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• Detective and mystery stories

• Noir fiction, American

• Darkly Perfect World: Colonial Adventure, Postmodernism, and American Noir (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c2010), by Stanley Orr (PDF at Ohio State)

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

• 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)

• Bag and Baggage, by Bernard Capes (multiple formats at archive.org)

• Charakter und Technik der Detektivnovelle (dissertation in German; Heidelberg: C. Winters, 1914), by Friedrich Depken (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• 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 Technique of the Mystery Story, by Carolyn Wells (HTML at Gutenberg Australia)

• The Dragon Done It (included on a Baen CD image; c2008), ed. by Eric Flint and Michael D. Resnick
  • zipped CD ISO at thefifthimperium.com; 347 MB
  • zipped CD files at thefifthimperium.com; 347 MB
• David Poindexter's Disappearance (7-story collection), by Julian Hawthorne (PDF 1.4 files at Wayback Machine)
• David Poindexter's Disappearance, and Other Tales (5-story collection), by Julian Hawthorne (Gutenberg text)
• A Difficult Problem, The Staircase at the Heart's Delight, and Other Stories, by Anna Katharine Green (Gutenberg texts)
• The Long Arm, and Other Detective Stories (London: Chapman and Hall, 1895), by Mary Eleanor Wilkins Freeman, Brander Matthews, A. Eubule Evans, and George Ira Brett
  • page images at HathiTrust
  • HTML at Emory
• 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)
• The Old Stone House, and Other Stories, by Anna Katharine Green (Gutenberg text and page images)
• The Panama Plot: Pan-American Adventures of Craig Kennedy, Scientific Detective (New York and London: Harper and Brothers, c1918), by Arthur B. Reeve (page images at Google; US access only)
• Police!!!, by Robert W. Chambers, illust. by Henry Hutt (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• The Prose Romances of Edgar A. Poe: Containing The Murders in the Rue Morgue, and the Man That Was Used Up (only issue of this intended serial edition; Philadelphia: W. H. Graham, 1843), by Edgar Allan Poe
  • HTML with commentary at eapoe.org
  • multiple formats at Google; US access only
  • page images at HathiTrust; US access only
• Tales (New York: Wiley and Putnam, 1845), by Edgar Allan Poe (HTML and TEI at UNC)
• Tales and Sketches, by a Country Schoolmaster (New York: Printed by J. and J. Harper, 1829), by William Leggett
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• Tales of the Grotesque and Arabesque (Philadelphia: Lea and Blanchard, 1840), by Edgar Allan Poe (HTML with commentary at eapoe.org)
• True Detective Stories, From the Archives of the Pinkertons (New York: G. W. Dillingham Co., c1897), by Cleveland Moffett
  • Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML
  • multiple formats at archive.org
• The Brand of Silence: A Detective Story (published under "Harrington Strong" pseudonym; New York: Chelsea House, 1919), by Johnston McCulley (Gutenberg text)
• The Thinking Machine: Being a True and Complete Statement of Several Intricate Mysteries Which Came Under the Observation of Professor Augustus S. F. X. Van Dusen, Ph.D., LL.D., F.R.S., M.D., Etc. (New York: Dodd, Mead and Co., 1907), by Jacques Futrelle, illust. by Troy Kinney and Margaret West Kinney (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Thinking Machine on the Case (without frontispiece; New York: D. Appleton and Co., 1908), by Jacques Futrelle (page images at HathiTrust)

• The Red Triangle: Being Some Further Chronicles of Martin Hewitt, Investigator (New York: Books for Libraries Press, 1970), by Arthur Morrison (Gutenberg text and page images)
• Crooks in the Sunshine (c1932), by E. Phillips Oppenheim (HTML in Canada; NO US ACCESS)
• Four Faultless Felons (1930), by G. K. Chesterton (text in Australia; NO US ACCESS)
• The Case of Miss Elliott (12-story collection, popular edition; London: Greening and Co., 1909), by Emmuska Orczy Orczy (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Chronicles of Martin Hewitt (New York: D. Appleton and Co., 1896), by Arthur Morrison (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Croxley Master, and Other Tales of The Ring and Camp (New York: George H. Doran company, ca. 1925), by Arthur Conan Doyle (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The Dinner Club (London et al.: Hodder and Stoughton, ca. 1923), by H. C. McNeile (Gutenberg text)
• Four Max Carrados Detective Stories (originally published ca. 1914), by Ernest Bramah (Gutenberg text and audio)
• The Green Diamond (Boston: L. C. Page and Co., 1904), by Arthur Morrison, illust. by F. H. Townsend (page images at HathiTrust)
• Green Ginger (third edition; London: Hutchinson and Co., 1909), by Arthur Morrison (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Jim Maitland (c1923), by H. C. McNeile (HTML at Gutenberg Australia)
• Mammoth Mystery Book: Three Complete Novels (includes The Hairy Arm; Blue Hand; and The Sinister Man; New York and Chicago: A. L. Burt Co., c1925), by Edgar Wallace (page images at HathiTrust)
• Martin Hewitt, Investigator (1894), by Arthur Morrison (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• Marvels and Mysteries (new and cheaper edition; London: Methuen and Co., 1905), by Richard Marsh (multiple formats at archive.org)
• A Master of Mysteries, by L. T. Meade and Robert Eustace, illust. by J. Ambrose Walton (Gutenberg text, illustrated HTML, and page images)
• Max Carrados (London: Methuen and Co., c1914), by Ernest Bramah (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Old Man in the Corner, by Baroness Orczy (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• The Other Man (published elsewhere as "The Nine Bears"; New York: Dodd, Mead and Co., 1911), by Edgar Wallace, illust. by Thomas Fogarty
  • Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML
  • multiple formats at Google; US access only
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust; US access only
• The Red Triangle: Being Some Further Chronicles of Martin Hewitt, Investigator (Boston: L. C. Page and Co., c1903), by Arthur Morrison (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The River of Stars (London and Melbourne: Ward, Lock and Co., ca. 1914), by Edgar Wallace (page images at HathiTrust)
• Secret Service: or, Recollections of a City Detective (London: Ward and Lock, 1864), by Andrew Forrester
  • Gutenberg text
  • multiple formats at archive.org
• The Paradoxes of Mr. Pond (1937), by G. K. Chesterton (text in Australia; NO US ACCESS)
• The Scandal of Father Brown (1935), by G. K. Chesterton (text in Australia; NO US ACCESS)
• The Secret of Father Brown (c1927), by G. K. Chesterton
  • illustrated HTML at Gutenberg Australia
  • text at Gutenberg Australia
• The Incredulity of Father Brown (1926), by G. K. Chesterton
  • illustrated HTML at Gutenberg Australia
  • text at Gutenberg Australia
• The Black Doctor, and Other Tales of Terror and Mystery (New York: G. H. Doran Co., ca. 1925), by Arthur Conan Doyle (page images at HathiTrust)
• Christopher Quarles, College Professor and Master Detective (New York: E. P. Dutton and Co., c1914), by Percy James Brebner (Gutenberg text)
• The Experiences of a Barrister (New York: Cornish, Lampert and Co., 1853), by Samuel Warren (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Innocence of Father Brown, by G. K. Chesterton
  • HTML at CCEL
  • Gutenberg text and audio reading
• The Innocence of Father Brown (New York: The Macaulay Co., c1911), by G. K. Chesterton
  • page images at Google
  • multiple formats at archive.org
• John Carruthers, Indian Policeman (London et al.: Cassell and Co., 1905), by Edmund C. Cox
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• John Thorndyke's Cases, by R. Austin Freeman, illust. by H. M. Brock (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• John Thorndyke's Cases (London: Chatto and Windus, 1916), by R. Austin Freeman, illust. by H. M. Brock (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Tales of Terror and Mystery, by Arthur Conan Doyle (Gutenberg text)
• The Triumphs of Eugène Valmont, by Robert Barr (Gutenberg text and audio)
• The Wisdom of Father Brown, by G. K. Chesterton
  • HTML at CCEL
  • Gutenberg text and audio reading
• The Case-Book of Sherlock Holmes (c1927), by Arthur Conan Doyle (HTML at Gutenberg Australia)
• The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Arthur Conan Doyle (Gutenberg text and audio)
• Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (illustrated; New York: Harper and Bros., c1892), by Arthur Conan Doyle (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• His Last Bow, by Arthur Conan Doyle (HTML at Bibliomania)
• His Last Bow: A Reminiscence of Sherlock Holmes (New York: George H. Doran Co., 1917), by Arthur Conan Doyle (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Arthur Conan Doyle (Gutenberg text and audio)
• The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Arthur Conan Doyle (Gutenberg text and audio)
• Tales of Sherlock Holmes (New York: Grosset and Dunlap, 1915), by Arthur Conan Doyle (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Amateur Cracksman, by E. W. Hornung
  • illustrated HTML at Virginia
  • Gutenberg text and audio reading

More items available under broader and related terms at left.