Le premier dimanche du mois d'août 1815, à dix heures précises, - comme tous les dimanches, - le sacristain de la paroisse de Sairmeuse sonna les «trois coups», qui annoncent aux fidèles que le prêtre monte à l'autel pour la grand'messe.
Agatha Christie, Edgar Wallace, Arthur Conan Doyle, Wilkie Collins, R. Austin Freeman, H. C. McNeile, G. K. Chesterton, Arthur Morrison, Ernest Bramah, Victor L. Whitechurch, Thomas W. Hanshew, E. W. Hornung, J. S. Fletcher, Rober Barr, Frank Froest, C. N. Williamson, A. M. Williamson, Isabel Ostander, Edgar Allan Poe, Arthur B. Reeve, Émile Gaboriau, Marie Belloc Lowndes, Richard Marsh, Mary Roberts Rinehart, Arthur J. Rees, Carolyn Wells, William Le Queux, Frank L. Packard, Fred M. White, Allan Pinkerton, Marcel Allain, Pierre Souvestre, E. C. Bentley, A. A. Milne, Anna Maynard Barbour, A. E. W. Mason, Louis Tracy, Auguste Groner, Sax Rohmer, E. Phillips Oppenheim, Cleveland Moffett, Louis Joseph Vance, Jackson Gregory, Frank H. Spearman, Murray Leinster, Erskine Childers, Dorothy L. Sayers, Freeman Wills Crofts, Catherine Louisa Pirkis, H.C. Bailey, H. Beam Piper, James Hay, Melville Davisson Post, Anna Katharine Green, Ambrose Bierce, John R. Coryell, Frederic Arnold Kummer & Arthur Cheney Train
Agatha Christie, Edgar Wallace, Arthur Conan Doyle, Wilkie Collins, R. Austin Freeman, H. C. McNeile, G. K. Chesterton, Arthur Morrison, Ernest Bramah, Victor L. Whitechurch, Thomas W. Hanshew, E. W. Hornung, J. S. Fletcher, Rober Barr, Frank Froest, C. N. Williamson, A. M. Williamson, Isabel Ostander, Edgar Allan Poe, Arthur B. Reeve, Émile Gaboriau, Marie Belloc Lowndes, Richard Marsh, Mary Roberts Rinehart, Arthur J. Rees, Carolyn Wells, William Le Queux, Frank L. Packard, Fred M. White, Allan Pinkerton, Marcel Allain, Pierre Souvestre, E. C. Bentley, A. A. Milne, Anna Maynard Barbour, A. E. W. Mason, Louis Tracy, Auguste Groner, Sax Rohmer, E. Phillips Oppenheim, Cleveland Moffett, Louis Joseph Vance, Jackson Gregory, Frank H. Spearman, Murray Leinster, Erskine Childers, Dorothy L. Sayers, Freeman Wills Crofts, Catherine Louisa Pirkis, H.C. Bailey, H. Beam Piper, James Hay, Melville Davisson Post, Anna Katharine Green, Ambrose Bierce, John R. Coryell, Frederic Arnold Kummer & Arthur Cheney Train
Mark Twain, Agatha Christie, Arthur Conan Doyle, Edgar Allan Poe, Dorothy Leigh Sayers, G.K. Chesterton, Charles Dickens, Jules Verne, Wilkie Collins, Joseph Smith Fletcher, Maurice Leblanc, Sax Rohmer, Golden Deer Classics, Marcel Allain, Pierre Souvestre, Émile Gaboriau, John Meade Falkner, Thomas W. Hanshew, Ernest William Hornung, Herbert George Jenkins, Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu, Sheridan Le Fanu, William Le Queux, Harold MacGrath, George Barr McCutcheon, John T. McIntyre, Arthur Morrison, Edward Phillips Oppenheim, Allan Pinkerton, Melville Davisson Post, Arthur John Rees, Mary Roberts Rinehart, Harrington Strong, Louis Tracy, Louis Joseph Vance, Carolyn Wells, Herman Whitaker, George F. Worts & Israel Zangwill
Ernest Bramah, Melville Davisson Post, Grant Allen, E. W. Hornung, Émile Gaboriau, G. K. Chesterton, Gaston Leroux, Maurice Leblanc, Edgar Wallace, Thomas W. Hanshew, R. Austin Freeman, Sax Rohmer, J. S. Fletcher & Ronghua Xiang
Mark Twain, Agatha Christie, Arthur Conan Doyle, Edgar Allan Poe, Dorothy Leigh Sayers, G.K. Chesterton, Charles Dickens, Jules Verne, Wilkie Collins, Joseph Smith Fletcher, R. Austin Freeman, Maurice Leblanc, Sax Rohmer, Golden Deer Classics, Marcel Allain, Gilbert Keith Chesterton, John Meade Falkner, Émile Gaboriau, Thomas W. Hanshew, Ernest William Hornung, Herbert George Jenkins, Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu, William Le Queux, Harold MacGrath, George Barr McCutcheon, John T. McIntyre, Arthur Morrison, Edward Phillips Oppenheim, Allan Pinkerton, Melville Davisson Post, Arthur John Rees, Mary Roberts Rinehart, Harrington Strong, Louis Tracy, Louis Joseph Vance, Carolyn Wells, Herman Whitaker, George F. Worts & Israel Zangwill
Wilkie Collins, Edgar Allan Poe, Charles Dickens, Arthur Conan Doyle, G. K. Chesterton, Émile Gaboriau, E. W. Hornung, M. McDonnell Bodkin, Guy Boothby, Jacques Futrelle, Melville Davisson Post, Ethel Lina White, Baroness Emma Orczy, Arthur Morrison, Edgar Wallace, Algernon Blackwood, Maurice Leblanc, Gaston Leroux, Anna Katherine Green, Fergus Hume, Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Robert Louis Stevenson, Dorothy L. Sayers & R. Austin Freeman
Agatha Christie, Edgar Allan Poe, Arthur Conan Doyle, G. K. Chesterton, Wilkie Collins, Charles Dickens, Charlotte Brontë, Emily Brontë, Anne Brontë, Frances Hodgson Burnett, Thomas Hardy, Joseph Conrad, Jules Verne, Mark Twain, Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Anton Chekhov, Nikolai Gogol, Walter Scott, Daniel Defoe, F. Scott Fitzgerald, D. H. Lawrence, Oscar Wilde, H.G. Wells, Edgar Wallace, R. Austin Freeman, Anna Katharine Green, Mary Roberts Rinehart, Ernest Bramah, Sapper, Arthur Morrison, Marie Belloc Lowndes, Dorothy L. Sayers, John Buchan, Robert William Chambers, E. Phillips Oppenheim, J. S. Fletcher, Richard Marsh, Annie Haynes, Alexandre Dumas, Maurice Leblanc, Gaston Leroux, Émile Gaboriau, Marcel Allain, Bram Stoker, Sheridan Le Fanu, H. P. Lovecraft, William Hope Hodgson, Algernon Blackwood, Washington Irving, Guy de Maupassant, E. C. Bentley, A. A. Milne, Sax Rohmer, Erskine Childers, E. W. Hornung, Earl Derr Biggers & S. S. Van Dine