Detective and mystery stories books

Ravensdene Court

J. S. Fletcher

Ravensdene Court is a detective‑mystery adventure narrated by a London‑based antiquarian who is summoned in…

The Forsaken Inn: A Novel

Anna Katharine Green

The novel opens on a rain‑swept stretch of road between Albany and Poughkeepsie, where the weary narrator, on…

The Ghost Breaker: A Novel Based Upon the Play

Goddard, Charles; Dickey, Paul

The Ghost Breaker is a melodramatic detective‑mystery that opens in a dimly lit Southern parlor, where the…

The Opal Serpent

Fergus Hume

The Opal Serpent is a late‑Victorian detective‑mystery that begins with a domestic clash in the modest Essex…

The Strange Case of Mortimer Fenley

Louis Tracy

The Strange Case of Mortimer Fenley is a detective‑mystery framed by a vivid early‑twentieth‑century English…

Simon

J. Storer Clouston

The novel opens with a lone, furtive traveller navigating a night‑time railway through bleak moorland,…

In the Mayor's Parlour

J. S. Fletcher

The work is a detective‑mystery set in the historic market‑place of Hathelsborough, a town whose medieval…

Nan Sherwood at Palm Beach; or, Strange adventures among the orange groves

Annie Roe Carr

The novel opens on a frozen Lake Huron where a group of girls from Lakeview Hall, under the watchful eye of…

Masterpieces of Mystery in Four Volumes: Mystic-Humorous Stories

The volume gathers a selection of short, mystic‑humorous tales that hover between the rational and the…

The Herapath Property

J. S. Fletcher

The story opens in the third week of Selwood’s brief tenure as secretary to Jacob Herapath, a well‑known…

The La Chance Mine Mystery

Susan Morrow Jones

The La Chance Mine Mystery is a hard‑boiled detective tale set against the bleak, frozen landscape of…

Godfrey Morgan: A Californian Mystery

Jules Verne

The work is a detective‑mystery set against the bustling backdrop of late‑19th‑century San Francisco.

On the Edge of the Arctic; Or, An Aeroplane in Snowland

H. L. Sayler

The story follows two teenage Canadians, Norman Grant and Roy Moulton, who are as comfortable with railroads,…

The Seven Secrets

William Le Queux

The Seven Secrets is a turn‑of‑the‑century detective novel by William Le Queux, a writer whose name was…

The Angel of Terror

Edgar Wallace

The Angel of Terror is a detective‑mystery that opens in the tense atmosphere of a London courtroom, where a…

Patty's Friends

Carolyn Wells

Patty’s Friends is a juvenile fiction set in the bustling social world of turn‑of‑the‑century London, where…

The haunting hand

Walter Adolphe Roberts

The novel opens in an October evening that is both vivid and intimate, introducing Margot Anstruther, a young…

The Motor Pirate

G. Sidney Paternoster

The Motor Pirate is a detective‑mystery adventure set against the backdrop of early twentieth‑century…

Panther Eye

Roy J. Snell

The novel opens in the stark darkness of an Arctic gold mine, where Johnny Thompson and his enigmatic…

The trouble at Pinelands: A detective story

Ernest M. Poate

The Trouble at Pinelands is a detective story set in a remote North Carolina mansion that doubles as a…

Three sevens: A detective story

Perley Poore Sheehan

Three sevens is a hard‑boiled detective tale set in the grim “punishment block” of San Pedro Prison, where…

The dangerous game

William Le Queux

The novel opens on the sun‑lit promenade of Corfu, where the celebrated writer Charles Seton Darville,…

The Black Abbot

Edgar Wallace

The novel opens in the vaulted library of Fossaway Manor, where the young Earl Harry Alford, a pale,…

The unknown seven: A detective story

Herman Landon

The Unknown Seven is a hard‑boiled detective tale set in early twentieth‑century New York, and it launches…