Detective Books
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..
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..
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 —..
Library of the World's Best Mystery and Detective Stories
Various AuthorsLibrary 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 DoyleA 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. ChestertonThe 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..
The After House
Mary Roberts RinehartThe After House is a detection fiction novel written by Mary Roberts Rinehart...