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• Uncle Abner, master of mysteries (D. Appleton and Company, 1918), by Melville Davisson Post and D. Appleton and Company (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• On the wing of occasions (Doubleday, Page & Co., 1909), by Joel Chandler Harris (page images at HathiTrust)
• Kidnapping of President Lincoln and other war detectives stories (Doubleday, Page & Co., 1900), by Joel Chandler Harris (page images at HathiTrust)
• Ashton Kirk, criminologist. (The Penn Publishing Company, 1918), by John T. McIntyre, Ralph L. Boyer, Ralph L. Boyer, and Penn Publishing Company (page images at HathiTrust)
• Back home; being the narrative of Judge Priest and his People (George H. Doran Company, 1912), by Irvin S. Cobb (page images at HathiTrust)
• The guillotine club : and other stories (The Century Co., 1910), by S. Weir Mitchell, Frederic Rodrigo Gruger, J. André Castaigne, and Century Company (page images at HathiTrust)
• Marjorie Daw, and other people. (J.R. Osgood and Co., 1873), by Thomas Bailey Aldrich (page images at HathiTrust)
• Criminal reminiscences and detective sketches (G.W. Carleton & Co. ;, 1879), by Allan Pinkerton (page images at HathiTrust)
• The lady, or the tiger? and other stories (C. Scribner's Sons, 1884), by Frank R. Stockton (page images at HathiTrust)
• Stories of the railroad, by John A. Hill. (Doubleday & McClure, 1899), by John A. Hill (page images at HathiTrust)
• Cabbages and kings (New York : A.L. Burt Company [1904], 1904), by O. Henry and Book Traces Project (page images at HathiTrust)
• The house of a thousand candles (The Bobbs-Merrill Company, 1905), by Meredith Nicholson, Rome K. Richardson, and Howard Chandler Christy (page images at HathiTrust)
• The rise of Ruderick Clowd (Dodd, Mead, 1903), by Josiah Flynt, Amy Richards, Burr Printing House, and Mead & Company Dodd (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Scientific Sprague (Charles Scribner's Sons, 1912), by Francis Lynde, E. Roscoe Shrader, Scribner Press, and Charles Scribner's Sons (page images at HathiTrust)
• Agatha Webb (G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1899), by Anna Katharine Green and G.P. Putnam's Sons (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Remarkable adventures of Raffles Holmes, Esq., detective and amateur cracksman by birth (Harper & Brothers, 1906), by John Kendrick Bangs, Sydney Adamson, and Harper & Brothers (page images at HathiTrust)
• Clients of Randolph Mason (G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1897), by Melville Davisson Post (page images at HathiTrust)
• A modern wizard (G. P. Putnam's sons, 1894), by Rodrigues Ottolengui (page images at HathiTrust)
• The picaroons (McClure, Phillips & company, 1904), by Gelett Burgess and Will Irwin (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• In dark places (Alfred A. Knopf, 1923), by John Russell, H. Wolff Estate, Vail-Ballou Company, and Inc Alfred A. Knopf (page images at HathiTrust)
• The River syndicate and other stories (Harper & brothers, 1899), by Charles E. Carryl and H. C. Edwards (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Adventures of Yorke Norroy in his quest of the four jade plates (W.J. Watt & Company, 1917), by George Bronson-Howard, Arthur E. Becher, Braunworth & Co, and W.J. Watt & Company (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Panama plot : Pan-American adventures of Craig Kennedy, scientific dectective (Harper & Brothers, 1918), by Arthur B. Reeve, Will Foster, and Harper & Brothers (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The adventures of Napoleon Prince (Cassell and company, ltd., 1912), by May Edginton and Cyrus Cuneo (page images at HathiTrust)
• The long arm (Harper & Bothers, 1906), by Samuel Major Gardenhire, W. E. Mears, and Harper & Brothers (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Norroy, diplomatic agent (The Saalfield Publishing Co., 1907), by George Bronson-Howard, Harry B. Matthews, Gordon Ross, Ill.) Werner Company (Chicago, and Saalfield Pub. Co (page images at HathiTrust)
• Detours, (Little, Brown, and company, 1927), by Octavus Roy Cohen (page images at HathiTrust)
• Tales out of court (F.A. Stokes Co., 1920), by Frederick Trevor Hill (page images at HathiTrust)
• A diplomat's diary (G. Routledge and Sons, 1890), by Julien Gordon (page images at HathiTrust)
• On secret service : detective-mystery stories based on real cases solved by government agents (Harper & Brothers, 1921), by William Nelson Taft and Harper & Brothers (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The remarkable adventures of Christopher Poe (F.G. Browne & Co., 1913), by Bob Brown, M. Wilson Craig, Plimpton Press, and F.G. Browne & Co (page images at HathiTrust)
• The adventures of Dr. Burton / by Archibald Clavering Gunter. (The Home Publishing Company, 1905), by Archibald Clavering Gunter, H. Heyer, George Ryder, and Home Publishing Company (page images at HathiTrust)
• Corrector of destinies. (Edward J. Clode, 1908), by Melville Davisson Post and Edward J. Clode (Firm) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Best laid schemes (Charles Scribner's Sons, 1922), by Meredith Nicholson, Scribner Press, and Charles Scribner's Sons (page images at HathiTrust)
• The circular staircase (The Bobbs-Merrill Company, 1908), by Mary Roberts Rinehart, Lester Ralph, Braunworth & Co, and Bobbs-Merrill Company (page images at HathiTrust)
• By advice of counsel : being adventures of the celebrated firm of Tutt & Tutt, attorneys & counsellors at law (Charles Scribner's Sons, 1921), by Arthur Train, Arthur William Brown, Scribner Press, and Charles Scribner's Sons (page images at HathiTrust)
• Through the wall (D. Appleton and Company, 1909), by Cleveland Moffett (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The mystery at the Blue Villa (D. Appleton and Company, 1919), by Melville Davisson Post and D. Appleton and Company (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The poisoned pen; further adventures of Craig Kennedy (Dodd, Mead and Company, 1913), by Arthur B. Reeve (page images at HathiTrust)
• Deuces wild (The Bobbs-Merrill Company, 1913), by Harold MacGrath (page images at HathiTrust)
• The velvet black (E.P. Dutton & Company, 1921), by Richard Washburn Child and E.P. Dutton (Firm) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Murder in any degree: One hundred in the dark: A comedy for wives: The lie: Even threes: A man of no imagination: Larry Moore: My wife's wedding presents: The suprises of the lottery (The Century Co., 1913), by Owen Johnson, Leon Guipon, and Frederic Rodrigo Gruger (page images at HathiTrust)
• The amethyst box (The Bobbs-Merrill Co., 1905), by Anna Katharine Green and Cairns Collection of American Women Writers (page images at HathiTrust)
• The old stone house and other stories (G. P. Putnam's sons, 1891), by Anna Katharine Green (page images at HathiTrust)
• True history of the life and adventures of Mortimer Kensington Queen. (C.M. Clark Pub. Co., 1907), by Nick Sherlock Collier and C.M. Clark Publishing Co (page images at HathiTrust)
• Murders in the Rue Morgue and other tales (J.W. Lovell Co., 1890), by Edgar Allan Poe (page images at HathiTrust)
• Murder and mystery (Covici, Friede, 1928), by Evelyn Davies Johnson and Gretta Palmer (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Philo Gubb : correspondence-school detective : with illustrations (Houghton Mifflin Company, 1918), by Ellis Parker Butler, Rea Irvin, Mass.) Riverside Press (Cambridge, and Houghton Mifflin Company (page images at HathiTrust)
• Great K. & A. robbery (Dodd, Mead and Company, 1897), by Paul Leicester Ford and George Willis Bardwell (page images at HathiTrust)
• Account of what might be termed the Pentecost episode in a most audacious criminal career (New York : Harper & Brothers, 1927., 1927), by William Gillette (page images at HathiTrust)

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