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by Wilkie Collins
A diamond bequeathed to Rachel vanishes on the night of her birthday. Family tensions, conflicting accounts and the work of Sergeant Cuff turn the search for the missing gem into a layered Victorian mystery.
View Book Listingby Émile Gaboriau
A countess has been murdered and her husband has disappeared. When the obvious suspect is arrested, detective Monsieur Lecoq studies the evidence and begins to uncover a different explanation.
View Book Listingby Mary Roberts Rinehart
Rachel Innes rents Sunnyside for a summer stay with her niece and nephew. Strange noises are followed by a gunshot and a body beside the circular staircase, opening an investigation into the house and its owners.
View Book Listingby H. G. Wells
Shipwreck survivor Edward Prendick reaches an island where Doctor Moreau's experiments have produced disturbing humanlike creatures. His account follows the consequences of the doctor's attempts to reshape living beings.
View Book Listingby Jules Verne
After the American Civil War, the Baltimore Gun Club plans a cannon capable of sending a projectile to the Moon. Three travellers prepare to take the journey inside its hollow shell. The story continues in Round the Moon.
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An inventor with a powerful new weapon becomes the target of a pirate leader. A man held alongside him tries to understand the threat and find a way to prevent the invention from being used.
View Book Listingby H. G. Wells
This collection brings together H. G. Wells's short fiction, including scientific speculation, far-future stories, ghost stories and social comedy. Its range extends beyond science fiction rather than presenting every story as part of one genre.
View Book Listingby Émile Gaboriau
A murder investigation brings amateur detective Tabaret into a case alongside the young police officer Monsieur Lecoq. Émile Gaboriau’s early detective novel follows the careful scrutiny of evidence behind an apparently baffling crime.
View Book Listingby E. C. Bentley
Newspaper investigator and amateur detective Philip Trent is sent to report on the death of financier Sigsbee Manderson. Gathering the clues draws him into a case in which the conclusions matter as much as the evidence.
View Book Listingby Israel Zangwill
A man is found dead in a locked London room, with no clear way for a killer to have entered or escaped. Retired detective George Grodman and his successor face a crime that becomes the subject of public argument.
View Book Listingby H. G. Wells
Two scientists develop a substance that makes living things grow to enormous size. When it escapes their experimental farm and reaches human children, its consequences spread far beyond the laboratory.
View Book Listingby Jules Verne
The travellers launched from Earth continue their lunar voyage inside a projectile. Jules Verne follows their observations, calculations and attempts to understand the course of their journey in this sequel to From the Earth to the Moon.
View Book Listingby Agatha Christie
Hercule Poirot answers an urgent summons to France, only to find his prospective client dead on a golf course. With Captain Hastings beside him, he investigates a murder complicated by conflicting clues and a rival detective.
View Book Listingby Agatha Christie
A confused stranger arrives at Hercule Poirot's home repeating his address and the number four. Poirot and Captain Hastings follow the mystery into a thriller involving a secretive international organization.
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