By Frederick W. Waldo..

The Last of the New England Highwaymen. A desperado in the shadow of the gallows recounts his life of crime in this rollicking seventeenth-century memoir. Michael Martin, better known as Captain Lightfoot, confessed his history of highway robbery to a Boston reporter shortly before his execution. Martin had cut a dashing figure as Captain Lightfoot, renowned for his courtly manners and his Robin Hood-like predilection for stealing only from well-to-do men. His tale of adventure and intrigue, punctuated by daring escapes and desperate shootouts, created a sensation upon its 1821 publication. Born into a respectable Irish family, Martin exhibited "bad habits and vicious propensities" from an early age. His preference for low company and debauchery soon led to an acquaintance with John Doherty, alias Captain Thunderbolt. The latter provided Martin with his nom de guerre and indoctrinated him into the business of burglaries, hold-ups, and gunfights. Pursued by sheriffs and king's men throughout Ireland and Scotland, the pair parted company, and Martin emigrated to New England, where he terrorized travelers from 1819 until his arrest and hanging in 1821.

Toppsfield, MA: The Wayside Press, 1926. 192p.

By Oscar Wilde.

“He did not wear his scarlet coat,
For Blood and wine are red…”
Wilde’s classic.

Duffield & Co. (1910) 48 pages.

By E. W. Hornung.

A short story collection by E. W. Hornung. “The scene of my disaster was much as I had left it.”

NY. Harrow and Heston Classic Reprint. (1899) 295 pages.

By Casey McKittrick.

The corpulent plots of desire and dread. McKittrick argues that our understanding of Hitchcock's films, his creative process, and his artistic mind are incomplete without considering his lived experience as a fat man. Using archival research of his publicity, script collaboration, and personal communications with his producers, in tandem with close textual readings of his films, feminist critique, and theories of embodiment, Hitchcock's Appetites produces a new and compelling profile of Hitchcock's creative life, and a fuller, more nuanced account of his auteurism.

Bloomsbury Academic (2016) 210 pages.

By Gaston Leroux.

Leroux followed his classic locked room masterpiece "The Mystery of the Yellow Room." with this book, suspense come horror story. “The soul of Cartouche, a brigand who attained notoriety under the Regency in France, and a man of a hundred murders, finds reincarnation in the body of M. Theophrastus Longuet, retired manufacturer of rubber stamps, resident in the suburbs of Paris.." —extracted from a review in The Nation, April 1912.

NY. Harrow and Heston Classic Reprint. (1912) 230 pages.

By Edgar Allan Poe.

This volume includes: The Purloined Letter. The Thousand-And-Second Tale Of Scheherazade. A Descent Into The Maelstrom. Von Kempelen And His Discovery. Mesmeric Revelation. The Facts In The Case Of M. Valdemar. The Black Cat. The Fall Of The House Of Usher. Silence—A Fable. The Masque Of The Red Death. The Cask Of Amontillado. The Imp Of The Perverse. The Island Of The Fay. The Assignation. The Pit And The Pendulum. The Premature Burial. The Domain Of Arnheim.

Harrow and Heston Classic Reprint. (1830-1840) 243 pages.

By Edgar All Poe.

This volume includes: Preface. Life and Death of Poe. The unparalleled adventures of one Hans Pfaall. The Gold-Bug. Four Beasts in One—the Homo-cameleopard. The Murders in the Rue Morgue. The Mystery of Marie Roget The Balloon-Hoax. Message Found in a Bottle. The Oval Portrait.

NY. Harrow and Heston Classic Reprint. (1830-1840) 220 pages.

By Gaston Leroux.

By French author Gaston Leroux. One of the first locked-room mystery novels, it was first published serially in France and then in book form. It is the first novel starring fictional reporter Joseph Rouletabille and concerns a complex, and seemingly impossible, crime in which the criminal appears to disappear from a locked room. Leroux provides the reader with detailed, precise diagrams and floor plans illustrating the crime scene. The emphasis of the story is firmly on the intellectual challenge to the reader, who will almost certainly be hard pressed to unravel every detail of the situation. The novel finds its continuation in the 1908 novel The Perfume of the Lady in Black.

Harrow and Heston Classic Reprint. (1908) 206 pages.

By Agathe Christie.

Poirot was passed over for this one. Anne Beddingfeld sees a man die in a tube station and picks up a piece of paper dropped nearby. The message on the paper leads her to South Africa as she fits more pieces of the puzzle together about the death she witnessed. There is a murder in England the next day, and the murderer attempts to kill her on the ship en route to Cape Town. The setting for the early chapters is London. Later chapters are set in Cape Town, Bulawayo, and on a fictional island in the Zambezi. The plot involves an agent provocateur who wants to retire, and has eliminated his former agents.

Harrow and Heston Classic Reprint. (1924) 235 pages.

By Agatha Christie.

Hercule Poirot is on the case in this early short story by Agatha Christie. A young woman has been found dead on a train, with robbery of her jewels seen as the primary motive. Her wealthy American father asks the famed Belgian detective to solve the murder.

Harrow and Heston Classic Reprint. (1923) 16 pages.

By Anna Katharine Green.

This book, subtitled A Lawyer's Story, is an American detective novel and the first novel by Anna Katharine Green. Set in New York City, it concerns the murder of a retired merchant, Horatio Leavenworth, in his New York mansion. The popular novel introduced the detective Ebenezer Gryce, and was influential in the development of the detective novel. In her autobiography, Agatha Christie cited it as an influence on her own fiction.

Harrow and Heston Classic Reprint. (1878). 329 pages.

By A.A.Milne.

This mystery by A.A.Milne, creator of Winnie-the-Pooh, gives the nod to Agatha Christie and of course Sherlock Holmes. Someone is murdered in the Red House. Whodunnit? Not one of Milne’s best. Hard to beat the greatest of mystery writers.

Harrow and Heston Classic reprint. (1922) 188 pages.

By Dorothy L. Sayers.

In the debut mystery of Dorothy L. Sayers a hobbyist investigator, Lord Peter Wimsey, is on the case of an untimely appearance of a naked body in a bathtub. In this case Lord Peter will untangle and reveal the puzzling details surrounding this shocking mystery.

NY. Harrow and Heston Classic Reprint. (1923) 198 pages.

By Arthur Conan Doyle.

The Recollections of Captain Wilkie is a short story written by Arthur Conan Doyle first published in the Chambers's Journal on 19 january (1895) .

NY. Harrow and Heston Classic Reprint. 1895. 15 pages.

By Arthur Conan Doyle.

The Curse of Eve is a short story written by Arthur Conan Doyle first published collected in Round the Red Lamp on 23 october 1894 by Methuen & Co., and the same year in USA by D. Appleton & Co.

Appleton & Co..(1894) 12 pages.

By Agatha Christie.

Agatha Christie’s Poirot Investigates a host of murders most foul—as well as other dastardly crimes—in this collection of short stories from the one-and-only Queen of mystery. First there was the mystery of the film star and the diamond . . . then came the “suicide” that was murder . . . the mystery of the absurdly cheap flat . . .a suspicious death in a locked gun room . . . a million dollar bond robbery . . . the curse of a pharaoh’s tomb . . . a jewel robbery by the sea . . . the abduction of a prime minister . . . the disappearance of a banker . . . a phone call from a dying man . . .and, finally, the mystery of the missing will.

Harrow and Heston Classic Reprint. (1924) 195 pages.

By Agatha Christie.

Agatha Christie’s The Secret of Chimneys, starring her sleuths Superintendent Battle and Lady Eileen “Bundle” Brent, is a murder mystery-treasure hunt crossover, considered to be one of her best early novels. The plot is a popular one, perfected by Christie: there are a bunch of people staying at a mansion when one of the guests is murdered!.

Harrow and Heston Classic Reprint. (1925) 268 pages.

By Agatha Christie.

Tommy and Tuppence, two young people short of money and restless for excitement, embark on a daring business scheme – Young Adventurers Ltd.. Their advertisement says they are ‘willing to do anything, go anywhere’. But their first assignment, for the sinister Mr Whittington, plunges them into more danger than they ever imagined .

NY. Harrow and Heston Classic Reprint. (1922) 249 pages.

By Agatha Christie.

Agatha Christie's first ever published novel and is the first to feature the famously eccentric detective Hercule Poirot, as well as other classic characters including Inspector Japp and Arthur Hastings. The sleuthing team investigates the murder of Emily Inglethorp, a caring woman who opened her home to people resettling after the Giant War.

Harrow and Heston Classic Reprint. (1920) 187 pages.

By Arthur Conan Doyle.

My Friend the Murderer is a short story written by Arthur Conan Doyle first published in the London Society magazine in December 1882, signed A. Conan Doyle. Set in Edinburgh 1859. Much intrigue, murder, mystery, unsolved crimes, and ghosts.

NY. Harrow and Heston Classic Reprint. (1892) 19 pages.