Looking for a replacement to Sherlock Holmes after the author had killed him off in 1894, Doyle wrote this murder mystery in the dying years of the 19th century. Set in Napoleons...
John Douglas has been murdered at Birlstone manner, but Sherlock Holmes main concern is the missing dumbell in the murder room. This fourth and final novel of Sherlock Holmes is...
G. K. Chesterton was a great admirer of Charles Dickens, and wrote a noted critique of Dickens works expressing his opinion in his own inimitable style. (Summary by Karen Merline)
A young gambler is found shot dead in a closed room. Dr. Watson, who still mourns the disappearance of his famous friend is intrigued enough to step out of his house and take a...
A concoction of twelve stories, The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes is the third book in the original Sherlock Holmes series. It shadows the experiences of detective Sherlock...
Though Sir Arthur Conan Doyle is best known for his detective stories, he also wrote other short stories which are masterpieces of mystery and suspense. In some of the stories in...
This little volume, issued as a gift book for lovers of Mr. Chestertons writings in 1911, is made up from essays to be found in The Defandant, Varied Types and Tremendous Trifles....
Dr. Watson chronicles here some of the more interesting detective cases that he and his good friend, Mr. Sherlock Holmes, have encountered during their association. We see the...
The desolate, treacherous Devon moors. A bloodcurdling legend of a ghastly hound from hell, haunting the Baskerville family for generations. Such is the setting for the most...
The Flying Inn is a novel first published in 1914 by G.K. Chesterton. It is set in a future England where a bizarre form of Progressive Islam has triumphed and largely dominates...