Monthly Archives: December 2015

The Club of Queer Trades

The Club of Queer Trades by G. K. Chesterton

The Club of Queer Trades by G. K. Chesterton

A collection of six wonderfully quirky detective stories, featuring the ‘mystic’ former judge Basil Grant. Each story reveals a practitioner of an entirely new profession, and member of the Club of Queer Trades.

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The Paradise Mystery

The Paradise Mystery by J. S. Fletcher

The Paradise Mystery by J. S. Fletcher

A quiet cathedral town in England, full of gossips and people who are not quite who they seem to be, is the setting for this murder mystery.

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The Riddle of the Sands

The Riddle of the Sands by Erskine Childers

The Riddle of the Sands by Erskine Childers

Containing many details based on Childers’ own sailing trips along the German North Sea coast, the book is the retelling of a yachting expedition in the early 20th century combined with an adventurous spy story.

It was one of the early invasion novels which predicted war with Germany and called for British preparedness. The plot involves the uncovering of secret German preparations for an invasion of the United Kingdom. It is often called the first modern spy novel, although others are as well, it was certainly very influential in the genre and for its time.

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A Strange Disappearance

A Strange Disappearance by Anna Katharine Green

A Strange Disappearance by Anna Katharine Green

Anna Katharine Green was an American poet and novelist. She was one of the first writers of detective fiction in America and distinguished herself by writing well plotted, legally accurate stories (no doubt assisted by her lawyer father).

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The Mysteries of Udolpho

The Mysteries of Udolpho by Ann Ward Radcliffe

The Mysteries of Udolpho by Ann Ward Radcliffe

In The Mysteries of Udolpho, one of the most famous and popular gothic novels, Ann Radcliffe took a new tack from her predecessors and portrayed her heroine’s inner life, creating an atmosphere thick with fear, and providing a gripping plot that continues to thrill readers today. – The Mysteries of Udolpho, set in Europe in the year 1584, is the story of orphan Emily St. Aubert, who finds herself separated from the man she loves and confined within the medieval castle of her aunt’s new husband, Montoni, after being forced to travel through France and Italy. Inside the castle, she must cope with an unwanted suitor, Montoni’s threats, and the wild imaginings and terrors that threaten to overwhelm her.

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The Seventh Man

The Seventh Man by Max Brand

The Seventh Man by Max Brand

The Seventh Man by Max Brand, tells part of the story of the larger-than-life western character, Dan Barry, known as “Whistling Dan,” and his alter-ego companions, Black Bart, the wolf-dog, and Satan, the indomitable black stallion. It’s also the story of Kate Cumberland and the incredible five-year-old daughter of Kate and Dan, Joan. We first see Dan as a gentle, caring man with a deep sense of fairness. But then, after six years of a peaceful life in their mountain cabin Dan, more feral than human, sets out to revenge an injustice by killing seven men. Ultimately, it is his devotion to his daughter and Kate’s love for the child that brings about the climax of the tale.

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The House in the Mist

The House in the Mist by Anna Katharine Green

The House in the Mist by Anna Katharine Green

A weary traveler Hugh Austin arrives, seeking food and lodging for the night. “Enter, sir; you are the first to arrive, but the others can not be far behind,” he is told. “What others?” he wonders, gazing at a stern portrait hanging on the wall. He finds he has chanced upon the gathering of friends and relatives of the man in the portrait. An inheritance is to be divided, all concerned must be present by the appointed hour. And this inheritance is so substantial that violence, murder, and vengeance from beyond the grave all await among the heirs.

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The Secret Passage

The Secret Passage by Fergus Hume

The Secret Passage by Fergus Hume

Excellent murder mystery. The NY Times Saturday Review of Books described this book as follows: “That painstakingly ingenious person, Fergus Hume, has devised another of his hide-and-seek, jack-o’-lantern murder mysteries. It begins with a queer and rich old woman found stabbed to death in her chair and not a clue to the murderer. Then so many clues turn up that even the story-book detective is bewildered. Then nearly everybody turns out to be somebody else under an alias, and all the clues lead nowhere…”

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