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• 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)

• Scarface (originally published 1930; this edition New York: Dell Pub. Co., c1959), by Armitage Trail, contrib. by Hannibal Coons (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

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

• The Gangs of New York: An Informal History of the Underworld (New York and London: A. A. Knopf, 1928), by Herbert Asbury (page images at HathiTrust)

• The Stolen Years (Cleveland: Pennington Press, c1959), by Roger Touhy, contrib. by Ray Brennan (page images at HathiTrust)

• 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 (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 (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 Fortunes and Misfortunes of the Famous Moll Flanders, by Daniel Defoe (multiple editions)
• 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 Tick of the Clock (New York: Macy-Masins, 1928), by Herbert Asbury (page images at HathiTrust)

• Four Square Jane (copyright edition; London: Readers Library, ca. 1929), by Edgar Wallace (Gutenberg text)
• Kate Plus 10, by Edgar Wallace (multiple formats with commentary at Standard Ebooks)
• Kate Plus 10 (Boston: Small, Maynard and Co., c1917), by Edgar Wallace, illust. by Charles H. Towne (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• 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 formats at niu.edu)

• 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 (book version c1929), by Edgar Wallace
  • HTML at Gutenberg Australia
  • text at Gutenberg Australia
• Mord Em'ly (London: C. A. Pearson Ltd., 1898), by W. Pett Ridge (page images at HathiTrust)

• 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 Prince and the Pauper: A Tale for Young People of All Ages (Boston: J. R. Osgood and Co., 1882), by Mark Twain, illust. by Frank T. Merrill, John J. Harley, and Ludvig Sandöe Ipsen
  • Gutenberg text, illustrated HTML, and audio reading
  • page images at HathiTrust
  • multiple formats at archive.org
• Prinssi ja Kerjäläispoika (The Prince and the Pauper in Finnish; Helsinki: Otava, 1908), by Mark Twain, trans. by Tyko Hagman (Gutenberg text)
• 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 (London: J. Long, c1924), by Edgar Wallace (Gutenberg text)
• 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)

• The Jew of Chamant: A Romance of Crime (published under "Ivan Trepoff" pseudonym; London and New York: F. Tennyson Neely, c1899), by George Hatfield Dingley Gossip (page images at HathiTrust)

• L'Étranger (originally published 1942; this edition c1957), by Albert Camus (multiple formats in Canada; NO US ACCESS)
• The Big Clock (c1946), by Kenneth Fearing (HTML in Canada; NO US ACCESS)
• Ashes to Ashes (New York: R. M. McBride and Co., 1919), by Isabel Ostrander (page images at HathiTrust)
• Captains of Souls (New York: A. L. Burt Co., c1922), by Edgar Wallace (Gutenberg text)
• The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner, by James Hogg (Gutenberg text)
• Uncle Silas: A Tale of Bartram-Haugh, by Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu (Gutenberg text)
• Arthur Mervyn: or, Memoirs of the Year 1793, by Charles Brockden Brown (Gutenberg text)
• McTeague: A Story of San Francisco, by Frank Norris (Gutenberg text)
• McTeague: A Story of San Francisco (London: W. Heinemann, 1922), by Frank Norris
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• The Murder of Edwin Drood, Recounted by John Jasper: Being an Attempted Solution of the Mystery Based on Dickens' Manuscript and Memoranda (New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1920), by Percy T. Carden, contrib. by B. W. Matz
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• Caleb Williams, or Things As They Are, by William Godwin, contrib. by Ernest A. Baker (Gutenberg text)
• Dr. Mabuse, der Spieler (in German; Berlin: Ullstein, c1920), by Norbert Jacques (Gutenberg text, illustrated HTML, and page images)
• Things As They Are: or, The Adventures of Caleb Williams (fourth edition; London: Printed for W. Simpkin and R. Marshall, 1816), by William Godwin (HTML with commentary at fiftywordsforsnow.com)

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