Crime, Thrillers and Mystery

Poirot Investigates

Agatha Christie

Poirot Investigates is a detective story set in inter‑war England, featuring the famed Belgian sleuth Hercule…

That Girl Montana

Marah Ellis Ryan

That Girl Montana is a Western tale set in the rugged Kootenai Valley at the turn of the twentieth‑century,…

The Sign of the Four

Arthur Conan Doyle

The opening of this work places the reader squarely in the world of Victorian‑London private investigation,…

Twenty-Five Ghost Stories

The collection opens with a richly detailed, first‑person recounting of a storm‑laden night in a grand…

The murder of Roger Ackroyd

Agatha Christie

The novel opens with a brisk, first‑person account of a physician‑detective who is summoned to the bedside of…

El crimen y el castigo

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

El libro se presenta como una novela de intriga psicológica ambientada en la San Petersburgo del siglo XIX,…

The Murder on the Links

Agatha Christie

The opening places you aboard a quiet Calais express, where a weary narrator, recently back from Paris and…

The Works of Edgar Allan Poe — Volume 1

Edgar Allan Poe

The volume gathers the fantasy‑inflected horror and detective stories that have made Edgar Allan Poe a…

Adventures of Sherlock Holmes Illustrated

Arthur Conan Doyle

This volume gathers several of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s celebrated Sherlock Holmes adventures, presented in…

The strange case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde

Robert Louis Stevenson

The work is a Victorian‑era psychological thriller that blends science‑fiction speculation with gothic…

The Return of Sherlock Holmes

Arthur Conan Doyle

The Return of Sherlock Holmes is a late‑Victorian detective narrative that picks up a decade after the famed…

The Phantom of the Opera

Gaston Leroux

The Phantom of the Opera is a Gothic melodrama that intertwines horror, musical intrigue, and Parisian…

The Man in the Brown Suit

Agatha Christie

The novel opens in a glittering theatre where the celebrated dancer Madame Nadina receives a fervent ovation…

The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes

Arthur Conan Doyle

The work is a Sherlock Holmes memoir in which the famed detective and his chronicler, Dr.

The Mystery of Edwin Drood

Charles Dickens

The novel unfolds as a tangled tableau of Victorian intrigue, set against the looming stone tower of an…

Minute Mysteries [Detectograms]

H. A. Ripley

Minute Mysteries is a collection of short detective puzzles presented as “detectograms,” each a…

The Mysterious Affair at Styles

Agatha Christie

The opening places the novel squarely in the tradition of British detective fiction, introducing a narrator…

The Cask of Amontillado

Edgar Allan Poe

The story is a compact horror tale that opens with a narrator’s cold confession of a long‑held grudge against…

The Rover Boys on the Farm; or, Last Days at Putnam Hall

Edward Stratemeyer

The Rover Boys on the Farm is the twelfth installment of Edward Stratemeyer’s long‑running juvenile series…

The Dunwich horror

H. P. Lovecraft

The Dunwich Horror is a work of early twentieth‑century American fantasy fiction that blends horror with a…

Whose Body? A Lord Peter Wimsey Novel

Dorothy L. Sayers

Whose Body? is a detective novel that places its famed amateur sleuth, Lord Peter Wimsey, at the centre of a…

The problem of Cell 13

Jacques Futrelle

The story opens as a classic detective‑mystery, starring Professor Augustus S. F. X.

The innocence of Father Brown

G. K. Chesterton

The story opens aboard a ferry that has just arrived at Harwich, where a crowd of passengers disembarks like…

The Woman in White

Wilkie Collins

Wilkie Collins’s opening places the reader in a bleak, windswept churchyard where a hidden narrator watches a…