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 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…

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…

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?…

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…

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 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…

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…

Thieves Like Us

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Edward Anderson


Thieves Like Us (later re-released as Your Red Wagon) is the thrilling Depression-era tale of Bowie Bowers, a young convict who has escaped …

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