Fiction · 17 stories · 9,154 total words
Puzzles, clues, and enigmatic narratives. Read 17 mystery stories including The Whitmore Secret, The Vanishing Watch, The Stolen Lecture, The Sunset Forgery, The Lighthouse Signal and 12 more. All stories are free to read online with RSVP speed reading.
A new professor discovers a body at an art academy and investigates a secret society using blackmail and surveillance against students and donors.
A detective investigates the theft of an antique pocket watch from a Victorian mansion, questioning the only person who knew of its location.
Professor's crucial lecture notes vanish before a keynote speech, and security consultant Elena Voss discovers a rival's clever method of theft.
An art forgery expert examines a painting thought destroyed in a warehouse fire twenty years ago, discovering it contains modern pigments.
A man inherits a lighthouse and discovers his predecessor's logbook documenting smugglers and a mysterious disappearance.
A medical examiner investigates an ambassador's sudden death at a dinner party, discovering poison concealed in a salad.
A clockmaker's death reveals a corporate espionage scheme hidden within antique timepieces, with a recording device as evidence.
A detective investigates missing Brontë correspondence from an estate library, uncovering a wealthy widow's desperate attempt to hide forgeries.
A valuable violin disappears from a locked case during intermission, and an inspector discovers a staged theft involving insurance fraud.
An archaeologist discovers a skeleton with modern dental work buried beneath a monastery, revealing a twenty-year-old murder tied to development schemes.
A chess club founder is murdered, leaving a complex endgame position that encodes coordinates revealing his secret detective work.
A forensic botanist discovers her friend poisoned among rare orchids, revealing corporate espionage involving a deadly plant-based toxin.
An astrophysicist is murdered at an abandoned observatory, her research on a valuable asteroid attracting dangerous corporate attention.
A cellist collapses during a symphony performance, poisoned through his priceless cello, and a detective uncovers a decades-old musical grudge.
A library director is murdered in a climate-controlled vault, revealing hidden access routes from a renovation project and academic corruption.
An estate auction reveals a hidden Emily Brontë manuscript, and a detective uncovers a poisoning scheme involving a great-nephew's fake will.
Archaeologists die one by one after opening an ancient temple chamber, discovering fungal spores preserved for millennia that prove deadly.
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