 The Man Who Was Thursday
by G. K. Chesterton
Fast-paced novel about a club of anarchists in turn-of-the-century London and a poet/sleuth who infiltrates their ranks. Inventive and ingenious story becomes a vehicle for Chesterton's brilliant social, religious, and philosophical speculations.
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| |  Favorite Father Brown Stories
by G. K. Chesterton
Beloved clerical sleuth in roster of remarkable cases: "The Blue Cross," "The Sins of Prince Saradine," "The Sign of the Broken Sword," "The Man in the Passage," "The Perishing of the Pendragons," more.
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 The Club of Queer Trades
by G. K. Chesterton
Improbable plots, marvelously funny episodes, evocative descriptions of late Victorian London distinguish delightful tales focusing on a club devoted to completely original and unusual professions.
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| |  Where Angels Fear to Tread
by E. M. Forster
Forster's early novel offers an intriguing contrast of English and Italian sensibilities. It recounts an Englishman's journey to Tuscany, where he attempts to rescue his brother's widow from an unsuitable romance.
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| |  The Return of Sherlock Holmes
by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Back by popular demand, the world's most famous detective returns from a seemingly fatal encounter with his nemesis, Professor Moriarty. Thirteen stories include "The Empty House," "The Dancing Men," and "The Six Napoleons."
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 The Chronicles of Clovis: Stories by Saki
by Saki
Renowned for his witty dialogue and macabre humor, Saki skewered the pretensions of the Edwardian age. These short stories showcase his mastery of comic repartee, recounting the escapades of an irreverent socialite.
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| |  The Red House Mystery
by A. A. Milne
In between tea and billiards, a pair of amateur detectives investigates their host's disappearance. Droll whodunit from the creator of Winnie the Pooh sparkles with witty dialogue, deft plotting, and an amusing cast.
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 All-Time Favorite Detective Stories
by Rochelle Kronzek
Chosen by Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine as the best detective stories of 1950, these 12 classics include Edgar Allan Poe's "The Purloined Letter," Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's "The Red-Headed League," Dorothy L. Sayers' "Suspicion," and more.
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| |  The Thirty-Nine Steps
by John Buchan
A young Scot stumbles upon a plot involving espionage, murder, and the future of Britain itself. This classic of suspense served as the basis for one of Hitchcock's most famous films.
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| |  The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes
by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Eleven of Doyle's best and most popular tales include "Silver Blaze," "The Greek Interpreter," and "The Final Problem," the detective's notorious confrontation with Moriarty at the Reichenbach Falls.
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 Whose Body?
by Dorothy L. Sayers
There's a dead body in his bathtub, wearing nothing but a pair of pince-nez spectacles. Enter Lord Peter Wimsey, the original gentleman sleuth, who debuted in this 1923 novel.
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| |  The Coloured Lands: Fairy Stories, Comic Verse and Fantastic Pictures
by G. K. Chesterton, G. K. Chesterton, Martin Gardner
Featuring the author's early work and previously unpublished material, this volume abounds in fairy stories, comic verse, and satirical ballads — and best of all, Chesterton's distinctive color and black-and-white illustrations.
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 St. Francis of Assisi
by G. K. Chesterton
This accessible spiritual biography by a phenomenally popular author chronicles the beloved saint's calling, order, and influence. Its charm and wit will appeal to even the most secular-minded readers.
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| |  The Everlasting Man
by G. K. Chesterton
Chesterton's view of Christianity — as a blend of philosophy and mythology, satisfying intellect and spirit — applies to his brilliant book, which appeals to readers' heads as well as their hearts.
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| |  What's Wrong with the World
by G. K. Chesterton
Chesterton's style is light and humorous — but also deadly serious and philosophical — as he provides witty commentary on feminism, education, family, and other timeless topics.
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 Tremendous Trifles
by G. K. Chesterton
Chesterton's 39 essays result from "sitting still and letting marvels and adventures settle on him like flies." Full of both good sense and nonsense, his commentaries on finding the extraordinary within the ordinary are delightful.
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| |  Heretics
by G. K. Chesterton
Focusing on "heretics" — those who pride themselves in their superiority to conservative views — Chesterton appraises prominent figures from the literary and art worlds such as Kipling, Shaw, Wells, and Whistler.
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 The Mystery of the Yellow Room
by Gaston Leroux
How could a crime take place in a locked room which shows no sign of being entered? Leroux's landmark tale of foul play and deception remains a blueprint for the detective novel genre.
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| |  Fantômas
by Marcel Allain, Pierre Souvestre, Cranstoun Metcalfe, Robin Walz
An evil genius terrorizes Paris with diabolical crimes, and a relentless detective pursues the phantom killer from dark alleys to brilliant salons. The first in a wildly popular series of thrillers, this is the original pulp fiction.
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 King Solomon's Mines
by H. Rider Haggard
A gentleman adventurer is hired to locate a man who has disappeared into the heart of Africa while hunting for the legendary lost diamond mines of King Solomon.
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| |  The Mystery of Edwin Drood
by Charles Dickens
Dickens' last novel, a mystery unfinished at his death, has become all the more tantalizing to avid readers who have tried to provide a solution to the mystifying disappearance of Edwin Drood.
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 The Valley of Fear
by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
A coded warning sends Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson to a country retreat, where they follow a perplexing trail of clues to unmask a murderer — and to break the stranglehold of a terrorist cult.
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 Orthodoxy
by G. K. Chesterton
Chesterton explains the values and ideals that constitute the foundation of Christianity, adopting an informal style in his scholarly arguments in favor of faith as an affirmation of human freedom.
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| |  A Study in Scarlet and The Sign of Four
by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Two bizarre tales: the first marks the beginning of the illustrious Holmes and Watson crime-solving partnership; the second leads the investigative pair on a terrifying mission to the dark heart of London.
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 The Flying Inn
by G. K. Chesterton
Hilarious romp in which pub owner Humphrey Hump and friend take to the road in a donkey cart filled with rum and cheese, inveighing against Prohibition and other "oppressive forms of modernity."
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| |  The Secret Agent
by Joseph Conrad
Revolutionaries in the backstreets of 19th-century London plot the destruction of Greenwich Observatory in this masterpiece of suspense. Rich in atmosphere and psychological realism.
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 Manalive
by G. K. Chesterton
Light-hearted work introduces Innocent Smith, a bubbly, eccentric gentleman of questionable character, into the lives of a group of young disillusioned people — and the result is inspired, high-spirited nonsense.
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| |  The Mysterious Affair at Styles
by Agatha Christie
When an aging heiress is found fatally poisoned, Belgian sleuth Hercule Poirot is brought in to unravel many mysteries in this classic tale of murder, jealousy, and greed.
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 Trent's Last Case
by E. C. Bentley
Masterwork of the genre features detective Philip Trent in a case involving the murder of an American financier. "One of the few genuine classics of detective fiction." — The New York Times.
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| |  Detection by Gaslight
by Douglas G. Greene
Fourteen extraordinary Victorian and Edwardian crime stories by Rudyard Kipling, Arthur Conan Doyle, Jacques Futrelle, G. K. Chesterton, and others — many never before published in book form.
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 The Ball and the Cross
by G. K. Chesterton
Chesterton's second novel chronicles a hot dispute between two Scotsmen, a Roman Catholic, and an atheist, whose fanatically held opinions inspire a host of comic adventures. Introduction by Martin Gardner.
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| |  Tales of Terror and Detection
by Edgar Allan Poe
"The Mystery of Marie Roget" and "The Purloined Letter" introduce C. Auguste Dupin, the first fictional detective. Also included: "William Wilson," "MS. Found in a Bottle" and "The Oblong Box."
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 The Secret Sharer and Other Stories
by Joseph Conrad
Three of Conrad’s most powerful stories of the sea — "Youth: A Narrative" (1898), "Typhoon" (1902) and "The Secret Sharer" (1910) — each probing deeply, suspensefully into the mysteries of human character.
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| |  The Napoleon of Notting Hill
by G. K. Chesterton
A comical futurist fantasy, first published in 1904, about a tradition-loving suburban London community of the 1980's at war with its modernizing neighbors. 7 illustrations by W. Graham Robertson. New Introduction by Martin Gardner.
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 Four Faultless Felons
by G. K. Chesterton
A series of 4 intertwined novellas whose central characters appear to be involved in murder, fraud, theft and treason. "Dazzling reading from cover to cover." — The New York Times.
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| |  Celebrated Cases of Judge Dee (Dee Goong An)
by Robert van Gulik
Authentic 18th-century Chinese detective novels. Dee and associates solve 3 interlocked cases: The Case of the Double Murder at Dawn, The Case of the Strange Corpse, and The Case of the Poisoned Bride.
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 The Complete John Silence Stories
by Algernon Blackwood
Six tales of horror from a master craftsman: "A Psychical Invasion," "Ancient Sorceries," "Secret Worship," "The Nemesis of Fire," "The Camp of God," and "A Victim of Higher Space."
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| |  The Annotated Innocence of Father Brown
by G. K. Chesterton
Twelve of the popular Father Brown mysteries appear in this copiously annotated edition. Includes "The Blue Cross," "The Hammer of God," "The Eye of Apollo," and more.
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 Uncle Silas
by J. Sheridan LeFanu
A young heiress is compelled to join her mysterious uncle's peculiar household — a secluded estate, tainted by the memory of a long-ago scandal — in this gripping Victorian novel of psychological terror.
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