Detective and Mystery Stories

This CD contains 371 Detective and Mystery books, including works by such authors as Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (Sherlock Holmes), G.K. Chesterton, Dumas, Edgar Allan Poe, Wilkie Collins, Email Gaboriau, Anna Katharine Green, E.W. Hornung, Gaston Leroux (Phantom of the Opera), Mary Roberts Rinehart, and Mark Twain.

Intended for use with PCs (Windows or Linux) and recent Macs (OS X), these books are in plain-text format, organized for easy access.

Table of contents:

Anthologies

Library of the World's Best Mystery and Detective Stories, edited by Julian Hawthorne

• Volume 2 of 6 -- French, Italian, Spanish, and Latin Mystery Stories
• HENRI RENE ALBERT GUY DE MAUPASSANT (1850-93).
•     The Necklace
•     The Man with the Pale Eyes
•     An Uncomfortable Bed
•     Ghosts
•     Fear
•     The Confession
•     The Horla
• PIERRE MILLE.
•     The Miracle of Zobeide
• VILLIERS DE L'ISLE ADAM.
•     The Torture by Hope
• ERCKMANN-CHATRIAN
•     The Owl's Ear
•     The Invisible Eye
•     The Waters of Death
• HONORE DE BALZAC (1799-1850).
•     Melmoth Reconciled
•     The Conscript
• JEAN FRANCOIS MARIE AROUET DE VOLTAIRE (1694-1778).
•     Zadig the Babylonian
• PEDRO DE ALARCON.
•     The Nail
• LUIGI CAPUANA (1839-00).
•     The Deposition
• LUCIUS APULEIUS (Second Century).
•     The Adventure of the Three Robbers
• PLINY, THE YOUNGER (First Century).
•     Letter to Sura

The Lock and Key Library: Classic Mystery and Detective Stories - Old Time English, Edited by Julian Hawthorne

• Charles Dickens (1812-1870)
• The Haunted House
• No. 1 Branch Line: The Signal Man
• Bulwer-Lytton (1803-1873)
• The Haunted and the Haunters, or The House and the Brain
• The Incantation
• Thomas de Quincey (1785-1859)
• The Avenger
• Charles Robert Maturin (1782-1824)
• Melmoth the Wanderer
• Laurence Sterne (1713-1768)
• A Mystery with a Moral
• William Makepiece Thackeray (1811-1863)
• On Being Found Out
• The Notch on the Ax
• Anonymous
• Bourgonef
• The Closed Cabinet

The Lock and Key Library: Detective and Magic Stories from Real Life, Edited by Julian Hawthorne

• Part 1 -- Detective Stories from Real Life
• Arthur Train
• A Flight into Texas
• P.H. Woodward
• Adventures in the Secret Service of the Post-Office Department
• An Erring Shepherd
• An Aspirant for Congress
• The Fortune of Seth Savage
• A Wish Unexpectedly Gratified
• An Old Game Revived
• A Formidable Weapon
• Andrew Lang
• Saint-Germain the Deathless
• The Man in the Iron Mask
• The Legend
• The Valet's History
• The Valet's Master
• Original Papers in the Case of Roux De Marsilly
• Part 2 -- True Stories of Modern Magic
• M. Robert-Houdin
• A Conjurer's Confessions
• Self-Training
• "Second Sight"
• The Magician Who Became an Ambassador
• Facing the Arab's Pistol
• David P. Abbott
• Fraudulent Spiritualism Unveiled
• A Doctor of the Occult
• How the Tricks Succeeded
• The Name of the Dead
• Mind Reading in Public
• Some Famous Exposures
• Hereward Carrington
• More Tricks of "Spiritualism"
• "Matter through Matter"
• Deception Explained by the Science of Psychology
• Anonymous
• How Spirits Materialize

The Lock and Key Library: the Most Interesting Stories of All Nations: American, Edited by Julian Hawthorne

• Julian Hawthorne
• Introduction: Riddle Stories
• F. Marion Crawford (born 1854)
• By the Waters of Paradise
• Mary E. Wilkins Freeman (born 1862)
• The Shadows on the Wall
• Melville D. Post (born 1871)
• The Corpus Delicti
• Ambrose Bierce (born 1842)
• An Heiress from Redhorse
• The Man and the Snake
• Edgar Allan Poe (1809-1849)
• The Oblong Box
• The Gold-Bug
• Washington Irving (1783-1859)
• Wolfert Webber, or Golden Dreams
• Adventure of the Black Fisherman
• Charles Brockden Brown (1771-1810)
• Wieland's Madness
• FitzJames O'Brien (1828-1862)
• The Golden Ingot
• My Wife's Tempter
• Nathaniel Hawthorne (1804-1864)
• The Minister's Black Veil
• Anonymous
• Horror: A True Tale

The Lock and Key Library: Classic Mystery and Detective Stories: Modern English: Edited by Julian Hawthorne

• Arthur Conan Doyle (born 1859)
• A Case of Identity
• A Scandal in Bohemia
• The Red-Headed League
• Egerton Castle (born 1858)
• The Baron's Quarry
• Stanley J. Weyman (born 1855)
• The Fowl in the Pot
• Robert Louis Stevenson (1850-1894)
• The Pavilion on the Links
• Wilkie Collins (1824-89)
• The Dream Woman
• Anonymous
• The Lost Duchess
• The Minor Canon
• The Pipe
• The Puzzle
• The Great Valdez Sapphire

The Lock and Key Library: the Most Interesting Stories of All Nations: French, Edited by Julian Hawthorne

• Victor Cherbuliez
• Count Kostia
• Paul Bourget
• Andre Cornelis
• Anonymous
• The Last of the Costellos
• Lady Betty's Indiscretion

The Continental Classics, volume 18, Mystery Tales

•  ALEXANDER SERGEIEVITCH PUSHKIN - The Queen of Spades
•  VERA JELIHOVSKY - The General's Will
•  FEODOR MIKHAILOVITCH DOSTOYEVSKY - Crime and Punishment
•  ANTON CHEKHOFF - The Safety Match
•  VSEVOLOD VLADIMIROVITCH KRESTOVSKI - Knights of Industry
•  JOeRGEN WILHELM BERGSOeE - The Amputated Arms
•  OTTO LARSSEN - The Manuscript
•  BERNHARD SEVERIN INGEMANN - The Sealed Room
•  STEEN STEENSEN BLICHER - The Rector of Veilbye
•  FERENCZ MOLNAR - The Living Death
•  MAURUS JOKAI - Thirteen at Table
•  ETIENNE BARSONY - The Dancing Bear
•  ARTHUR ELCK - The Tower Room

Master Tales of Mystery, edited by Francis Reynolds

• Volume 3
• ARTHUR B. REEVE
•   THE POISONED PEN
•   THE INVISIBLE RAT
•   THE SILENT BULLET
•   THE DEADLY TUBS
•   THE BLACK HAND
•   THE STEEL DOOR
• PAUL L. FORD
•   GREAT K. & A. TRAIN ROBBERY
• MAX PEMBERTON
•   THE RISEN DEAD
• GEO.B. McCUTCHEON
•   COWARDICE COURT
• BURTON E. STEVENSON
•   THE CASE OF MRS. MAGNUS
• JOSEPH ERNEST
•   THE EPISODE or THE BLACK CASQUETTE
• MARJORIE L.C. PICKTHALL
•   CHEAP

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Alvin Addison

• Ellen Walter

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Gertrude Atherton

• The Avalanche

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Clara Augusta

• The Fatal Glove

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Anne Austin

• Murder at Bridge

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Frances Henshaw Bader

• Edna's Sacrifice and Other Stories

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Honore de Balzac

• An Historical Mystery

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Robert Barr

• The Triumph of Eugene Valmont

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Martha Belllinger

• The Stolen Singer

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Ambrose Bierce

• The Parenticide Club (short)
• Present at a Hanging

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Earl Derr Biggers

• The Agony Column

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G.a. Birmingham

• The Simpkins Plot

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Algernon Blackwood

• Three John Silence Stories
• Three More John Silence Stories

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Guy Boothby

• My Strangest Case

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M.E. Braddon

• Milly Darrell and Other Stories

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Ernest Bramah

• Four Max Carrados Detective Stories, 1919
• The Mirror of Kong Ho

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Percy James Brebner

• The Master Detective, 1916

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Mrs. Charles Bryce

• The Ashiel Mystery: a Detective Story

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Edward George Bulwer-Lytton (1803-1873)

• Alice or the Mysteries
• A Strange Story

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Hall Cane

• The Shadow of a Crime

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Nicholas Carter

• The Crime of the French Cafe and Other Stories
• The Crime of the French Cafe
• Nick Cater's Ghost Story
• The Mystery of St. Agnes Hospital
• With Links of Steel

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Esther and Lucia Chamberlain

• The Coast of Chance

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Robert Chambers

• Police!!!

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G.K. Chesterton

• Aesop's Fables (Chesterton wrote the introduction
• Alarms and Discursions
• All Things Considered
• The Appetite of Tyranny
• Appreciations and Criticisms of the Works of Charles Dickens
• The Ball and the Cross
• The Ballad of the White Horse
• The Barbarism of Berlin
• The Club of Queer Tales
• The Crimes of England
• The Defendant
• George Bernard Shaw
• Greybeards at Play
• Heretics
• The Innocence of Father Brown
• Magic, a Fantastic Comedy
• The Man Who Knew Too Much
• The Man Who Was Thursday
• Manalive
• A Miscellany of Men
• The Napoleon of Notting Hill
• The New Jerusalem
• Orthodoxy
• Robert Browning
• A Short History of England
• Trees of Pride
• Tremendous Trifles
• Twelve Types
• Utopia of Usurers and Other Essays
• Varied Types
• The Victorian Age in Literature
• What's Wrong With the World
• The Wild Knight and Other Poems
• The Wisdom of Father Brown

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Erskine Childers

• The Riddle of the Sands

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Wilkie Collins

• After Dark
• Antonina, or the Fall of Rome
• Armadale
• Basil
• The Black Robe
• The Captain and the Nymph
• Dream Woman
• Evil Genius
• Fair Penitent (a short story)
• The Frozen Deep
• The Guilty River
• The Haunted Hotel
• I Say No
• Jezebel's Daughter
• The Law and the Lady
• The Legacy of Cain
• Man and Wife
• Miss Bertha and the Yankee (a short story)
• Miss Dulane and My Lord
• Miss Mina and the Groom (a short story)
• Miss and Mrs.
• The Moonstone
• Mr. Lepel and the Housekeeper (a short story)
• Mr. Medhurst and the Princess
• Mr. Percy and the Prophet
• Mrs. Zant and the Ghost
• My Lady's Money
• The New Magdalen
• No Name
• No Thoroughfare (co-author with Charles Dickens)
• Poor Miss Finch
• The Queen of Hearts
• A Rogue's Life
• The Traveller's Story of a Terribly Strange Bed
• Two Destinies
• Woman in White

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Richard Harding Davis

• The Spy (short)

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Daniel Defoe

• History of the Remarkable Life of John Sheppard

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John Dent

• The Gerrard Street Mystery and Other Weird Tales

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Walter de la Mare

• The Return

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Charles Dickens, English, 1812-1870

• Hunted Down (short)
• The Mystery of Edwin Drood

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Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Russian, 1821-1881

• Crime and Punishment

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Francis Doughty

• The Bradys and the Girl Smuggler

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Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, English, 1856-1930

• Adventure of the Bruce-Partington Plans (short story)
• Adventure of the Cardboard Box (short story)
• Adventure of the Devil's Foot (short story)
• Adventure of the Dying Detective (short story)
• The Adventure of the Red Circle (short story)
• Adventures of Sherlock Holmes
• The Adventure of Wisteria Lodge (short story)
• The Cabman's Story
• The Captain of the Polestar
• The Doings of Raffles Haw
• The Firm of Girlestone
• His Last Bow (short story)
• The Hound of the Baskervilles
• Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes
• Micah Clarke
• Mystery of Sassa Valley (short story)
• The Mystery of Cloomber
• The Return of Sherlock Holmes
• The Sign of the Four
• Sir Nigel
• Study in Scarlet
• Tales of Terror and Mystery
• The Valley of Fear

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Alexandre Dumas, pere, French, 1802-1870

• The Black Tulip, in English
• Celebrated Crimes -- 18 books in a single file, in English
• The Borgias
• The Cenci
• Massacres of the South
• Mary Stuart
• Karl-Ludwig Sand
• Urbain Grandier
• Nisida
• Desrues
• La Constantin
• Joan of Naples
• The Man in the Iron Mask (an essay, reflecting on the history behind the novel)
• Martin Guerre (source of the movies "The Return of Martin Guerre" and "Somersby")
• Ali Pacha
• The Countess of Saint Geran
• Murat
• The Marquise de Brinvilliers
• Vaninka
• The Marquise de Ganges
• The Count of Monte Cristo, in English
• from the Three Musketeers Saga -- The Man in the Iron Mask (covering 1661-1673)

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Edward Eggleston

• The Mystery of Metropolisville, 1888

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Allan Fea

• Secret Chambers and Hiding Places

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Paul Feval

• La Fabrique de Crimes

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Henry Fielding

• History of the Life of the Late Mr. Jonathan Wild

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Percy Keese Fitzhugh

• Tom Slade on Mystery Trail

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J.S. Fletcher

• The Borough Treasurer
• The Middle Temple Murder

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Anatole France

• The Crime of Sylvestre Bonnard

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R. Austin Freeman

• The Mystery of 31 New Inn
• The Vanishing Man

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Emile Gaboriau, French, 1832-1873

• Baron Trigault's Vengeance (sequel to Count's Millions)
• Caught in the Net
• The Champdoce Mystery (sequel to Caught in the Net)
• The Clique of Gold
• La Corde au Cou (in French)
• The Count's Millions
• File Number 113
• The Honor of the Name
• Monsieur Lecoq
• The Mystery of Orcival
• Other People's Money
• The Widow Lerouge
• Within an Inch of His Life

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Frank Froest

• The Grell Mystery

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Perceval Gibbon

• Vrouw Grobelaar and Her Leading Cases

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Charlotte Perkins Gilman

• The Yellow Wallpaper

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George Goff

• Nick Baba's Last Drink and Other Sketches

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Anna Katharine Green (Mrs. Charles Rohlfs)

• That Affair Next Door
• The Bronze Hand
• The Chief Legatee
• The Circular Study
• A Difficult Problem
• The Golden Slipper And Other Problems for Violet Strange
• The Gray Madam
• The Hermit of ______Street
• The House of the Whispering Pines
• The Leavenworth Case
• Midnight in Beauchamp Row
• The Mill Mystery
• The Millionaire Baby
• The Mystery of the Hasty Arrow
• The Old Stone House and other Stories
• The Staircase at the Hearts Delight

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Augusta Groner and Grace Isabel Colbron

• The Case of The Lamp That Went Out
• The Case of the Golden Bullet
• The Case of The Pool of Blood in the Pastor's Study
• The Case of the Registered Letter

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Harlan P. Halsey (= the Old Sleuth)

• Cad Metti, the Female Detective Strategist
• A Desperate Chance
• Oscar the Detective

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Wilhelm Hauff

• The Severed Hand

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Julian Hawthorne (see also Anthologies)

• David Poindexter's Disappearance and Other Tales

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James Hay, Jr.

• The Winning Clue

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O. Henry

• Rolling Stones

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Joseph Hocking

• The Weapons of Mystery, 1890

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E.W. Hornung (1866-1921)

• The Amateur Cracksman
• Dead Men Tell No Tales
• Mr. Justice Raffles
• No Hero
• Raffles
• The Shadow of the Rope
• A Thief in the Night

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Fergus Hume

• The Silent House

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Will Irwin

• The House of Mystery, 1910

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Christopher Jervis

• John Thorndyke's Case

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Owen Johnson

• Murder in Any Degree

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Camilla Kenyon

• Spanish Doubloons

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Andrew Lang

• The Clyde Mystery
• Historical Mysteries
• The Valet's Tragedy and Other Studies

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Jules Lermina

• L'Effrayante Aventure, in French

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Gaston Leroux (1868-1927)

• Les Etranges Noces de Rouilletabille in French
• Le Fauteuil Haute, in French
• Le Mystere de la Chambre Jaune (Mystery of the Yellow Room, in French)
• The Mystery of the Yellow Room
• Le Parfum de la Dame en Noir, 1908, in French
• The Phantom of the Opera
• The Secret of the Night

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William J. Locke

• A Christmas Mystery: The Story of Three Wise Men

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Sir William Magnay

• The Hunt Ball Mystery

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Edward Martin

• The Secrets of the Great City

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A.E.W. Mason

• The Witness for the Defense, 1914

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Frank Jewett Mather

• The Collectors, 1912

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John T. McIntyre

• Ashton-Kirk Investigator

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L.T. Meade

• A Master of Mysteries (with Robert Eustace)

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Alice Miller

• The Burglar and the Blizzard

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S. Weir Mitchell

• The Autobiography of a Quack and the Case of George Dedlow

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Arthur Morrison

• Martin Hewitt, Investigator

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W.C. Morrow

• The Ape, the Idiot, and Other People

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H.R. Naylor

• The Mystery of Monastery Farm, 1908

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Margaret (Wilson) Oliphant (1828-1897)

• A Beleaguered City
• A Little Pilgrim
• The Little Pilgrim: Further Experiences
• Old Lady Mary
• The Open Door and the Portrait

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Frank Packard (1877-1942)

• Adventures of Jimmie Dale
• Further Adventures of Jimmie Dale
• The Miracle Man
• The White Moll

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Randall Parrish

• The Strange Case of Cavendish

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Allan Pinkerton

• Bucholz and the Detectives
• The Burglar's Fate and the Detectives

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Frank Pinkerton

• Dyke Darrel the Railroad Detective or The Crime of the Midnight Express

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Mrs. E.R. Pitman

• Elizabeth Fry

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Edgar Allan Poe, American, 1809-1849

The Raven edition of his works

Volume 1

• Edgar Allan Poe, An Appreciation
• Life of Poe, by James Russell Lowell
• Death of Poe, by N. P. Willis
• The Unparalled Adventures of One Hans Pfall
• The Gold Bug
• Four Beasts in One
• The Murders in the Rue Morgue
• The Mystery of Marie Rogêt
• The Balloon Hoax
• MS. Found in a Bottle
• The Oval Portrait

Volume 2

• The Purloined Letter
• The Thousand-and-Second Tale of Scheherezade
• A Descent into the Maelström
• Von Kempelen and his Discovery
• Mesmeric Revelation
• The Facts in the Case of M. Valdemar
• The Black Cat
• The Fall of the House of Usher
• Silence -- a Fable
• The Masque of the Red Death
• The Cask of Amontillado
• The Imp of the Perverse
• The Island of the Fay
• The Assignation
• The Pit and the Pendulum
• The Premature Burial
• The Domain of Arnheim
• Landor's Cottage
• William Wilson
• The Tell-Tale Heart
• Berenice
• Eleonora

Volume 3

• Narrative of A. Gordon Pym
• Ligeia
• Morella
• A Tale of the Ragged Mountains
• The Spectacles
• King Pest
• Three Sundays in a Week

Volume 4

• The Devil in the Belfry
• Lionizing
• X-ing a Paragrab
• Metzengerstein
• The System of Doctor Tarr and Professor Fether
• The Literary Life of Thingum Bob, Esq.
• How to Write a Blackwood article
• A Predicament
• Mystification
• Diddling
• The Angel of the Odd
• Mellonia Tauta
• The Duc de l'Omlette
• The Oblong Box
• Loss of Breath
• The Man That Was Used Up
• The Business Man
• The Landscape Garden
• Maelzel's Chess-Player
• The Power of Words
• The Colloquy of Monas and Una
• The Conversation of Eiros and Charmion
• Shadow.--A Parable

Volume 5

• Philosophy of Furniture
• A Tale of Jerusalem
• The Sphinx
• Hop Frog
• The Man of the Crowd
• Never Bet the Devill Your Head
• Thou Art the Man
• Why the Little Frenchman Wears his Hand in a Sling
• Bon-Bon
• Some words with a Mummy
• The Poetic Principle
• Old English Poetry

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E. R. Punshon

• The Bittermeads Mystery

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Chevalier William le Queux

• The Czar's Spy
• The House of Whispers

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William MacLeod Raine

• Tangled Trails

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Arthur Rees

• The Hand in the Dark

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Arthur Benjamin Reeve (1880-1936)

• Constance Dunlap
• Dream Doctor
• The Ear in the Wall
• The Exploits of Elaine
• The Film Mystery
• The Gold of the Gods
• Guy Garrick
• The Master Mystery (with John Grey)
• The Poisoned Pen
• The Romance of Elaine
• Silent Bullet
• The Treasure-Train
• The War Terror

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Mary Roberts Rinehart, American, 1876-1958

• The After House
• The Amazing Interlude
• Bab: a Sub-Deb
• The Bat (with Avery Hopwood)
• The Breaking Point
• The Case of Jennie Brice, 1913
• The Circular Staircase
• Confession
• Dangerous Days
• K
• Kings, Queens and Pawns
• Long Live the King
• The Man in Lower Ten
• A Poor Wise Man
• Sight Unseen
• The Street of the Seven Stars
• Tish
• The Truce of God
• When a Man Marries
• Where There's a Will

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Melvin L. Severy

• The Darrow Enigma

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Roy Snell

• Mystery Stories for Boys: Triple Spies

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Chester K. Steele

• The Diamond Cross
• The Golf Course Mystery
• The Mansion of Mystery

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Robert Neilson Stephens

• The Mystery of Murray Davenport

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Burton Stevenson

• The Mystery ofo the Boule Cabinet

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Eliot Stokes

• Andy at Yale or the Great Quadrangle Mystery

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Frank R. Stockton

• The Lady, or the Tiger? (short)
• The Stories of the Three Burglars

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Rex Stout

• Under the Andes

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Arthur Stringer

• Never-Fail Blake

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Harrington Strong

• The Brand of Silence

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Louis Tracy

• The Stowmarket Mystery, 1904

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Mark Twain, American, 1835-1910

• Carnival of Crime in Connecticut (short)
• The Double-Barrelled Detective
• The Man Who Corrupted Hadleyburg
• Pudd'n Head Wilson
• Sketches New and Old
• Tom Sawyer, Detective

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Charles Edmonds Walk

• The Paternoster

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Edgar Wallace

• The Daffodil Mystery

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John R. Watson and Arthur J. Rees

• The Hampstead Mystery, 1910

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Jean Webster

• The Four-Pools Mystery

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Carolyn Wells

• The Gold Bag

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Fred M. White

• The Mystery of the Four Fingers

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Stewart Edward White

• The Mystery
• The Sign at Six

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Arthur Winfield (= pseudonym of Edward Stratemeyer)

• The Mystery at Putnam Hall

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Mrs. Wilson Woodrow

• The Black Pearl