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• The Crooked Letter (2006), by Sean Williams (PDF with commentary at pyrsf.com)
• Murder in Space (Galaxy novel #23; New York: Galaxy Publishing Corp., 1954), by David V. Reed, illust. by Ed Emshwiller
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust; US access only
• Orchids to Murder (c1945), by Hulbert Footner, contrib. by Christopher Morley (HTML in Canada; NO US ACCESS)
• The Ponson Case (New York: Dodd, Mead and Co., 1937), by Freeman Wills Crofts (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Back-Seat Murder (New York: H. Liveright, 1931), by Herman Landon (page images at HathiTrust)
• Plain Murder (1930), by C. S. Forester (HTML in Canada; NO US ACCESS)
• The Devil (translation ca. 1926), by Leo Tolstoy, trans. by Louise Maude and Aylmer Maude (HTML at cyberspacei.com)
• The Florentine Dagger: A Novel for Amateur Detectives (New York: Boni and Liveright, c1923), by Ben Hecht, illust. by Wallace Smith (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Markenmore Mystery (New York: A. A. Knopf, 1923), by J. S. Fletcher (Gutenberg text)
• Charles Tyrrell: or, The Bitter Blood (2 volumes; New York: Harper and Bros., 1855), by G. P. R. James (both volumes: Gutenberg text)
• The Diamond Lens, by Fitz James O'Brien (Gutenberg text)
• The Silent House, by Fergus Hume (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• The Trees of Pride, by G. K. Chesterton
  • multiple formats with commentary at CCEL
  • Gutenberg text
• The Unholy Three (New York and London: J. Lane; Toronto: S. B. Gundy, 1917), by Tod Robbins (multiple formats at Google; US access only)
• The Unholy Three (New York: A. L. Burt Co., c1917), by Tod Robbins (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Window at the White Cat, by Mary Roberts Rinehart, illust. by Arthur Ignatius Keller (illustrated HTML at Celebration of Women Writers)
• Prelude to a Certain Midnight (Garden City, NY: Doubleday and Co., 1947), by Gerald Kersh (page images at HathiTrust)
• Poirot Investigates (11-story UK edition; London: J. Lane, c1924), by Agatha Christie (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• The Devil's Elixir (2 volumes; Edinburgh: W. Blackwood; London: T. Cadell, 1829), by E. T. A. Hoffmann
  • Volume I: multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume II: multiple formats at archive.org
• The Governess (London: Chatto and Windus, 1912), by Mrs. Alfred William Hunt and Violet Hunt, contrib. by Ford Madox Ford (page images at HathiTrust)
• Murder in the Gunroom, by H. Beam Piper
  • Gutenberg text
  • page images at durendal.org
• A Mysterious Disappearance (published under "Gordon Holmes" pseudonym; New York: E. J. Clode, 1905), by Louis Tracy
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • Gutenberg text
  • page images at HathiTrust
• That Affair at Portstead Manor (Boston: The Four Seas Co., 1919), by Gladys Edson Locke (page images at HathiTrust)
• Therese Raquin, by Émile Zola, ed. by Edward Vizetelly (Gutenberg text)
• The Duke in the Suburbs (London: Ward Lock and Co., 1909), by Edgar Wallace (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• The Fate of Fenella: A Novel (New York: Cassell Pub. Co., c1892), contrib. by Helen Mathers, Justin H. McCarthy, Frances Eleanor Trollope, Arthur Conan Doyle, May Crommelin, F. C. Philips, Rita, Joseph Hatton, Mrs. H. Lovett Cameron, Bram Stoker, Florence Marryat, Julia Frankau, Mrs. Edward Kennard, Richard Dowling, The Duchess, Arthur William À Beckett, Jean Middlemass, Clement Scott, Richard Dehan, Henry W. Lucy, Adeline Sergeant, George Manville Fenn, Tasma, and F. Anstey
  • page images at HathiTrust
  • multiple formats at Google; US access only
  • multiple formats at archive.org
• A Life for a Life (3 volumes; London: Hurst and Blackett, 1859), by Dinah Maria Mulock Craik
  • Volume I: multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume II: multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume III: multiple formats at archive.org
• A Life for a Life (New York: Carleton, 1866), by Dinah Maria Mulock Craik (page images and uncorrected OCR text at MOA)
• The Old Countess: or, The Two Proposals (Philadelphia: T. B. Peterson and Bros., c1873), by Ann S. Stephens (Gutenberg text)
• The Marble Faun, by Nathaniel Hawthorne
  • volume 1: Gutenberg text
  • volume 2: Gutenberg text
• The Marble Faun (Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin Co., c1889), by Nathaniel Hawthorne (illustrated HTML with commentary at fiftywordsforsnow.com)
• World's End: A Story in Three Books (3 volumes; London: Tinsley Bros., 1877), by Richard Jefferies
  • Volume I (Facts): multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume II (Person): multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume III (Results): multiple formats at archive.org
  • all volumes: Gutenberg text

• The Assassination Bureau, Ltd. (New York et al.: McGraw-Hill Book Co., c1963), by Jack London and Robert L. Fish (page images at HathiTrust)

• Easy to Kill (c1931), by Hulbert Footner (HTML in Canada; NO US ACCESS)

• Hungry Eyes, by Barry Hoffman (HTML with commentary at buried.com)
• The Lodger, by Marie Belloc Lowndes (Gutenberg text)

• The Trial: More Links of The Daisy Chain, by Charlotte M. Yonge (Gutenberg text)
• The Nine of Hearts: A Novel (Harper's Handy Series #107; 1886), by B. L. Farjeon
  • Gutenberg text
  • multiple formats at archive.org
• An American Tragedy (1925), by Theodore Dreiser (text at Gutenberg Australia)
• The Heart of Mid-Lothian, by Walter Scott
  • HTML in the UK
  • Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML
• 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)
• The Tragedy of Pudd'nhead Wilson (Hartford: American Pub. Co., 1894), by Mark Twain (Gutenberg text)

• The Three Sisters: or, The Life, Confession, and Execution of Amy, Elizabeth, and Cynthia Halzingler, Who Were Tried, Convicted, and Executed at Elizabethtown, Ark., Nov. 30, 1855 for the Awful and Horrible Murder of the Edmonds Family, Consisting of Seven Members Together; With the Speech of the Eldest Sister, Amy, on the Gallows (Baltimore et al.: A. R. Orton, 1856), by O. R. Arthur (illustrated HTML with commentary at fiftywordsforsnow.com)

• The Terror: A Mystery (New York: R. M. McBride and Co., 1917), by Arthur Machen (Gutenberg text)

• In the Wind (read by the author in its entirety; c2008), by Barbara Fister (MP3 files with commentary at gac.edu)
• Visa to Death (new edition of The Best That Ever Did It; New York: Permabooks, 1956), by Ed Lacy (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Best That Ever Did It (New York: Harper and Bros., 1955), by Ed Lacy (page images at HathiTrust)
• The House With the Blue Door (c1942), by Hulbert Footner (HTML in Canada; NO US ACCESS)
• Who Killed the Husband? (c1941), by Hulbert Footner (text in Australia; NO US ACCESS)
• Death of a Celebrity (c1938), by Hulbert Footner (text in Australia; NO US ACCESS)
• Murder in Texas (Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin Co., 1935), by Ada E. Lingo (page images at HathiTrust)
• Sister Simon's Murder Case (Milwaukee: Bruce Pub. Co., 1959), by Margaret Ann Hubbard (illustrated HTML at Celebration of Women Writers)
• The Tick of the Clock (New York: Macy-Masins, 1928), by Herbert Asbury (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Man in the Brown Suit (New York: Dodd, Mead and Co., 1924), by Agatha Christie (Gutenberg text)
• The Groote Park Murder (Toronto: T. Allen, c1923), by Freeman Wills Crofts (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Bicycle Shop Murder, by Robert Burton Robinson (HTML at robertburtonrobinson.com)
• The Circular Staircase (New York: Review of Reviews Co., c1908), by Mary Roberts Rinehart
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• The Circular Staircase (New York: Grosset and Dunlap, c1908), by Mary Roberts Rinehart, illust. by Lester Ralph (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Diamond Cross Mystery: Being a Somewhat Different Detective Story (Cleveland and New York: Press of the Commercial Bookbinding Co., 1918), by Chester K. Steele (Gutenberg text)
• The Doctor, His Wife, and the Clock (New York and London: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1895), by Anna Katharine Green (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• The Jew Detective: or, The Beautiful Convict (Beadle's New York Dime Library #662; New York: Beadle and Adams, 1891), by Prentiss Ingraham (mlutiple foramts at niu.edu)
• The Lerouge Affair (v3 in a set of Gaboriau's novels; New York: W. R. Caldwell and Co., c1908), by Emile Gaboriau, illust. by John A. Williams (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Lerouge Case, by Emile Gaboriau (Gutenberg text)
• The Mansion of Mystery: Being a Certain Case of Importance, Taken from the Note-Book of Adam Adams, Investigator and Detective (Cleveland and New York: Press of the Commercial Bookbinding Co., 1911), by Chester K. Steele (Gutenberg text)
• The Running Fight (New York: Dodd, Mead and Co., 1910), by William Hamilton Osborne, illust. by Harrison Fisher and George Brehm
  • Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML
  • multiple formats at archive.org
• The Secret of Lonesome Cove (New York: Grosset and Dunlap, c1912), by Samuel Hopkins Adams, illust. by Frank E. Schoonover (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• The World's Finger: An Improbable Story (London et al.: Ward, Lock, and Co., 1901), by Thomas W. Hanshew
  • multiple formats at Google; US access only?
  • page images at HathiTrust
• Give 'em the Ax (published under "A. A. Fair" pseudonym; New York: Grosset and Dunlap, c1944), by Erle Stanley Gardner (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Purple Parrot: A Theocritus Lucius Westborough Story (Garden City, NY, Pub. for the Crime Club by Doubleday, Doran and Co., 1937), by Clyde B. Clason (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Murder of Roger Ackroyd (New York: Grosset and Dunlap, c1926), by Agatha Christie (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Adventuress: A Craig Kennedy Detective Story (New York and London: Harper and Bros., 1917), by Arthur B. Reeve, illust. by Will Foster
  • multiple formats at Google; US access only
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust; US access only
• At the Villa Rose, by A. E. W. Mason (Gutenberg text)
• The Notting Hill Mystery (as published in "Once a Week", 1862-1863), by Charles Felix, illust. by George Du Maurier (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• The Mouse in the Mountain (originally published 1943), by Norbert Davis (HTML with commentary at manybooks.net)

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