Mystery Books

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..

The Wharf by the Docks

Florence Warden

Everybody knows Canterbury, with its Old-World charms and its ostentatious air of being content to be rather behind the times, of looking down upon the hurrying Americans who dash through its cathedra..

Lord Arthur Savile's Crime

Oscar Wilde

Lord Arthur Savile's Crime and Other Stories is a collection of short semi-comic mystery stories that were written by Oscar Wilde and published in 1891...

The Secret Agent

Joseph Conrad

The Secret Agent: A Simple Tale is a novel by Joseph Conrad, published in 1907. The story is set in London in 1886 and deals with Mr Adolf Verloc and his work as a spy for an unnamed country. The Secr..

The Oakdale Affair

Edgar Rice Burroughs

The Oakdale Affair is a short contemporary mystery novel by Edgar Rice Burroughs. It was written in 1917 under the working title of "Bridge and the Oskaloosa Kid," and is a partial sequel to The Mucke..

The Fall of the House of Usher

Edgar Allan Poe

The Fall of the House of Usher is one of Edgar Allen Poe's masterful short tales which first appeared in 1840 in the collection "Tales of the Grotesque and Arabesque". The story follows an unnamed nar..

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..