Detective Books

The Poisoned Pen

Arthur B. Reeve

The Poisoned Pen is a short mystery stories collection written by Arthur Benjamin Reeve,  an American mystery writer. He is best known for creating the series character Professor Craig Kennedy, s..

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)...

In the Mayor's Parlour

J. S. Fletcher

In the Mayor's Parlour is a mystery and detective story written by Joseph Smith Fletcher, an English journalist and author. He wrote more than 230 books on a wide variety of subjects, both fiction and..

The Mystery at Number Six

Augusta Huiell Seaman

A mysterious girl, a mysterious pool, and a mysterious businessman combine to send two Florida teens to adventureland in this pre-Nancy Drew tale for young people...

Dead Men Tell No Tales

E. W. Hornung

Dead Men Tell No Tales is a collection of mystery and detective stories written by Ernest William Hornung, an English author and poet known for writing the A. J. Raffles series of stories about a..

Whose Body?

Dorothy L. Sayers

The novel begins with a telephone call to Wimsey from his mother, the Dowager Duchess of Denver, saying that her vicar’s architect has just found a dead body in his bath, wearing nothing but a pair of..

The Lost Naval Papers

Bennet Copplestone

The Lost Naval Papers is detection fiction story written by Bennet Copplestone.At the beginning of the month of September, 1916, there appeared in the Cornhill Magazine a story entitled "The Lost..

The Mystery of 31 New Inn

R. Austin Freeman

The Mystery of 31 New Inn is a detective story written by R. Austin Freeman, Richard Austin Freeman was a British writer of detective stories, mostly featuring the medico-legal forensic investigator D..