An ingenious golden age murder mystery that will keep you guessing until the end! White Face is a thief terrorising 1920s London, but his identity is only revealed after a murder. A classic whodunnit by the "King of Thrillers," Edgar Wallace.
Some bright young things participate in a scavenger hunt across the Sussex countryside, but when they find a body, instead of a clue, where will it lead them? A pacy, golden age detective novel from the 1920s.
Lord Torkington has been murdered, shot in his chambers in the upper floors of Godsmark, the tower that has served as his family’s seat for over six hundred years. His family, playing billiards on the lower floors of the tower, can only confirm that at the time of the lord’s death, no-one could possibly have reached Torkington’s rooms unnoticed. This is a mystery that has no easy solution, and the Lord's unsolved murder will have ramifications for the household for years to come.
Iris La Croix's kidnapping, and unexpected release, has been the sensation of London society. Yet her fiance has doubts as to whether the woman returned to the La Croix family home is the same person as the Iris he knows and loves.
Agatha Morland is facing destitution when a chance encounter on a train leads to an opportunity for her to take on the identity of weathy heiress Moira McDonald. A sensational mystery novella by Alice and Claude Askew, along with three other short stories by the bestselling Edwardian authors.
The period between 1890 and 1940 saw a remarkable flourishing of mystery and crime writing. Whilst many authors from this period, from Arthur Conan Doyle to Agatha Christie, remain famous today, countless works are long unavailable to a modern readership. The Lost Mystery Classics series brings the novels of this era back into print, and celebrates these largely forgotten authors of the past.
Our collection of paperbacks has been specially curated to provide captivating mysteries lost to print for 100 years, and now available in high quality new editions, with a new introduction, and author biographies. If you are a connoisseur of classic crime, try our mystery classics and rediscover some lost gems.
Bestselling writers of the Edwardian era, our authors were read around the world in newspaper serials and books published to entertain a mass readership. They developed mystery writing before the conventions of detective fiction had been fully realized, so their novels are inventive, pacy and surprising. Over time, they vanished into the archives, but now these delights are available again.
Lost Mystery Classics is a collection of classic mystery books from the turn of the twentieth century, curated for you to discover the dawn of detection.
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