By Daniel Defoe.

Moll Flanders follows the life of its eponymous heroine through its many vicissitudes, which include her early seduction, careers in crime and prostitution, conviction for theft and transportation to the plantations of Virginia, and her ultimate redemption and prosperity in the new World. “When a woman debauched from her youth, nay, even being the offspring of debauchery and vice, comes to give an account of all her vicious practices, and even to descend to the particular occasions and circumstances by which she ran through in threescore years, an author must be hard put to it wrap it up so clean as not to give room, especially for vicious readers, to turn it to his disadvantage.”

NY. Harrow and Heston Classic Reprint. (1772) 502 pages.

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.

Young engineer Raymond Ozoux, accompanied by his uncle, arrives in Peru to meet his fiancée, Marie-Thérèse. Meanwhile, descendents of the Incas are preparing a great feast during which a virgin will be sacrificed to the Sun, walled up alive in a secret temple. At the same time, a mysterious Inca bracelet is sent to Marie-Thérèse purporting to be a gift of the Sun to his future bride.. The young girl is then kidnapped by the Incas and Raymond, his uncle and Marie-Thérèse's father set out on a trek across Peru to free her while a revolution shakes the country.

NY. Harrow and Heston Classic Reprint. (1912) 177 pages.

By Gaston Leroux.

Excerpt: “Excerpt: "The Nut lay on the scorching beach facing the terrible sea in which the hungry sharks, the warders of his prison, were disporting. The convict was like a weary animal at rest. In truth, he had availed himself of the "relaxation" at ten o'clock to seek out a little fresh air and seclusion between two precipitous crags which cut him off from the rest of the convict settlement. If only he could live alone! No longer to hear anything. No longer to see anything! No longer to think of anything. But how could he help thinking of what he had seen, of what he had been compelled to see, that morning?"

NY. Harrow and Heston Classic Reprint. (1924) 191 pages.

By Gaston Leroux..

The Phantom of the Opera is the most famous novel by Gaston Leroux. It is believed to be based in George du Maurier's Trilby. The novel is partly inspired by historical events at the Paris Opera during the nineteenth century and an apocryphal tale concerning the use of a former ballet pupil's skeleton in Carl Maria von Weber's 1841 production of Der Freischütz. It has been successfully adapted into various stage and film adaptations, most notable of which are the 1925 film depiction featuring Lon Chaney, and Andrew Lloyd Webber's 1986 musical — Wikipedia.

NY. Harrow and Heston Classic Reprint. (1911) 270 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 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.