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Raffles, Further Adventures of the Amateur Cracksman E. W. Hornung · 1901 · 142p · ≈ 4h · Challenging I am still uncertain which surprised me more, the telegram calling my attention to the advertisement, or the advertisement itself. The telegram is before me as I write. It would appear to have been handed in at Vere Street at eight o'clock in the morning of May 11, 1897, and received before half-past at Holloway B.O. And in that drab region it duly found me, unwashen but at work before the day… Shares: Raffles, English Detective and mystery stories, Criminals, England

Mr. Justice Raffles E. W. Hornung · 1909 · 394p · ≈ 13h · Challenging First published in 1909, A Thief in the Night is the first novel detailing the exploits and intrigues of gentleman thief A. J. Raffles in late Victorian England. The novel is a darker work than the three preceding short story collections (The Amateur Cracksman, The Black Mask and A Thief in the Night.) In it a more cynical Raffles finds a corrupt moneylender, Mister Brigstock, is entrapping the… Shares: Raffles, English Detective and mystery stories, Classic Literature, Short Stories

The Amateur Cracksman E. W. Hornung · 1899 · ★ 3.6 · 234p · ≈ 7h · Challenging First published in 1899, The Amateur Cracksman was the first collection of stories detailing the exploits and intrigues of gentleman thief A. J. Raffles in late Victorian England. Raffles was E. W. Hornung's most famous character. Popular in its day, the book led to three later works: The Black Mask and A Thief in the Night, both collections of short stories, and Mr. Justice Raffles, a complete… Shares: Raffles, English Detective and mystery stories, Criminals, England

A Thief in the Night E. W. Hornung · 1905 · ★ 5.0 · 106p · ≈ 3h · Challenging First published in 1905, A Thief in the Night is the third collection of stories detailing the exploits and intrigues of gentleman thief A. J. Raffles in late Victorian England. In public a popular sportsman, in private a cunning burglar with a weakness for valuable jewelery, Arthur Raffles, with the help of his side-kick Bunny Manders, always manages to thwart the investigations of Scotland… Shares: Raffles, Classic Literature, Short Stories

The Old Man in the Corner Emma Orczy · 1908 · ★ 4.3 · 219p · ≈ 7h · Challenging The Old Man (Bill Owen) sits in a cheap restaurant frequented by journalists and plays with a bit of string, which he ties into elaborate knots as he talks. Addressing himself to Polly Burton, a young newspaperwoman with whom he has struck up a slight acquaintance, he focuses upon crimes mentioned in the newspapers. He summarizes the circumstances, describes the personalities, and then sneeringly… Shares: English Detective and mystery stories, Classic Literature, Mystery

The Paradise Mystery Joseph Smith Fletcher · 1920 · ★ 3.7 · 210p · ≈ 7h · Challenging American tourists, sure appreciators of all that is ancient and picturesque in England, invariably come to a halt, holding their breath in a sudden catch of wonder, as they pass through the half-ruinous gateway which admits to the Close of Wrychester. Nowhere else in England is there a fairer prospect of old-world peace. There before their eyes, set in the centre of a great green sward, fringed… Shares: England, Classic Literature, Mystery

Problem at Pollensa Bay Agatha Christie · 1991 · ★ 3.8 · 240p · ≈ 8h · Moderate This collection of eight stories feature characters such as Christie's most famous detective, Hercule Poirot, Mr Parker Pyne and the mysterious Harley Quin. Shares: English Detective and mystery stories, England

The Listerdale Mystery Agatha Christie · 1934 · ★ 3.9 · 224p · ≈ 7h · Challenging This short story collection was first published in 1934 in the UK. It contains the following short stories: The Listerdale Mystery, Philomel Cottage, The Girl in the Train, Sing a Song of Sixpence, The Manhood of Edward Robinson, Accident, Jane in Search of a Job, A Fruitful Sunday, Mr Eastwood's Adventure, The Golden Ball, The Rajah's Emerald and Swan Song. Shares: English Detective and mystery stories, England, Mystery

His Last Bow [8 stories] Arthur Conan Doyle · 1917 · ★ 4.2 · 266p · ≈ 8h · Challenging The adventure of Wisteria lodge.--The adventure of the cardboard box.--The adventure of the red circle.--The adventure of the Bruce-Partington plans.--The adventure of the dying detective.--The disappearance of Lady Frances Carfax.--The adventure of the devil's foot.--His last bow. Shares: English Detective and mystery stories, England, Classic Literature, Short Stories

Peril in Paris Rhys Bowen · 2022 · ★ 4.5 · 384p · ≈ 12h · Moderate Lady Georgiana Rannoch and her husband, Darcy, are awaiting the arrival of their baby when they receive an unexpected invitation to visit Paris. However, their trip quickly turns into a tangled web of international intrigue as they become embroiled in a mystery involving murder, espionage, and high-stakes politics. Shares: England, Mystery

Shattered Dick Francis · 2000 · ★ 3.9 · 292p · ≈ 9h · Moderate When jockey Martin Stukely dies following a fall at Cheltenham races, he accidentally embroils his friend Gerard Logan in a perilous search for a stolen video tape. Logan is a glass-blower on the verge of widespread acclaim for the ingenuity of his work. Long accustomed to the frightful dangers inherent in molten glass and in maintaining a furnace at never less than 1,800F, he is suddenly faced… Shares: English Detective and mystery stories, England, Classic Literature, Mystery

The Last Hope Hugh Stowell Scott · 1904 · 288p · ≈ 9h · Challenging The Last Hope Hugh Stowell Scott, english novelist wrote under the pseudonym Henry Seton Merriman (1862-1903) This ebook presents «The Last Hope», from Hugh Stowell Scott. A dynamic table of contents enables to jump directly to the chapter selected. Table of Contents -01- About this book -02- LE ROI EST MORT -03- VIVE LE ROI -04- THE RETURN OF THE LAST HOPE -05- THE MARQUIS'S CREED -06- ON THE… Shares: England, Classic Literature

R. Holmes & Co. John Kendrick Bangs · 1906 · ★ 3.4 · 266p · ≈ 8h · Challenging The son of Sherlock Holmes (who also happens to also be the grandson of thief A. J. Raffles) decides to have his own adventures published. Upon selecting the man who will chronicle his life (much as Watson did for Holmes), we get the tale Raffles' astonishing origin, followed by an exciting series of adventures involving burglary, extortion, armed robbery, and more-with Raffles treading the fine… Shares: Criminals, Mystery

Parker Pyne Investigates Agatha Christie · 1933 · ★ 3.8 · 212p · ≈ 7h · Challenging A collection of short stories featuring the ‘heart specialist’, Parker Pyne. Mrs Packington felt alone, helpless and utterly forlorn. But her life changed when she stumbled upon an advertisement in The Times which read: ‘ARE YOU HAPPY? IF NOT, CONSULT MR PARKER PYNE’. Equally adept at putting together the pieces of a marriage or the fragments of a murder mystery, Mr Parker Pyne was possibly the… Shares: English Detective and mystery stories, England, Mystery

An African Millionaire Grant Allen · 1897 · 181p · ≈ 6h · Challenging "A genre classic, Grant Allen's AN AFRICAN MILLIONAIRE is the perfect addition to our mini library of classic crime fiction. Wealthy, confident, and handsome, Charles Van Drift is not accustomed to being swindled and his brush with Colonel Clay both rattles and infuriates him. As his South African diamond fortune takes hit after hit from the quick-witted master of disguise, Allen leaves even the… Shares: Classic Literature, Mystery

The Seven Dials Mystery Agatha Christie · 1920 · ★ 3.8 · 193p · ≈ 6h · Challenging Brings back several characters from an earlier novel, The Secret of Chimneys, in a story that can best be described as a John Buchan thriller told by P.G. Wodehouse. (https://agathachristie.fandom.com/wiki/The_Seven_Dials_Mystery) Consummate young silly ass Gerry Wade is the despair of hosts and hostesses across the land, with his inability to make it to breakfast before the eggs are congealed,… Shares: English Detective and mystery stories, England, Mystery

In Kedar's tents Hugh Stowell Scott · 1897 · ★ 5.0 · 226p · ≈ 7h · Challenging If it be a duty to respect other men's claims, so also is it a duty to maintain our own.' Shares: England, Classic Literature

Close Martina Cole · 2006 · ★ 4.1 · 512p · ≈ 17h · Moderate Don't miss NO REGRET, the brand new novel from Martina Cole. Coming October 2025. She'll do whatever it takes to keep them together... Hard-hitting and uncompromising, CLOSE by the 'undisputed queen of crime writing' (Guardian) and Sunday Times No.1 bestseller Martina Cole tells the story of a woman determined to protect her family from an increasingly dangerous world... Patrick Brodie knows… Shares: Criminals, England

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