Detective Books
The Poison Belt
Arthur Conan DoyleThe Poison Belt is a science fiction novel by British writer Arthur Conan Doyle, the second book about Professor Challenger. Written in 1913, much of it takes place in a single room in Challenger's ho..
Mademoiselle of Monte Carlo
William Le QueuxMademoiselle of Monte Carlo is a collection of mystery and detective stories written by William Le Queux, an Anglo-French journalist and writer. He was also a diplomat, a traveller, a flying..
Jack O' Judgment
Edgar WallaceJack O'Judgment by Edgar Wallace Pining for a gripping tale from the classic early years of detective fiction? Dip into Jack O' Judgment by Edgar Wallace...
The Avenger
E. Phillips OppenheimHerbert Wrayson, a bachelor returns to his flat one night to find a young lady rifling his desk. He questions her and finds she thought she was in the apartment of his neighbor, Morris Barnes, who liv..
The Problem of Cell 13
Jacques FutrelleThe Problem of Cell 13 is a short story by Jacques Futrelle. It was first published in 1905 and later collected in The Thinking Machine, which was featured in crime writer H. R. F. Keating's list of t..
The Woman in White
Wilkie CollinsThe Woman in White is Wilkie Collins' fifth published novel, written in 1859. It is considered to be among the first mystery novels and is widely regarded as one of the first in the genre of "sensatio..
Jacqueline of Golden River
H. M. EgbertJacqueline seems to have contracted a touch of amnesia, as she is found in an apartment with a dead man, and with a weapon in her hand. But she remembers nothing of any incident, remembers not her nam..
Mary Louise in the Country
L. Frank BaumThe Bluebird Books is a series of novels popular with teenage girls in the 1910s and 1920s. The series was begun by L. Frank Baum using his Edith Van Dyne pseudonym, then continued by at least three o..