A collection of five mystery stories, in which clues are provided for the reader to solve the mystery himself.
Solve Them Yourself Mysteries
Whisked away to San Francisco by his greedy Aunt Edith after the mysterious death of his mother, 11-year-old Jack resigns himself to servitude until the night his aunt is abducted, a case that leads Jack to team up with the famed Alfred ...
Nine short stories featuring haunted houses, by such notable authors as Elizabeth Coatsworth, Arthur Conan Doyle, and Mark Twain.
A collection of short stories involving the daring of spies and counterspies.
Bored with his job at the Ministry of Justice, Akitada Sugawara takes an undercover assignment to help his former professor at the Imperial University, until one of his students asks him to investigate the disappearance of his grandfather.
A collection of 13 mystery-suspense stories by such authors as Agatha Christie, Richard Connell, Dorothy Sayers, and Edgar Wallace
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A supposedly accidental drowning becomes something more deadly when Inspector Alan Grant finds a bizarre object tangled in the corpse's hair and later identifies the body as actress Christine Clay, a woman whom many people may have wanted ...
Nicola Upson blends biography and fiction, excitement and menace, and a touch of Alfred Hitchcock in Fear in the Sunlight, a mystery starring real-life writer Josephine Tey.
Three junior detectives solve a mystery involving a collection of antique busts, a legacy, a strange letter, and a red ruby.