Crime Ficiton Books

The Escape of Mr. Trimm

Irvin S. Cobb

The Escape of Mr. Trimm His Plight and other Plights is a short story crime fiction stories written by Irvin Shrewsbury Cobb, an American author, humorist, editor and columnist from Paducah, Kentucky,..

Dyke Darrel the Railroad Detective

Frank Pinkerton

Dyke Darrel investigates an audacious train robbery that included the murder of a friend, and embarks on a man-hunt. High Victorian serial melodrama at its best! (Summary by Sibella Denton)...

Joan of Naples

Alexandre Dumas

The celebrated crimes committed during the life of Joan (Joanna I) of Naples span from personal misdeeds (adulteries and mariticide) to regional warfare (like the 1345 War in the Piedmont), and ultima..

Marquise De Ganges

Alexandre Dumas

The Marquise de Ganges is part of Dumas' true crime novel series Celebrated Crimes, Vol. 8: Part 3: The assassination of Diane de Joannis de Chateaublanc (the Marquise de Ganges) is a fitting tal..

Danger! A True History of a Great City's Wiles and Temptations

William Howe

Danger! A True History of a Great City's Wiles and Temptations The Veil Lifted, and Light Thrown on Crime and its Causes, and Criminals and their Haunts. Facts and Disclosures.Author's Preface:It may ..

Jack Sheppard - A Romance, Vol. 1 (of 3)

William Harrison Ainsworth

Jack Sheppard is a novel by William Harrison Ainsworth serially published in Bentley's Miscellany from 1839 to 1840, with illustrations by George Cruikshank. It is a historical romance and a Newgate n..

The Price

Francis Lynde

The Price is a criminal fiction novel written by Francis Lynd, who has written the book The taming of Red Butte western...

The White Moll

Frank L. Packard

The White Moll is a crime and mystery fiction story written by Frank Lucius Packard, who was a Canadian novelist. In The White Moll (1920) Rhoda Gray, “The White Moll”, an angel of mercy who..