“Jest w’en we guess we’ve covered the trail So’s no one can’t foller, w’y then we fail W’en ... Read more
Detective Fiction Short Stories
Total Stories: 120
Eugene Caspilier sat at one of the metal tables of the Cafe Egalite, allowing the water from the ... Read more
Arras, blacksmith and armourer, stood at the door of his hut in the valley of the Alf, a ... Read more
A little more and Jean Rasteaux would have been a giant. Brittany men are small as a rule, ... Read more
“On his own perticular well-wrought row, That he’s straddled for ages– Learnt its lay and its gages– His ... Read more
“O Unseen Hand that ever makes and deals us, And plays our game! That now obscures and then ... Read more
“The quick must haste to vengeance taste, For time is on his head; But he can wait at ... Read more
The room in which John Shorely edited the Weekly Sponge was not luxuriously furnished, but it was comfortable. ... Read more
Prince Lotarno rose slowly to his feet, casting one malignant glance at the prisoner before him. “You have ... Read more
Bertram Eastford had intended to pass the shop of his old friend, the curiosity dealer, into whose pockets ... Read more
“O Mother-nature, kind in touch and tone. Act as we may, thou clearest to thine own” I don’t ... Read more
“Dogs on board ship is a nuisance,” said the night-watchman, gazing fiercely at the vociferous mongrel that had ... Read more