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 Charles Dickens.
When artist Robert Seymour proposed to publishers Chapman and Hall a series of engravings featuring Cockney sporting life, with accompanying text published in monthly installments. After they were turned down by several writers finally asked 24-year-old Charles Dickens to provide the text. Dickens accepted and argued successfully that the text should be foremost and the engravings should complement the story. Seymour, an established artist resisted but finally agreed. On completion of the engravings for the second monthly part Seymour, who had a history of mental health problems, committed suicide.
NY. Harrow and Heston Classic Reprint. (1836) 942 pages.
By Charles Dickens.
Charles Dickens' twelfth novel was published in his new weekly journal, All the Year Round, without illustrations. Simultaneously with the weekly parts, the novel was also published in monthly parts with illustrations by Hablot Browne. An American edition was also published, in slightly later weekly parts (May to December 1859), in Harper's Weekly. Charles Dickens’s belief in renaissance is borne out in this epic novel—as cities are overthrown and transformed, and cynics become selfless heroes.
NY. Harrow and Heston Classic Reprint. (1859) 401 pages.
By Charles Dickens.
Charles Dickens' second novel tells the story of the orphan Oliver set against the seamy underside of the London criminal world. Published in monthly parts in Bentley's Miscellany, partly concurrent with Pickwick and Nicholas Nickleby. The novel was illustrated by George Cruikshank .
Harrow and Heston Classic Reprint. (1837-1839) 452 pages.
By Charles Dickens..
This is a rare detective story of Charles Dickens. The main character is a smart and attentive man named Sampson. One day he sees a strange Mr. Julius Silton in his office acting strangely as though he is hiding something. Sampson suspects that a crime is occurring and and from this point he becomes a real hunter of criminals. The story's antagonist is probably based on the real life of poisoner Thomas Wainewright.
NY. Harrow and Heston Classic Reprint. (1859) 39 pages.
By Charles Dickens.
This is Dickens’ tenth novel, published without illustrations, in Household Word, his weekly journal. Dickens continues to fly the banner of social reform, touching on themes of industrialization, education, and utilitarianism in the sweeping Industrial Revolution of the 1850's.
NY. Harrow and Heston Classic Reprint. (1854) 302 pages.
By Charles Dickens.
This was Charles Dickens' thirteenth novel published in Dickens' weekly journal All the Year Round without illustrations. An American edition was also published in Harper's Weekly. The novel contains a strong autobiographical element, though not as openly as in David Copperfield. Dickens reread Copperfield before beginning Great Expectations to avoid unintentional repetition. It is generally acclaimed as his best work.
NY. Harrow and Heston Classic Reprint. (186-1861) 521 pages.
By Charles Dickens.
This is Charles Dickens' eighth novel, illustrated by Phiz. Some say that it is a thinly disguised autobiography with many of the story lines mirroring Dickens' own life.
NY. Harrow and Heston Classic Reprint. (1849-1850) 963 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.
