The three taps: A detective story without a moral

Crime and Punishment

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

This volume is a psychological detective story set in nineteenth‑century Saint Petersburg, where the…

The Hound of the Baskervilles

Arthur Conan Doyle

The Hound of the Baskervilles is a detective‑mystery story that begins in the familiar setting of 1880s…

A Study in Scarlet

Arthur Conan Doyle

The work is a Victorian detective story that begins with a first‑person account from a wounded army surgeon…

The Secret of Chimneys

Agatha Christie

The Secret of Chimneys opens as a lively, if slightly rambling, tableau of British expatriates and their…

The Green Mummy

Fergus Hume

The Green Mummy is a late‑Victorian detective tale that opens in the wake of a murder that has already been…

The Man Who Was Thursday: A Nightmare

G. K. Chesterton

The Man Who Was Thursday is a hybrid of fantasy, detective intrigue, and philosophical allegory set against a…