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• L'Étranger (originally published 1942; this edition c1957), by Albert Camus (multiple formats in Canada; NO US ACCESS)
• Ashes to Ashes (New York: R. M. McBride and Co., 1919), by Isabel Ostrander (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner, by James Hogg (Gutenberg text)
• Uncle Silas: A Tale of Bartram-Haugh, by Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu (Gutenberg text)
• Arthur Mervyn: or, Memoirs of the Year 1793, by Charles Brockden Brown (Gutenberg text)
• McTeague: A Story of San Francisco, by Frank Norris (Gutenberg text)
• McTeague: A Story of San Francisco (London: W. Heinemann, 1922), by Frank Norris
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• The Murder of Edwin Drood, Recounted by John Jasper: Being an Attempted Solution of the Mystery Based on Dickens' Manuscript and Memoranda (New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1920), by Percy T. Carden, contrib. by B. W. Matz
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• Caleb Williams, or Things As They Are, by William Godwin, contrib. by Ernest A. Baker (Gutenberg text)
• Dr. Mabuse, der Spieler (in German; Berlin: Ullstein, c1920), by Norbert Jacques (Gutenberg text, illustrated HTML, and page images)

• The Janitor (c2007), by Adam Decker (HTML and audio with commentary at adamdecker.com)
• Cally's War (included on the Ghost Baen CD image), by John Ringo and Julie Cochrane
  • zipped CD ISO at thefifthimperium.com; 162 MB
  • zipped CD files at thefifthimperium.com; 162 MB
• The Philosophical Strangler, by Eric Flint (multiple formats at Baen Free Library)
• Mademoiselle Ixe (London: T. F. Unwin, 1891), by Lanoe Falconer
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• The Man With the Golden Gun (c1965), by Ian Fleming (HTML in Canada; NO US ACCESS)

• 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)
• 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)

• Payment Deferred (c1926), by C. S. Forester (HTML at Gutenberg Canada)

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• Murder for Profit (New York and London: Harper and Bros., 1926), by William Bolitho (page images at HathiTrust)

• The Life, Crime, and Capture of John Wilkes Booth, by George Alfred Townsend (Gutenberg text)
• The Life, Crime, and Capture of John Wilkes Booth: With a Full Sketch of the Conspiracy of Which He Was the Leader, and the Pursuit, Trial and Execution of His Accomplices (New York: Dick and Fitzgerald, ca. 1865), by George Alfred Townsend
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • photocopy edition: page images at HathiTrust

• Certain Other Countries: Homicide, Gender, and National Identity in Late Nineteenth-Century England, Ireland, Scotland, and Wales (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c2007), by Carolyn Conley (PDF at Ohio State)

• The Life of Savage, by Samuel Johnson (HTML at jacklynch.net)

• Miss Mary Blandy's Own Account of the Affair Between Her and Mr. Cranstoun, From the Commencement of Their Acquaintance in the Year 1746 to the Death Of her Father in August 1751, with All the Circumstances Leading to That Unhappy Event (London: Printed for A. Millar, 1752), by Mary Blandy (page images at HathiTrust)

• The Brooklyn Bridge Shooting: An Independent Review and Assessment (ca. 2000), by American Jewish Committee (HTML at Wayback Machine)

• The Brooklyn Bridge Shooting: An Independent Review and Assessment (ca. 2000), by American Jewish Committee (HTML at Wayback Machine)

• The Life of David Haggart, alias John Wilson, alias John Morison, alias Barney M'Coul, alias John M'Colgan, alias Daniel O'Brien, alias the Switcher: Written by Himself, While Under Sentence of Death (second edition; Edinburgh: W. and C. Tait, 1821), by David Haggart, ed. by George Robertson, contrib. by George Combe (page images at HathiTrust)

• The Iceman Cometh (1946), by Eugene O'Neill (text in Australia; NO US ACCESS)

• Julius Caesar, by William Shakespeare (multiple editions)

• The Life of David Haggart, alias John Wilson, alias John Morison, alias Barney M'Coul, alias John M'Colgan, alias Daniel O'Brien, alias the Switcher: Written by Himself, While Under Sentence of Death (second edition; Edinburgh: W. and C. Tait, 1821), by David Haggart, ed. by George Robertson, contrib. by George Combe (page images at HathiTrust)

• The Life of Mr. Richard Savage, Son of the Earl Rivers, The Fourth Edition; To Which Are Added the Lives of Sir Francis Drake, and Admiral Blake (London: Printed for F. Newbery, 1777), by Samuel Johnson (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Life of Savage, by Samuel Johnson (HTML at jacklynch.net)
• Lives of the Poets: Addison, Savage, Swift, by Samuel Johnson (Gutenberg text)

• Israel Rank; The Autobiography of a Criminal (London: Chatto and Windus, 1907), by Roy Horniman (page images at HathiTrust)
• Rogues and Vagabonds (new edition; London: Chatto and Windus, 1892), by George R. Sims (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• Something Doing (published as by "Varick Vanardy"; New York: The Macaulay Co., c1919), by Frederic Van Rensselaer Dey, illust. by George W. Gage (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Amateur Cracksman, by E. W. Hornung
  • illustrated HTML at Virginia
  • Gutenberg text and audio reading
• Dr. Mabuse, der Spieler (in German; Berlin: Ullstein, c1920), by Norbert Jacques (Gutenberg text, illustrated HTML, and page images)
• The Groote Park Murder (Toronto: T. Allen, c1923), by Freeman Wills Crofts (multiple formats at archive.org)
• 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)
• Oliver Twist, by Charles Dickens
  • illustrated HTML at Virginia
  • HTML at Bibliomania
• R. Holmes and Co.: Being the Remarkable Adventures of Raffles Holmes, Esq., Detective and Amateur Cracksman by Birth, by John Kendrick Bangs (Gutenberg text)
• The Day of Days: An Extravaganza, by Louis Joseph Vance, illust. by Arthur William Brown (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• Christmas Holiday (c1939), by W. Somerset Maugham (HTML in Canada; NO US ACCESS)
• The Fortunes and Misfortunes of the Famous Moll Flanders, by Daniel Defoe
  • Gutenberg text and audio
  • HTML at Bibliomania
• Moll Flanders (translated into French), by Daniel Defoe, trans. by Marcel Schwob (Gutenberg text)

• The Tick of the Clock (New York: Macy-Masins, 1928), by Herbert Asbury (page images at HathiTrust)

• The Masked Woman (New York: Grosset and Dunlap, c1920), by Johnston McCulley, illust. by Paul Stahr (page images at HathiTrust)
• 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 Secret Sharer, by Joseph Conrad (Gutenberg text)
• The Golden Snare, by James Oliver Curwood (Gutenberg text)
• The Unwilling Adventurer (London: Hodder and Stoughton, ca. 1913), by R. Austin Freeman (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

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