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 …

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…

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 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…

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

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 Case With Nine Solutions

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Alfred Walter Stewart


This book was written by Alfred Walter Stewart under the pseudonym J.J. Connington:Sir Clinton Driffield is a respected police professional …

The Ponson Case

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Freeman Wills Crofts


Where is Sir William? His butler and valet are concerned. He disappeared after dinner and is late retiring to bed. Did Sir William walk over…

The Shooting Party

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Anton Chekhov


"The Shooting Party" is a mystery, set in the Russian countryside. The story revolves around the murder of a beautiful young woman…

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?…

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 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…

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…

Murder Mistress

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Robert Colby


Scott Daniels is a washed up showbiz announcer who hit the bottle a few too many times and blew his big chance. But he starts to think his l…

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…

That Affair Next Door (Version 2)

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Anna Katharine Green


One evening, New York society doyenne looks out her window and sees a man and woman entering the mansion opposite hers. Ten minutes later, o…

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 After House

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Mary Roberts Rinehart


Ralph Leslie, a brand-new MD, realizes that a life of adventure holds more appeal than hospital rounds and daily clinics. Is it good luck, b…

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