Mystery Classics Books

This book considered one of the originators of the thriller genre, his novels also range from spy thrillers to romance, but all have an undertone of intrigue.

The Wallet of Kai Lung written by Ernest Bramah.

A nameless, eccentric old man, sitting in the corner of a London tea shop, uses pure deduction to solve a series of baffling crimes.

A volume of two stories in which a young girl dreads the return of a spurned lover, and the interest of two bankers is aroused by a man carrying a large cash-box around town.

The late afternoon sky flaunted its splendor of blue and gold like a banner over the Pacific, across whose depths the trade wind droned in measured cadence.

Despite his fiancée's pleas, a friendly young landowner refuses to give an alibi when he is accused of murdering Count Claudieuse.

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...

An American detective-story writer, Green's many thrillers were characterized by logical construction and a knowledge of criminal law.

First of the Professor Kennedy Mysteries, and first novel by Reeve.

Frank Softly falls in love with Alicia, the daughter of a counterfeiter, and gets involved with forgery too.