The Wallet of Kai Lung written by Ernest Bramah.
The War Terror by Arthur B. Reeve.
The dark mouth of an alleyway thrown into murky relief by the rays of a distant street lamp... The swift, forward leap of a skulking figure... A girl's form swaying and struggling in the man's embrace.
The Widow Lerouge is written by Emile Gaboriau.
From London to Cornwall, then to Italy and France, a short, shabby priest runs to earth bandits, traitors, killers. Why is he so successful?
I was, perhaps, the plainest girl in the room that night. I was also the happiest - up to one o'clock. Then my whole world crumbled, or, at least, suffered an eclipse. Why and how, I am about to relate.
Walter Hartright encounters a mysterious woman dressed entirely in white, whom he later discovers escaped from an insane asylum.
The elusive Oriental villain known as Mr. King masterminds an insidious plot to hold London's wealthy at his mercy. His henchmen have already killed one socialite, and more are threatened.
A new tenseness seemed to have crept into the situation. The conversation, never without its emotional tendencies, at once changed its character. Philippa, cold and reserved, with a threat lurking all the time in her tone and manner, became its guiding spirit.
In this 1915 story--possibly the first modern spy novel--Buchan's perennial protagonist, Richard Hannay, averts the assassination of a world leader. Hanney, an expatriated Scot, returns from a long stay in South Africa to his flat in London. One night he is buttonholed by an American who...