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The Valley of Fear

The Valley of Fearis another crime novel written byArthur Conan Doyle, a Scottish writer and the creator of world famous detective characters Sherlock Holmes and Professor Challenger. His long arrays of literary works written in many genres include The lost World, The Sign of the Four, The Hound of the Baskervilles and The Adventures of […]

The Secret Agent – A Simple Tale

The Secret Agentis a novel based on the life of a spy written byJoseph Conrad, a Polish writer remembered for his narrative style and portraying anti-heroic characters. His notable works include Heart of Darkness, An Outcast of the Islands, and Nostromo. The story narrates the life of a spy who ruined his family to save […]

The Sign of the Four

The Sign of the Fouris written byArthur Conan Doyle, a Scottish physician and writer, also creator of the world famous detective character Sherlock Holmes. This novel narrates the investigation of the mysterious disappearance of Arthur Morstan, a British Indian Army Captain. Mary Morstan, daughter of the captain receives pearls in parcels every year since her […]

The Moonstone

The Moonstoneis written byWilkie Collins, an English novelist and author of first English detective novel “The Moonstone” who is also remembered for his literary contributions of Armadale, No Name, and The Woman in White. Colonel Herncastle, while serving British army in India, steals a moonstone and brings to his England home. His family shuns him […]

The Twin Ventriloquists

The Twin Ventriloquists is a mystery novel written by Old Sleuth, the author of detective fiction works.  Among his writings notable one are Oscar the Detective , A Successful Shadow, Jack and Gil’s Marvelous Skill, The “Dock Rats” of New York, The Wizard Tramp’s Revelation, Dudie Dunne Again in the Field, and The Best Detective […]

The Secret Adversary

The Secret Adversary is written by Agatha Christie, immediately after her most successful first crime novel “The Mysterious Affair at Styles”.  This novel moves around the key characters named Tommy and Tuppence and perhaps appears in five of the preceding novels of Agatha. Thomas Bereford nicknamed  Tommy is a young Englishman who participated in the […]

Finding the Lost Treasure

Finding the Lost Treasure is a detective fiction novel written by Helen M. Persons, an adventure and mystery novelist and the author of “The Mystery of Arnold Hall”.Excerpts from the first chapter. The lives of the children had been simple, happy ones, until the recent death of their father and mother, hardly three months apart. John […]

His Last Bow An Epilogue of Sherlock Holmes

The title of this book might suggest the meaning that, this can be inevitable end to the great detective character created bySir Arthur Conan Doyle. Infact this could be the penultimate collection of Sherlock Holmes stories series books. There are eight stories in this collection. “The Adventure of Wisteria Lodge”, “The Adventure of the Red […]

The Mysterious Affair at Styles

The Mysterious Affair at Styles is the story of the detective skills of a world War victim Hercule Poirot. Poirot returns to his native to recover from war wounds and meets his old friends. He stays at the house of Emily who had inherited wealth from her late husband. The story is narrated, how Poirot […]

The Hound of the Baskervilles

Conan’sThe Hound of the Baskervillesis the most terrifying and challenging case to Holmes investigation. Holmes had been informed as the crime being committed by supernatural powers. Sir Charles Baskerville found dead due to a heart attack. To claim inheritance Sir Henry Baskerville travels from Canada. Before he starts, his shoes were stolen from the hotel […]