Robert Saunderson was a thoroughly bad person - and nobody mourned his death. But who was the owner of those crystal beads - and what was their significance?

Robert Barnard's first mystery is filled with dark humor and savage satire of academia and of Australia.

The body of a nude man is discovered in a storage locker inside the Split Point Lighthouse in Australia. There are no clues. Sounds like another case for Detective Inspector Napoleon Bonaparte...

Includes "The Lamp of God," one of the best short locked room stories ever written: Ellery Queen must figure out how an entire house can disappear.

Why would a young society woman like Violet Strange secretly take up the profession of a detective, helping the police solve difficult mysteries? These linked stories by Anna Katharine Green picture an America of a century ago and an early female detective more than able to do a job very few women were doing at the time.

Henry Gamadge was asked to look over the murdered author's papers. But what really interested him was the strange behavior of the victim's family.

Mike Shayne's visitor was sure she was going to murder her mother. Mike even had to stop her from jumping out the window of his office. But when murder happened, was she really guilty? A hard-boiled classic.

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.