Crime & Mystery Fiction

The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner (Version 2)

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James Hogg


An early example of a psychological mystery and modern crime fiction, The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner details the …

Paved With Gold

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Augustus Mayhew


The expressed goal of this book is to "write a truthful account of the miseries of criminal life" (from the preface). Thus, this b…

The Green Mummy

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Fergus Hume


An eccentric Professor's quest for a green mummy leads him and his acquaintances to a murder and a bizarre adventure - Summary by Yoganandh …

Owen Clancy's Run Of Luck

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Burt L. Standish


Owen Clancy befriends a lad he saves from peril. He and his friend foil a nefarious plot. - Summary by Howard Skyman

The Quest for the Rose of Sharon

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Burton Egbert Stevenson


This tale of mystery and its solution contains all the elements which go to make a fascinating story, in which one’s sympathies are awakened…

The Trevor Case

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Natalie Sumner Lincoln


The nation's capital was astir at the untimely and curious death of the young wife of the Attorney General, Edmund Trevor. She had obviously…

Nightmare

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Cornell Woolrich


Dark crime fiction author Cornell Woolrich (real name George Hopley) brings us this show-stopping collection of grim and twisted stories of …

The Florentine Dagger

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Ben Hecht


The police say it was suicide. The daughter says it was suicide. The daughter's fiance is sure it was murder, but who did it? The daughter?…

Knock Three-One-Two

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Fredric Brown


A serial killer is on the loose and is thirsting for another kill. Meanwhile sad sack loser Ray Fleck, compulsive gambler, has racked up a …

Nothing More Than Murder

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Jim Thompson


Joe Wilmot is a big fish in a small pond, running the premiere movie house in town with a wife who hates him and a housemaid who wants to ge…

The House Without a Key (Version 2)

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Earl Derr Biggers


In this murder mystery, the main character is the victim’s nephew, a straitlaced young Bostonian bond trader, who came to the islands to tr…

The Hidden Mask

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C. Guise Mitford


The Hidden Mask is a thrilling fast paced mystery that will have you hooked from start to finish. The mystery begins when Lawrence Clayton a…

The Devil-Ray

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Joel Martin Nichols, Jr.


George Ferris is a master thief with amnesia. He and his two partners in crime concoct a plan to break into the famed Castle Blennerhof in a…

David Poindexter's Disappearance and Other Tales

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Julian Hawthorne


Julian Hawthorne, son of famed author Nathaniel Hawthorne, brings together a collection of stories of tragedy, lost love and occasionally of…

The House on the Cliff (Version 3)

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Franklin W. Dixon


In this early Hardy Boys book (the second to be published), the boys journey to a haunted house where a murder took place, and upon entering…

Armadale - 1. Band

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Wilkie Collins


„Armadale” ist ein Roman des englischen Schriftstellers Wilkie Collins, der als „erster Kriminalroman” der modernen Geschichte des 19. Jahrh…

The Black Candle

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Emily Murphy


Emily Murphy wrote about the Vancouver, BC Downtown Eastside and its various residents. This is one of her quotes from the book - "It …

The House of Skulls

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H. Bedford-Jones


A slick car and scenic and bountiful ranch to be had for a steal and Yorke Desmond wonders only briefly what the catch is. The man who sold…

Der Roman der XII

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Herbert Eulenberg and Gustav Falke


Der Roman der XII wurde von 12, zu ihrer Zeit, hervorragenden Autoren als spaßiges Experiment geschrieben. Das Buch hat 12 Hauptkapite…

Twelve Times Zero

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Howard Carleton Browne


It was a love-triangle murder that made today's headlines but the answer lay hundreds of thousands of light years away! - Summary by If: Wor…

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