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From the author of The Phantom of the Opera and master of crime fiction comes a beloved locked-room mystery.

A famed scientist's daughter is attacked, with one shocking twist: he is locked in his laboratory, a room over, when the assailant makes their move. The young lady is unconscious, covered in blood, with the scientist’s revolver removed from its cabinet.

With little to go on beyond a bloody handprint, the scientist phones in an expert: the famous detective Frédéric Larsan. Step by step, the reader follows along with the detective as he works to piece together this seemingly impossible investigation in a genre-defying novel.

The debut of one of France’s most brutal killers, who took the crime fiction world by storm.

Post-dinner, the guests of the Marquise de Langrune amuse themselves with tales of Fantômas, a sinister killer who has an insatiable thirst for blood. But, when the next morning the Marquise is murdered in her room, it seemed that they had brought evil inside.

With the chateau and its numerous suspects in uproar, Inspector Juve is called in and immediately sees the case for what it is: the work of Fantômas. With two other deadly crimes following shortly after, the inspector will have to work fast to bring justice and stop the killer before more lives are taken. 

A brilliant defense attorney struggles with his morals in this breakout master of the thriller genre. 

When a businessman is found stabbed, his partner, Oliver Hilditch, seems to be the most likely culprit. But star defense attorney, Francis Ledsam, gets on the case, building a brilliant legal strategy that turns his luck around. 

Soon, though, Ledsam finds out that Hilditch has committed far worse crimes than murder, and pledges to never defend a guilty man again. His newfound principles quickly run into conflict in the real world, where justice is rarely linear, but for Ledsam, the only feasible outcome. 

A science fiction classic that follows a man’s battle against a mad scientist's dark lab creation. 

Shipwrecked along the shore of a remote island, Edward Prendick has no idea of the horrors that await him. Home to the once-celebrated physiologist, Dr. Moreau, Prendick stumbles into his workshop, where he performs vivisection experiments, combining humans and animals together.

Soon, Prendrick realizes he is about to be next on the chopping block if he doesn’t find a way off this volcanic island. In the woods, he encounters a range of terrifying beasts, where he will have to fight for his life and flee the pursuit of the crazed scientist.