User:McGhiever

Librarian and dedicated reader of Victorian and Edwardian mystery short stories. More at w:User:McGhiever.

Contributions

Exploration history

• Journal of the Right Hon. Sir Joseph Banks by Joseph Banks
• The Worst Journey in the World by Apsley Cherry-Garrard
• Captain Cook's Journal During His First Voyage Round the World by James Cook
• A Voyage to Terra Australis by Matthew Flinders

Mysteries and crime fiction

Books

• An African Millionaire: Episodes in the Life of the Illustrious Colonel Clay by Grant Allen
• The Trail of the Serpent by Mary Elizabeth Braddon
• The Eyes of Max Carrados by Ernest Bramah
• The Missing Chums by Franklin W. Dixon
• Knaves of Diamonds by George Griffith
• November Joe: Detective of the Woods by Hesketh Hesketh-Prichard
• The Dorrington Deed-Box by Arthur Morrison
• The Red Triangle by Arthur Morrison
• Lady Molly of Scotland Yard by Emma Orczy

Short stories from magazines

• From a Surgeon's Diary by Clifford Ashdown: "The Adventure at Heath Crest", "How I Acted for an Invalid Doctor", "How I Attended a Nervous Patient", "How I Met a Very Ignorant Practitioner", "How I Cured a Hopeless Paralytic", and "How I Helped to Lay a Ghost"

• The Further Adventures of Romney Pringle by Clifford Ashdown: "The Submarine Boat", "The Kimberly Fugitive", "The Silkworms of Florence", "The Box of Specie", "The Silver Ingots", and "The House of Detention"

• The Sorceress of the Strand by L. T. Meade and Robert Eustace: "Madame Sara", "The Blood-Red Cross"

• Martin Hewitt, Investigator by Arthur Morrison: "The Lenton Croft Robberies", "The Loss of Sammy Crockett", The Case of Mr. Foggatt", "The Case of the Dixon Torpedo", "The Quinton Jewel Affair", "The Stanway Cameo Mystery", and "The Affair of the Tortoise"

• The Old Man in the Corner by Emma Orczy: "The Hocussing of Cigarette", "The Tragedy in Dartmoor Terrace", "Who Stole the Black Diamonds?", "The Murder of Miss Pebmarsh", "The Lisson Grove Mystery", "The Tremarn Case", "The Fate of the 'Artemis'", "The Disappearance of Count Collini", "The Ayrsham Mystery", "The Affair at the Novelty Theatre", and "The Tragedy of Barnsdale Manor"

Other fiction

• John Silence: Physician Extraordinary by Algernon Blackwood
• The Specimen Case by Ernest Bramah
• An Antarctic Mystery by Jules Verne

Western and Native American history

• The Life and Adventures of James P. Beckwourth: Mountaineer, Scout, Pioneer, and Chief of the Crow Nation of Indians by James P. Beckwourth
• A Sioux Story of the War: Chief Big Eagle's Story of the Sioux Outbreak of 1862 by Big Eagle & Return Ira Holcombe
• The City of the Saints, and Across the Rocky Mountains to California by Richard F. Burton
• Geronimo's Story of His Life by Geronimo & Stephen Melvil Barrett
• Astoria: or, Anecdotes of an Enterprise Beyond the Rocky Mountains by Washington Irving
• A Tour on the Prairies by Washington Irving
• History of the Ojibway Nation by William Whipple Warren & Edward Duffield Neill

Works in progress

• A Voyage Round the World, in His Britannic Majesty's Sloop, Resolution, Commanded by Capt. James Cook, During the Years 1772, 3, 4, and 5 by Georg Forster
• The Adventures of Captain Bonneville by Washington Irving
• Voyage in Search of La Pérouse by Jacques Labillardière
• The Sorceress of the Strand by L.T. Meade and Robert Eustace
• Scott's Last Expedition by Robert Falcon Scott
• The Six Voyages of John Baptista Tavernier by Jean-Baptiste Tavernier

Works in occasional progress

• Travels to Discover the Source of the Nile by James Bruce
• A Voyage to the Islands Madera, Barbados, Nieves, S. Christophers and Jamaica by Hans Sloane

Wanted

Mysteries

• Paul Beck, the Rule of Thumb Detective by M. McDonnell Bodkin
• Max Carrados Mysteries by Ernest Bramah
• Hunting for Hidden Gold by Franklin W. Dixon (transcription project)
• The Adventures of Arthur Dawe by J.S. Fletcher
• The Thinking Machine on the Case by Jacques Futrelle (transcription project)
• Judith Lee: Pages from Her Life by Richard Marsh
• Martin Hewitt, Investigator and The Adventures of Martin Hewitt by Arthur Morrison

Exploration

• A Voyage round the World by Louis Antoine de Bougainville
• Through the Heart of Patagonia by Hesketh Vernon Hesketh-Prichard
• The Mystery of Easter Island by Katherine Maria Routledge
• Ruins of Desert Cathay by Marc Aurel Stein

Western

• Coronado's Children by J. Frank Dobie [enters public domain 2026]
• Life and Adventures of Nat Love by Nat Love
• The Rachel Plummer Narrative by James W. Plummer and Rachel Plummer (external scan)
• The Exploration of the Colorado River and Its Canyons by John Wesley Powell
• Ranch Life and the Hunting Trail by Theodore Roosevelt
• Exploration and Survey of the Valley of the Great Salt Lake of Utah by Howard Stansbury