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The Secret Adversary
Agatha Christie
31 days •
ⓘ 1922 • Low on money but high on desire for adventure, Tommy and Tuppence start up Young Adventurers Ltd. - "willing to do anything, go anywhere." But their first assignment may be more than they expected.
The Lodger
Marie Belloc Lowndes
29 days •
ⓘ 1913 • A haunting work of psychological suspense, centered on the murders of Jack the Ripper. The novel inspired Alfred Hitchcock's film.
The Thirty-Nine Steps
John Buchan
16 days •
ⓘ 1915 • After years in Africa, Richard Hannay aims to start a new life in London. Instead he is pulled into a web of espionage and murder on the eve of World War I and finds himself a hunted man, fleeing for his life.
Greenmantle
John Buchan
38 days •
ⓘ 1916 • In the midst of WWI, Richard Hannay is called upon to stop a plot to spark a holy war in the Middle East.
Mr Standfast
John Buchan
47 days •
ⓘ 1919 • In the later years of WWI, Richard Hannay is pulled from active service for a dangerous new mission: track down a German agent in the heart of Britain.
The Adventure of Wisteria Lodge
Arthur Conan Doyle
5 days •
ⓘ 1908 • John Scott Eccles awakes to an empty home, all the servants and his host vanished. He seeks answers from Sherlock Holmes.
The Riddle of the Sands
Erskine Childers
38 days •
ⓘ 1903 • What Carruthers thought would be a relaxing yachting holiday turns out to be a perilous expedition to uncover German secrets in this popular pre-WWI spy novel.
The Shadowy Third
Ellen Glasgow
20 days •
ⓘ 1923 • A collection of spooky stories filled with ghosts - or are they hallucinations? - hauntings of the past, and revenge.
The Most Dangerous Game
Richard Connell
3 days •
ⓘ 1924 • A big-game hunter is shipwrecked onto an isolated Caribbean island where he must survive a barbaric test from his new host.
The Murder of Roger Ackroyd
Agatha Christie
25 days •
ⓘ 1926 • Famed detective Hercule Poirot confronts a baffling case of death and blackmail with one of Christie's most startling and controversial conclusions.
Clouds of Witness
Dorothy L. Sayers
28 days •
ⓘ 1926 • A shocking murder at Riddlesdale Lodge with the victim's own brother as the prime suspect leads to more twists, surprises, and deadly threats for Lord Wimsey.
Payment Deferred
C.S. Forester
19 days •
ⓘ 1926 • Crushed by debt and his wife's expensive expectations, a bank clerk commits the perfect crime. But can he live with what he has done?
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