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• The Fabulous Clipjoint, by Fredric Brown (HTML at Wayback Machine)

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• Visa to Death (new edition of The Best That Ever Did It; New York: Permabooks, 1956), by Ed Lacy (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
• The Best That Ever Did It (New York: Harper and Bros., 1955), by Ed Lacy (page images at HathiTrust)
• Mary Regan (Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin Co., 1918), by Leroy Scott (multiple formats at Indiana)
• Murder in the Gunroom, by H. Beam Piper
  • Gutenberg text
  • page images at durendal.org
• The Specimen Case (New York: G. H. Doran Co., c1925), by Ernest Bramah (page images at HathiTrust)
• Wizard Will, the Wonder Worker (Aldine Tip-Top Tales #77; London: Aldine Pub. Co., ca. 1893), by Prentiss Ingraham
  • Gutenberg text
  • page images at Villanova
• The Puzzle Lock (New York: Dodd, Mead and Co., 1926), by R. Austin Freeman (page images at HathiTrust)
• Solomon's Vineyard, by Jonathan Latimer (HTML at Wayback Machine)
• The House With the Blue Door (c1942), by Hulbert Footner (HTML in Canada; NO US ACCESS)
• The City of Purple Dreams (Chicago: F. G. Browne and Co., 1913), by Edwin Baird, illust. by M. Wilson Craig (page images at HathiTrust)

• The Big Four (New York: Dell Pub. Co., 1972), by Agatha Christie (Gutenberg text)
• The Red Triangle: Being Some Further Chronicles of Martin Hewitt, Investigator (New York: Books for Libraries Press, 1970), by Arthur Morrison (Gutenberg text and page images)
• Terror Keep (New York: Doubleday, Doran and Co., 1928), by Edgar Wallace (HTML at Gutenberg Canada)
• R. Holmes and Co.: Being the Remarkable Adventures of Raffles Holmes, Esq., Detective and Amateur Cracksman by Birth, by John Kendrick Bangs (Gutenberg text)
• More Work for the Undertaker (c1949), by Margery Allingham (HTML in Canada; NO US ACCESS)
• Coroner's Pidgin (c1945), by Margery Allingham (HTML in Canada; NO US ACCESS)
• The Fashion in Shrouds (c1938), by Margery Allingham (HTML in Canada; NO US ACCESS)
• The Case of the Late Pig (c1937), by Margery Allingham (HTML in Canada; NO US ACCESS)
• Dancers in Mourning (c1937), by Margery Allingham (HTML in Canada; NO US ACCESS)
• Mr. Campion, Criminologist (without "The Case of the Late Pig" (listed separately), c1937), by Margery Allingham (HTML in Canada; NO US ACCESS)
• Clouds of Witness (c1926; revised 1935), by Dorothy L. Sayers (HTML in Canada; NO US ACCESS)
• Whose Body? (revised edition, c1935), by Dorothy L. Sayers (HTML in Canada; NO US ACCESS)
• Murder Must Advertise (c1933), by Dorothy L. Sayers (HTML in Canada; NO US ACCESS)
• Sweet Danger (c1933), by Margery Allingham (HTML in Canada; NO US ACCESS)
• The Five Red Herrings (c1931), by Dorothy L. Sayers (HTML in Canada; NO US ACCESS)
• Look to the Lady (c1931), by Margery Allingham (HTML in Canada; NO US ACCESS)
• Police at the Funeral (c1931), by Margery Allingham (HTML in Canada; NO US ACCESS)
• The Crime at Black Dudley (c1929), by Margery Allingham (HTML at Gutenberg Canada)
• The Mystery of the Blue Train (c1928), by Agatha Christie (Guteberg text)
• The Unpleasantness at the Bellona Club (c1928), by Dorothy L. Sayers (Gutenberg text)
• The Case-Book of Sherlock Holmes (c1927), by Arthur Conan Doyle (HTML at Gutenberg Australia)
• Clouds of Witness (c1927), by Dorothy L. Sayers (Gutenberg text)
• The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Arthur Conan Doyle (Gutenberg text and audio)
• Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (illustrated; New York: Harper and Bros., c1892), by Arthur Conan Doyle (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• Chronicles of Martin Hewitt (New York: D. Appleton and Co., 1896), by Arthur Morrison (page images at HathiTrust)
• His Last Bow, by Arthur Conan Doyle (HTML at Bibliomania)
• His Last Bow: A Reminiscence of Sherlock Holmes (New York: George H. Doran Co., 1917), by Arthur Conan Doyle (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The Hound of the Baskervilles, by Arthur Conan Doyle (Gutenberg text)
• Kauhun Laakso (The Valley of Fear in Finnish, in 2 volumes; Helsinki: Kustannusosakeyhtiö Kirja, 1915), by Arthur Conan Doyle, trans. by Timo Tuura
  • Volume I (Murhenäytelmä Birlstonen Kartanossa): Gutenberg text
  • Volume II (Salaseuralaiset): Gutenberg text
• Martin Hewitt, Investigator (1894), by Arthur Morrison (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Arthur Conan Doyle (Gutenberg text and audio)
• The Murder on the Links, by Agatha Christie (Gutenberg multiple formats)
• The Mysterious Affair at Styles, by Agatha Christie
  • HTML at Bartleby
  • Gutenberg text
• Neljän Merkit (The Sign of the Four in Finnish; Pori: Porilaisen Kirjapaino, 1894), by Arthur Conan Doyle, trans. by Ida Wickstedt (Gutenberg text)
• The Pursuit of the House-Boat (New York and London: Harper and Brothers, 1897), by John Kendrick Bangs, illust. by Peter Newell (Gutenberg text)
• The Pursuit of the House-Boat (1919 Harper and Brothers edition), by John Kendrick Bangs (Gutenberg text)
• The Red Triangle: Being Some Further Chronicles of Martin Hewitt, Investigator (Boston: L. C. Page and Co., c1903), by Arthur Morrison (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Arthur Conan Doyle (Gutenberg text and audio)
• The Sign of Four, by Arthur Conan Doyle (HTML at Virginia)
• The Sign of the Four, by Arthur Conan Doyle (Gutenberg text and audio readings)
• A Study in Scarlet, by Arthur Conan Doyle (Gutenberg text and audio)
• Tales of Sherlock Holmes (New York: Grosset and Dunlap, 1915), by Arthur Conan Doyle (page images at HathiTrust)
• Trent's Last Case, by E. C. Bentley (Gutenberg text)
• Unnatural Death, by Dorothy L. Sayers (Gutenberg text and illusrated HTML)
• Vainottu (A Study in Scarlet in Finnish; Pori: G. Roneliuksen Kirjakauppa, 1908), by Arthur Conan Doyle, trans. by Timo Tuura (Gutenberg text)
• The Valley of Fear, by Arthur Conan Doyle (Gutenberg text)
• Whose Body? (New York: Boni and Liveright, 1923), by Dorothy L. Sayers (HTML with commentary at Celebration of Women Writers)
• Whose Body? (New York: Harper and Bros., c1923), by Dorothy L. Sayers (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• Strong Poison (c1930), by Dorothy L. Sayers (HTML in Canada; NO US ACCESS)
• The Murder of Roger Ackroyd (New York: Grosset and Dunlap, c1926), by Agatha Christie
  • Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML
  • page images at HathiTrust
• Poirot Investigates (11-story UK edition; London: J. Lane, c1924), by Agatha Christie (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• The Secret Adversary, by Agatha Christie (Gutenberg text)

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