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• Women detectives
• Dupin, C. Auguste (Fictitious character)
• Pinkerton, Allan, 1819-1884

• 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

• Dr. Thorndyke Intervenes (c1933), by R. Austin Freeman (HTML at Gutenberg Canada)

• 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)

• 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)

• The Expressman and the Detective, by Allan Pinkerton (Gutenberg text, illustrated HTML, and page images)
• Thirty Years a Detective: A Thorough and Comprehensive Exposé of Criminal Practices of All Grades and Classes (New York: G. W. Carleton, 1884), by Allan Pinkerton (multiple formats at archive.org)

• Darkie Dan, the Colored Detective: or, The Mississippi Mystery (Beadle's New York Dime Library v11 #134; 1881), by Prentiss Ingraham (page images at niu.edu)

• The Patient in Room 18, by Mignon G. Eberhart (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)

• Whispering Smith (with scenes from the photoplay; New York: Grosset and Dunlap, 1906), by Frank H. Spearman, illust. by N. C. Wyeth (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)

• The Almost Perfect Murder: A Case Book of Madame Storey (c1937), by Hulbert Footner (HTML in Canada; NO US ACCESS)
• The Kidnapping of Madame Storey, and Other Stories (c1936), by Hulbert Footner (HTML in Canada; NO US ACCESS)
• The Album (c1933), by Mary Roberts Rinehart (multiple formats in Canada; NO US ACCESS)
• Easy to Kill (c1931), by Hulbert Footner (HTML in Canada; NO US ACCESS)
• The Doctor Who Held Hands (Garden City, NY: Pub. for the Crime Club by Doubleday, Doran and Co.,: c1929), by Hulbert Footner (HTML at Gutenberg Canada)
• The Velvet Hand: New Madame Storey Mysteries (Garden City, NY: Pub. for the Crime Club by Doubleday, Doran and Co., 1928), by Hulbert Footner (HTML at Gutenberg Canada)
• The Bat: A Novel From the Play (ghostwritten by Benet from the play by Rinehart and Avery; New York: G. H. Doran Co., c1926), by Mary Roberts Rinehart, Avery Hopwood, and Stephen Vincent Benét (page images at HathiTrust)
• Madame Storey (New York: G. H. Doran Co., c1926), by Hulbert Footner (HTML at Gutenberg Canada)
• The Bat: A Novel From the Play (ghostwritten by Benet from the play by Rinehart and Avery), by Mary Roberts Rinehart, Avery Hopwood, and Stephen Vincent Benét (Gutenberg text)
• The Bat: A Novel From the Play (ghostwritten by Benet from the play by Rinehart and Avery; New York: Dell Pub. Co., c1920), by Mary Roberts Rinehart, Avery Hopwood, and Stephen Vincent Benét (page images at HathiTrust)
• Constance Dunlap, by Arthur B. Reeve (Gutenberg text)
• Helen Elwood, the Female Detective: or, A Celebrated Forger's Fate (Chicago: George W. Ogilvie, c1885), by B. and R. (page images at HathiTrust)

• 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 Detective and the Somnambulist; The Murderer and the Fortune-Teller (Toronto: Belford Bros., 1877), by Allan Pinkerton (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The Spy of the Rebellion: Being a True History of the Spy System of the United States Army During the Late Rebellion, Revealing Many Secrets of the War Hitherto Not Made Public (New York: G.W. Carleton and Co., 1886), by Allan Pinkerton (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 Expressman and the Detective, by Allan Pinkerton (Gutenberg text, illustrated HTML, and page images)
• The Spy of the Rebellion: Being a True History of the Spy System of the United States Army During the Late Rebellion, Revealing Many Secrets of the War Hitherto Not Made Public (from the Bison Books reprint, without the copyrighted introduction), by Allan Pinkerton (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)

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