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• 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)

• Penny Nichols and the Knob Hill Mystery (Chicago: Goldsmith Pub. Co., c1939), by Joan Clark (Gutenberg text)
• Penny Nichols and the Black Imp (Chicago: Goldsmith Pub. Co., c1936), by Joan Clark (Gutenberg text)
• Penny Nichols and the Mystery of the Lost Key (Chicago: Goldsmith Pub. Co., c1936), by Joan Clark (Gutenberg text)
• Penny Nichols Finds a Clue (Chicago: Goldsmith Pub. Co., c1936), by Joan Clark (Gutenberg text)
• Signal in the Dark (New York: Cupples and Leon, c1946), by Mildred A. Wirt (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• Whispering Walls (New York: Cupples and Leon, c1946), by Mildred A. Wirt (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• Guilt of the Brass Thieves (New York: Cupples and Leon, c1945), by Mildred A. Wirt (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• Hoofbeats on the Turnpike (New York: Cupples and Leon, c1944), by Mildred A. Wirt (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• Voice from the Cave (New York: Cupples and Leon, c1944), by Mildred A. Wirt (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• Ghost Beyond the Gate (New York: Cupples and Leon, c1943), by Mildred A. Wirt (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• Saboteurs on the River (New York: Cupples and Leon, c1943), by Mildred A. Wirt (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• The Clock Strikes Thirteen (New York: Cupples and Leon, c1942), by Mildred A. Wirt (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• The Wishing Well (New York: Cupples and Leon, c1942), by Mildred A. Wirt (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• Clue of the Silken Ladder (New York: Cupples and Leon, c1941), by Mildred A. Wirt (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• The Secret Pact (New York: Cupples and Leon, c1941), by Mildred A. Wirt (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• Danger at the Drawbridge (New York: Cupples and Leon, c1940), by Mildred A. Wirt (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• The Mystery of the Secret Band (The Mary Lou series, #3; Akron and New York: Saalfield Pub. Co. c1935), by Edith Lavell (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• The Secret of the Sundial (Madge Sterling series #3, published as by "Ann Wirt"; New York: Goldsmith Pub. Co., c1932), by Mildred A. Wirt (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• The Clue of the Gold Coin (New York: Grosset and Dunlap, c1958), by Helen Wells (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)

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