Detective Books

The Mystery of Dr. Fu-Manchu

Sax Rohmer

The Mystery of Dr. Fu-Manchu is the first novel in the Dr. Fu Manchu series by Sax Rohmer. It collates various short stories published the preceding year. The novel was also published in US under the ..

Holocaust House

Norbert Davis

Norbert Davis perfected the craft of mixing humor and the detective-noir genres and Holocaust House is one good example of it. Doan, the "hero" of this story is a small-time detective with a dry, sard..

The Poison Belt

Arthur Conan Doyle

The 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 Queux

Mademoiselle 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 Wallace

    Jack 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 Oppenheim

Herbert 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 Futrelle

The 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 Collins

The 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..