By Christopher Morley.

A Mysterious Story. This is a dramatic novel set in Brooklyn around the end of the First World War. It continues the story of Roger Mifflin, the bookstore of Parnassus on Wheels. It also subtly embodies the career of Miss Titania Chapman and a young salesman named Aubrey Gilbert. "The Haunted Bookstore" is certainly not an extraordinary novel. Perhaps the name implies the phantom of the past that often appears in all libraries and bookstores: "The phantom of all incredible writing." Throughout the novel, Molly mentions the personality of Roger Mifflin The information and acuity that people can get from writing. The story begins with the young salesman Aubrey Gilbert (Aubrey Gilbert), who stopped in front of a bookstore called "The Haunted Bookstore", hoping to find another customer. Gilbert met the boss Roger Mifflin. Gilbert does not have the upper hand in selling and promoting copies. (From Amazon).

Garden City, NY: Doubleday, Page and Co., 1923/ 296p.

By Melville Davisson Post.

Top-notch detective Sir Henry Marquis, head of the Criminal Investigation Department of Scotland Yard, and several of his clever proteges band together to crack a number of fascinating cases in this collection of interwoven tales. Can you outwit the famed Sleuth of St. James's Square?

New York ; London : D. Appleton and Company. 1920. 350p.

By E. Phillips Oppenheim.

“An Englishman is enjoying his dinner at Stephano's, at which he is a regular diner. A man enters quickly, sits at his table, starts eating his food, and hands him a packet underneath the table! So begins Paul Walmsley's acquaintance - and adventures - with American adventurer Joseph H. Parker and his lovely daughter, Eve.”

Boston: Little, Brown and Co., 1916.341p.

By E. Phillips Oppenheim.

“There were very few people upon Platform Number Twenty-one of Liverpool Street Station at a quarter to nine on the evening of April 2 - possibly because the platform in question is one of the most remote and least used in the great terminus.”

Boston: Little, Brown, 1920. 332p

By E. Phillips Oppenheim.

You're in luck, Alfred," he declared. "That's the most interesting man in New York-one of the most interesting in the world. That's Sanford Quest." "Who's he?" "You haven't heard of Sanford Quest?"

New York: Grosset & Dunlap, 1915. 334p.

By E. Phillips Oppenheim.

The Great Impersonation is a mystery novel written by E. Phillips Oppenheim and published in 1920. German Leopold von Ragastein meets his doppelganger, Englishman Everard Dominey, in Africa, and plans to murder him and steal his identity to spy on English high society just prior to World War I. (From Amazon)

Boston: Little, Brown & Co., 1920. 344p.

By Thomas W. Hanshew.

Meet Hamilton Cleek – man of mystery, and master of disguise and derring-do. Cleek’s exploits are, to say the least, highly improbable, but the book is enormous fun. The goodies are good and the baddies are very bad indeed, but beware – things are not always what they seem. Suspend your disbelief and enjoy a rattling good yarn!

Open Library. New York: McKinlay, Stone, and McKenzie , 1913. 320p.

By E. Phillips Oppenheim.

“… Opposite him, at the other end of the table, sat his wife, Mrs. Barnes, a somewhat voluminous lady with a high colour, a black satin frock, and many ornaments. On her left the son of the house, eighteen years old, of moderate stature, somewhat pimply, with the fashion of the moment reflected in his pink tie with white spots, drawn through a gold ring, and curving outwards to seek obscurity underneath a dazzling waistcoat.”

Boston: Little, Brown, 1912. 424p.

By E. Phillips Oppenheim.

“…It was a home, this, in which a man could well lead a peaceful life, could dream away his days to the music of the west wind, the gurgling stream, the song of birds, and the low murmuring of insects. Peter Ruff stood like a man turned to stone, for even as he looked these things passed away from before his eyes, the roar of the world beat in his ears—the world of intrigue, of crime, the world where the strong man hewed his way to power, and the weaklings fell like corn before the sickle.” (Excerpt from Chapter 1).

London: Carswell, 1917, 318p.

By Edgar Allan Poe.

The discovery of a message in code on a shoreline formerly infested with pirates sends William Legrand and his friends on a hunt for buried treasure.

London: Routledge, 1891. 153p.

By G.K. Chesterton.

Father Brown, an unassuming and shabbily dressed priest, possesses an incredible ability to solve crimes and murders. Here he reveals the secret of his success. He discovers the culprit by imagining himself to be inside the mind of the criminal. This fourth collection of Father Brown stories contains the magnificent ‘The Chief Mourner of Marne’- a fascinating story with unexpected twists – about a duel and a case of mistaken identity. —GoodReads.

London; Toronto; Melbourne: Sydney; Cassell & Co , 1927. 320p.

By G.K. Chesterton.

"The Incredulity of Father Brown," G.K. Chesterton treats us to another set of bizarre crimes that only his "stumpy" Roman Catholic prelate has the wisdom and mindset to solve. As usual, Chesterton loves playing with early twentieth-century class distinctions, "common-sense" assumptions, and the often anti-Catholic biases of his characters. He loves showing, through his characters, how those who hold themselves superior to the "fantasies" of Brown's Catholic faith themselves devolve into superstitious blithering when faced with the tiniest of mysteries. In this collection, Brown finds himself as the main event at his own funeral (The resurrection of Father Brown), contemplating the possibility of death from the sky (The arrow of heaven), piercing the mystery of a dog's "prophetic" behavior (The oracle of the dog), and facing off against a curse hanging about a medieval burial (The curse of the golden cross). From Goodreads

London; Toronto; Melbourne: Sydney; Cassell & Co., 1926/ 304p.

By Nicholas Carter.

A Detective Story.. “…As they went, man and dogs making frantic efforts to clutch at the edge of the ice, he had a glimpse of an evil face looking down at him. Amorak had run from the bowlder to the edge of the fissure, and was completing the catastrophe by pushing over the two dogs that led the team, and who would have been dragged over in any case. Usually, to fall into the fissure of a glacier means certain death, for these cracks are exceedingly deep, and the chances are that he who falls in will be ground to pulp by the movement of the vast river of ice upon the stony bed below. It was Amorak himself who saved Stokes' life….” —From Amazon. New York: Street and Smith, 1897. 236p.

By Cleveland Moffett.

From the Archives of the Pinkertons. NY. Stories include: The Northampton Bank Robbery; The Susquehanna Express Robbery; The Pollock Diamond Robbery; The Rock Island Express; The Destruction or the Renos; The American Exchange Bank Robbery.

Dillingham (1897) 262p.

By Emerson Hough..

A Story of the Western Desperado by Emerson Hough. In the old American west there were many men and boys who chose to live by the gun...and die by the gun. Some died by the Vigilante's Rope. The stories of Billy the Kid, The James Boys, The Dalton Gang, Tom Pickett, Bill Chadwell and many, many others can be read in this wonderful, fact-filled book originally published in 1907. This book is part of the Historical Collection of Badgley Publishing Company and has been transcribed from the original. The original contents have been edited and corrections have been made to original printing, spelling and grammatical errors when not in conflict with the author?s intent to portray a particular event or interaction. Annotations have been made and additional contents have been added by Badgley Publishing Company in order to clarify certain historical events or interactions and to enhance the author?s content. Photos and illustrations from the original have been touched up, enhanced and sometimes enlarged for better viewing.

New York: Grosset and Dunlap, 1907. 426p.

By Mary Roberts Rinehart.

Often referred to as the "American Agatha Christie," Mary Roberts Rinehart did much to popularize and refine the mystery genre in the United States. The Street of Seven Stars follows an American musician, Harmony Wells, to Austria, where she has gone to hone her violin skills. Though the dashing doctor she meets there appears to want to protect her, there may be more to his motives than meets the eye.

New York: Houghton Mifflin, 1914. 390p.

By Mary Roberts Rinehart. 

"THIS is the story of how a middle-aged spinster lost her mind, deserted her domestic gods in the city, took a furnished house for the summer out of town, and found herself involved in one of those mysterious crimes that keep our newspapers and detective agencies happy and prosperous."

New York: Grosset and Dunlap, 1908. 301p.

By Mary Roberts Rinehart.

What starts out at as a simple train ride for Lawrence Blakely soon turns disastrous. The attorney-at-law is hand delivering decisive documents in a criminal case, and finds himself on the other side of the law when he is mixed up in a murder. Someone is after Blakely and his papers, and the classic mystery style of Mary Roberts Rinehart guarantees there’s a good story behind the strange happenings.The Man in Lower Ten was the first detective novel to make it to the national bestseller list, and it hasn’t lost its edge. It has the romance and the suspense of today’s mystery novels and boasts the ability to stand the test of time.

New York: Grosset and Dunlap, 1909. 404p.

By Edgar Rice Burroughs.

The Most Feared Warrior In England. At 17 – The Greatest Swordsman in England — At 18 – A Price On His Head –At 19 – The Leader Of A Band Of A Thousand Who was this Norman of Tom? Where did he come from? All that anyone knew was that his blade was sharp, his arm strong. Then – As he was about to uncover the secret of his birth – he found himself in the greatest peril he’d ever known/

A. C. McClurg (1927) 170p.

By Wilkie Collins.

This book is a 19th-century novel by the master of sensation fiction, Wilkie Collins. A country gentleman is killed in an accident and his wife dies shortly after him. The blow is double for their daughters, who discover that they were born before their parents were married. Their sudden illegitimacy robs them of their inheritance and their accustomed place in society.

New York: Harper and Brothers, 1873. 622p.