Crime, Thrillers and Mystery

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E. Phillips Oppenheim

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The Mysteries of London, v. 1/4

George W. M. Reynolds

The work is a Victorian‑era social novel that opens with a sweeping essay on the paradoxes of civilization,…

The Beckoning Hand, and Other Stories

Grant Allen

The Beckoning Hand and Other Stories is a collection of short fiction that blends horror, suspense, and…

The Mystery of the Sea

Bram Stoker

The work is a Scottish‑set adventure that folds mystery, prophecy and cryptic intrigue into a single…

Weird Tales, Volume 1, Number 3, May, 1923: The unique magazine

Various

Weird Tales, Volume 1, Number 3 (May 1923) is a pulp‑era magazine that assembles a eclectic mix of short…

Uncle Silas: A Tale of Bartram-Haugh

Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu

The opening of Uncle Silas: A Tale of Bartram‑Haugh situates itself firmly in the Gothic tradition,…

The Clique of Gold

Emile Gaboriau

The Clique of Gold is a French detective and mystery story that opens inside a meticulously kept Parisian…

The Haunted Hotel: A Mystery of Modern Venice

Wilkie Collins

The Haunted Hotel is a Victorian‑era mystery that begins in a London consulting‑room rather than a…

Greenmantle

John Buchan

The novel is a wartime spy adventure set against the backdrop of World War I, featuring the familiar British…

500 of the Best Cockney War Stories

Various

The volume is a collection of personal narratives and anecdotes drawn from the First World War, assembled…

The Bat

Benét, Stephen Vincent; Hopwood, Avery; Rinehart, Mary Roberts

The work is a hard‑boiled detective saga that opens with a frantic police chief demanding that his men “get…

The Leavenworth Case

Anna Katharine Green

The opening places the reader squarely in a classic whodunit, introducing a murder that has shocked a…

The Man Who Knew Too Much

G. K. Chesterton

The novel opens on a brisk walk across the windswept moors surrounding Torwood Park, where the young reviewer…

The Yellow Claw

Sax Rohmer

The Yellow Claw opens in the cramped, lamp‑lit study of Henry Leroux, a popular novelist famed for his…

Blindfolded

Earle Ashley Walcott

Blindfolded is a gritty, fast‑moving tale set against the bustling backdrop of late‑19th‑century San…

Clouds of witness

Dorothy L. Sayers

The novel opens with Lord Peter Wimsey, the aristocratic sleuth of Dorothy L.

Jack Sheppard: A Romance

William Harrison Ainsworth

William Harrison Ainsworth’s “Jack Sheppard: A Romance” is a historical melodrama set in early‑18th‑century…

The Beetle: A Mystery

Richard Marsh

The Beetle is a lurid Victorian melodrama that blends horror, revenge, and political intrigue, set against a…

Syndrome

Thomas Hoover

Thomas Hoover’s Syndrome is a medical thriller that plunges the reader into a world of desperate hope and…

Dope

Sax Rohmer

The novel is a detective‑mystery set against the fog‑laden streets of interwar London, introducing Monte…

The Woman in Black

E. C. Bentley

The work is a detective‑mystery framed around the sudden death of the legendary financier Sigsbee Manderson,…

A Book of Remarkable Criminals

H. B. Irving

The work is a scholarly survey of notorious figures, ranging from celebrated highwaymen to infamous political…

The Lock and Key Library: The most interesting stories of all nations: American

This volume is a survey of the American short‑story tradition that treats detective and mystery tales as a…