Description: Black magic. That’s what it looked like. She entered the empty taxicab in a raging storm on the stroke of midnight, giving the driver an address on the outskirts of the city. Arriving there he discovered that the woman had vanished apparently into thin air and in her place was the dead body of…
A Mating in the Wild – Otwell Binns – 1919
Description: A man recently released from prison goes to the Canadian wilderness and embarks on a campaign of revenge. Reviews: Rating:
Paid Out – Percival Bessell – 1919
Description: Paid Out, by J. Percival Bessel, is a detective story in which a marvelous diamond, supposedly possessed with occult qualities, figures. The theft of this gem is attended by a murder, which sends the thief, its perpetrator, wandering far and wide to escape the nemesis of his deed. Mysterious occurrences, harrowing experiences and remorse…
Crater’s Gold – Philip Curtis – 1919
Description: Crater’s Gold, by Philip Curtis, utilizes certain faithful perquisites of the romancer: the old abandoned house, a forged document, the shaft head of a disused mine, and the familiar grouping of strangers in a country house that is certainly haunted, if not by the dead, then by the living who have no business there….
Bat Wing – Sax Rohmer – 1919
Description: Paul Harley, detective-hero of some of Sax Rohmer’s previous stories, is called upon by Colonel Juan Menendez for protection. His need of it, he says, dates back to a period which he spent in Cuba where he incurred the wrath of the natives, who have since employed the art of voodoo against him. Harley…
The Riddle of the Night – Thomas W Hanshew – 1919
Description: How Cleek, with the help of Ailsa Lorne and the half-burned portions of a shoe-polish label, finally solves the mystery of a murder and of the the figures on the murdered man’s shirt front. In it Margot and her gang play a very important role and of the end aid materially in bringing the…
Alias the Night Wind – Varick Vanardy – 1919
Description: The story of an all-sweeping revenge against false witnesses. Reviews: Rating: 4
Old Madhouse – WILLIAM FREND DE MORGAN – 1919
Description: Two young men are engaged to marry two young women. They propose to rent and share between them a vast empty house known as the Old madhouse. But before Fred Carteret can sign his share of the lease his guardian, the Rev. Dr Carteret, must give his consent. Dr Carteret goes to inspect the…
The Mystery in the Ritsmore – William Johnston – 1919
Description: A novel that grips you at the beginning for, in the very first chapter, a bride on her honeymoon opens the door of her bedroom closet in the fashionable Ritsmore Hotel and the body of a beautiful woman with a knife in her breast falls out at her feet! You can’t lay the book…
The Hunchback of Westminster – William Le Queux – 1919
Description: A mystery story about a Mexican treasure. Reviews: Rating: