Detective stories of the war years, 1914 to 1919

10 books

A silent witnessR. Austin Freeman · 1914A detective novel by R. Austin Freeman featuring Dr. Thorndyke, who investigates the mysterious death of a man found in a quiet lane near Hampstead Heath. The story begins with the narrator, a young medical man, discovering the body at midnight and reporting it to the police.EN ES 中文 हिन्दी العربية

In the Mayor's ParlourJ. S. Fletcher · 1914A mystery novel by J. S. Fletcher, published in 1914, set in the old English borough of Hathelsborough. It concerns the mayor, who works alone at night in the Moot Hall's parlour, and events involving witnesses, evidence, and an inquest.EN ES 中文 हिन्दी العربية

The Clue of the Twisted CandleEdgar Wallace · 1916A 1916 detective novel by Edgar Wallace in which mystery writer John Lexman, troubled after a strange encounter with a Greek moneylender, becomes entangled in a criminal plot involving a visiting stranger and a police investigator.EN ES 中文 हिन्दी العربية

The Herapath PropertyJ. S. Fletcher · 1918A 1918 detective novel by J. S. Fletcher in which wealthy London Member of Parliament Jacob Herapath disappears from his house overnight, prompting his secretary, niece, and household to investigate his vanishing.EN ES 中文 हिन्दी العربية

The Man Who KnewEdgar Wallace · 1918A 1918 mystery novel by Edgar Wallace, set around John Minute's household, his ward May, and his associates Jasper Cole and Frank Merrill. It follows secrets, blackmail, and a murder that leads to Frank Merrill's trial.EN ES 中文 हिन्दी العربية

The Old Stone House and Other StoriesAnna Katharine Green · 1919A 1919 collection of mystery and suspense stories by Anna Katharine Green, first published in 1891. The title story tells of a traveler who discovers an abandoned, unfinished stone house in New York State and hears from an elderly innkeeper the tragic secret behind its desertion.EN ES 中文 हिन्दी العربية

The Red SealNatalie Sumner Lincoln · 1919A 1919 detective novel set in Washington, D.C., where a society lawyer unexpectedly defends a burglar charged with house-breaking at the home of twin sisters, setting off a mystery that entangles the citys wealthy and fashionable circles with police court proceedings.EN ES 中文 हिन्दी العربية

The Secret HouseEdgar Wallace · 1917A 1917 mystery novel by Edgar Wallace in which a penniless foreigner named Poltavo is hired by the veiled, secretive editor of a gossip sheet who traffics in scandalous secrets about the upper classes, and who calls himself Mr. Brown.EN ES 中文 हिन्दी العربية

The Valley of FearArthur Conan Doyle · 1915A detective novel by Arthur Conan Doyle in which Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson decipher a coded warning tied to a murder at Birlstone, a case connected to Holmes's enemy Professor Moriarty and reaching back into an American secret society.EN ES 中文 हिन्दी العربية

The wisdom of Father BrownG. K. Chesterton · 1914A 1914 collection of twelve mystery stories by G. K. Chesterton featuring Father Brown, a humble Catholic priest who solves puzzling crimes and strange affairs, including a case involving a secretive lodger whom a landlady suspects of terrible misdeeds.EN ES 中文 हिन्दी العربية