The Lerouge Case

Author	Josephine Tey
ISBN	0684803860

In 1951, Josephine Tey wrote her 5th novel in the Inspector Grant series. In 1990, this mystery novel was named the greatest mystery novel of all time by the British Crime Writers' Association. After reading it, I can definitely see why.

For one thing, during the entire novel, Inspector Alan...

Author	Diana Wynne Jones
ISBN	0060298855

Polly has two sets of memories...

One is normal: school, home, friends. The other, stranger memories begin nine years ago, when she was ten and gate-crashed an odd funeral in the mansion near her grandmother's house. Polly's just beginning to recall the sometimes marvelous, sometimes frightening...

Author	Dashiell Hammett
ISBN	0752852612

I’ll give you three good reasons—from least to most—why you should read Red Harvest: 1) it made possible the fine Leone film A Fistful of Dollars, 2) it inspired the Kurosawa masterpiece Iojimbo which influenced A Fistful of Dollars, and 3) it is an old school hard boiled, hardcore novel,...

Author	Diana Wynne Jones
ISBN	0007320787

One thing I've always liked about Diana Wynne Jones' books for children is that she makes no artificial barrier between adults and children; they're all people. So rather than have the grownups dismiss or disbelieve the children's real concerns for no apparent reason other than that they're grownups,...

Author

Fergus Hume

The Mystery of a Hansom Cab, the best selling mystery of the nineteenth century. When a man is found dead in a hansom cab one of Melbourne’s leading citizens is accused of the murder. He pleads his innocence, yet refuses to give an alibi. It falls to a determined lawyer and an intrepid detective to find...

Author	Anna Katharine Green
ISBN	1402170122

• This eBook contains 13 illustrations, including all the drawings by G.W. Peters used in a 1905 printing by G.P. PUTMAN’S SONS.
“The Leavenworth Case” is the first novel of Anna Katharine Green, an American poet and novelist, who was one of the first writers of detective fiction in America,...

Author	Cornell Woolrich
ISBN	0743423739

Phantom lady, I was with you for six hours last night, but I can't remember what you look like, or what you wore -- except for that large orange hat. We sat shoulder to shoulder at a little bar in the east Fifties. We ate dinner together, saw a Broadway show together, shared a cab together.

The bartender,...

Author	Cornell Woolrich
ISBN	0812971450

On a mild midwestern night in the early 1940s, Johnny Marr leans against a drugstore wall. He’s waiting for Dorothy, his fiancée, and tonight is the last night they’ll be meeting here, for it’s May 31st, and June 1st marks their wedding day. But she’s late, and Johnny soon learns of a horrible...

Author	Gaston Leroux
ISBN	0486449289

The young lady had just retired to her room when sounds of a struggle ensue, and cries of "Murder!" and revolver shots ring out. When her locked door is finally broken down by her father and a servant, they find the woman on the floor, badly hurt and bleeding. No one else is in the room. There is no other exit...