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• Investigators (Detectives)

• Bucholz and the Detectives, by Allan Pinkerton (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• The Burglar's Fate and the Detectives, by Allan Pinkerton (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• Clendenen's Detective Manual: How to Become a Successful Detective (c1922), by Rufus H. Clendenen (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Criminal Reminiscences and Detective Sketches, by Allan Pinkerton (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Detectives of Europe and America: or, Life in the Secret Service (Hartford: J. B. Burr, 1879), ed. by George S. McWatters (page images at Lehigh)
• The Gypsies and the Detectives (New York: G. W. Dillingham co., c1879), by Allan Pinkerton (page images at HathiTrust)
• Mississippi Outlaws and the Detectives; Don Pedro and the Detectives; Poisoner and the Detectives (New York: G. W. Carleton and Co.; London: S. Low, Son, and Co., 1879), by Allan Pinkerton
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• Mississippi Outlaws and the Detectives; Don Pedro and the Detectives; Poisoner and the Detectives (New York: G. W. Dillingham, 1887), by Allan Pinkerton
  • Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML
  • multiple formats at archive.org
• The Model Town and the Detectives; Bryon as a Detective (with The Hard Life of the Detective; New York: G. W. Carleton and Co., 1876), by Allan Pinkerton (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Professional Thieves and the Detective: Containing Numerous Detective Sketches Collected From Private Records (New York: G. W. Dillingham Co., 1900), by Allan Pinkerton (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Man Hunters (New York: J. H. Sears and Co., c1926), by Melville Davisson Post, illust. by William D. I. Arnold (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Two Evil Isms, Pinkertonism and Anarchism: By a Cowboy Detective Who Knows, As He Spent Twenty-Two Years in the Inner Circle of Pinkerton's National Detective Agency (Chicago: C. A. Siringo, c1915), by Charles A. Siringo (page images at HathiTrust)

• The Experiences of Loveday Brooke, Lady Detective, by Catherine Louisa Pirkis, illust. by Bernard Higham (illustrated HTML at Celebration of Women Writers)
• The Law and the Lady, by Wilkie Collins
  • HTML at github.io
  • Gutenberg text

• Memoirs of Vidocq, Principal Agent of the French Police until 1827 (Philadelphia: E. L. Carey and A. Hart; Baltimore: Carey, Hart and Co., 1834), by Eugène François Vidocq (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Memoirs of Vidocq, the Head Chief of the French Police: An Autobiography (Philadelphia: T. B. Peterson and Bros., n.d.), by Eugène François Vidocq, illust. by George Cruikshank (page images at HathiTrust)

• Memoirs of Vidocq, Principal Agent of the French Police until 1827 (Philadelphia: E. L. Carey and A. Hart; Baltimore: Carey, Hart and Co., 1834), by Eugène François Vidocq (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Memoirs of Vidocq, the Head Chief of the French Police: An Autobiography (Philadelphia: T. B. Peterson and Bros., n.d.), by Eugène François Vidocq, illust. by George Cruikshank (page images at HathiTrust)
• Vidocq, the French Police Spy (New York: G. Routledge and Sons, n.d.), by Eugène François Vidocq (multiple formats at archive.org)

• Memoirs of a Great Detective: Incidents in the Life of John Wilson Murray (London: W. Heinemann, 1904), by John Wilson Murray (multiple formats at archive.org)

• Memoirs of a Great Detective: Incidents in the Life of John Wilson Murray (London: W. Heinemann, 1904), by John Wilson Murray (multiple formats at archive.org)

• Official Detective Stories (partial serial archives)
• True Detective (partial serial archives)

• Thrilling Detective (partial serial archives)
• The Black Mask (partial serial archives)
• Startling Detective Adventures (partial serial archives)
• Detective Story Magazine (partial serial archives)
• The Spider (partial serial archives)

• The Detective and the Somnambulist; The Murderer and the Fortune-Teller (Toronto: Belford Bros., 1877), by Allan Pinkerton (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Knots Untied: or, Ways and By-Ways in the Hidden Life of American Detectives (Hartford: Burr and Hyde, 1871), by George S. McWatters (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The Somnambulist and the Detective; The Murderer and the Fortune Teller (New York: G. W. Dillingham, c1903), by Allan Pinkerton (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• The Spiritualists and the Detectives (New York: G. W. Dillingham, 1889), by Allan Pinkerton
  • Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML
  • multiple formats at archive.org
• The Adventures of a United States Detective: A Series of Interesting Sketches Illustrating the Operations of the Whisky Ring in Their Evasions of the Law and Its Penalties (Philadelphia: Souder, 1876), by James J. Brooks (page images at HathiTrust)

• A Treasury of Sayers Stories (collection; c1958), by Dorothy L. Sayers (HTML in Canada; NO US ACCESS)
• Claude Melnotte as a Detective, and Other Stories (Chicago: W. B. Keen, Cooke and Co., 1875), by Allan Pinkerton (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Denis Dent (New York: Frederick A. Stokes Co., 1904), by E. W. Hornung, illust. by Harrison Fisher (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Eleven Possible Cases (London et al.: Cassell and Co., 1891), contrib. by Frank R. Stockton, Franklin Fyles, Joaquin Miller, Maurice Thompson, Ingersoll Lockwood, Edgar Fawcett, Brainard Gardner Smith, Kirk Munroe, A. C. Wheeler, Anna Katharine Green, and Arthur Quiller-Couch
  • Gutenberg text
  • multiple formats at archive.org
• Famous Detective Stories (New York: T. Y. Crowell Co., c1920), ed. by J. Walker McSpadden (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The Holiday Adventures of Mr. P. J. Davenant (London: Eveleigh Nash, 1915), by Frederic Hamilton (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Library of the World's Best Mystery and Detective Stories (New York: The Review of Reviews Co., 1908), ed. by Julian Hawthorne (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Lock and Key Library (10 volumes; New York: The Review of Reviews Co., c1909), ed. by Julian Hawthorne (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Mind-Reader: Being Some Pages from The Strange Life of Dr. Xavier Wycherley (Toronto: Bell and Cockburn, 1918), by Max Rittenberg (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Room Number 3, and Other Detective Stories (New York: A. L. Burt, c1913), by Anna Katharine Green (Gutenberg text)
• Some Persons Unknown (New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1898), by E. W. Hornung (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Tales of Mystery: Mrs. Radcliffe; Lewis; Maturin (New York: Macmillan and Co., 1891), ed. by George Saintsbury, contrib. by Ann Radcliffe, M. G. Lewis, and Charles Robert Maturin (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Two-Faced Man (published as by "Varick Vanardy" frontispiece missing; New York: The Macaulay Co., 1918), by Frederic Van Rensselaer Dey (page images at HathiTrust)
• Vicky Van, by Carolyn Wells (Gutenberg text)
• Witching Hill (New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1913), by E. W. Hornung (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The Man Who Couldn't Sleep (New York: A. L. Burt Co., c1919), by Arthur Stringer, illust. by Frank Snapp
  • Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML
  • multiple formats at archive.org
• Masterpieces of Mystery (4 volumes; Garden City, NY: Doubleday, Page and Co., 1922), ed. by Joseph Lewis French
  • Ghost Stories: Gutenberg text and page images
  • Detective Stories: Gutenberg text and page images
  • Mystic-Humorous Stories: Gutenberg text and page images
  • Riddle Stories: Gutenberg text
• Mississippi Outlaws and the Detectives; Don Pedro and the Detectives; Poisoner and the Detectives (New York: G. W. Carleton and Co.; London: S. Low, Son, and Co., 1879), by Allan Pinkerton
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• Mississippi Outlaws and the Detectives; Don Pedro and the Detectives; Poisoner and the Detectives (New York: G. W. Dillingham, 1887), by Allan Pinkerton
  • Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML
  • multiple formats at archive.org
• The Rail-Road Forger and the Detectives (New York: G. W. Carleton and Co., 1881), by Allan Pinkerton (page images at HathiTrust)

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