Detective Books

The Mysterious Affair at Styles

Agatha Christie

The Mysterious Affair at Styles, published in 1920, is Agatha Christie's first detective novel. It serves as the introduction to Hercule Poirot, Belgian inspector extraordinaire. Egg-headed with nicel..

The Secret Adversary

Agatha Christie

Sounds Like a 1930 s mystery including a humorous edge. Well written and easy to read. Neat to read about the tension and espionage between WWI and WWII. See outside view of US. Precisely what one wou..

The Secret Sharer

Joseph Conrad

"The Secret Sharer" is a short story by Polish-British author Joseph Conrad, originally written in 1909 and first published in two parts in Harper's Magazine in 1910. It was later included in the shor..

A Double Barrelled Detective Story

Mark Twain

A Double Barreled Detective Story is a short story/novelette by Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens), in which Sherlock Holmes finds himself in the American west. The story contains two arcs of revenges. In th..

The Murders in the Rue Morgue

Edgar Allan Poe

Edgar Allan Poe (1809 – 1849), a short story writer and poet, was master of the macabre and one of America's great literary geniuses. His collection of poems and short stories not only helped to defin..

Hunted Down

Charles Dickens

Hunted Down is a unique collection of Dickens stories, rarely seen in print, establishing him as one of the masters of the detective genre Charles Dickens was one of the great pioneers of detective fi..

Danger! and Other Stories

Arthur Conan Doyle

Danger! And Other Stories (1918) is a collection of short stories published by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. The story describes Britain's need to update its naval preparations. Norland, a fictional small c..

The Return of Sherlock Holmes

Arthur Conan Doyle

The Return of Sherlock Holmes is a collection of 13 Sherlock Holmes stories, originally published in 1903-1904, by Arthur Conan Doyle. The stories were published in the Strand Magazine in Great Britai..