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• English detective stories
• English mystery stories

• 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

• The Universal Sherlock Holmes (web version, 2000), by Ronald Burt De Waal, ed. by George A. Vanderburgh (HTML at Wayback Machine)

• Sherlock Holmes, Esq., and John H. Watson, M.D.: An Encyclopaedia of Their Affairs (Evanston: Northwestern University Press, c1962), by Orlando Park (PDF with commentary at Northwestern)

• 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)

• The Universal Sherlock Holmes (web version, 2000), by Ronald Burt De Waal, ed. by George A. Vanderburgh (HTML at Wayback Machine)

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