The Phantom of the Opera
Beneath the Paris Opera House, a disfigured musical genius known as the Phantom exerts a terrifying hold over the young singer Christine. His love, obsession, and cruelty fuel a Gothic romance of music and madness.
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The Scarlet Pimpernel
During the French Revolution, a mysterious Englishman known as the Scarlet Pimpernel smuggles doomed aristocrats to safety. The elusive hero’s identity becomes the obsession of the French agent Chauvelin.
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The Prisoner of Zenda
English gentleman Rudolf Rassendyll, visiting Ruritania, discovers he is the exact double of the soon-to-be-crowned king. When the king is abducted, Rudolf must impersonate him to save the throne.
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King Solomon’s Mines
Big-game hunter Allan Quatermain leads an expedition into uncharted Africa to find a missing brother and the fabled diamond mines of King Solomon. The journey descends into tribal war and a lost kingdom.
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The Moonstone
A priceless Indian diamond vanishes from a Yorkshire country house on the night of Rachel Verinder’s birthday, leaving suspicion on everyone present. Told through multiple narrators, this is widely considered the first English detective novel.
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The Woman in White
Drawing master Walter Hartright encounters a mysterious woman in white on a moonlit London road and is drawn into a conspiracy of stolen identity and inheritance. Wilkie Collins’ sensation novel is among the earliest mystery thrillers.
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The Count of Monte Cristo
Wrongfully imprisoned Edmond Dantes escapes after fourteen years with a hidden treasure and reinvents himself as the Count of Monte Cristo. His meticulous campaign of revenge and eventual reckoning is one of literature’s great sagas.
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The Three Musketeers
Young d’Artagnan travels to Paris to join the King’s Musketeers and befriends Athos, Porthos, and Aramis. Together they foil the schemes of Cardinal Richelieu and the treacherous Milady de Winter.
