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Murder in literature

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• Murder: A Tale of Modern American Life (Durham, NC and London: Duke University Press, 1998), by Sara L. Knox (page images at HathiTrust)
• Crime in Verse: the Poetics of Murder in the Victorian Era (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c2008), by Ellen L. O'Brien (PDF at Ohio State)
• Homicide in American Fiction, 1798-1860: A Study in Social Values (Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, c1957), by David Brion Davis (PDF and EPub with commentary at Cornell Open)
• About Edwin Drood (Cambridge: At the University Press, 1911), by Henry Jackson
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• The Problem of "Edwin Drood": A Study in the Methods of Dickens (London et al.: Hodder and Stoughton, 1912), by W. Robertson Nicoll (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• The Puzzle of Dickens' Last Plot, by Andrew Lang (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• Watched by the Dead: A Loving Study of Dickens' Half-Told Tale (London: W. H. Allen and Co., 1887), by Richard A. Proctor (page images at HathiTrust)

Items below (if any) are from related and broader terms.

• Why Communism Kills: The Legacy of Karl Marx (with a biography of the author; c2000), by Fred Schwarz (HTML at schwarzreport.org)
• Famous Unsolved Murder Mysteries (Girard, KS: Haldeman-Julius Publications, c1937), by Marcet Haldeman-Julius (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Murder at Smutty Nose, and Other Murders (Garden City, NY: Doubleday, Page and Co., 1926), by Edmund Lester Pearson (page images at HathiTrust)
• Murder for Profit (New York and London: Harper and Bros., 1926), by William Bolitho (page images at HathiTrust)
• Murder and its Motives (London: W. Heinemann, 1924), by F. Tennyson Jesse (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Why Communism Kills: The Legacy of Karl Marx (Long Beach, CA: Christian Anti-Communist Crusade, ca. 1981), by Fred Schwarz (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Rebel Earl, and Other Studies (Edinburgh: W. Green and Son, 1926), by William Roughead (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Reporting Killings as Human Rights Violations: How to Document and Respond to Potential Violations of the Right to Life Within the International System for the Protection of Human Rights, by Kate Thompson and Camille Giffard (PDF and other formats with commentary in the UK)

• The Criminal Imbecile: An Analysis of Three Remarkable Murder Cases (New York: Macmillan, 1915), by Henry Herbert Goddard (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)

• The Crooked Letter (2006), by Sean Williams (PDF with commentary at pyrsf.com)
• The Murder of Eleanor Pope (New York: Permabooks, 1956), by Henry Kuttner (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• 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)
• The Door (c1930), by Mary Roberts Rinehart (multiple formats in Canada; NO US ACCESS)
• 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)
• 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 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)
• Messalina of the Suburbs (London: Hutchinson and Co., ca. 1924), by E. M. Delafield (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)
• The Naked Storm (published under "Simon Eisner" pseudonym; New York: Lion Book, 1952), by C. M. Kornbluth (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Prelude to a Certain Midnight (Garden City, NY: Doubleday and Co., 1947), by Gerald Kersh (page images at HathiTrust)
• Dagger of the Mind (c1941), by Kenneth Fearing (HTML in Canada; NO US ACCESS)
• 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)
• The Man in Lower Ten, by Mary Roberts Rinehart (Gutenberg text)
• 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
• Poirot Investigates (11-story UK edition; London: J. Lane, c1924), by Agatha Christie (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• 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
  • HTML with commentary at fiftywordsforsnow.com
  • 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

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