Detective and mystery stories -- History and criticism
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Charakter und Technik der Detektivnovelle (dissertation in German; Heidelberg: C. Winters, 1914), by Friedrich Depken (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
- Dreams for Dead Bodies: Blackness, Labor, and the Corpus of American Detective Fiction (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2016), by Michelle Robinson
- Darkly Perfect World: Colonial Adventure, Postmodernism, and American Noir (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c2010), by Stanley Orr (PDF at Ohio State)
- The Cryptographic Imagination: Secret Writing from Edgar Poe to the Internet (originally published 1997; open access edition Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2019), by Shawn Rosenheim (HTML and PDF files with commentary at Project MUSE)
- Framed: The New Woman Criminal in British Culture at the Fin de Siècle (c2008), by Elizabeth Carolyn Miller (HTML at Michigan)
- A Doctor Enjoys Sherlock Holmes (New York et al.: Vantage Press, c1959), by Edward J. Van Liere (page images at HathiTrust)
- P.B. Shelley and the Delimitation of the Gothic (2015), ed. by David Brookshire (illustrated HTML at Romantic Circles)
- Gothic Riffs: Secularizing the Uncanny in the European Imaginary, 1780-1820 (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c2010), by Diane Long Hoeveler (PDF at Ohio State)
- Misreading Jane Eyre: A Postformalist Paradigm (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, 1996), by Jerome Beaty (PDF at Ohio State)
- The Emergence of Irish Gothic Fiction: Histories, Origins, Theories (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, c2014), by Jarlath Killeen
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Filed under: Detective and mystery stories- A Treasury of Sayers Stories (collection; c1958), by Dorothy L. Sayers (HTML in Canada; NO US ACCESS)
- The Omnibus of Crime (New York: Payson and Clarke, 1929), ed. by Dorothy L. Sayers (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
- Great Short Stories of Detection, Mystery and Horror (London: V. Gollancz Ltd., 1928), ed. by Dorothy L. Sayers (multiple formats at archive.org)
- 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
- 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
- Masterpieces of Mystery (4 volumes; Garden City, NY: Doubleday, Page and Co., 1922), ed. by Joseph Lewis French
- 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
- Mississippi Outlaws and the Detectives; Don Pedro and the Detectives; Poisoner and the Detectives (New York: G. W. Dillingham, 1887), by Allan Pinkerton
- 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)
- Thrilling Detective (partial serial archives)
- The Black Mask (partial serial archives)
- Startling Detective Adventures (partial serial archives)
- Clues (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
- 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)
- 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
- Tales (New York: Wiley and Putnam, 1845), by Edgar Allan Poe
- Tales and Sketches, by a Country Schoolmaster (New York: Printed by J. and J. Harper, 1829), by William Leggett
- Tales of the Grotesque and Arabesque (2 volumes; Philadelphia: Lea and Blanchard, 1840), by Edgar Allan Poe
- True Detective Stories, From the Archives of the Pinkertons (New York: G. W. Dillingham Co., c1897), by Cleveland Moffett
- 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)
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