Complete Mystery Detective of Grant Allen

Grant Allen was a  a science writer and novelist, and a successful upholder of the theory of evolution.

His scandalous book titled The Woman Who Did, promulgating certain startling views on marriage and kindred questions, became a bestseller. The book told the story of an independent woman who has a child out of wedlock. He was also a pioneer in science fiction, with the 1895 novel The British Barbarians. This book, published about the same time as H. G. Wells's The Time Machine, which includes a mention of Allen, also described time travel.

Falling in Love

An African Millionaire

Early Britain, Anglo-Saxon Britain

What's Bred In The Bone

Biographies of Working Men

Recalled to Life

Philistia

Michael's Crag

Miss Cayley's Adventures

Strange Stories

The Woman Who Did

The Great Ruby Robbery: A Detective Story

The Beckoning Hand and Other Stories

The Adventure of the Cantankerous Old Lady

The British Barbarians

Charles Darwin

Hilda Wade, a Woman with Tenacity of Purpose

Post-Prandial Philosophy

Science in Arcady

Side Lights

The White Man's Foot

The Great Taboo

The Thames Valley Catastrophe

This Mortal Coil

Linnet

Babylon, Complete I, II, III

Moorland Idylls 

Wednesday the Tenth, A Tale of the South Pacific

The Evolutionist at Large

Blood Royal


Early Britain, Anglo-Saxon Britain (1881)-

This little book is an attempt to give a brief sketch of Britain under the early English conquerors, rather from the social than from the political point of view. For that purpose not much has been said about the doings of kings and statesmen; but attention has been mainly directed towards the less obvious evidence afforded us by existing monuments as to the life and mode of thought of the people themselves.

Recalled to Life (1891)-

My babyhood, my childhood, my girlhood, my school-days were all utterly blotted out by that one strange shock of horror. My past life became exactly as though it had never been. I forgot my own name. I forgot my mother-tongue. I forgot everything I had ever done or known or thought about.

Miss Cayley's Adventures (1899)-

The story of an intelligent, independent young British woman who sets out around the world in search of adventure. She finds plenty as she trips-up con-men, outsmarts Arabs, kills a tiger and, of course, saves the man she loves. Allen is a great writer so it's not nearly as trite as it may sound. It has humor and a couple of stinging barbs at the condescending attitude that was no doubt prevalent in those heady days of Victoria's global empire.

The British Barbarians (1895)-

Bertram Ingledew turns up in a Surrey village and promptly proceeds to reveal the taboos and absurdities of late 19th century life; as if the people he finds are members of a savage tribe, Bertram applies the techniques of an anthropologist. The class system, property ownership, marriage, and the status of women all come under scrutiny.


Hilda Wade, a Woman with Tenacity of Purpose (1899)- This early detective novel, featuring a female sleuth, was the last work by Mr. Grant Allen, with a final chapter edited by his friend and neighbour, Dr. Conan Doyle.

The White Man's Foot (1888)-

The old priest of Mauna Loa, the great Hawaiian volcano, is to all outward appearance a good, civilized Christian man, who has discarded his old beliefs and has heartily accepted the more excellent way offered him. All the while he keeps the old priest's mask in his closet and the old faith in his heart. His contact with the scientific explorers who come to pry into the secrets of his great goddess works out into a decidedly interesting tale, a little too full, perhaps, of hairbreadth escapes in situations from which escape seems impossible, and is found only at the very last possible moment, when all hope has been given up, but a well-sustained narrative throughout.