"Lupin," I said, "tell me something about yourself." Arsène Lupin is known as a friend to the poor and an enemy of the rich. but how did he gain his formidable reputation?

"Why should Lupin, who has never resorted to murder, kill a man?" Falsely accused of murder after one of his burglary victims is found dead, gentleman thief Arsène Lupin is determined to solve the case. However, things are never as they seem, and Lupin must juggle pseudonyms, disguises and mysterious clues, all while evading an unknown enemy who wants to bring him down.

"The Bobbsey Twins are the principal characters of what was, for many years, the longest-running series of children's novels. The books related the adventures of the children of the middle-class Bobbsey family, which included two sets of fraternal twins: Bert and Nan, who where 12 years old, and Flossie and Freddie, who where six. Share the stories of your childhood with your children and grandchildren! Here are the original Bobbsey Twin adventures."--Amazon....

Number One was the greatest criminal brain of all time; Number Two was a multi-millionaire; Number Three was a beautiful Frenchwoman; and Number Four was "the destroyer," the ruthless murderer with a genius for disguise, whose business it was to remove those who interfered with his masters plans. These four, working together, aimed at establishing world dominance. Hercule Poirot was preparing for a voyage to South America when an uninvited guest,...

Presents an anthology of tales of horror and the supernatural.

With an Introduction by David Stuart Davies. Father Brown, one of the most quirkily genial and lovable characters to emerge from English detective fiction, first made his appearance in The Innocence of Father Brown in 1911. That first collection of stories established G. K. Chesterton's kindly cleric in the front rank of eccentric sleuths. This complete collection contains all the favourite Father Brown stories, showing a quiet wit and compassion...

Eight of the author's poems are interspersed with nine of his short stories which include "The Man That Was Used Up," "The Balloon-Hoax," and "The Purloined Letter." Includes a brief biography of the author.

Rex Stout's first detective novel follows the fortunes of young Lila Williams, a telegraph operator as she becomes unwittingly enmeshed in the operations of a counterfeiting ring.

The late poet, novelist, and (spare the expression) man of letters, Charles Bukowski, is said to have left many books-worth of material in the can (so to speak), but this characteristically gritty piece of Bukowskiana is no patchwork, and was complete and in production at the time of his death. Nick Belane, a private detective, becomes involved in an unusual case when a mysterious client, who calls herself Lady Death, asks him to find the real Celine....

"First published in 1923, Jim Hanvey, Detective is a collection of seven stories that originally appeared in The Saturday Evening Post and features private eye Jim Hanvey in classic whodunit style mysteries. Described as the "backwoods Nero Wolfe," the genial Hanvey befriends "good guys" and criminals alike to get the job done. Bank robberies, jewel heists, and all-purposes cons-none are a match for Octavus Roy Cohen's waddling sleuth"--