Detective and mystery stories, American
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Broader terms:Narrower terms:- Detective and mystery stories, American -- History and criticism
- Detective and mystery stories, American -- Periodicals
- American detective stories
- American mystery stories
- Crime stories, American
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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
- 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)
- 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)
- Real Detective Tales and Mystery Stories (partial serial archives)
Items below (if any) are from related and broader terms.
Filed under: American fiction- American Fiction (Harvard Classics Shelf of Fiction v10; New York: P. F. Collier and Son, c1917), ed. by Charles William Eliot and William Allan Neilson, contrib. by Edgar Allan Poe, Edward Everett Hale, Washington Irving, Bret Harte, Nathaniel Hawthorne, and Mark Twain
- The Brand of Silence: A Detective Story (published under "Harrington Strong" pseudonym; New York: Chelsea House, 1919), by Johnston McCulley (Gutenberg text)
- Pall Mall Magazine: Indexes to Fiction (Victorian Fiction Research Guides #9; 1983), by Sue Thomas (HTML at Victorian Fiction Research Guides)
- The Beadle Collection of Dime Novels, Given to the New York Public Library by Dr. Frank P. O'Brien (reprinted from the Bulletin of the New York Public Library, 1922), by New York Public Library
- A Guide to the Best Fiction in English (new edition; London: G. Routledge and Sons, 1913), by Ernest A. Baker (multiple formats at archive.org)
- Dime Novel Authors, 1860-1900 (Grafton, MA: R. F. Cummings, 1933), by William Cleveland Miller (page images at HathiTrust)
- The Form of American Romance (originally published 1988; open access edition Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2019), by Edgar A. Dryden (HTML and PDF files with commentary at Project MUSE)
- Tactics of the Human: Experimental Technics in American Fiction (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2014), by Laura Shackelford (illustrated HTML with commentary at digitalculture.org)
- America's Gothic Fiction: The Legacy of Magnalia Christi Americana (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c2007), by Dorothy Zayatz Baker (PDF at Ohio State)
- Dwelling in the Text: Houses in American Fiction (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1991), by Marilyn Chandler McEntyre (HTML at UC Press)
- The American Novel (New York: Macmillan, 1921), by Carl Van Doren (searchable HTML at Bartleby)
- Some American Story Tellers (New York: H. Holt and Co., 1911), by Frederic Taber Cooper (page images at HathiTrust)
- Interpretive Conventions: The Reader in the Study of American Fiction (Ithaca, NY and London: Cornell University Press, c1982), by Steven Mailloux (PDF and EPub with commentary at Cornell Open)
- Individual and Community: Variations on a Theme in American Fiction (Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 1975), ed. by Kenneth Huntress Baldwin and David Kirby, contrib. by Edgar A. Dryden, J. V. Ridgely, Roy Harvey Pearce, Louis D. Rubin, Carlos Baker, Philip Momberger, James E. Miller, James Baird, and Edward Mendelson (page images at HathiTrust)
- Buried Caesars: Essays in Literary Appreciation (Chicago: Covici-McGee Co., 1923), by Vincent Starrett (page images at HathiTrust)
- The Argosy (American fiction magazine, founded 1882) (partial serial archives)
- Young's Magazine (partial serial archives)
- The Saturday Evening Post (partial serial archives)
- Southern Lights and Shadows (1907), ed. by William Dean Howells and Henry Mills Alden, contrib. by Grace MacGowan Cooke, Abby Meguire Roach, Alice MacGowan, Mrs. B. F. Mayhew, William Ludwell Sheppard, Sarah Barnwell Elliott, M. E. M. Davis, J Eakins, and Maurice Thompson (Gutenberg text)
- Southern Lights and Shadows (New York and London: Harper and Bros., 1907), ed. by William Dean Howells and Henry Mills Alden, contrib. by Grace MacGowan Cooke, Abby Meguire Roach, Alice MacGowan, Mrs. B. F. Mayhew, William Ludwell Sheppard, Sarah Barnwell Elliott, M. E. M. Davis, J Eakins, and Maurice Thompson
- The Escape Motif in the American Novel: Mark Twain to Richard Wright (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c1972), by Sam Bluefarb (PDF files with commentary at Ohio State Press)
- Daughters of Aesculapius: Stories Written by Alumnae and Students of the Woman's Medical College of Pennsylvania (Philadelphia: George W. Jacobs and Co., 1897)
- Love of Life, and Other Stories (New York and London: Macmillan, 1907), by Jack London (multiple formats at archive.org)
- Love of Life, and Other Stories (New York: Pub. for the Review of Reviews Co. by Macmillan; London: Macmillan, 1913), by Jack London, illust. by Charles Livingston Bull (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
- Auringon Poika: Seikkailuja Etelämerellä (in Finnish; Helsinki: Otava, 1919), by Jack London (Gutenberg text)
- Roast Beef, Medium: The Business Adventures of Emma McChesney, by Edna Ferber (Gutenberg text)
- A Son of the Sun, by Jack London (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
- Ring of Fire II (included on a Baen CD image; 2008), ed. by Eric Flint
- Grantville Gazette II (included on a Baen CD image; c2006), ed. by Eric Flint
- Grantville Gazette (first collection; included on a Baen CD image; c2004), ed. by Eric Flint
- Grantville Gazette V (included on a Baen CD image; c2009), ed. by Eric Flint
- Worlds (included on a Baen CD image; c2009), by Eric Flint
- Grantville Gazette IV (included on a Baen CD image; c2008), ed. by Eric Flint
- Grantville Gazette III (included on a Baen CD image; c2007), ed. by Eric Flint
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