Detective Books
The Secret Adversary
Agatha ChristieSounds 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 TwainA 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 PoeEdgar 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 DickensHunted 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 DoyleDanger! 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 DoyleThe 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..
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 ..