Mystery fiction books

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 Mystery of Edwin Drood

Charles Dickens

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

The Silent Barrier

Louis Tracy

The Silent Barrier reads as an Alpine adventure mingled with mystery, set against the rugged backdrop of…

The Moonstone

Wilkie Collins

The novel opens as a quasi‑memoir addressed from India to English relatives, in which the narrator explains…

The Samurai Strategy

Thomas Hoover

The Samurai Strategy is a high‑stakes financial thriller that blends corporate intrigue with a dash of…

A Case in Camera

Oliver Onions

Oliver Onions’s “A Case in Camera” unfolds as a layered mystery rooted in the social fabric of…

The Big Four

Agatha Christie

The story is a classic Christie detective adventure, starring the celebrated Belgian sleuth Hercule Poirot…

In Jeopardy

Van Tassel Sutphen

In In Jeopardy Van Tassel Sutphen weaves a hybrid of inheritance drama, romance, and mystery set against a…

The Girl and the Bill An American Story of Mystery, Romance and Adventure

Bannister Merwin

The novel opens on a bustling State Street in Chicago, where the practical‑minded lawyer Robert Orme watches…

The Silver Butterfly

Mrs. Wilson Woodrow

The Silver Butterfly unfolds as a turn‑of‑the‑century New York mystery, introduced through the eyes of…

The Slave of Silence

Fred M. White

The Slave of Silence is a mystery‑driven drama set against the glitter of a lavish hotel banquet.

In Her Own Right

John Reed Scott

In In Her Own Right John Reed Scott weaves a tale of love, adventure, and intrigue set against the backdrop…

Barnaby Rudge: A Tale of the Riots of 'Eighty

Charles Dickens

Barnaby Rudge is Charles Dickens’s historical‑fiction novel that intertwines the turbulent Gordon Riots of…

The Pagan Madonna

Harold MacGrath

The Pagan Madonna is an adventure‑mystery set against the bustling backdrop of early‑20th‑century Shanghai,…

Seven Miles to Arden

Ruth Sawyer

The novel opens in the women’s free ward of a city hospital, where the spirited actress Patsy O’Connell,…

The Windy Hill

Cornelia Meigs

The Windy Hill is a youthful adventure that blends mystery with the restless energy of teenage rebellion.

Rustlers' roost

W. C. Tuttle

The lovable liar

W. C. Tuttle

The Black Bag

Louis Joseph Vance

The Circular Staircase

Mary Roberts Rinehart

After Dark

Wilkie Collins

The Law and the Lady

Wilkie Collins

Manalive

G. K. Chesterton

The Beckoning Hand, and Other Stories

Grant Allen