The False Faces by Louis Joseph Vance

On the muddy verge of a shallow little pool the man lay prone and still, as still as those poor dead whose broken bodies rested all about him, where they had fallen, months or days, hours or weeks ago, in those grim contests which the quick were wont insensately to wage for a few charnel yards of that debatable ground.

Nobody by Louis Joseph Vance

A thrilling mystery by Louis Joseph Vance.
Louis Joseph Vance (September 19, 1879–December 16, 1933) was an American novelist, born in Washington, D. C., and educated in the preparatory department of the Brooklyn Polytechnic Institute. He wrote short stories and verse after 1901, then composed many popular novels. His character Michael Lanyard, also known as The Lone Wolf, was featured in eight books and 24 films between 1914 and 1949 and also appeared in radio and television series.
Vance was married in 1898 and had a son born in 1899, but he was separated from his wife when he was found dead in 1933. He was in a burnt armchair inside his New York apartment. He had been intoxicated at the time of death, and a cigarette had ignited some benzene (used for cleaning his clothes or for his broken jaw) that he had on his body. He had recently returned from the West Indies, where he had gathered material for a new book. The death was ruled accidental. 

The Sign of the Four by Arthur Conan Doyle

This, the second Sherlock Holmes mystery, begins with Holmes himself in a cocaine-induced haze, interrupted by the arrival of a distressed and beautiful young lady. Each year following the strange disappearance of her father, Miss Morstan has received a rare and lustrous pearl. Now, on the day she is summoned to meet her anonymous benefactor, she comes to consult with Holmes and Watson.

The Golden Silence by A. M. Williamson and C. N. Williamson

Set in Algeria a hundred years ago, the story is full of the wonder and mystery of the desert. The action is dramatic and the descriptions are done with rare power. The story will bring a new type of Williamson novel to all those who love tales of mystery, romance, and adventure.

A Plot for Murder by Frederic Brown

  It's set in New York City in pre-television times. Our hero (using the term very loosely) is Bill Tracy, a former hard-drinking newspaperman who's now a hard-drinking writer for a popular radio soap opera named "Millie's Millions." It's in the tradition of the silent-screen series "The Perils of Pauline" and every episode sees Millie facing new dangers and troubles and (to the huge relief of her fans) surviving by the skin of her teeth. It pays well, but cranking out five inane episodes a week is boring, soul-destroying work.

Eleven Possible Cases by Anna Katharine Green

Eleven mystery and detective stories about crime and lust. Anna Katharine Green has been called the mother of the detective novel. These are her shorter works, eleven of them. Enjoy!

Dark Hollow by Anna Katharine Green

A murder is committed in Dark Hollow and the proprietor of a neighboring inn is convicted and hanged. Twelve years later events take a turn, and the judge who convicted the man confesses that he himself was the murderer. Meanwhile the man who was hanged was proved to have been a murderer before that time, and for a crowning touch his daughter and the son of the judge are happily united.

Cynthia Wakeham's Money by Anna Katharine Green

A melodramatic mystery, in which a young lawyer is summoned to the house of a dying woman to draw up her will. In a search for her legitimate heirs, he encounters a beautiful woman with a mysterious scar. Events then take a very sinister turn…

Agatha Web by Anna Katharine Green

As a convivial group leaves a dance one night a young man rushes by muttering "Thank God, this night of horror is over"... and soon thereafter cries of "Murder!" alert the group that Agatha Webb has been stabbed to death!  A saintly woman is found stabbed, with her husband, a dementia victim, found asleep with blood on his sleeve; her housekeeper is dead, too. The reprobate son of the town's first citizen acts suspicious; his girlfriend is blackmailing him. Witnesses saw a strange, bearded old man.