A well-respected businessman is killed in his own bedroom. A blind doctor confesses that he was the murderer, but how could he have shot his neighbor so cleanly through the heart? He offers to shoot a small clock from a distance, proving he can kill by sound alone. A young Detective Gryce is on the case, and must determine not only if the doctor had the means to kill, but a motive.

Set in Baltimore in the days of Abraham Lincoln's presidential election, a man who’s fascinated with a lovely young woman who lives in his same block of apartments responds to her cry for help. She claims that a robber has stolen a ring from her finger and asks the man’s help in recovering it. He steps in to lend a hand in this engrossing mystery with a twisted ending.

There’s an impenetrable vault inside Mr. Stoughton’s business filled with important goods—and while no one knows how to access it, once a day somebody mysterious does. When a plot to steal the vault’s contents is revealed, what does the young and attractive Grace Lee, Mr. Stoughton’s personal assistant, know about it? Is she involved with the criminals, or can she thwart the devious crime?

After the theft of $25,000 worth of Mrs. Winchester’s diamonds is reported to the police, a detective is tasked with finding them within 48 hours. With pressure mounting, and the clues and suspects expanding, will the detective find the thief in time? The dark secrets of a rich family come to light in this thrilling page-turner.

Lucy Holmes, a beautiful but distressed woman, walks into the office of a detective with a mystery. Her husband went away on a business trip, and sends her a note telling her he’ll be back the next day. But when that day arrives, she wakes to find a newspaper story saying he had died—two days before the note he sent her. The detective suspects the killer is walking the streets of New York City, as he homes in on a likely suspect. Is he the solution to the difficult problem of Lucy’s missing husband?

In this twisted gothic tale, a young and rather selfish girl named Juliet draws the attention of multiple boys and men in her small village, including a rich Colonel who loves her madly and builds her a stone house, and Orrin, a fiery, unstable man. Which one of them will come to a rather gruesome end, and at whose hand?

A detective stumbles onto a murder at a masquerade ball as he’s searching for clues about a ring of counterfeiters who

address their letters to X Y Z. The family patriarch of a prominent town in Massachusetts has been poisoned, leading the detective to sort through family rumors, secrets, and mysteries in order to solve the crime.

A vial of deadly poison found in an amethyst box goes missing on the eve of Sinclair’s wedding. The groom suspects the poison belongs to either his fiancé or her cousin, his friend Worthington’s girlfriend. Can they recover the box before the poison can be administered—and to whom?

Was there a murder in Room Number 3 of the Three Forks Tavern, or is it only the delusion of a crazy woman, a beautiful young woman whose mother was just found dead in a forest? The Tavern’s landlord and clerk deny her story that she and her mom had rented rooms there, but Sheriff Hammersmith believes her, because other odd things had happened at that very tavern.