• Marjorie Daw--TEXT

Grant ALLEN (1848-1899)

• Hilda Wade (1899)--HTML
• Miss Cayley's Adventures (1899)--HTML
• An African Millionaire: Episodes In The Life of The Illustrious Colonel Clay (1897)--HTML

Clifford ASHDOWN [See R Austin FREEMAN]

A Maynard BARBOUR

• That Mainwaring Affair--TEXT
• At the Time Appointed--TEXT

Robert BARR (1850-1912)

• The Triumphs of Eugène Valmont (1906)--TEXT

E C BENTLEY (1875-1956)

• Trent's Last Case [a.k.a. The woman in Black] (1913)

Earl Derr BIGGERS (1884-1933)

     The "Charlie Chan" Novels

• The House Without a Key (1925)--Text
• The Chinese Parrot (1926)--Text
• Behind that Curtain (1928)--Text
• The Black Camel (1929)--Text
• Charlie Chan Carries On (1930)--Text--HTML
• Keeper of the Keys (1932)--Text
• The Agony Column--TEXT

Marjorie BOWEN (a.k.a. George R Preedy, Joseph Shearing, John Winch, Robert Paye)

• The Poisoners--HTML

Mary Elizabeth BRADDON

• Lady Audley's Secret--HTML

Ernest BRAMAH(1867-1942)

• Max Carrados Mysteries: An Anthology--Text
• Max Carrados Mysteries: Another Anthology--Text--HTML
• The Game Played in the Dark--Text--HTML
• Smothered in Corpses--Text--HTML
• The Mirror of Kong Ho--TEXT
• The Wallet of Kai Lung--TEXT
• The Coin of Dionysius--TEXT
• Kai Lung's Golden Hours--HTML

John BUCHAN (1875-1940)

     Richard Hannay stories:

• The Thirty-nine Steps--TEXT
• Greenmantle--TEXT
• Mr Standfast--TEXT
• The Three Hostages--Text--HTML
• The Island of Sheep (1932)--Text--HTML (Published as "The Man from the Norlands" in the U.S.A., this is the last of the Richard Hannay adventures.)

     Other Works:

• Castle Gay (1930)--Text--HTML
• Huntingtower--TEXT
• The House of Four Winds (1935)--Text--HTML
• There may be other Buchan titles on our author list

Edward BULWER-LYTTON (1803-1873)

• Pelham (1828)--TEXT
• A Strange Story--TEXT
• Eugene Aram (1832)--TEXT
• Paul Clifford--TEXT
• Night and Morning--TEXT

Ellis Parker BUTLER (1869-1937)

     Philo Gubb Stories:

• The Hard-boiled Egg--Text--HTML
• Philo Gubb's Greatest Case--Text--HTML

G K CHESTERTON (1874-1936)

• The Man Who Knew Too Much--TEXT
• The Trees of Pride--TEXT
• The Man Who Was Thursday (1908)--TEXT
• Tales of the Long Bow (1925)--Text
• Four Faultless Felons--Text--HTML
• The Paradoxes of Mr. Pond--Text--HTML
• The Napoleon of Notting Hill--Text--HTML
• The Club of Queer Trades--TEXT

     Father Brown Stories:

• The Innocence of Father Brown (1911)--TEXT
• The Wisdom of Father Brown--TEXT
• The Incredulity of Father Brown (1936)--Text
• The Scandal of Father Brown--Text
• The Secret of Father Brown--Text

Erskine CHILDERS (1870-1922)

• Riddle of the Sands (1903)--Text

Caroline CLIVE

• Paul Ferroll (1855)--Text--HTML
• Why Paul Ferroll Killed his Wife--Text--HTML

Wilkie COLLINS (1824-1889)

• A Stolen Letter (1854)
• No Name (1862)--TEXT
• Armadale (1866)--TEXT
• The Woman in White--TEXT
• The Moonstone (1868)--TEXT
• The Haunted Hotel--TEXT
• I Say No--TEXT
• The Law and the Lady (1875)--TEXT
• Miss or Mrs.?--TEXT
• My Lady's Money--TEXT
• The Queen of Hearts--TEXT

Catherine CROWE (1800-1876)

• Adventures of Susan Hopley (1841)
• The Unknown Weapon

Honore DE BALZAC (1799-1850)

• The Mysterious Mansion--Text--HTML
• An Historical Mystery--TEXT

Richard Harding DAVIS (1864-1916)

• In the Fog--TEXT

Thomas DE QUINCEY (1785-1859)

• Murder, Considered as One of the Fine Arts--TEXT

Dick DONOVAN (Mr Joyce R Preston Muddock) (1842-1934)

• Caught at Last: Leaves from the Notebook of a Detective (1889)
• The Knutsford Mystery (1906)
• The Fatal Ring (1905)

Sir Arthur Conan DOYLE (1859-1930)
  ^^Click name to view comprehensive bibliography and read most of the books written by Doyle.

• A Sherlock Holmes Omnibus--HTML This omnibus edition includes Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's four novels and five short-story collections featuring Sherlock Holmes.

     Professor Challenger:

• The Land of Mist (1926)--HTML
• The Disintegration Machine (1927)--Text--HTML
• When the World Screamed (1929)--Text

Charles FELIX (pseudonym)

• The Notting Hill Mystery (1865)

J S (Joseph Smith) FLETCHER (1863-1935)

• The New Sun--Text--HTML
• The Other Sense--Text--HTML
• The Lighthouse on Shivering Sand--Text--HTML
• The Ivory God--Text--HTML
• The Safety Pin (1924)--Text
• The Paradise Mystery--TEXT
• The Adventures of Arthur Dawe, Sleuth Hound (1909)
• The Middle Temple Murder (1919)--TEXT
• The Paradise Mystery--TEXT

Hulbert FOOTNER (1862-1943)

• Death of a Celebrity (1938)--HTML
• Sinfully Rich (1940)--Text
• Easy to Kill--Text
• Who Killed the Husband--Text--HTML
• There may be other Footner titles on our author list

Andrew FORRESTER Jnr.

• The Femal Detective (1864)--HTML
• Tales by a Female Detective--HTML

Mary FORTUNE (c.1833-c.1910)

• Traces of Crime--Text--HTML

R Austin FREEMAN (1862-1943)

Dr. Thorndyke

• The Red Thumb Mark (1907)--HTML
• The Eye of Osiris (1911), a.k.a. The Vanishing Man--Text--HTML
• The Mystery of 31 New Inn (1912)--HTML
  
• A Silent Witness (1914)--Text--HTML
• Helen Vardon's Confession (1922)--Text--HTML
• The Cat's Eye (1923)--Text--HTML
• The Mystery of Angelina Frood (1924)--Text--HTML
• The Shadow of the Wolf (1925)--Text--HTML
• The D'Arblay Mystery (1926)--Text--HTML
• A Certain Dr Thorndyke (1927)--Text--HTML
• As a Thief in the Night (1928)--Text--HTML
• Dr Thorndyke Short Story Omnibus (1928), a.k.a. The Famous Cases of Dr. Thorndyke--Text--HTML
  --incorporates all stories from 5 short story collections:
  * John thorndyke's Cases (a.k.a. Dr. Thorndyke's Cases) (1909)
  * The Singing Bone (a.k.a. The Adventures of Dr. Thorndyke) (1912)
  * Dr. Thorndyke's Case Book (a.k.a. The Blue Scarab) (1923)
  * The Puzzle lock (1925)
  * The Magic Casket (1927)
• Mr. Pottermack's Oversight (1930)--Text--HTML
• Dr Thorndyke Investigates (1930)--Text--HTML
• Pontifex Son and Thorndyke (1931)--Text--HTML
• When Rogues Fall Out (1932), a.k.a. Dr Thorndyke's Discovery--Text--HTML
• Dr Thorndyke Intervenes (1933)--Text--HTML
• For the Defence, Dr. Thorndyke (1934)--Text--HTML
• The Penrose Mystery (1936)--Text--HTML
• Felo de Se? (1937)--Text--HTML
• The Stoneware Monkey (1938)--Text--HTML
• Mr Polton Explains (1940)--Text--HTML
• Dr Thorndyke's Crime File (1941)--Text--HTML
• The Jacob Street Mystery (1942), a.k.a. The Unconscious Witness--Text--HTML

Other Works

• The Great Portrait Mystery and other stories (1918)--Text--HTML
• The Uttermost Farthing--Text--HTML

As Clifford ASHDOWN  [Pseudonym of R Austin FREEMAN and John James PITCAIRN (1860-1936)]

• "Romney Pringle"
  * The Adventures of Romney Pringle (1902)--HTML
  * The Further Adventures of Romney Pringle (1903)--HTML
  * The Assyrian Rejuvenator--Text--HTML (Also included in The Adventures of Romney Pringle)
  * The Silkworms of Florence--Text (Also included in The Further Adventures of Romney Pringle)
  * The Submarine Boat--Text--HTML (Also included in The Further Adventures of Romney Pringle)

• Other Stories
  The Silkworms of Florence--Text
  The Submarine Boat--Text--HTML

Jacques FUTRELLE (1875-1912)

• The Haunted Bell--Text--HTML
• The Problem of Cell 13--HTML
• The Thinking Machine (1907)
• The Thinking Machine on the Case (1908)
• The Diamond Master (1909)--TEXT

Arthur GASK (1869-1951)

• Go to Arthur Gask's author listing for many stories featuring Gilbert Larose, detective.

Emile GABORIAU (1836-1873)

• The Mystery of Orcival (1867)--TEXT
• File No. 113 (1867)--TEXT
• The Widow Lerouge (1866)--TEXT
• Monsieur Lecoq (1868)--TEXT

William GODWIN (1756-1836)

• Caleb Williams (Things as They Are) (1794)--TEXT

Anna Katharine GREEN (1846-1935)

• The Golden Slipper and Other Problems for Violet Strange - at TEXT
  -The Second Bullet
  - The Intangible Clew
  - The Grotto Spectre
  - The Dreaming Lady
  - The House of Clocks
  - The Doctor, His Wife, and the Clock
  - Missing: Page Thirteen
  - Violet's Own
• That Affair Next Door--TEXT
• The Millionaire Baby--TEXT
• The Filigree Ball--TEXT
• The Leavenworth Case (1878)--TEXT
• The Mystery of the Hasty Arrow (1917)--TEXT
• The Mill Mystery--TEXT

Augusta GRONER (1850-1929) (Translated by Grace Isabel Colbron)

     Joe Muller stories:

• The Case of the Golden Bullet--TEXT
• The Case of The Lamp That Went Out--TEXT
• The Case of the Registered Letter--TEXT
• The Pocket Diary Found in the Snow--TEXT
• The Pool of Blood in the Pastor's Study--TEXT

William Hope HODGSON (1877-1918)

• Carnacki Supernatural Detective and Other Stories--Text--HTML
• Carnacki The Ghost Finder--Text

E W HORNUNG (1866-1921)

     Raffles stories:

• Raffles, the Amateur Cracksman (1899)--TEXT
• Raffles, Further Adventures of the Amateur Cracksman - at TEXT
• A Thief in the Night (A Book of Raffles' Adventures) - at TEXT
• Mr. Justice Raffles--TEXT
• At the Pistol's Point--HTML

Fergus HUME (1859-1932)

• The Mystery of a Hansom Cab(1886)--HTML
• The Crowned Skull--Text
• The Mystery Queen--Text
• Hagar of the Pawn-Shop--Text--HTML
• There may be other Hume titles on our author list

Herbert JENKINS (1876-1923)

• Malcolm Sage, Detective--Text

Maurice LE BLANC (1864-1941)

• The Crystal Stopper--TEXT
• The Eight Strokes of the Clock--TEXT
• The Extraordinary Adventures of Arsene Lupin, Gentleman-Burglar (1907)--TEXT
• The Teeth of the Tiger--TEXT
• The Hollow Needle--Text

Sheridan LE FANU (1814-1873)

• Uncle Silas: A Tale of Bartram-Haugh (1864)--TEXT
• Wylder's Hand (1869)--TEXT
• Checkmate (1871)

Gaston LEROUX (1868-1927)

• The Mystery of the Yellow Room (1908)--TEXT
• The Secret of the Night--TEXT

LOCK AND KEY LIBRARY

     Classic Mystery and Detective Stories: Modern English--TEXT

• Rudyard Kipling - My Own True Ghost Story; The Sending of Dana Da; In the House of Suddhoo; His Wedded Wife
• A. Conan Doyle - A Case of Identity; A Scandal in Bohemia; The Red-Headed League
• Egerton Castle - The Baron's Quarry
• Stanley J. Weyman - The Fowl in the Pot
• Robert Louis Stevenson - The Pavilion on the Links
• Wilkie Collins - The Dream Woman
• Anonymous - The Lost Duchess; The Minor Canon; The Pipe; The Puzzle; The Great Valdez Sapphire

     Classic Mystery and Detective Stories: Old Time English--TEXT

• Charles Dickens - The Haunted House; No. I Branch Line: The Signal Man
• Edward George Bulwer-Lytton - The Haunted and the Haunters; The House and the Brain; The Incantation
• Thomas de Quincey - The Avenger
• Charles Rober Maturin - Melmoth the Wanderer
• Laurence Sterne - A Mystery with a Moral
• William Makepeace Thackeray - On Being Found Out; The Notch on the Ax
• Anonymous - Bourgonef; The Closed Cabinet

Marie Adelaide Belloc LOWNDES (1868-1947)

• TheLodger--TEXT

Charles MARTEL (pseudonym of Thomas DELPH)

• The Diary of an Ex-Detective (1860)

A E W MASON (1865-1948)

• At the Villa Rose (1910)--TEXT
• The House of the Arrow--Text
• The Prisoner in the Opal--HTML
• The Courtship of Morrice Buckler--Text
• The House in Lordship Lane--Text

Arthur MORRISON (1863-1945)

• Collected Detective Stories--HTML
• The Thing In the Upper Room--Text--HTML
• The Case of Laker, Absconded--Text--HTML
• Martin Hewitt, Investigator--from TEXT
• Tales of Mean Streets (1894)--HTML
• The Hole in the Wall (1902)--Text

Baroness ORCZY (1865-1947)

• The Old Man in the Corner (1909) --HTML
• Unravelled Knots (sequel to The Old Man in the Corner)--HTML
• Lady Molly of Scotland Yard (1910)--Text--HTML

Allan PINKERTON

• The Expressman and the Detective (1874)
• The Gypsies and the Detective (1879)

Frank PINKERTON

• Dyke Darrel the Railroad Detective--TEXT
  

Catherine Louisa PIRKIS (1841-1910)

• The Experiences of Loveday Brooke Lady Detective (1894)--HTML

Edgar Allan POE (1809-1849)

     Chevalier C Auguste Dupin stories:

• The Murders in the Rue Morgue (1841)--TEXT
• The Mystery of Marie Rogêt (1843)--TEXT
• The Purloined Letter (1845)--TEXT

     Other Works:

• Thou Art the Man (1844)--TEXT

Melville Davison POST (1869-1930)

• Uncle Abner, Master of Mysteries--Text
• The Sleuth of St James Square--TEXT
• The Strange Schems of Randolph Mason (1896)
• The Man of Last Resort [a.k.a. The Clients of Randolph Mason] (1897)
• The Corrector of Destinies (1908)

Arthur J Rees

• The Hand in the Dark--Text--HTML
• The Shrieking Pit--Text--HTML
• The Moon Rock--Text--HTML
• The Hampstead Mystery--Text--HTML

Arthur B REEVE (1880-1936)

• The Silent Bullet (a.k.a. The Black Hand) (1912)--TEXT
• The Dream Doctor (1914)--TEXT
• The Master Mystery (1919)--TEXT
• The Film Mystery--TEXT

William RUSSELL

• Recollections of a Detective Police-Officer (1856)
• The Experiences of a Real Detective (1860)

SAPPER (Herman Cyril McNEILE) (1888-1937)

     Bulldog Drummond Books:

• Bulldog Drummond: His Four Rounds with Carl Peterson:
  * Bulldog Drummond (1920)--HTML
  * The Black Gang (1922)--HTML
  * The Third Round (1924)--HTML
  * The Final Count (1926)--HTML
• Temple Tower
• The Female of the Species (1928)--HTML
• The Return of Bulldog Drummond (1932)--HTML
• Knock-Out
• Bulldog Drummond at Bay
• Challenge
• There may be other Sapper titles on our author list

Melvin Linwood SEVERY (b.1863)

• The Darrow Enigma--TEXT

M P SHIEL (1865-1947)

• Prince Zaleski

George SIMS

• Dorcas Dere Detective: Her Adventures (1897)

Chester K STEELE

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

Frank R STOCKTON (1834-1902)

• The Lady, or the Tiger?--TEXT

Emile C TEPPERMAN (1899-1951)

• See Tepperman's author listing

Josephine TEY (a.k.a. Gordon DAVIOT) (1896-1952) (both are pseudonyms of Elizabeth MACKINTOSH)

• Go to Tey's general listing.

Louis TRACY (1863-1928)

• The Albert Gate Mystery--TEXT

  VOLTAIRE (1694-1778)

• Zadig--TEXT

Edgar WALLACE (1875-1932)

     Mr J G Reeder stories - The complete set:

• Room 13 (1924)--Text
• The Mind of Mr J G Reeder (1925)--Text
• Terror Keep (1927)--Text
• Red Aces (1929)--Text
• Mr J G Reeder Returns (The Treasure House and The Shadow Man) (1932)--Text
• The Guv'nor--HTML
• The Man who Passed--Text--HTML

     "Just Men" stories

• Four Just Men (1905)--Text--HTML
• The Council of Justice (1908)--Text--HTML
• The Just Men of Cordova (1917)--Text
• The Law of the Four Just Men (1921)--Text
• The Three Just Men (1926)--Text--HTML
• Again the Three (1928)--Text--HTML

     "Sanders" stories:

• Sanders of the River (1911)--Text
• The People of the River (1912)--Text
• Bosambo of the River (1914)--Text
• Bones--Being Further Adventures in Mr Commissioner Sanders' Country (1915)---HTML
• The Keepers of the King's Peace (1917)--HTML
• Lieutenant Bones (1918)--Text
• Bones in London (1921)--TEXT
• Sandi, the King Maker (1922)--not available
• Bones of the River (1923)--not available
• Sanders (a.k.a. Mr Commissioner Sanders) (1926)--Text--HTML
• Again Sanders (1928)--Text--HTML

     Other works:

• The Door with Seven Locks (1926)--Text
• The Avenger (1925)--Text
• The Face in the Night (1924)--Text
• The Man who bought London (1915)--Text
• The Sinister Man (1924)--Text
• The Duke in the Suburbs (1909)--Text
• The Square Emerald (1926)--Text
• The Green Rust (1919)--Text--HTML
• The Lone House Mystery and Other Stories (1929)--Text
• On the Spot--(1931)--Text
• The Greek Poropulos (1933)--Text--HTML
• White Face (1930)--Text--HTML
• The Crimson Circle (1925)--Text--HTML
• The Valley of Ghosts (1925)--Text--HTML
• The Ghost Walker--Text--HTML
• The Coat of Arms (1931)--Text--HTML
• The Daffodil Mystery--Text
• The Angel of Terror--HTML
• The Clue of the Twisted Candle--Text
• The Yellow Snake--Text--HTML
• Blue Hand (1925)--Text
• Mr Justice Maxell (1922)--Text
• The Flying Squad (1924)--Text
• The Clue of the New Pin--Text--HTML
• The Joker--Text--HTML
• Planetoid 127 (1927)--Text--HTML
• The Man at the Carlton--Text--HTML
• The Forger--Text--HTML
• The Brigand (1928)--Text
• The Clue of the Silver Key--Text--HTML
• Again the Ringer--Text
• When the Gangs Came to London--Text
• Flat 2--Text
• The Iron Grip--Text
• The Twister--Text
• Big Foot--Text
• There may be other Wallace titles on our author list

Samuel WARREN

• Passages from the Diary of a Late Physician (1832)
• The Experiences of a Barrister (1849)
• Leaves from the Diary of a Law Clerk (1857)

Carolyn WELLS (1862-1942)

• The Technique of the Mystery Story (a non-fiction book about the techniques of mystery story writing)--Text--HTML
• The Gold Bag--TEXT
• The Clue (1909)

Victor L WHITECHURCH (1862-1942)

• Murder at the Pageant--HTML

Israel ZANGWILL (1864-1926)

• The Big Bow Mystery (1892)--TEXT