PDF Books in Crime Fiction
Vaninka
by Alexandre DumasThe story of Vaninka, generally regarded as the most fictionalized of Dumas’ Celebrated Crimes series, occurs during the short and eccentric rule of Emperor Paul I of Russia. Vaninka is a general’s daughter whose love for one of her father’s officers leads to tragic death, savage crimes and perversions of justice...
Derues
by Alexandre DumasDerues is written by Alexandre Dumas as part of his novel series Celebrated crimes. Delve into the annals of criminal history with this spine-chilling volume from famed historical fiction writer Alexandre Dumas (pere). Antoine-Francois Desrues was an eighteenth-century French merchant who turned to poison as his weapon of choice when his financial ..
The Black Robe
by Wilkie CollinsWilkie Collins’s 1881 The Black Robe tells the story of the misadventures of Lewis Romayne in a novel which deals with depression, madness, a fatal duel, marital breakdown, capture by South American ‘natives’, ill-motivated religious conversion, bigamy and disinheritance. The somewhat mad premise is that scheming Jesuit Father Branwell is out to wi..
The Dead Alive
by Wilkie CollinsThe Dead Alive, also called John Jago’s Ghost, is a novella written in 1874 by Wilkie Collins based on the Boorn Brothers murder case. It was reprinted with a side-by-side examination of the case by Rob Warden in 2005 by Northwestern Press. This novel is based on the true-life Boorn Brothers murder conviction case of 1819. Jesse and Step..
The New Magdalen
by Wilkie CollinsThe New Magdalen is fiction novel written by Wilkie Collins narrating the story of a convicted women. Excerpts from the bookCaptain Arnault, commanding on the French side, sat alone in one of the cottages of the village, inhabited by the miller of the district. The Captain was reading, by the light of a solitary tallow-candle, some intercepted..
In the Earth's Shadow
by John L. ChapmanIt took a few minutes for Ferris to recover. Replacement! After six years of service at the number one fuel station between the Earth and Moon. Why, he was the only man who could handle Station 12! And Galsworth was sending Brooks, a green kid barely out of SM school. What was the guy thinking of?Angered, Ferris got up from his stool and paced the ..
Hold Onto Your Body!
by Richard O. LewisHumming a merry little tune, I turned to the papers upon my desk. The partnership contract between James Fidwell and T. J. Nelson. If one of the partners should die from any cause, the other partner would become sole owner of the Remey Company....They seemed quite in order. I shuffled them into a neat pile and cut an intricate little dance step on ..
The Berserker
by Charles V. De VetAll of Big Jim Ostby's attention seemed on the cigar as he lit it, but it was not. He observed the faces of the men who passed him by, and the figures of those across the street, and up and down the sidewalk. Satisfied, he moved on.Ostby's six feet four, and two hundred thirty-five pounds, were not conspicuous on this other-dimensional world, where..