Crime, Thrillers and Mystery

Crime and Punishment

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

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

The strange case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde

Robert Louis Stevenson

The work is a Victorian‑era blend of science‑fiction and horror, set in a fog‑shrouded London where a lawyer…

The King in Yellow

Robert W. Chambers

The King in Yellow is a late‑nineteenth‑century American collection of short stories that blends speculative…

Dracula

Bram Stoker

The novel is an epistolary horror that begins with a series of journal entries from the English solicitor…

The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes

Arthur Conan Doyle

The work is a collection of Sherlock Holmes stories, written by Arthur Conan Doyle, that places the famed…

The Two Magics: The Turn of the Screw, Covering End

Henry James

The work is a late‑nineteenth‑century English novel that blends domestic drama with a subtle undercurrent of…

Dr. Mabuse, der Spieler: Roman

Norbert Jacques

Der Roman führt uns in die schummrige Welt eines exklusiven Spielklubs, wo ein rätselhaft eleganter Fremder –…

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…

Le Fantôme de l'Opéra

Gaston Leroux

Ce roman s’inscrit dans le croisement du récit d’horreur, de la fiction musicale et du drame parisien du XIXᵉ…

The String of Pearls; Or, The Barber of Fleet Street. A Domestic Romance.

Rymer, James Malcolm; Prest, Thomas Peckett

The work is a lurid blend of historical fiction and horror, set in late‑eighteenth‑century London where the…

The Works of Edgar Allan Poe — Volume 2

Edgar Allan Poe

The volume gathers Edgar Allan Poe’s short stories, fantasy fiction, and horror tales, all rooted in…

Bidwell's Travels, from Wall Street to London Prison: Fifteen Years in Solitude

Austin Bidwell

Austin Bidwell’s Travels, from Wall Street to London Prison is a first‑person confession that blends criminal…

The Mysteries of Udolpho

Ann Ward Radcliffe

The opening places the reader in 1584 on the banks of the Garonne, where the modest château of Monsieur St.

Carmen

Prosper Mérimée

Prosper Mérimée’s Carmen is a short‑fiction work that sketches 19th‑century Spanish social life through the…

The Secret of Chimneys

Agatha Christie

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

The Turn of the Screw

Henry James

The opening places us in a cramped Victorian drawing‑room where a group of acquaintances huddle around a…

Dracula

Bram Stoker

The novel is an epistolary horror that begins with a vivid, almost cinematic report of a ferocious storm…

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…

The Extraordinary Adventures of Arsène Lupin, Gentleman-Burglar

Maurice Leblanc

The Extraordinary Adventures of Arsène Lupin, Gentleman‑Burglar is a collection of French short stories that…

The Misplaced Battleship

Harry Harrison

The Misplaced Battleship is a science‑fiction caper that blends criminal intrigue with interstellar police…

Oliver Twist, Vol. 2 (of 3)

Charles Dickens

The second volume of Charles Dickens’s Oliver Twist continues the grim bildungsroman of an orphan boy thrust…

The Sex Life of the Gods

M. E. Knerr

The opening of The Sex Life of the Gods drops the reader straight into a high‑octane blend of science‑fiction…