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GOLD BUG PURLOINED LETTER GOLDEN SCORPION LODGER

A hermit unearths an ancient murder

The ultimate hiding place

A pretty woman is fatal to any enterprise

He bringeth them to their desired haven

Titles Authors Notes
Baron Trigault's Vengeance
Emile Gaboriau Sequel to The Count's Millions
Circular Staircase
Mary Roberts Rinehart Spinster gets crazy and solves crime
Count's Millions
Emile Gaboriau A friendless and homeless girl cannot defend herself long in Paris
File No. 113
Emile Gaboriau In modern crimes the victims die, smiling to the last
Gold Bug
Edgar Allan Poe A hermit unearths an ancient murder
Golden Scorpion
Sax Rohmer A pretty woman is fatal to any enterprise
King Solomon's Mines
H. Rider Haggard Swashing and buckling through South Africa 100 years ago
Lodger
Marie Belloc Lowndes He bringeth them to their desired haven
Man Who Was Thursday
G. K. Chesterton The poet who was a detective
Moonstone
Wilkie Collins Certain disaster to the mortal who laid hands on the sacred gem
Murders In The Rue Morgue
Edgar Allan Poe Brutal crimes -- literally
Mysterious Affair At Styles
Agatha Christie Poirot in a case of "worldwide notoriety"
Purloined Letter
Edgar Allan Poe The ultimate hiding place
Secret Adversary
Agatha Christie Marriage is a sport -- and a damned good sport!
Stillwater Tragedy
Thomas Bailey Aldrich Within the hour his shame would be published to the world
Thirty-Nine Steps
John Buchan Death before boredom
Trent's Last Case
E. C. Bentley A madman conceives a crazy suspicion
Uncle Silas
J. Sheridan LeFanu A phantom at the window, looking into the dark
Woman in White
Wilkie Collins She has escaped from my Asylum!

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