthur Stringer

Language: English

Published: 1919

Ten adventures started by a midnight excursion in New York, which move along in a lively, easy manner, with many ingenious and clever features.

Author: Brant House

Language: English

Published: 1936

Flame demons swept across the city. And in their scorching wake came a new horror. The firemen fighting the vast inferno suddenly toppled from their ladders, their shrieks piercing the blazing roar. For when those firefighters struck the pavement they were distorted, bloated husks . . . . Secret Agent X was at that fire. But his manhunt was blocked by a barrier of the bloated dead.

Author: J.S. Fletcher

Language: English

Published: 1923

A young barrister witnesses the sudden death of one of two fellow passengers on the London Underground between St. James's Park and Charing Cross. The second passenger disappears without trace and foul play is suspected.

Author: John Charles Beecham

Language: English

Published: 1918

In Bulungan, a section of Borneo, there is constant trouble because of disturbances on the part of the natives and the men sent by the Dutch government as overseers usually meet death. Peter Gross, an American, thinks he understands the situation and accepts the position of resident. Koyala, called Argus Pheasant, daughter of a French trader and a native woman, because of her birth fiercely hates the white people, and it is she who is largely responsible for the condition of affairs in Bulungan. Peter Gross meets many perilous situations, falls into the hands of the Chinaman, Ah Sing, who plays an important part in the story, and also encounters the treachery of Koyala. In the end he wins her over and the outlook for the future is promising.

Author: E. Phillips Oppenheim

Language: English

Published: 1917

John Strangewey, living with his brother in the Cumberland Hills, was a true Hillman. Far from the world of cities and noise he lived the clean, healthy, out-of-door life. To him one day, by accident, befell his meeting Louise Maurel, popular London actress. Life no longer was quite the same to him, and in a short time he followed her to London. The coming of an unsophisticated though well educated, handsome young man into the semi-Bohemian (a hackneyed word that, but it conveys so much in polite form!) circle brings about dramatic situations which the author knows well how to handle.

Author: Edgar Wallace

Language: English

Published: 1923

Author: Alice Askew

Language: English

Published: 1911

The careless pen of a Parisian journalist once supplied the word "Apache" to the Parisian cut-throat, and thereby established an institution. Imagine, however, all the characteristics of the Apache who robs and slays without fear of consequences, concentrated in one person and imagine that person a girl of Paris, primitive, remorseless, soulless and free, and you have Zéle, the heroine of this novel.

Language: English

Published: 1891

Contents: A republic without a president; The lost city; A terrible evening; Scud; the romance of a mortgage; Colonel Odminton.

The author puts no curb on his imagination in these stories, whether it is the kidnapping of the White House inmates or the wonders of electricity and hypnotism, of which he treats.

Author: Frank L. Packard

Language: English

Published: 1919

In "The Night Operator" you will follow with spellbound interest a panorama of rushing mountain rivers and dangerous curves, of brave men responsible for the safety of others, who meet their obligations with high hearts and abounding courage. When the book is read, you will recall with delight "Toodles," the spunky little night operator; "Royal Carlton," the big superintendent; "Regan," the purposeful master-mechanic, and "Tim O'Toole," the valorous Irishman, and say to yourself, "Packard has done it again -- written another breathless adventure story." Although not a detective story, "The Night Operator," because of its thrilling adventures, will appeal to all readers and lovers of a story full of action and life.

A Romance

Author: Guy Newell Boothby

Language: English

Published: 1898

Mr. Boothby has proved himself a master of the art of story-telling from the point of view of the reader who asks for a succession of stirring events, a suspicion of mystery, and an interest not only maintained but culminating. It would be unfair to explain the extraordinary character of "Pharos," or to do more than allude to the series of strange adventures wherein he plays a leading part. It is enough to assure Mr. Boothby's readers of delightful thrills and an interest which this vivid romancer never permits to flag.

Author: E. Phillips Oppenheim

Language: English

Published: 1907

Strongly depicts the love of an earnest missioner and a worldly heroine with a past. An entrancingly interesting romance. --Pittsburg Post

Author: Earl Derr Biggers

Language: English

Published: 1915

The story deals with an intrigue to blow up the English squadron at Gibraltar by gaining access to the room where the electrical contact with the harbor mines is made, and on this background Mr. Biggers paints a picture of the scenes following the outbreak of the war which is full of interest.

Author: Thomas Hoover

Language: English

Published: 2000

They were promised a miracle cure for the deadly diseases destroying their lives. It seemed too good to be true, but to the desperate and dying it was the only chance for survival. Now they're part of a bizarre secret experiment that reverses the aging process--an experiment gone out of control. To stop the madness, one woman must enter a shocking nightmare world, where scientists control your body--and your mind--and living makes you beg for death...

Author: Thomas Hoover

Language: English

Published: 1992

In the sun-dappled waters of the Aegean, ex-agent Michael Vance pilots the Odyssey II, a handmade replica of the sailcraft of the ancient hero Ulysses. Out of nowhere, a Russian Hind gunship with Arab terrorists at the helm fires upon the tiny ship below. The terrorists’ destination is a tiny Aegean island where a U.S. aerospace corporation carefully guards the Cyclops 20-megawatt laser launch facility. But the company security force is no match for the firepower of the Arab invasion and the launch site is quickly overrun. With helpless horror, the executives can only watch as renegade technicians convert the launch vehicle into a ballistic missile that can deliver their stolen thermonuclear warhead to any city in the U.S. Left for dead amid the smoking ruins of Odyssey II, Michael Vance washes up on the occupied island – and becomes America’s only hope.

Author: Thomas Hoover

Language: English

Published: 1991

Retired agent Michael Vance is approached for help on the same day by an old KGB adversary and a brilliant and beautiful NSA code breaker. While their problems seem at first glance to be different, Vance soon learns he’s got a potentially lethal tiger by the tail – a Japanese tiger. A secret agreement between a breakaway wing of the Russian military and the Yakuza, the Japanese crime lords, bears the potential to shift the balance or world power. The catalyst is a superplane that skims the edge of space – the ultimate in death-dealing potential. In a desperate union with an international force of intelligence mavericks, with megabillions and global supremacy at stake, Vance has only a few days to bring down a conspiracy that threatens to ignite nuclear Armageddon.

Author: Thomas Hoover

Language: English

Published: 1988

Set in locales as diverse as Wall Street and the offices of Japan's powerful Trade Ministry, THE SAMURAI STRATEGY describes a scenario of murder, world-wide currency manipulation, a revival of Japan's smoldering nationalism, and is set against a background of a new high-tech computer milieu.

Matthew Walton, a freelance corporate 'takeover' lawyer is hired by a mysterious Japanese industrialist to purchase a New York office building and begin a massive 'hedging' in the financial markets. Two weeks later, off an island in the Inland Sea, divers working for the industrialist's organization recover the original Imperial Sword, given to Japan's first Emperor by the Sun Goddess, Japan's 'Excalibur', lost in a sea battle in 1185. He forms an '800-Year Fund' and billions of yen flow to his fingertips. He then dumps all the Treasuries Japan had acquired and devastates the American economy.

Author: Thomas Hoover

Language: English

Published: 2000

It lies hidden deep in the mist-shrouded rain forest of Central America.

A place where a brilliant doctor fulfills dreams for some – and creates chilling nightmares for others.

Now, filmmaker Morgan James is about to journey straight into the heart of a dark conspiracy.

Where a bizarre human experiment comes at a terrible price, and where she may be the next to pay with her . . . Life Blood

A Comedy of Whitehall

Author: Herbert Jenkins

Language: English

Published: 1920

The story of how Malcolm Sage frustrated the enemies of Sir John Dene, inventor of submarine destroyers.

Author: Lionel White

Language: English

Published: 1955

Author: Charles Wadsworth Camp

Language: English

Published: 1915

Ingenious complications that will make the most hardened reader of detective stories sit up.

Language: English

Published: 1922

A period of widespread unrest followed the close of the Great War. Unseen and mysterious forces were at work in our civilization jeopardizing its very permanency. This was true not only of Russia, with its Bolsheviki, but no less of our own national life, undermined by devious schemes and threatened by sinister influences. It is with some of these hidden plots that this story of Secret Service and diplomatic intrigue is concerned. Time, about the year 1930.

A Thrilling Detective Story

Author: Frederic Arnold Kummer

Language: English

Published: 1915

The kidnapping of an American millionaire's infant son in Paris, in broad daylight, from a field in the Bois de Boulogne, seems inexplicable until Richard Duvall applies "the inexorable laws of logic and deduction . . . to arrive at a solution as astonishing as it is simple, when once it has been reached."

Author: Frederic Arnold Kummer

Language: English

Published: 1911

Says the Rochester Post Express:"The solution of the mystery is tantalizingly baffling. The writer displays an ingenuity worthy of Poe and far more subtle than that of Conan Doyle, the creator of Sherlock Holmes."

Author: Guy Newell Boothby

Language: English

Published: 1899

A story of the release of a Russian prisoner from an island on the east of Siberia. The young English millionaire thinks he is rescuing his sweetheart's father, a noted Nihilist; but when the man is safe, he discovers that he has really brought off the most notorious diamond-robber in the world. The story is full of sensations, and people who like such fiction will find this bright and lively from first to last.