Detective and mystery stories books

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…

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,…

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 Man in the Brown Suit

Agatha Christie

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

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…

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 Secret Adversary

Agatha Christie

Agatha Christie’s first foray into the detective‑adventure genre introduces two restless young adults, Tommy…

The Valley of Fear

Arthur Conan Doyle

The Valley of Fear is a Sherlock Holmes detective story that begins with a cryptic exchange between Holmes…

Library of the World's Best Mystery and Detective Stories

The volume opens with a stark tableau from “The Torture” by Hope, in which the venerable Grand Inquisitor…

Peter the Brazen: A Mystery Story of Modern China

George F. Worts

Peter the Brazen is a detective‑mystery set against the bustling backdrop of early twentieth‑century China.

The Hand in the Dark

Arthur J. Rees

The Hand in the Dark is a classic detective‑mystery that opens amid the aftermath of a murder at a country…

The Seven Dials mystery

Agatha Christie

The Seven Dials mystery is a detective story set in an English country house, featuring the fictional…

The Red House Mystery

A. A. Milne

The Red House Mystery is a British detective tale set in an English country house, introduced through a…

The Mystery of the Yellow Room

Gaston Leroux

The Mystery of the Yellow Room is a classic detective tale that centers on the baffling murder of…

The Yellow Crayon

E. Phillips Oppenheim

The Yellow Crayon is a turn‑of‑the‑century social mystery by E.