35 stories
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Dashiell Hammett-
2.2K
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222 parts
The fog hangs thick as grief, clinging to the brick and shadowed alleys of nameless cities. These aren't tales of gleaming detectives and ti... -
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Agatha Christie-
1.1K
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143 parts
A creeping dread clings to the Dorset coast, a salt-laced miasma rising from the crumbling cliffs and shadowed coves. The village of Little ... -
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Émile Gaboriau-
990
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63 parts
A suffocating fog clings to the cobblestones of Paris, mirroring the miasma of dread that seeps from the shadowed alleys and the decaying gr... -
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W. R. Burnett-
710
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52 parts
The city breathes grit and shadow, a perpetual twilight clinging to alleys slick with rain and the reek of stale beer. Little Caesar doesn’t... -
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Compton Mackenzie-
643
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60 parts
A creeping dread clings to the cobbled lanes of the old quarter, where shadows stretch long from the gas-lit lamps and the sea sighs with a ... -
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Anna Katharine Green-
612
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40 parts
A fog-choked New York winter yields not just snow, but a corpse—a wealthy lawyer found shot dead in his locked study, a single playing card,... -
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G. D. H. Cole-
547
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38 parts
A creeping dread clings to the brownstone steps of Brooklyn Heights, thick as the November fog. Cole’s narrative unfolds not as a whodunit, ... -
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Agatha Christie-
527
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40 parts
A creeping unease settles over the Cornish coast, clinging to the stone walls of the manor and the shadowed paths winding through the rhodod... -
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Edgar Wallace-
524
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34 parts
A suffocating dread clings to the corridors of the Grand Metropolitan Hotel. Not a tale of spectral hauntings, but of shadowed men and whisp... -
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Gaston Leroux-
523
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31 parts
Dust motes dance in the perpetual twilight of the Yvel estate, a crumbling monument to a family devoured by secrets. The air hangs thick wit... -
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Edgar Wallace-
505
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46 parts
A suffocating dread clings to the fog-choked streets of a nameless port city, where the echoes of shipwrecks and shadowed alleys whisper of ... -
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Edgar Wallace-
500
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36 parts
A suffocating dread clings to the shadowed halls of Blackwood Manor, where a legacy of madness and avarice has festered for generations. The... -
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Edgar Wallace-
493
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35 parts
A creeping dread settles over the fog-choked streets of London, born not of Jack the Ripper’s shadow, but of a far more calculated terror. T... -
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Sax Rohmer-
470
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31 parts
A suffocating dread clings to London’s fog-choked streets, born not of Jack the Ripper’s shadow, but a far more insidious design. Here, ami... -