The Goody-Naughty Book was originally published as two books back to back. Opening the book from one end, the reader experiences "The Goody Side" where the children are polite and thoughtful. When turning the book over and beginning from the other side, one reads "The Naughty Side" where the children are lazy and irritable. Each short moral story teaches children the proper way to behave and that there are consequences if they do not.

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The story revolves around the mysterious Princess Ziska, who captivates a set of European tourists who are spending time in exotic Egypt. The story is a mystery involving reincarnation, romance & a touch of mild horror.

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A quiet cathedral town in England, full of gossips and people who are not quite who they seem to be, is the setting for this murder mystery. A book written by Joseph Smith Fletcher, one of the leading writers of detective fiction in the "Golden Age".

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“The following report appeared in the Argus newspaper of Saturday, the 28th July, 18-- “Truth is said to be stranger than fiction, and certainly the extraordinary murder which took place in Melbourne on Thursday night, or rather Friday morning, goes a long way towards verifying this saying.

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The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes is a collection of twelve stories by Arthur Conan Doyle, featuring his famous detective.

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The first Sherlock Holmes story split into two distinctive parts. The first part is told from the viewpoint of Dr. John Watson as her recounts his first experiences of meeting Sherlock Holmes. The second is told in a third person narrative set in the USA, an elaborate back-story to the motive of the murderer, before returning to the UK.

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A story by the American poet and novelist, Anna Katharine Green. She was one of the first writers of detective fiction in America and distinguished herself by writing well plotted, legally accurate stories

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John Lexman is a well-known mystery writer charged with murder and sent to Broadmoor Prison. His friend T.X., head of a special branch of Scotland Yard, tries to prove his innocence.

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Greenmantle is the second of five Richard Hannay novels by John Buchan, first published in 1916 by Hodder & Stoughton, London. It is one of two Hannay novels set during the First World War.

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A novel by Robert Louis Stevenson that tells the story of a London lawyer named Gabriel John Utterson who investigates strange occurrences between his old friend, Dr Henry Jekyll and the misanthropic Edward Hyde.

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A series of linked short stories involving what may well be the world’s first female diabolical criminal mastermind.

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What really killed Sir Charles Baskerville? Is his nephew, Sir Henry, in danger from the legendary family curse, a gigantic black hound? Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson are on the case in this classic mystery, set on lonely Dartmoor in Devonshire.

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Thomas Carnacki was a detective of the supernatural created by William Hope Hodgson for a series of short stories. Hodsgon, also a noted photographer and bodybuilder, might have created more stories for this intrepid sleuth of the occult, but he unfortunately died at the youthful age of 40 in World War I.

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Detective Ebenezer Gryce tells the story of the case with which he began his career in 1840. Several wealthy men were drowned and washed ashore in New York City, and the first clue leads to a dubious money lender.

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A French novelist and writer of short stories, known primarily as the creator of the fictional gentleman thief and detective Arsène Lupin. The ebooks and audiobook formats are free downloads and available simultaneously.

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A Double Barreled Detective Story is a novel by Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens), in which Sherlock Holmes finds himself in the American west. At a mining camp in California, Fetlock Jones, a nephew of Sherlock Holmes, kills his master, a silver-miner, by blowing up his cabin. Since this occurs when Holmes happens to be visiting, he brings his skills to bear upon the case and arrives at logically worked conclusions that are proved abysmally wrong by an amateur detective with an extremely keen sense of smell, which he employs in solving the case. This could be seen as another piece where Twain tries to prove that life does not quite follow logic.

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A professional exposer of ghosts solves the mysteries of haunted houses in a series of stories. The skeptical investigator goes after supernatural occurrences that always have scientific explanations.

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The Return of Sherlock Holmes is a collection of 13 Sherlock Holmes stories, originally published in 1903-1904, by Arthur Conan Doyle.

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