Category Archives: Detective Fiction
The Adventure of Charles Augustus Milverton
When strict adherence to Victorian law allows a cold-blooded extortionist to ruin lives with impunity,...
The Adventure of the Blue Carbuncle
Author(s): Sir Arthur Conan Doyle Sherlock Holmes is involved in a simple case of finding...
Silent Witness
Author(s): R. Austin Freeman In this detective novel, the young doctor Humphrey Jardine stumbles upon...
Sharper’s Downfall; Or, Into the Net
Author(s): Nicholas Carter Bigamy, blackmail, damsels in distress, gambling and kidnapping–this story has it all,...
Secret Service; or, Recollections of a City Detective
Author(s): Andrew Forrester This book of fiction from 1864, as you can guess from the...
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes
Author(s): Sir Arthur Conan Doyle The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes is a collection of twelve...
The Adventure of the Red Circle
Author(s): Sir Arthur Conan Doyle Sherlock Holmes uses his amazing brain to unravel another strange...
Old Broadbrim into the Heart of Australia or, A Strange Bargain and Its Consequences
Author(s): St. George Henry Rathborne Old Broadbrim, the famous Quaker detective listened as one of...
Prince of Swindlers
Author(s): Guy Boothby The year 18– was a momentous one in Great Britain. Not only...
Miss Frances Baird, Detective
Author(s): Reginald Wright Kauffman Frances Baird is a detective with the Watkins Agency of New...
Murder in the Gunroom
Long before H. Beam Piper gained widespread recognition for his celebrated science fiction universe, he...
Murder In The Maze
Author(s): Alfred Walter Stewart This is another story written by Walter Stewart under the pseudonym...
Mr. Fortune’s Practice
Long before modern procedural dramas populated screens with high-tech crime labs, H. C. Bailey introduced...
Roman Collar Detective
Author(s): Grace JohnsonHarold Johnson A shot penetrates the still night air and one of Galton’s...
Out of Death’s Shadow
Author(s): Nicholas Carter Nick Carter is a fictional private detective who first appeared in 1886...
Moon Rock
Author(s): Arthur J. Rees Robert Turold has a monomania – An English title which had...
Murder at St. Dennis
Author(s): Margaret Ann Hubbard A cunning killer prowls the winding corridors of an old hospital...
One of My Sons
Author(s): Anna Katharine Green A young girl frantically summons a gentleman walking by on the...
Murder Takes the Veil
Author(s): Margaret Ann Hubbard Set in the Louisiana bayou country, here is a drama rich...
Madame Midas
Author(s): Fergus Hume Hume was born in England, the second son of Dr James Hume....
Red Harvest (Version 2)
Author(s): Dashiell Hammett This novel from 1929 introduces Hammett’s recurring and always unnamed character, the...
Red Hot Ice
Author(s): Frank Kane A Case of Corpses… They piled up so fast that private-eye Johnny...
Murder Makes Me Mad
Author(s): Ferguson Findley REVENGE IS FOR ME Murder makes me mad. Me, Rex Howard, private...
Mysterious Disappearance
Author(s): Louis Tracy Lady Dyke disappears mysteriously, and barrister and hobby detective Claude Bruce appears...
Murder in the Sacristy
Author(s): Daniel A. Lord A sacristan is found murdered in the sacristy and the safe...
Master Hand
Author(s): Richard Dallas This murder mystery, written in 1903 by Richard Dallas (pseudonym), describes a...
Mystery at Geneva: An Improbable Tale of Singular Happenings
Author(s): Rose Macaulay Henry Beechtree, a newspaper correspondent for the British Bolshevist, is covering the...
Raspberry Jam
Author(s): Carolyn Wells This is the 11th book featuring the distinguished detective, Fleming Stone. When...
Over My Dead Body
Author(s): Rex Stout It all began one day when two beautiful “females” as Archie called...
Prince Zaleski
Author(s): Matthew Phipps Shiel Weird fiction author M. P. Shiel brings us a most unusual...