Category: Mystery & Suspense

In The Mayor’s Parlour (Annotated)

In The Mayor’s Parlour
by J. S. Fletcher
Original Classic Edition, Annotated

This Apex Classic Mysteries Edition is not an electronic scan or reproduction. The text has been formatted and edited by human editors faithfully following the second edition published in London in 1922. With a generous 6×9 page size, it is printed on heavyweight bright white paper with a fully laminated cover featuring an original design.

Fletcher’s writings often contain “phonetic” spellings intended to convey a character’s manner of speech, as well as actual words from the old northern English dialect and Latin legal terms. Apex editors have annotated dialectical or legal terms where the meaning may be unclear or confusing, or particularly obscure to the modern reader. Continue reading “In The Mayor’s Parlour (Annotated)”

The Mystery of the Clasped Hands [Large Print]

The Mystery of the Clasped Hands
Unabridged Large Print Edition
by Guy Newell Boothby

From the first moment he laid eyes on her, Godfrey Henderson, promising young artist, knew that he would, he must, paint the portrait of beautiful young Teresina:

“She was tall, graceful, and so beautiful, in a statuesque way, that Henderson felt his heart thrill with pleasure at the sight of her. Here was the very woman he had been so anxious to discover. If he had hunted the Continent of Europe through, he could not have found any one better suited to the requirements of the work he had in hand…’What a perfect face!’ exclaimed Godfrey, more to himself than to his companion. ‘At any hazard, I must induce her to sit to me.’ Continue reading “The Mystery of the Clasped Hands [Large Print]”

A Treasury of Father Brown Mysteries

A Treasury of Father Brown Mysteries
The Innocence of Father Brown & The Wisdom of Father Brown:
Two Complete & Unabridged Classic Editions
by G. K. Chesterton

This quality edition contains the complete and unabridged original classic version of The Innocence of Father Brown, including twelve stories featuring G.K Chesterton’s mystery-solving priest, and The Wisdom of Father Brown, including another twelve original Father Brown Mysteries, printed on heavy, bright white paper, with page headers and a fully laminated full-color cover featuring an original design. Continue reading “A Treasury of Father Brown Mysteries”

The Windy Hill [Large Print]

The Windy Hill
Unabridged Large Print Edition
by Cornelia Meigs
Introduction by Owen R. Howell

This premium quality large print edition includes the complete, unabridged text of Cornelia Meigs’ classic tale in a freshly edited and newly typeset edition, printed on heavyweight 55# bright white paper with a fully laminated cover featuring an original full color design.

The first of three Newbery Honor Books by Cornelia Meigs, The Windy Hill, published in 1921, represents an early example of a fully developed and well-written mystery adventure story intended for younger readers. Continue reading “The Windy Hill [Large Print]”

The Murder on the Links: Unabridged Large Print Edition

The Murder on the Links
Unabridged Large Print Edition
by Agatha Christie

This premium quality large print volume includes the complete text of Agatha Christie’s vintage mystery tale in a freshly edited and newly typeset edition. With a large 7.44″x9.69″ page size, this edition is printed on heavyweight bright white paper with a fully laminated cover featuring an original full color design. By increasing the page size along with the font size we are able to reduce printing costs and make this complete, unabridged large print edition available at reasonable cost. Also included is a foreword discussing Christie’s work in the context of the “Golden Age” of the mystery novel. Continue reading “The Murder on the Links: Unabridged Large Print Edition”

The Mysterious Affair at Styles: Unabridged Large Print Edition

The Mysterious Affair at Styles
Unabridged Classic Hercule Poirot Mystery in Large Print
by Agatha Christie

This premium quality large print edition contains the complete and unabridged original classic version of The Mysterious Affair at Styles, Agatha Christie’s first mystery novel, printed on heavyweight, bright white paper in a large 7.44″x9.69″ format, with a fully laminated full-color cover featuring an original design.

First published in 1920, The Mysterious Affair at Styles is both the first of Agatha Christie’s many mystery novels and the first appearance of dapper little Hercule Poirot, the Belgian detective. Confronted with a house full of suspects, it falls to Poirot to sort throught the clues, examine the motives, fit together the pieces that don’t quite fit, and solve the puzzle of who poisoned Mrs. Inglethorp…and how they did it. Continue reading “The Mysterious Affair at Styles: Unabridged Large Print Edition”

The Man in Lower Ten [Large Print]

The Man in Lower Ten
Unabridged Large Print Edition
by Mary Roberts Rinehart

The Man in Lower Ten…

“McKnight is gradually taking over the criminal end of the business. I never liked it, and since the strange case of the man in lower ten, I have been a bit squeamish. Given a case like that, where you can build up a network of clues that absolutely incriminate three entirely different people, only one of whom can be guilty, and your faith in circumstantial evidence dies of overcrowding. I never see a shivering, white-faced wretch in the prisoners’ dock that I do not hark back with shuddering horror to the strange events on the Pullman car Ontario, between Washington and Pittsburg, on the night of September ninth, last…” Continue reading “The Man in Lower Ten [Large Print]”

The Innocence of Father Brown [Large Print Edition]

The Innocence of Father Brown, Large Print Edition
Father Brown Mysteries
The Innocence of Father Brown [Large Print Edition]: The Complete & Unabridged Original Classic
by G. K. Chesterton

Mystery fans unfamiliar with Father Brown may find Chesterton’s stories a bit different. Many of the stories don’t quite fit either the standard (“Whodunit?”) or inverted (“Howcatchem?”) styles common to the mystery genre, and Father Brown is frequently less concerned with the apprehension of the wrongdoer than with getting him to understand, and admit, the error of his ways. Continue reading “The Innocence of Father Brown [Large Print Edition]”

The Wisdom of Father Brown [Large Print]

Father Brown Mysteries
The Wisdom of Father Brown, Large Print Edition  The Complete & Unabridged Original Classic
by G. K. Chesterton

This premium quality large print edition contains the complete and unabridged original classic version of The Wisdom of Father Brown, including twelve stories featuring G.K Chesterton’s mystery-solving priest, printed on heavy, bright white 60# paper in a large 7.44″x9.69″ format, with page headers and a fully laminated full-color cover featuring an original design. Continue reading “The Wisdom of Father Brown [Large Print]”

The Circular Staircase [Large Print]

The Circular Staircase
Unabridged Large Print Edition
by Mary Roberts Rinehart

The Circular Staircase…

“This is the story of how a middle-aged spinster lost her mind, deserted her domestic gods in the city, took a furnished house for the summer out of town, and found herself involved in one of those mysterious crimes that keep our newspapers and detective agencies happy and prosperous. . .”

And so begins The Circular Staircase, Mary Roberts Rinehart’s classic mystery tale featuring a bank failure, a murder, mysterious intruders, a kidnapping, arson and a characteristically complex plot which twists and turns like the circular staircase that figures so prominently, and ominously, in setting the scene for a series of mysterious events. Continue reading “The Circular Staircase [Large Print]”