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The debut of one of literature’s greatest detective partnerships.

Brought home from the second Afghan war with a gun wound and typhoid fever, Dr. John Watson has nothing but a small income and time to recover. But after learning of comfortable lodgings on Baker Street, he finds a new roommate in Sherlock Holmes.

Quickly, Watson discovers Holmes' remarkable observational skills, and the pair set off on their first case. An American has been found murdered, with a mysterious word etched across a nearby wall in blood. And when another body turns up, it will be up to Holmes and Watson to put an end to this killer’s rampage. 

The source material behind the infamous blockbuster musical. 

There have been whisperings of a ghost in the Paris Opera House, terrorizing singers, dancers, and stagehands alike. All accounts of his face differ, but soon, none of it will matter, as the phantom will reveal himself.

When a crew member is found hanged, everyone is quick to place blame upon the phantom. Unexpectedly, though, a love affair blooms between the phantom and a beautiful singer, in what has come to be recognized as “the wildest and most fantastic tales” (New York Times Book Review). 

Follow along on the adventure of a lifetime, featuring one of literature’s greatest antiheroes.

Although possessing all of the qualities of a gentleman—including speaking well, courtly manners, and swordfighting—Redmond Barry has one fatal flaw: passion, for all things exciting, and most unfortunately, his cousin Nora. 

And when he almost kills Nora’s suitor, Barry will be forced to flee, and so an epic journey begins.

A founding work in the modern English detective novel.

The Moonstone is a religious relic, the centerpiece of a statue of the Hindu god of the moon, and is, as such, guarded by three Brahmin priests. But the giant yellow diamond is also of enormous value, and tempts many a suitor, including the dishonorable John Herncastle, a colonel in the British Army in India. 

Herncastle decides to murder the three guards and brings the diamond back to England with him, where he bequeaths it to his niece Rachel. When the jewel disappears from Rachel’s room, all that follows is danger at every turn, in a story that T.S. Eliot described as “the first, the longest, and the best of the modern English detective novels.”