Biblio Library

The Hound of the Baskervilles is the third of four crime novels by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle featuring the detective Sherlock Holmes. Originally serialised in The Strand Magazine from ...

Dr. Watson chronicles here some of the more interesting detective cases that he and his good friend, Mr. Sherlock Holmes, have encountered during their association. We see the case ...

These lesser known stories were penned by Conan Doyle during the period between killing off Sherlock Holmes in 1893 and reluctantly resurrecting him some ten years later. The swash ...

A Study in Scarlet is a detective mystery novel written by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, introducing his new character of Sherlock Holmes, who later became one of the most famous literar ...

Theodore Racksole, a rich American multi-millionaire, buys the Grand Babylon Hotel, a luxurious hotel in London, as a whim – and then finds out there are strange things going on – ...

The Prisoner of Zenda is an adventure novel by Anthony Hope, published in 1894. The king of the fictional country of Ruritania is drugged on the eve of his coronation and thus unab ...

Rupert of Hentzau is a sequel by Anthony Hope to The Prisoner of Zenda, written in 1895, but not published until 1898. This story commences three years after the conclusion of Zend ...

Black Beauty is an 1877 novel by English author Anna Sewell. It was composed in the last years of her life, during which she remained in her house as an invalid. The novel became a ...

Horatio Leavenworth, Esq., a millionaire, is murdered in his library while he is engaged in reviewing a book he plans to publish. He was shot cleanly in the back of the head (with ...

A reward of five thousand dollars is offered, by Phil Ocumpaugh, to whoever will give such information as will lead to the recovery, alive or dead, of his six-year-old daughter, Gw ...

In "The House in the Mist," weary traveler Hugh Austin arrives, seeking food and lodging for the night. "Enter, sir; you are the first to arrive, but the others can not be far behi ...

On the evening before his marriage, Sinclair loses a precious curiosity from his collection: an amethyst box, containing a tiny flask of deadly poison. He suspects that this poison ...

The dead body of a woman was found under a large cabinet. But she had been dead four hours before the cabinet fell upon her. The owners of the house had been on vacation and the pl ...

24 short stories in fairly typical Bierce fashion - ghostly, spooky, to be read (or listened to) in the dark, perhaps with a light crackling fire burning dimly in the background. S ...

Allan Pinkerton), a Scotsman by birth and a barrel-maker by trade, settled in Chicago in its infancy and founded the Pinkertons, the world's first detective agency. Though events a ...

The Black Tulip is a historical novel written by Alexandre Dumas. The story begins with a historical event — the 1672 lynching of the Dutch Grand Pensionary (roughly equivalent to ...

Sherlock Holmes Bragder innehåller några av Arthur Conan Doyles mest kända Sherlock Holmes-historier: De Fem Apelsinkärnorna Det Hemlighetsfulla Brevet samt Den Musgraveska familje ...

När hittebarnet Heathcliff får följa med Mr Earnshaw hem till det stora huset på Wuthering Heights är det början på hans nya liv. Heathcliff och Mr Earnshaws dotter Catherine finne ...

Hatto, eremiten, stod i ödemarken och bad till Gud. Det var storm, och hans långa skägg och toviga hår fladdrade omkring honom som de vindfarna grästuvorna på krönet på en gammal r ...

Singoalla publicerades första gången i göteborgskalendern 1857, som bok kom den först 1865. Romanen handlar om kärleken mellan riddaren Erland Månesköld och den mystiska zigenarfli ...

Ut med blondinerna! är en kortroman av Olle Hedberg med undertiteln Sann berättelse ur livet. Boken utkom våren 1939 och är en satir över och pamflett mot antisemitismen och nazism ...

En roman av Sigfried Siwertz från 1911. En modern klassiker - boken handlar om tre unga pojkar, Erik, Fabian och Georg, som "lånar" en segelbåt och ger sig ut på sjörövaräventyr i ...

"Den gamla möbeln stod där också som hade den icke rubbats på ett halvt sekel. I översta nyckelhålet satt pjäsens enda nyckel, en tämligen stor och vacker tingest. På marmorplattan ...

Vindingevals är en roman av Artur Lundkvist utgiven 1956. Romanen utspelar sig i ett litet samhälle i södra Sverige och var inspirerad av Lundkvists egen uppväxtmiljö i norra Skåne ...

Gustav Fröding föddes på en gård i Värmland 1860. Han debuterade som diktare 1891 och fortsatte sedan vara produktiv till sin död 1911. Det här är ett urval från hans rika produkti ...