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• The Masked Woman (New York: Grosset and Dunlap, c1920), by Johnston McCulley, illust. by Paul Stahr (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Jew Detective: or, The Beautiful Convict (Beadle's New York Dime Library #662; New York: Beadle and Adams, 1891), by Prentiss Ingraham (mlutiple foramts at niu.edu)

• Maid Marian, by Thomas Love Peacock
  • HTML at thomaslovepeacock.net
  • Gutenberg text

• Mary Read: The Pirate Wench (London: Hurst and Blackett, c1934), by Frank Shay (HTML at Gutenberg Canada)

Items below (if any) are from related and broader terms.

• The Female Offender (New York: D. Appleton and Co., 1895), by Cesare Lombroso and Guglielmo Ferrero, contrib. by William Douglas Morrison (multiple formats at archive.org)

• She Stands Accused, by Victor MacClure (HTML at Virginia)

• Miss Mary Blandy's Own Account of the Affair Between Her and Mr. Cranstoun, From the Commencement of Their Acquaintance in the Year 1746 to the Death Of her Father in August 1751, with All the Circumstances Leading to That Unhappy Event (London: Printed for A. Millar, 1752), by Mary Blandy (page images at HathiTrust)

• Lives of the Most Remarkable Female Robbers (extracts from "A General History of the Lives and Adventures of the Most Famous Highwaymen"; London: A. Lemoine, 1801), by Charles Johnson (multiple formats at Google)

• Lives of the Most Remarkable Female Robbers (extracts from "A General History of the Lives and Adventures of the Most Famous Highwaymen"; London: A. Lemoine, 1801), by Charles Johnson (multiple formats at Google)

• "No One is Safe": The Abuse of Women in Iraq's Criminal Justice System (New York: Human Rights Watch, c2014), by Erin Evers (HTML and PDF with commentary at hrw.org)

• A Study of Women Delinquents in New York State (New York: The Century Co., 1920), by Mabel Ruth Fernald, Mary Holmes Stevens Hayes, and Almena Dawley, contrib. by Beardsley Ruml and Katharine Bement Davis (page images and uncorrected OCR text at MOA)

• I Knew Them in Prison (New York: Viking Press, 1936), by Mary B. Harris (page images at HathiTrust)

• Framed: The New Woman Criminal in British Culture at the Fin de Siècle (c2008), by Elizabeth Carolyn Miller (HTML at Michigan)
• Lewd and Notorious: Female Transgression in the Eighteenth Century (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, c2003), ed. by Katharine Kittredge (page images at HathiTrust)

• Belle Starr, The Bandit Queen: The Career of the Most Colorful Outlaw the Indian Territory Ever Knew (published under "William Yancey Shackleford" pseudonym; Girard, KS: Haldeman-Julius Publications, c1943), by Vance Randolph (multiple formats at archive.org)

• Belle Starr, The Bandit Queen: The Career of the Most Colorful Outlaw the Indian Territory Ever Knew (published under "William Yancey Shackleford" pseudonym; Girard, KS: Haldeman-Julius Publications, c1943), by Vance Randolph (multiple formats at archive.org)

• The Pirates Own Book: Authentic Narratives of the Most Celebrated Sea Robbers (Portland, ME: Sanborn and Carter; Philadelphia: Thomas, Cowperthwait, and Co., 1844), by Charles Ellms (multiple formats at Google)
• The Pirates Own Book: Authentic Narratives of the Most Celebrated Sea Robbers (originally published 1837), by Charles Ellms (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)

• Israel Rank; The Autobiography of a Criminal (London: Chatto and Windus, 1907), by Roy Horniman (page images at HathiTrust)
• Rogues and Vagabonds (new edition; London: Chatto and Windus, 1892), by George R. Sims (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• Something Doing (published as by "Varick Vanardy"; New York: The Macaulay Co., c1919), by Frederic Van Rensselaer Dey, illust. by George W. Gage (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Amateur Cracksman, by E. W. Hornung
  • illustrated HTML at Virginia
  • Gutenberg text and audio reading
• Dr. Mabuse, der Spieler (in German; Berlin: Ullstein, c1920), by Norbert Jacques (Gutenberg text, illustrated HTML, and page images)
• The Groote Park Murder (Toronto: T. Allen, c1923), by Freeman Wills Crofts (multiple formats at archive.org)
• McAllister and His Double (New York: C. Scribner's Sons, 1905), by Arthur Train, illust. by F. C. Yohn and Alonzo Kimball (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• Oliver Twist, by Charles Dickens
  • illustrated HTML at Virginia
  • HTML at Bibliomania
• R. Holmes and Co.: Being the Remarkable Adventures of Raffles Holmes, Esq., Detective and Amateur Cracksman by Birth, by John Kendrick Bangs (Gutenberg text)
• The Day of Days: An Extravaganza, by Louis Joseph Vance, illust. by Arthur William Brown (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• Christmas Holiday (c1939), by W. Somerset Maugham (HTML in Canada; NO US ACCESS)
• The Fortunes and Misfortunes of the Famous Moll Flanders, by Daniel Defoe
  • Gutenberg text and audio
  • HTML at Bibliomania
• Moll Flanders (translated into French), by Daniel Defoe, trans. by Marcel Schwob (Gutenberg text)

• The Tick of the Clock (New York: Macy-Masins, 1928), by Herbert Asbury (page images at HathiTrust)

• The Secret Sharer, by Joseph Conrad (Gutenberg text)
• The Golden Snare, by James Oliver Curwood (Gutenberg text)
• The Unwilling Adventurer (London: Hodder and Stoughton, ca. 1913), by R. Austin Freeman (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• The Crimson Circle (version may date from 1925; US copyright claimed in 1929), by Edgar Wallace (text in Australia; NO US ACCESS)
• Mord Em'ly (London: C. A. Pearson Ltd., 1898), by W. Pett Ridge (page images at HathiTrust)

• The Glass Key (c1931), by Dashiell Hammett (HTML in Canada; NO US ACCESS)
• The Ambulance Made Two Trips (originally published in Astounding Science Fiction, April 1960), by Murray Leinster, illust. by John Schoenherr (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• The Efficiency Expert, by Edgar Rice Burroughs (Gutenberg text)
• The Efficiency Expert (original magazine version), by Edgar Rice Burroughs (illustrated HTML at erblist.com)

• Brat Farrar (c1949), by Josephine Tey (HTML in Canada; NO US ACCESS)
• El Prisionero de Zenda (in Spanish; New York: D. Appleton and Co., 1896), by Anthony Hope, trans. by Juan L. Iribas (multiple formats at archive.org)
• El Prisionero de Zenda (in Spanish; New York: D. Appleton and Co., 1901), by Anthony Hope, trans. by Juan L. Iribas (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Prince and the Pauper, by Mark Twain
  • Gutenberg text, illustrated HTML, and audio reading
  • HTML at americanliterature.com
• The Prisoner of Zenda, by Anthony Hope
  • Gutenberg text and audio
  • HTML at Bibliomania
• The Prisoner of Zenda: Being the History of Three Months in the Life of an English Gentleman (New York: H. Holt and Co., 1898), by Anthony Hope, illust. by Charles Dana Gibson and Howard Ince (illustrated HTML with commentary at fiftywordsforsnow.com)
• Pudd'nhead Wilson: A Tale (London: Chatto and Windus, 1894), by Mark Twain, illust. by James Mapes Dodge and Louis Loeb (page images at HathiTrust)
• Room 13, by Edgar Wallace (illustrated HTML with commentary at freeread.com.au)
• The Tragedy of Pudd'nhead Wilson (Hartford: American Pub. Co., 1894), by Mark Twain (Gutenberg text)
• The Sin That Was His (Toronto: Copp Clark Co., c1917), by Frank L. Packard
  • Gutenberg text
  • multiple formats at archive.org
• The Fortunes of Perkin Warbeck: A Romance (London and New York: G. Routledge and Co., 1857), by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (multiple formats at archive.org)

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