This issue, we have quite a variety of stories, ranging from historical suspense (see William Le Queux’s novel), to financial auditing (see Laird Long’s original mystery) to a missing child to a sinister gargoyle. We even have the El Dorado’s secret revealed! Read on to find your next favorite read in this issue’s lineup.Here’s the complete list—Cover Art: Steve HickmanNOVELSThe House of Evil, by William Le Queux

Cakes and Ale is a delicious satire of London literary society between the Wars. Social climber Alroy Kear is flattered when he is selected by Edward Driffield's wife to pen the official biography of her lionized novelist husband, and determined to write a bestseller. But then Kear discovers the great novelist's voluptuous muse (and unlikely first wife), Rosie. The lively, loving heroine once gave Driffield enough material to last a lifetime, but now her memory casts an em...

"Jefferson Farjeon is quite unsurpassed for creepy skill in mysterious adventures." - Dorothy L. SayersRichard Temperley’s pretty annoyed with his bad-tempered fellow passenger Amble on the train, who snores like a train himself. But Temperley’s not annoyed for long: as soon as Temperley and Amble arrive in fogbound London before dawn and take refuge in a hotel, Amble settles himself into an armchair, goes back to sleep - and never reawakens. How could he with a bullet in his heart...

Enjoy solving crime and puzzles with this meticulously edited mystery collection: Arthur Conan Doyle: Complete Sherlock Holmes Series True Crime Stories G. K. Chesterton: Father Brown Edgar Wallace: Four Just Men Mr. J. G. Reeder Detective Sgt. Elk The Earl of Nowhere P.-C. Lee Wilkie Collins: The Woman in White Armadale… Edgar Allan Poe: The Murders in the Rue Morgue The Mystery of Marie Roget The Purloined Letter The Gold Bug Thou Art the Man Louis Tracy: Detectives White & Furneaux Myst...

This meticulously edited collection is formatted for your eReader with a functional and detailed table of contents: Arthur Conan Doyle: Sherlock Holmes True Crime Stories G. K. Chesterton: Father Brown Edgar Wallace: Four Just Men Mr. J. G. Reeder Detective Sgt. Elk The Earl of Nowhere P.-C. Lee Wilkie Collins: The Woman in White Armadale… Ethel Lina White: Fear Stalks the Village… Annie Haynes: The Abbey Court Murder The Crystal Beads Murder… R. Austin Freeman: Dr. Thorndyke H. C. McNeile...

As for that, they like it -- the leading spirits, I mean. It gives them a reputation. Besides, they hurt as well as help us. It was after their appearance that the authorities were taught to be distrustful. You have little idea of the precautions taken nowadays. There is Sir William Harcourt, for instance, who is attended by policemen everywhere. I used to go home from the House behind him nightly, but I could never get him alone. I have walked in the very shadow of that man, but always in...

All hardbacks in the first print run will be signed by the author.The story of genre fiction - horror, romantic fiction, science fiction, crime writing, and more - is also the story of Irish fiction. Irish writers have given the world Lemuel Gulliver, Dracula, and the world of Narnia. They have produced pioneering tales of detection, terrifying ghost stories and ground-breaking women's popular fiction. Now, for the first time, John Connolly's one volume presents th...

An uncanny thriller from the acclaimed author of The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. HydeMedical school students Fettes and Macfarlane are charged with the unenviable task of receiving and paying for the institution's research cadavers. When Fettes recognizes the dead body of a woman he saw alive and well just the day before, he suspects murder. Macfarlane, however, insists that the authorities would never believe they had nothing to do with her death. R...

"Whatsoever a Man Soweth" is a thrilling book with the aid of William Le Queux, a busy British writer who became well-known for thrillers and secret agent tales within the late 1800s and early 1900s. The book is set in opposition to the background of World War I and is set spying and political intrigue. The primary person of the story is Sir Philip Ramon, a British diplomat who works in an impartial U.S. Since the warfare is still going on, Sir Philip receives stuck up in a web of spying, ...

Arthur Conan Doyles Sherlock Holmes is perhaps the world's most famous detective. The Focus on Sherlock Holmes series is devoted to bringing the books to an even wider audience. George Cavendish has added explanations as footnotes to help those readers who are not familiar with some of the phrases used by the author and his characters after all the stories were written over 120 years ago. Some of the authors phrases are still in use in modern-day British English and these are described to ...

Arthur Conan Doyles Sherlock Holmes is perhaps the world's most famous detective. The Focus on Sherlock Holmes series is devoted to bringing the books to an even wider audience. George Cavendish has added explanations as footnotes to help those readers who are not familiar with some of the phrases used by the author and his characters after all the stories were written over 120 years ago. Some of the authors phrases are still in use in modern-day British English and these are described to ...

St. John D Seymour was a minister and explorer, who spent his life documenting what he regarded as real-life examples of witches, banshees, poltergeists, ghosts and apparitions. Many of the earliest Irish ghost stories and tales of hauntings, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork.