A name you know. A mood you’re in. Ten minutes to yourself. Start anywhere.
Recurring elements in the story’s premise.
After their child vanishes with a traveling circus, two aging parents spend years searching roads and city churches for one familiar face.
A mild schoolmaster tests his courage with a harmless mock burglary and stumbles into a real criminal escape.
A famous escape artist accepts a midnight invitation at Giza and wakes bound in a chamber far beneath the pyramids.
A Brooklyn detective traces disappearances and occult meetings to a scholar whose sudden return to society conceals a deeper threat.
A feared Albanian bandit carries a child across the mountains, leaving a family to chase a terrifying rumor.
Two bungling kidnappers discover that their captive is far more trouble than the ransom is worth.
Bertie's attempt to mend Freddie's broken engagement leaves him responsible for a stranger's child at the seaside.
A dying professor lends his brain to an experimental warship, and the machine begins making decisions its creators never authorized.
Three Terran agents flee Mars with a stolen city hidden among office supplies, but one fellow passenger asks too many questions.
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