Mystery & Detective Genre

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A Coin of Edward VII
by Fergus Hume - G. W. Dillingham Company , 1903
This book is quite up to the level of the high standard which Mr. Hume has set for himself in "The Mystery of a Hansom Cab" and "The Rainbow Feather". It is a brilliant, stirring adventure, showing the author's prodigious inventiveness.
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A Study in Scarlet
by Arthur Conan Doyle - Project Gutenberg , 1995
The first published story involving the legendary Sherlock Holmes, and the first narrative by the unassuming Dr. Watson, a military surgeon. Watson needs a flat-mate and a diversion. Holmes needs a foil. And thus a great collaboration begins.
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Bicycle Shop Murder
by Robert Burton Robinson , 2007
Greg Tenorly is selected as a juror for a murder trial. By the end of the first week, three people connected with the case are dead, and Greg is beginning to fear for his own life. His investigation might earn him a spot at the top of the hit list.
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His Last Bow
by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle - eBooks@Adelaide , 2009
The six stories that comprise His Last Bow seem darker and more disturbing than Conan Doyle's previous Sherlock Holmes works. Unlike earlier Sherlockian tales, five of these stories are reminiscences written after Holmes's retirement.
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Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes
by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Doyle's second story collection about the greatest detective, containing such puzzles as "The Greek Interpreter," "The Musgrave Ritual", "Silver Blaze" and "The Final Adventure," the struggle between Holmes and the evil Professor Moriarty.
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Secret Adversary
by Agatha Christie - Project Gutenberg , 2008
This is a work of detective fiction by Agatha Christie and first published in January 1922. The book introduces the characters of Tommy and Tuppence who feature in several other Christie books and stories throughout her writing career.
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Spymaster: The Woman Below
by Bea Anthony - Katiebooks Publication , 2010
Keeping your job is not easy when you're a troublesome old woman - unless you know everyone's secrets. Miss Whyte, devious Spymaster Emerita, stays on the job by subtle blackmail, controlling information, and playing one superior against another.
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Tales of Terror and Mystery
by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle - Book Jungle , 2007
Tales of Terror and Mystery is a collection of tales that will make your spine tingle. The book is brimming with unexpected twists and surprises, it makes for compulsive reading. Doyle is the famous creator of extraordinaire detective Sherlock Holmes.
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Ten Thousand Suspects
by Rayanda - RayandaArts , 2003
A hiker plunges to his death, a child is kidnapped and a man has his throat slashed to keep him from telling secrets that lure stolen art sleuth, Rane Lavita, and her pal, Chanlee, into the labyrinthine underbelly of the lucrative world of forgeries.
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The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes
by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle - Oxford University Press , 1998
Easy-to-read Sherlock Holmes stories. Numerous mysteries are brought to the house on Baker Street where detective Sherlock Holmes resides. No case is too tricky for the world's most famous sleuth and his incredible powers of deduction.
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The Case-Book Of Sherlock Holmes
by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle - eBooks@Adelaide , 2009
Grappling with treachery and ingenious crimes of all kinds, Holmes' dazzling powers of logic are as sharp as ever - no case is too challenging, no mystery too dense for the immortal sleuth's logic and legendary powers of deduction.
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The Dead Alive
by Wilkie Collins - Project Gutenberg , 2009
A novel written by Wilkie Collins based on the famous Boorn Brothers murder case. Jesse Boorn and Stephen Boorn were convicted of murdering a man who was later found alive. The case is the first documented wrongful murder conviction in US history.
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The Hound of the Baskervilles
by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle - eBooks@Adelaide , 2009
World-famous Sherlock Holmes is once again called upon to put his uncanny detective techniques to work in The Hound of the Baskervilles. This mystery/horror story has become the archetype around which an entire genre has been created.
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The Moonstone
by Wilkie Collins - Dover Publications , 2002
The first english detective novel is surely a masterpiece of suspense. The Moonstone is a yellow diamond which disappears and detectives, suspects and witnesses each tell this story in turn. The Moonstone itself transcends the genre of detective story.
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The Mysterious Affair at Styles
by Agatha Christie - Project Gutenberg , 2008
The heiress of Styles has been murdered, dying in agony from strychnine slipped into her coffee. There are plenty who would gain from her death: the financially strapped stepson, the gold digging younger husband, and an embittered daughter-in-law.
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The Mystery of a Hansom Cab
by Fergus Hume - eBooks@Adelaide , 2010
One of the most popular mysteries in the nineteenth century, apparently even surpassing the sales of Sherlock Holmes books. This forgotten Australian melodrama should appeal to readers interested in the early development of the mystery story.
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The Mystery of Cloomber
by Arthur Conan Doyle - eBooks@Adelaide , 2009
What dark deed from the past put a lifelong curse on Major Heatherstone of Cloomber Hall? The master of detective fiction reveals his deep fascination with spiritualism and the paranormal in this gripping tale of mystery and the supernatural.
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The Mystery of Edwin Drood
by Charles Dickens - eBooks@Adelaide , 2008
Dickens's marvelous tale was left unfinished at his death in 1870. The novel has been all the more tantalizing for its lack of an ending to a mystifying puzzle that avid readers have tried to solve. A gem for lovers of mysteries and Dickens fans.
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The Mystery of the Hasty Arrow
by Anna Katharine Green - A. L. Burt company , 1917
A woman's body is found in a museum gallery with an arrow through her chest, so all of the other visitors are locked inside while the crime is investigated. Anna Katharine Green was one of the first writers of detective fiction in America.
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The Phantom of the Opera
by Gaston Leroux - Harper Perennial , 1988
Gaston Leroux's book is much darker than the familiar Broadway musical and film. A genuine Gothic murder, the Phantom of the Opera, terrorizes Paris Opera House by a blackmail plot, and murderous actions after that. Absorbing and fascinating reading.
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The Red House Mystery
by A. A. Milne - Project Gutenberg , 1999
Set in a country home, the novel opens on a party weekend, with most of the houseguests away from the house. A typical "locked room mystery", the novel features characters who may not be all they seem to be, acting for mysterious motives.
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The Return of Sherlock Holmes
by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle - Headline Book Publishing , 2007
Three years after his apparent death, Holmes resurrectes and lets his conscience prevail over the the law. Dr. Watson and Holmes are back together after a long hiatus at the top of their form, pursuing a criminal to their own front door.
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The Rome Express
by Arthur Griffiths - Project Gutenberg , 2004
A mysterious murder on a flying express train, a wily Italian, a charming woman, a chivalrous Englishman, and a police force with a keen nose for the wrong clue, are the ingredients from which Griffiths concocted a detective story.
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The Stillwater Tragedy
by Thomas Bailey Aldrich - Project Gutenberg , 2004
This novel is believed to be the first in which a detective appears in English literature. The story is about a murder accusation. Aldrich writes in a straightforward, realistic style with stunningly majestic language. Full of suspense and thrill.
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The Valley of Fear
by Arthur Conan Doyle - Project Gutenberg , 2002
Grade 7 Up-A coded warning of imminent danger sends Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson to the country house of the reclusive Jack Douglas. When they arrive too late to prevent a tragic death, they must follow bewildering clues and find a murderer.
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Underlife
by Robert Finn - Snowbooks , 2009
An ambitious debut that marries the crime novel with the occult thriller, a British variant on The Da Vinci Code and The Rule of Four. Being a thief makes it difficult to meet the right girl. And when you do, something always gets in the way.
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