'A psychological account of a crime'--that's how Fyodor Dostoyevsky described his novel  Crime and Punishment,  which tells of two horrific ...

In 1910, American author and social critic Jack London began writing The Assassination Bureau, Ltd., a work that he never completed. Now, thanks to the ...

The eleven stories gathered together in these two volumes share their own common feature.  All have connections to the world of belles lettres ...

When misadventure led a schoolboy in London to employment at Baker Street, few could have guessed where his introduction to Sherlock Holmes would lead. ...

The eleven stories gathered together in these two volumes share their own common feature.  All have connections to the world of belles lettres ...

They called her "Lady Stewart" when she was married to a British aristocrat. They called her "Miss Cora "when she ran a brothel in Florida. But she called ...

A young inventor—the man whose name appears in the title of Dr. Watson’s narrative, “The Adventure of the Bruce-Partington Plans”—lies ...

Sherlock Holmes had never met a writer who had ridiculed him as bitterly as Samuel L. Clemens had. For that matter, Holmes had never met a writer who ...