Series: Library of Congress Crime Classics

One of the earliest private eyes in fiction anchors these classic short stories! Reprinted and included in the definitive Library of Congress Crime Classics series. First published in 1923, Jim Hanvey, Detective is a collection of seven stories that originally appeared in The Saturday Evening Post and features private eye Jim Hanvey in classic whodunit style mysteries. Described as the...

An opera house is a strange place... It's like working in a tinder box. When the prompter falls dead during the second act of Richard Wagner's Die Walküre during a matinee performance at the Metropolitan Opera, as one can imagine, it causes quite a stir, especially when it is discovered that the deceased, a one-time world-famous Heldentenor, has been poisoned....

A deadly puncture from a sharp stiletto heel gives "love triangle" a murderous new meaning in this gripping gothic mystery. The sixth book in the Library of Congress Crime Classics, an exciting new classic mystery series created in exclusive partnership with the Library of Congress. This classic crime fiction mystery features a love triangle with a murderous twist. An undelivered...