Great Crime & Mystery Books

The Bluebird Books is a series of novels popular with teenage girls in the 1910s and 1920s. The series was begun by L. Frank Baum using his Edith Van Dyne pseudonym,then continued by at least three others, all using the same pseudonym. Baum wrote the first four books in the series, possibly with help from his son, Harry Neal Baum, on the third. The books are concerned with adolescent girl detectiv...

The Bluebird Books is a series of novels popular with teenage girls in the 1910s and 1920s. The series was begun by L. Frank Baum using his Edith Van Dyne pseudonym,then continued by at least three others, all using the same pseudonym. Baum wrote the first four books in the series, possibly with help from his son, Harry Neal Baum, on the third. The books are concerned with adolescent girl detectiv...

A story about a mysterious oriental figure who pursues a British politician to London, where he wreaks havoc with his powers of hypnosis and shape-shifting, Marsh's novel is of a piece with other sensational turn-of-the-century fictions such as Stoker's Dracula, George du Maurier's Trilby, and Sax Rohmer's Fu Manchu novels.  Like Dracula and many of the sensation novels pioneered b...

A story about a mysterious oriental figure who pursues a British politician to London, where he wreaks havoc with his powers of hypnosis and shape-shifting, Marsh's novel is of a piece with other sensational turn-of-the-century fictions such as Stoker's Dracula, George du Maurier's Trilby, and Sax Rohmer's Fu Manchu novels.  Like Dracula and many of the sensation novels pioneered b...

A story about a mysterious oriental figure who pursues a British politician to London, where he wreaks havoc with his powers of hypnosis and shape-shifting, Marsh's novel is of a piece with other sensational turn-of-the-century fictions such as Stoker's Dracula, George du Maurier's Trilby, and Sax Rohmer's Fu Manchu novels.  Like Dracula and many of the sensation novels pioneered b...

A story about a mysterious oriental figure who pursues a British politician to London, where he wreaks havoc with his powers of hypnosis and shape-shifting, Marsh's novel is of a piece with other sensational turn-of-the-century fictions such as Stoker's Dracula, George du Maurier's Trilby, and Sax Rohmer's Fu Manchu novels.  Like Dracula and many of the sensation novels pioneered b...

A story about a mysterious oriental figure who pursues a British politician to London, where he wreaks havoc with his powers of hypnosis and shape-shifting, Marsh's novel is of a piece with other sensational turn-of-the-century fictions such as Stoker's Dracula, George du Maurier's Trilby, and Sax Rohmer's Fu Manchu novels.  Like Dracula and many of the sensation novels pioneered b...

A story about a mysterious oriental figure who pursues a British politician to London, where he wreaks havoc with his powers of hypnosis and shape-shifting, Marsh's novel is of a piece with other sensational turn-of-the-century fictions such as Stoker's Dracula, George du Maurier's Trilby, and Sax Rohmer's Fu Manchu novels.  Like Dracula and many of the sensation novels pioneered b...

A story about a mysterious oriental figure who pursues a British politician to London, where he wreaks havoc with his powers of hypnosis and shape-shifting, Marsh's novel is of a piece with other sensational turn-of-the-century fictions such as Stoker's Dracula, George du Maurier's Trilby, and Sax Rohmer's Fu Manchu novels.  Like Dracula and many of the sensation novels pioneered b...

The tale of Sweeney Todd has had many incarnations, most famously the stage and movie musical by Stephen Sondheim. But it all started in 1846 with a serialized telling of the story titled “ The String of Pearls ” in the weekly magazine “ The People's Periodical and Family Library ”. Called by some a romance, by others a horror story, it is one of the earliest murder mysteries.  In “ The String...

The tale of Sweeney Todd has had many incarnations, most famously the stage and movie musical by Stephen Sondheim. But it all started in 1846 with a serialized telling of the story titled “ The String of Pearls ” in the weekly magazine “ The People's Periodical and Family Library ”. Called by some a romance, by others a horror story, it is one of the earliest murder mysteries.  In “ The String...

The tale of Sweeney Todd has had many incarnations, most famously the stage and movie musical by Stephen Sondheim. But it all started in 1846 with a serialized telling of the story titled “ The String of Pearls ” in the weekly magazine “ The People's Periodical and Family Library ”. Called by some a romance, by others a horror story, it is one of the earliest murder mysteries.  In “ The String...

The tale of Sweeney Todd has had many incarnations, most famously the stage and movie musical by Stephen Sondheim. But it all started in 1846 with a serialized telling of the story titled “ The String of Pearls ” in the weekly magazine “ The People's Periodical and Family Library ”. Called by some a romance, by others a horror story, it is one of the earliest murder mysteries.  In “ The String...

The tale of Sweeney Todd has had many incarnations, most famously the stage and movie musical by Stephen Sondheim. But it all started in 1846 with a serialized telling of the story titled “ The String of Pearls ” in the weekly magazine “ The People's Periodical and Family Library ”. Called by some a romance, by others a horror story, it is one of the earliest murder mysteries.  In “ The String...

The tale of Sweeney Todd has had many incarnations, most famously the stage and movie musical by Stephen Sondheim. But it all started in 1846 with a serialized telling of the story titled “ The String of Pearls ” in the weekly magazine “ The People's Periodical and Family Library ”. Called by some a romance, by others a horror story, it is one of the earliest murder mysteries.  In “ The String...

The tale of Sweeney Todd has had many incarnations, most famously the stage and movie musical by Stephen Sondheim. But it all started in 1846 with a serialized telling of the story titled “ The String of Pearls ” in the weekly magazine “ The People's Periodical and Family Library ”. Called by some a romance, by others a horror story, it is one of the earliest murder mysteries.  In “ The String...

The crime seemed to have lost itself in the sleety cold of the December midnight upon which it was committed. The trails were not blind -- there were simply no trails.  The circumstances baffled explanation -- a lone woman entering an empty taxicab; a run to a distant point in the city; the discovery of the woman's disappearance, and in her stead the sight of the dead body of a prominent socie...

The crime seemed to have lost itself in the sleety cold of the December midnight upon which it was committed. The trails were not blind -- there were simply no trails.  The circumstances baffled explanation -- a lone woman entering an empty taxicab; a run to a distant point in the city; the discovery of the woman's disappearance, and in her stead the sight of the dead body of a prominent socie...

The crime seemed to have lost itself in the sleety cold of the December midnight upon which it was committed. The trails were not blind -- there were simply no trails.  The circumstances baffled explanation -- a lone woman entering an empty taxicab; a run to a distant point in the city; the discovery of the woman's disappearance, and in her stead the sight of the dead body of a prominent socie...

The crime seemed to have lost itself in the sleety cold of the December midnight upon which it was committed. The trails were not blind -- there were simply no trails.  The circumstances baffled explanation -- a lone woman entering an empty taxicab; a run to a distant point in the city; the discovery of the woman's disappearance, and in her stead the sight of the dead body of a prominent socie...

The crime seemed to have lost itself in the sleety cold of the December midnight upon which it was committed. The trails were not blind -- there were simply no trails.  The circumstances baffled explanation -- a lone woman entering an empty taxicab; a run to a distant point in the city; the discovery of the woman's disappearance, and in her stead the sight of the dead body of a prominent socie...

A mysterious girl, a mysterious pool, and a mysterious businessman combine to send two Florida teens to adventureland in this pre-Nancy Drew tale for young people. This is a collaborative reading. Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands Privacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

A mysterious girl, a mysterious pool, and a mysterious businessman combine to send two Florida teens to adventureland in this pre-Nancy Drew tale for young people. This is a collaborative reading. Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands Privacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

A mysterious girl, a mysterious pool, and a mysterious businessman combine to send two Florida teens to adventureland in this pre-Nancy Drew tale for young people. This is a collaborative reading. Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands Privacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

A mysterious girl, a mysterious pool, and a mysterious businessman combine to send two Florida teens to adventureland in this pre-Nancy Drew tale for young people. This is a collaborative reading. Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands Privacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy