Mystery Books
The Hound of the Baskervilles
Arthur Conan DoyleThe 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 DoyleSir 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..
The Liar of the White Worm
Bram StokerThe Lair of the White Worm is a horror novel by the Irish writer Bram Stoker. It was first published by Rider and Son of London in 1911 – the year before Stoker's death – with colour illustrations by ..
Whose Body?
Dorothy L. SayersWhose 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 CollinsThe 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..
Mystery of the Yellow Room
Gaston LerouxThe Mystery of the Yellow Room is a mystery novel written by French author Gaston Leroux. One of the first locked-room mystery novels, it was first published serially in France in the periodical L'Ill..
The Four Just Men
Edgar WallaceThe 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 —..
The thinking machine
Jacques FutrelleFor the world’s most brilliant criminologist, every mystery has a solutionHis name is Professor Augustus S. F. X. Van Dusen, but to the newspapers he is known as “The Thinking Machine...