American Mystery Classics

Reducere. Marcia Lloyd and her brother Arthur have spent every summer of their lives exploring the grand halls and seaside grounds of their family's idyllic ...

The arsenic in her sugar bowl was wealthy widow Eliza Fairbanks' first clue that somebody wanted her dead. The nightly plagues of bats, birds, and ...

For the staff of the library at the center of The Widening Stain, it's easy enough to dismiss the death of a woman who fell from a rolling ladder a...

Reducere. When the wealthy ladies' man fell from his balcony in the midst of his engagement party, the police dismissed the death as the result of a freak ac...

Reducere. When the wealthy ladies' man fell from his balcony in the midst of his engagement party, the police dismissed the death as the result of a freak ac...

Reducere. In the rough edges of 1940s Chicago, the discovery of a corpse in an alleyway isn't always enough to cause a big stir--especially when the victim i...

DescriptionEveryone involved seems to agree that mild-mannered Herbert Wynne wasn't the type to commit suicide but, after he is found shot dead, wi...

DescriptionUnoccupied and unsupervised while mother is working, the children of widowed crime writer Marion Carstairs find diversion wherever they ...

DescriptionAn all-around skeptic when it comes to the supernatural, literature professor William Porter gives no credence to claims that Twin Tower...

DescriptionThe offices of foreign literature publisher and renowned stamp collector Donald Kirk are often host to strange activities, but the most ...

Reducere. DescriptionBanished from the idyllic English countryside he once called home and en route to live with his cousin in America, Sir John Farnleigh, b...

DescriptionWith characters based heavily on Anthony Boucher's friends at the Manana Literary Society, including Robert Heinlein, L. Ron Hubbard, an...

Reducere. Meet Captain Duncan Maclain. Blinded during his service in the first World War, Maclain made up for his lack of vision by sharpening his other sens...

Reducere. When a washed up Hollywood cowboy-turned-circus rodeo actor is shot dead in the midst of his performance at a New York sports-palace, in front of t...

DescriptionWhen Nurse Keate arrives at the Thatcher estate to care for a man with a bullet in his shoulder, she's told that he shot himself acciden...

DescriptionNow retired from the tour circuit on which he made his name, master magician The Great Merlini spends his days running a magic shop in N...

Reducere. DescriptionAt the hand of an outrageous prankster, top hats are going missing all over London, snatched from the heads of some of the city's most p...

Reducere. John J. Malone, defender of the guilty, is notorious for getting his culpable clients off. It's the innocent ones who are problems. Like Holly Ingl...

Reducere. DescriptionHildegarde Withers is just your average school teacher--with above-average skills in the art of deduction. The New Yorker often finds he...

DescriptionBroadway producer Peter Duluth sought solace in a bottle after his wife's death; now, two years later and desperate to dry out, he enter...

DescriptionWhen Ellery Queen, described by the London Times as "the logical successor to Sherlock Holmes, " is invited by his friend, a doctor, to ...