PDF Books in Children's Mysteries & Detective Stories
The Adventure of the Bruce-Partington Plans
by Arthur Conan DoyleThe Adventure of the Bruce-Partington Plans is one of the His Last Bow series of short stories written by Arthur Conan Doyle. A man found dead near underground railway line along-with few papers of Submarine plan. Holmes need to find the 3 papers missing from the body which could create havoc to the Britain. His investigations leading to ..
The Last Galley; Impressions and Tales
by Arthur Conan DoyleThe Last Galley: Impressions and Tales is a volume collecting 18 short stories written by Arthur Conan Doyle first published in 1911 by Smith, Elder & Co. and George Bell & Sons. Also titled The Passing of the Legions (R. Harold Paget [US]) in 1911...
Mystery of the Caribbean Pearls
by Andy AdamsMystery of the Caribbean Pearls is a a part of the Biff Brewster Adventures series of juvenile mystery stories written by Andy Adams."Lightning streaked the skies over the Windward Islands. The Caribbean Sea was a tumbled mass of foaming, angry waters. The chabasco had struck with the quickness and lashing fury that is the nature of this most feare..
Decidedly Odd
by Edwin BalmerOne rainy morning in April, Luther Trant sat alone in his office. On his wrist as he bent closely over a heap of typewritten pages spread before him on his desk, a small instrument in continual motion ticked like a watch. It was for him an hour of idleness; he was reading fiction. And, with his passion for making visible and recording the workings ..
The Star Beast
by Damon KnightThe observation deck of the President Marcus, this early in the ship's arbitrary morning, was deserted except for two shapeless figures. One of them was dead. The body was sprawled in the curve of the deck about midway between two of the entrance wells. It had arms and legs, if you looked closely enough at the limp tangle of garments; it had a gray..
The Longsnozzle Event
by Hal AnnasLen Zitts wiggled his big toe and gently pressed it against the velvet-covered button, and the couch on which he was lying began easing from beneath the desk to shape itself into a lounging chair. In the process, a pair of mechanical arms slipped a pair of flexible plastic moccasins on his feet and another pair of arms buttoned his shirt collar and..
The Millbank Case - A Maine Mystery of To-day
by George Dyre EldridgeTHEODORE WING had no known enemy in the world. He was a man of forty; “well-to-do,” as they say in New England; a lawyer by profession, and already “mentioned” for a county judgeship. He was unmarried, but there were those who had hopes, and there was scarce a spinster in Millbank who hadn’t a kindly word and smile for him—at times. He was not a ch..
Keeban
by Edwin BalmerThe quick, quiet unlocking and then the closing of the hall door on the floor below told me that Jerry had come in; so I sat up, roused as I always was when I felt him about. He put life into any place,—even into an Astor Street marble mansion in the somnolence of two-thirty on a morning after everybody else has gone to bed.Since my light was on, a..