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The Mysterious Affair at Styles
The Mysterious Affair at Styles

by Agatha Christie

The intense interest aroused in the public by what was known at the time as "The Styles Case" has now somewhat subsided.

1920 1091 ed.
Busman's honeymoon
Busman's honeymoon

by Dorothy L. Sayers

So Peter is really married: I have ordered willow-wreaths for half my acquaintance.

1937 87 ed.
The Regatta Mystery and Other Stories [9 stories]
The Regatta Mystery and Other Stories [9 stories]

by Agatha Christie

MR. Isaac Pointz removed a cigar from his lips and said approvingly: "Pretty little place."

1939 17 ed.
A Caribbean Mystery
A Caribbean Mystery

by Agatha Christie

"Take all this business about Kenya," said Major Palgrave.

1964 107 ed.
The Mystery of the Blue Train
The Mystery of the Blue Train

by Agatha Christie

It was close on midnight when a man crossed the Place de la Concorde.

1928 124 ed.
Murder Must Advertise
Murder Must Advertise

by Dorothy L. Sayers

And by the," said Mr. Hankin, arresting Miss Rossiter as she rose to go,"there is a new copy-writer coming today."

1933 98 ed.
The lock and key library
The lock and key library

by Thomas De Quincey, Charles Dickens

Under none of the accredited ghostly circumstances, and environed by none of the conventional ghostly surroundings, did ...

1909 39 ed.
Tales of Terror and Mystery
Tales of Terror and Mystery

by Arthur Conan Doyle

The idea that the extraordinary narrative which has been called the Joyce-Armstrong Fragment is an elaborate practical j...

1963 168 ed.
Death on the Nile
Death on the Nile

by Agatha Christie

"Linnet Ridgeway!" "That's her!" said Mr. Burnaby, the landlord of the Three Crowns.

1937 187 ed.
The Sittaford Mystery
The Sittaford Mystery

by Agatha Christie

Major Burnaby drew on his gum boots, buttoned his overcoat collar round his neck, took from a shelf near the door a hurr...

1931 90 ed.
The Seven Dials Mystery
The Seven Dials Mystery

by Agatha Christie

That amiable youth, Jimmy Thesiger, came racing down the big staircase at Chimneys two steps at a time.

1920 91 ed.
The Murder at the Vicarage
The Murder at the Vicarage

by Agatha Christie

It is difficult to know quite where to begin this story, but I have fixed my choice on a certain Wednesday at luncheon a...

1930 127 ed.
The Mysterious Stranger and Other Stories (7 works)
The Mysterious Stranger and Other Stories (7 works)

by Mark Twain, Edmund Reiss

IN compliance with the request of a friend of mine, who wrote me from the East, I called on good-natured, garrulous old ...

1916 68 ed.
Poirot investigates
Poirot investigates

by Agatha Christie

I was standing at the window of Poirot's rooms looking out idly on the street below.

1924 216 ed.
The Secret Adversary
The Secret Adversary

by Agatha Christie

IT was 2 p.m. on the afternoon of May 7, 1915.

1922 800 ed.
Mystery Ranch
Mystery Ranch

by Gertrude Chandler Warner

An exciting summer began for the four Alden children with the bang of a door.

1958 40 ed.
Library of the World's Best Mystery and Detective Stories
Library of the World's Best Mystery and Detective Stories

by Julian Hawthorne, Guy de Maupassant

MELANCHTHON was dancing with the Bat, whose costume represented her in an inverted position.

1907 42 ed.