All the evidence pointed to the young man as a murderer. But that failed to explain the shrieking heard from the pit, or the mysterious White Lady - or why the accused man refused to say anything in his own defense.

Arsene Lupin, the "gentleman-thief" so highly regarded by French mystery readers, tackles an unusual case of kidnapping and murder carried out in a most unusual and mysterious house.

The driver of the hansom cab was shocked to discover that his passenger was dead - apparently murdered by another man who had left him there. It was quite a challenge for the Australian police.

Two cousins who detest each other take a trip together up the river Thames in a small boat - and then one disappears...

Twentieth century Detective Superintendent John Cheviot is transported back in time to solve an impossible murder committed in 1829.

Miss Pongleton was unpleasant. Miss Pongleton was vindictive. Was that why Miss Pongleton was dead - strangled with her own dog's leash on a stairwell on the London Underground's Northern Line?

A sudden death, a mysterious cipher that could not be broken, and strange goat-like footprints all combine to terrorize a young woman in a remote house.

Cornelia Potts was the unpleasant old woman in the shoe, and some of her six children clearly were mad. Mad enough to murder? That's what Ellery Queen needed to find out.

What secret caused a doctor to disappear from his home without any warning - or several other people apparently to vanish as well? Scotland Yard's Inspector French will find himself challenged when murder enters the picture.

We begin with the stage magic illusion of a headless lady - and quickly cross the line into murder, and the Great Merlini becomes the prime suspect.