Sjömansbiblioteket

När överinspektör Bliss vid Scotland Yard åker på semester så jublar inspektör Mender. Äntligen får han möjligheten att sätta fast den mystiske hämnaren Ringaren. Det dröjer bara n ...

Ett mycket dyrbart juvelspänne har stulits i England. Kommissarien O. Rater, känd under smeknamnet ”Oratorn”, är säker på vem som har gjort det. Han beordrar därför full spaning på ...

Grosshandlaren Ginter är på affärsresa i Stockholm och råkar ut för flera märkliga händelser. Först försöker en rånare rycka av honom hans överrock. Dagen efter försvinner samma ro ...

Med hjälp av dyra advokater har mångmiljonären Miska Guild sluppit undan straff för både rattfyllor och flickvänners märkliga dödsfall.  En dag får han ett brev från Ringaren om at ...

Mästerdetektiven Leo Carring får besök av sin gode vän Gustaf Meibert.Han är chockad eftersom hans fru försvunnit och lämnat ett brev om självmord efter sig. Det dröjer bara några ...

När de anställda vid Säters rättspsykiatriska klinik ska fira sin tidigare kollega Marie Lindbergs 70-årsdag dyker inte hedersgästen upp på festen. Dagen efter det inställda kalase ...

John McFarlane, a young solicitor, got himself in a mess which could cost him his future. He is afraid that he is about to be arrested for the murder of Jonas Oldacre, a builder wh ...

'Please, speak softly, we might be overheard,'Two college friends run into each other in Paris and one tells the other of a mysterious woman he’s been seeing. She sets appointments ...

There are graves that should have never been opened... The narrator and his friend learn this only after they have robbed several graves and started an exhibition on the artifacts ...

More than 10 000 years ago something terrible happened in the land of Mnar. Shepherd people built a new city called Sarnath. But the land they took to themselves was not uninhabite ...

"When I began to settle down in this right-principled and well-conducted House, I noticed, under the bed in No. 24 B (which it is up an angle off the staircase, and usually put off ...

"Once upon a time, and of course it was in the Golden Age, and I hope you may know when that was, for I am sure I don't, though I have tried hard to find out, there lived in a rich ...

"The Valley of Fear" is the last novel by Arthur Conan Doyle where the reader meets Sherlock Holmes, the famous detective. He and Doctor Watson arrive to a country manor to investi ...

Arthur Conan Doyle’s second novel featuring Sherlock Holmes, "The Sign of Four" revolves around a blood pact between four convicts in India about a stolen treasure. Holmes is sitti ...

Dr. Watson is still in mourning, when his best friend, presumed dead till now, appears in his office. And thank God he is back – for there is work to be done, and Scotland Yard is ...

"The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes" is a collection of 12 short stories by Arthur Conan Doyle, the final one being the tragic and tearful "The Final Problem". Offering pretty good mys ...

"His Last Bow" is a collection of eight short-stories about the adventures of the detective Sherlock Holmes. Here are tales of murder, abductions, stolen information, and secrets. ...

Mr. Percy Phelps, a Foreign Office employee, is desperate. An important naval treaty disappeared while he was working with it during one late night in the office. Phelps reaches ou ...

"The Queen of Spades" is a short story that explores the sins of gambling and the bottomless greed of man. When an officer learns that there is a woman who holds the key to always ...

The short story collection "The Belkin Tales" consists of five unrelated stories told by various narrators to a landowner who has recently died. Ivan Belkin, the landowner, was a s ...

"The Undertaker" is a supernatural gothic tale by Pushkin, which features Adrian Prokhorov, an undertaker, who comes to a new place. He is a very straight-forward man, and does not ...

In late 1941, President Roosevelt agonized over the rapid advances of the Japanese forces in Asia; they seemed unstoppable. He foresaw their intentions of taking India and linking ...

In Case is a murder story set in north Wales. The narrator is an English lawyer who is invited by the Professor, an old friend, to help launch the law department at a new universit ...

Selected for the task of researching a story with political overtones, fasttrack, up-and-coming Inspector Tim Medway has fears for his future promotion, added to when, as a result, ...

“Vanity, like murder, will out,” wrote Hannah Cowley over two hundred years ago. In this story of a man’s wish to establish a peaceful and beautiful bird sanctuary, both certainly ...