Detective Books

The Hound of the Baskervilles

Arthur Conan Doyle

The Hound of the Baskervilles is one of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's four crime novels featuring star detective Sherlock Holmes. Published in 1902, it is set in the moor country of Western England, where ..

The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes

Arthur Conan Doyle

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, father of crime fiction, offers us another dozen short stories featuring master detective Sherlock Holmes. Famous for his intellectual prowess, his keen observation skills, and..

Whose Body?

Dorothy L. Sayers

Whose Body? is the first of Dorothy Sayers’s famous Lord Peter Wimsey novels, introducing that nobleman, as well as his manservant and fellow-sleuth, Mervyn Bunter. Scotland Yard’s Inspector Charles P..

The Moonstone

Wilkie Collins

The Moonstone by Wilkie Collins is a 19th-century British epistolary novel. It is generally considered to be the first detective novel, and it established many of the ground rules of the modern detect..

The Four Just Men

Edgar Wallace

The Four Just Men is a detective thriller published in 1905 by the British writer Edgar Wallace. The eponymous "Just Men" appear in several sequels.Edgar Wallace formed the idea of The Four Just Men —..

Library of the World's Best Mystery and Detective Stories

Various Authors

Library of the World's Best Mystery and Detective Stories is a collection of short mystery stories by most popular authors.HENRI RENÉ ALBERT GUY DE MAUPASSANT (1850-93).The NecklaceThe Man with the Pa..

A Study in Scarlet

Arthur Conan Doyle

A Study in Scarlet is an 1887 detective novel by British author Arthur Conan Doyle. Written in 1886, the story marks the first appearance of Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson, who would become the most f..

The Man Who Knew Too Much

G. K. Chesterton

The Man Who Knew Too Much and other stories is a book of detective stories by English writer G. K. Chesterton, published in 1922 by Cassell and Company in the United Kingdom, and Harper Brothers in th..