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One hundred and thirty-two stories built on the same question: what actually happened, and who is lying about it. A diamond bequeathed as a curse, an old lady dead behind a bolted door between a new will and a new husband, a woman attacked in a room locked from the inside with no way out, a matched profile that turns out to be a cover for tracking down a man named Oscar Stone, a photograph that could stop a royal wedding.

MaturePrime SuspectYou match with Rex, a detective who claims he can read you from your profile alone and dares you to try reading him back.Complete · 67 chaptersMatureAnimal InstinctRyan Melnikoff leads with a wall of animal puns, giraffe-ing, lion, the works, and somehow makes it work.Complete · 56 chapters18+Partners in CrimeComplete · 55 chaptersMatureThe MoonstoneA diamond looted from an Indian shrine is left to a girl as a birthday present by an uncle who intended it as a curse.Complete · 42 chaptersMatureCover StoryYou match with Remi, a lifeguard you only meant to grill about the Oscar Stone murder investigation, not date.Complete · 31 chapters18+The AlibiComplete · 30 chaptersTeenThe Mysterious Affair at StylesAn old lady dies convulsing behind a bolted bedroom door, midway between a new will and a new husband.Complete · 30 chaptersMatureThe Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr HydeIt begins with a door that has no bell, and the story of a man who trampled a child and paid with another man's cheque.Complete · 30 chaptersTeenThe Hound of the BaskervillesSir Charles Baskerville is found dead on his own grounds, his face changed, with the prints of an enormous hound nearby.Complete · 26 chapters18+Reasonable DoubtComplete · 24 chaptersTeenThe Circular StaircaseA spinster of settled habits takes a country house for the summer, and by the second night a man has been shot at the foot of the stairs.Complete · 23 chaptersTeenThe Mystery of the Yellow RoomA woman is attacked in a laboratory annexe locked from the inside, with barred windows and no exit anyone can find.Complete · 20 chaptersTeenA Scandal in BohemiaA masked king calls at Baker Street after dark: a photograph exists that could stop a royal wedding, and its owner will not sell.Complete · 18 chaptersMatureOpen WaterComplete · 17 chaptersMatureWhat the Archive KeptHelen brings the blue archive box through the rain the week her retirement releases it, and sets it on the clear half of your desk.Complete · 16 chaptersMatureForbidden TasteComplete · 15 chaptersMatureA Study in ScarletYou return from the Afghan campaign thin, wounded, and low on money for a London hotel.Ongoing · 6 chaptersTeenArmadaleOngoing · 6 chaptersMatureBarnaby RudgeOngoing · 6 chaptersMatureCheckmateYou are Richard Arden, weighing whether Mr.Ongoing · 6 chaptersTeenDesperate RemediesYou are Cytherea Graye, watching your father work high on Hocbridge's Town Hall spire when his foot slips and he falls in front of the whole hall.Ongoing · 6 chaptersMatureFrom Whose BourneOngoing · 6 chaptersMatureHenry DunbarOngoing · 6 chaptersTeenHide and SeekYou are Zack Thorpe, nineteen, out of patience with your father's Sunday lecture and locked-door discipline.Ongoing · 6 chaptersMatureJezebel's DaughterYour uncle Ephraim Wagner is dead, and his will hands the business entirely to his widow.Ongoing · 6 chaptersMatureLady Audley's SecretOngoing · 6 chaptersMatureOur Mutual FriendLizzie Hexam rows her father's boat down a night Thames while he watches the water for what the tide delivers — coins, mostly, and worse.Ongoing · 6 chaptersMaturePeccaviYou play the vicar of Long Stow, burying Molly Musk under an unmarked coffin plate while her father Jasper stands rigid at the grave.Ongoing · 6 chaptersTeenPoor Miss FinchOngoing · 6 chaptersMatureRecalled to LifeOngoing · 6 chaptersTeenThe AntiquaryYou travel under the name Lovel, hiding who you are, when a missed coach strands you beside a garrulous antiquary, Jonathan Oldbuck.Ongoing · 6 chaptersMatureThe Black RobeOngoing · 6 chaptersTeenThe Camera FiendYou are a schoolboy under treatment for asthma, stranded in London when your hosts fail to answer and the last train leaves without you.Ongoing · 6 chaptersTeenThe Chase of the Golden PlateOngoing · 6 chaptersMatureThe Crime and the CriminalOngoing · 6 chaptersMatureThe Datchet DiamondsOngoing · 6 chaptersMatureThe Diamond MasterYou play Harry Latham, a Fifth Avenue jeweler whose morning post brings an unregistered diamond finer than anything in the vault.Ongoing · 6 chaptersMatureThe Guilty RiverYou play Gerard Roylake, home after ten years abroad to inherit an estate that still feels like a stranger's.Ongoing · 6 chaptersMatureThe House by the Church-YardYou play Doctor Walsingham, called out on a stormy midnight by an unsigned letter to witness a burial nobody will explain.Ongoing · 6 chaptersTeenThe Last Chronicle of BarsetYou are Josiah Crawley, a poor Hogglestock curate who cannot say where a twenty-pound cheque came from, only that it was suddenly in his hand.Ongoing · 6 chaptersTeenThe Last of the MortimersOngoing · 6 chaptersTeenThe Law and the LadyYou are Valeria, married this morning to a man who is already keeping something from you.Ongoing · 6 chaptersMatureThe Leavenworth CaseOngoing · 6 chaptersMatureThe Legacy of CainYou are Eunice Gracedieu, one of two sisters raised as twins who have never been told which of you is older, or why.Ongoing · 6 chaptersMatureThe Mark of CainYou are Maitland, whose evening at the Olympic Club with Dr.Ongoing · 6 chaptersTeenThe Mermaid: A Love TaleYou are Caius Simpson, eighteen and dutiful, until a public path past Farmer Day's holding puts you in the middle of a marriage gone violent.Ongoing · 6 chaptersMatureThe Mystery of a Hansom CabOngoing · 6 chaptersMatureThe New MagdalenOngoing · 6 chaptersMatureThe Secret AgentOngoing · 6 chaptersMatureThe Shadow of the RopeYou are Rachel Minchin, leaving a marriage, when your husband is found shot in his study.Ongoing · 6 chaptersMatureThe Sign of the FourYou are Watson, watching Holmes reach for the cocaine again, when a client arrives with a pearl that has come in the post every year for six years.Ongoing · 6 chaptersTeenThe Summit House MysteryOngoing · 6 chaptersMatureThe Thousandth WomanOngoing · 6 chaptersMatureThe Three HostagesOngoing · 6 chaptersMatureThe Valley of FearYou are Dr. Watson, watching Holmes puzzle over a cipher smuggled out of Professor Moriarty's organization by an informant called Porlock.Ongoing · 6 chaptersMatureThe Water-WitchOngoing · 6 chaptersMatureUnder Western EyesOngoing · 6 chaptersMatureWylder's HandOngoing · 6 chaptersMatureA Changed Heart: A NovelJeannette McGregor's party has music, dancers and a subject nobody can leave alone: the new teacher who arrived behind a thick veil.Preview · 1 chapterTeenA Girl of High AdventureOrphaned Margot St Juste lived between a beloved uncle by marriage and an aunt whose kindness arrived as constant prohibition.Preview · 1 chapterTeenA House Divided Against ItselfYou and your father left the olive shade for an exposed road leading uphill toward the old walled town of Bordighera.Preview · 1 chapterTeenA Life SentencePreview · 1 chapterTeenA Life's SecretOn Easter Monday, Austin Clay read Homer in the silent office of builder Richard Thornimett.Preview · 1 chapterTeenA Perilous SecretWilliam Hope sat beside the Trent in shirt sleeves because his coat was wrapped around four-year-old Grace.Preview · 1 chapterTeenAlice LorraineOn 18 June 1811, you dined alone with your father at Coombe Lorraine, as the shy old family generally preferred.Preview · 1 chapterMatureAn African Millionaire: Episodes in the Life of the Illustrious Colonel ClayI am Seymour Wentworth, secretary and brother-in-law to Sir Charles Vandrift, and the Hotel des Anglais is full of talk.Preview · 1 chapterTeenAnnals of a Quiet NeighbourhoodYou reached your first country parish certain of your duties and unexpectedly doubtful of your usefulness.Preview · 1 chapterTeenBessy RaneDr. an anonymous letter, a quarrel with surgeon Alexander, and Edmund's sudden collapse.Preview · 1 chapterTeenBlue LightsMiles Milton leaves home after his father refuses to let him join the army.Preview · 1 chapterTeenClara VaughanYour tenth birthday fell on your parents' wedding anniversary, and the whole day became a celebration of all three lives together.Preview · 1 chapterTeenCord and CreeseNews of the Rival's arrival sent Sydney merchants waiting for the English mail on a July morning.Preview · 1 chapterTeenDarielAt twenty-five, you rode home from Guildford after dealers dismissed the sound grain grown on your diminished family land.Preview · 1 chapterTeenDavid's Little LadFrom the deep nursery window, you watched sea and fields while asking Gwen what it meant to be buried alive.Preview · 1 chapterTeenDead Man's LandYou sprang up when your father spoke from the deep chair beside the darkened library fire.Preview · 1 chapterTeenDr. Wortle's SchoolBowick School needed a classical master, a curate, and a married household able to supervise thirty boys.Preview · 1 chapterTeenEdinaOn a cold March Monday, Frank Raynor mixed medicines while his uncle reviewed cases in their Trennach surgery.Preview · 1 chapterTeenElster's FollyA slow goods train overshot Calne station at six in the morning, then backed up to release Percival Elster.Preview · 1 chapterTeenExecutorThe funeral party had scarcely left when John Brown held the sealed scrap to the window.Preview · 1 chapterTeenFenton's QuestGilbert Fenton spent his first Sunday at Lidford in the Lister pew, wondering whether quiet country life might surpass commerce.Preview · 1 chapterTeenGood LuckAt sixty-eight, you supported six orphan grandchildren through fine hand sewing until pain drove you to the hospital.Preview · 1 chapterTeenGreifensteinTwenty-three-year-old Greif returned from university through the deep forest below his family's castle.Preview · 1 chapterTeenHis Darling SinGrace Perivale returned from five solitary months in Italy to the white-and-gold drawing rooms of her London house.Preview · 1 chapterTeenHow It All Came RoundYou wrote quickly beside a smoking chimney because copied pages could add a little money to the curate's household.Preview · 1 chapterTeenIn the Irish BrigadeOn 20 June 1701, Colonel O'Brien brought you before officers of his Irish regiment and explained why your history required candour.Preview · 1 chapterTeenJoyceBellendean station flew flags for Norman Bellendean, though the returning heir was no boy.Preview · 1 chapterTeenKenilworthAt evening a well-armed traveller dismounted at the Black Bear in Cumnor and asked whether its ale deserved praise.Preview · 1 chapterTeenMadamPreview · 1 chapterTeenMalcolmGriselda Campbell lay dead in the upper room while Miss Horn waited for Watty Witherspail to bring the coffin.Preview · 1 chapterTeenMarriage of ElinorPreview · 1 chapterTeenMountain MoggyFrank climbed above the Welsh valleys with the sea shining beyond the ridges and a lonely hut marked only by peat smoke through a torn roof.Preview · 1 chapterTeenMr. IsaacsYou play Paul Griggs, an editor visiting Simla. At a hotel dinner, the reserved Mr.Preview · 1 chapterMatureNo HeroThe waiter leaves one unopened envelope beside my breakfast, and Catherine Evers's hand makes the paper more dangerous than its size.Preview · 1 chapterTeenOne of the 28thYou brought your mother a rare letter at breakfast and asked her not to open it until your porridge was served.Preview · 1 chapterTeenOrley FarmTwenty years after a disputed will gave Orley Farm to your infant son, the estate looked settled beneath its vines.Preview · 1 chapterTeenOrville CollegeNew German master Mr. Headmaster Brabazon welcomed the friendless young teacher and lodged him temporarily inside the school.Preview · 1 chapterTeenRalph Wilton's WeirdRalph Wilton had returned from service to find Lord St. I can honour your title without letting your estates command my life.Preview · 1 chapterTeenRedgauntletAt the George Inn in Dumfries, Darsie Latimer settled alone beside the fire and began a letter to the friend who had left him at Noble House.Preview · 1 chapterTeenRoland YorkeNear midnight in March, Richard Jones walked from Bromsgrove after missing the last train home.Preview · 1 chapterTeenRujub, the JugglerLanterns ringed the garden pool while British officers and their families praised the splendour of your entertainment at Bithoor.Preview · 1 chapterTeenRun to EarthCaptain Valentine Jernam drank with Joyce Harker in the back room of the Jolly Tar after a profitable voyage.Preview · 1 chapterTeenSalomeSalome dreamed beside Maplestone's lake while her brothers and sisters treated the house's comfort as something that could never change.Preview · 1 chapterTeenSappers and MinersThe bass you and Joe caught at dawn returned to the table crisp from Dolly's pan.Preview · 1 chapterMatureSharing Her Crime: A NovelChristmas Eve empties the bright street, but one long window in the dark-red sandstone house burns a cold yellow line.Preview · 1 chapterTeenSt. Ronan's WellA solitary rider entered the courtyard of Meg Dods's declining inn on a fine summer day and handed his tired horse to the aged, humpbacked hostler.Preview · 1 chapterTeenThe Bag of DiamondsMidnight fog erased sky, lamps, and opposite pavement as you followed the curb through Ramillies Street.Preview · 1 chapterTeenThe Black DwarfNight overtook Hobbie Elliot as he returned empty-handed from deer-stalking across the Border moor.Preview · 1 chapterTeenThe CryptogramChetwynde Castle showed neglect in every silent room except the dining room prepared for an old friend.Preview · 1 chapterTeenThe Dash for KhartoumYour wife Jane nursed her own month-old son and Captain Clinton's child after Mrs Clinton became dangerously ill.Preview · 1 chapterTeenThe First ViolinOn a mild April afternoon, May Wedderburn stayed in the vicarage drawing room after her father left by the garden gate for a funeral.Preview · 1 chapterTeenThe Floating Light of the Goodwin SandsOn a gusty November evening, the red light beyond Ramsgate shone over the Goodwin Sands and the North Sea.Preview · 1 chapterTeenThe Girl at CobhurstIn a New York boarding-house, you pressed slippers into one shared trunk for the journey to the estate called Cobhurst.Preview · 1 chapterTeenThe Lady of the IceAn April thaw had turned Quebec gray when Jack Randolph burst into Alexander Macrorie's quarters.Preview · 1 chapterTeenThe Living LinkEdith Dalton returned from her ride to find the girls at Plympton Terrace watching her in unnatural silence.Preview · 1 chapterTeenThe Lost MiddyCoins rattled inside your wooden savings box while the table knife failed again to lift one through the slot.Preview · 1 chapterTeenThe Lovels of ArdenAfter seven years at a French school, eighteen-year-old Clarissa Lovel boarded the night train alone for Yorkshire.Preview · 1 chapterTeenThe Maid of SkerIn summer 1782, you had recently lost your wife, your sailor son, and his young widow within the span of two market days.Preview · 1 chapterTeenThe Marquis of LossieYou groomed Kelpie beneath the stable-yard clock of an estate that was secretly yours.Preview · 1 chapterTeenThe Mate of the LilyJack Radburn had the Lily's rigging in his mind even on shore, where his broad shoulders and quiet manner made landsmen underestimate him.Preview · 1 chapterTeenThe MonasteryAfter Pinkie, Elspeth Glendinning held the remote tower of Glendearg with two sons and news of her husband's death.Preview · 1 chapterTeenThe Ocean Cat's PawAnother small trout flashed at the end of your line before dropping into the creel.Preview · 1 chapterTeenThe Queen's CupAfter a September shoot, Sir John Greendale's guests discussed Italy's evil-eye superstition while dusk filled the drawing room.Preview · 1 chapterTeenThe Queen's ScarletJackdaws settled outside while military reading failed to hold your mind against your cousin's money troubles.Preview · 1 chapterTeenThe Secret PowerRoger Seaton had exchanged the crowded Plaza for a log cabin high enough above it to make visitors an effort.Preview · 1 chapterTeenThe Surgeon's DaughterPreview · 1 chapterTeenThe Trail of the SerpentNovember rain pressed fog against the academy windows while Jabez North heard six cold boys recite Latin.Preview · 1 chapterTeenThe Vast AbyssThis legal volume keeps becoming ponds, cricket, ice, and the home I lost with my parents.Preview · 1 chapterMatureThe Waters of EderaThe Vale of Edera opens in heath, bare pasture, and mountain water, with the sea hidden beyond the eastern hills.Preview · 1 chapterTeenThe WeathercockMorning sun caught every wet thread between the hazels when you stepped from the wood with a basket.Preview · 1 chapterTeenUnder False PretencesPreview · 1 chapterTeenWhosoever Shall OffendThree years of marriage had made Folco a devoted husband to you and an attentive companion to your son Marcello.Preview · 1 chapterMatureWitching HillThe Witching Hill office is a varnished wooden box beneath corrugated iron, with a plate-glass window facing raw lawns and red brick.Preview · 1 chapterTeenWyllard's WeirdThe westbound express raced across a Cornish viaduct while Dr.Preview · 1 chapter

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