Found 4,102 results for "comic mystery"
by Agatha Christie
IN the hall of the Tigris Palace Hotel in Baghdad a hospital nurse was finishing a letter.
by Agatha Christie
"Linnet Ridgeway!" "That's her!" said Mr. Burnaby, the landlord of the Three Crowns.
by Agatha Christie
MRS. Ariadne Oliver had gone with the friend with whom she was staying, Judith Butler, to help with the preparations for...
by Agatha Christie
I have met people who enjoy a channel crossing; men who can sit calmly in their deck-chairs and, on arrival, wait until ...
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...
by Agatha Christie
MRS. Ferrars died on the night of the 16th-17th September-a Thursday.
by Agatha Christie
IT was Miss Lemon, Poirot's efficient secretary, who took the telephone call.
by Agatha Christie
I believe that a well-known anecdote exists to the effect that a young writer, determined to make the commencement of hi...
by Gaston Leroux
IT was the evening on which MM. Debienne and Poligny, the managers of the Opera, were giving a last gala performance to ...
by Jules Verne
Looking back to all that has occurred to me since that eventful day, I am scarcely able to believe in the reality of my ...
by Charles Dickens
WHETHER I shall turn out to be the hero of my own life, or whether that station will be held by any body else, these pag...
by Stephen Crane
¿Has oído hablar, amigo lector, siquiera alguna vez, de Stephen Crane?
by Bram Stoker
3 May. Bistritz. - Left Munich at 8:35 P.M., on 1st May, arriving at Vienna early next morning; should have arrived at...
by Jules Verne
THE YEAR 1866 was signalized by a remarkable incident, a mysterious and inexplicable phenomenon, which doubtless no one ...
by Wilkie Collins
In the first part of Robinson Crusoe, at page one hundred and twenty-nine, you will find it thus written: ;Now I saw, th...
by H. G. Wells
H. G. Wells was an astonishingly versatile and prolific writer.
by Arthur Conan Doyle
Mr. Sherlock Holmes, der sehr spät am Morgen aufzustehen pflegte (außer bei den gar nicht seltenen Gelegenheiten, da er ...