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• The Chase of the Golden Plate (New York: Dodd, Mead and Co., 1906), by Jacques Futrelle, illust. by Will Grefé and E. A. Poucher (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• Foes in Ambush (Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott Co., 1893), by Charles King (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)

• Twice Tempted (ca. 1996), by William Manchee (HTML at williammanchee.com)

• The Masked Woman (New York: Grosset and Dunlap, c1920), by Johnston McCulley, illust. by Paul Stahr (page images at HathiTrust)

• The Great K. & A. Train Robbery (New York: Dodd, Mead and Co., 1897), by Paul Leicester Ford
  • Gutenberg text, illustrated HTML, and page images
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust

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• Second Thoughts Are Best: or, A Further Improvement of a Late Scheme to Prevent Street Robberies (published under "Andrew Moreton" pseudonym; London: Printed for W. Meadows, 1729), by Daniel Defoe (Gutenberg text)

• A Plan for Preventing Robberies Within Twenty Miles of London, With an Account of the Rise and Establishment of the Real Thieftakers: To Which Is Added, Advice to Pawnbrokers, Stable-keepers, and Publicans (London: A. Millar, 1755), by John Fielding
  • multiple formats at Google
  • page images at HathiTrust

• The Mystery of Valentine Stanlock: or, The Secret of Crag Island (text from the serial version; illustrations from serial and book versions), by William Murray Graydon (HTML in Canada)

• Defending the Bank (Boston: Lothrop Pub. Co., c1903), by Edward S. Van Zile, illust. by I. B. Hazelton (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Motor Boys on the Wing: or, Seeking the Airship Treasure (New York: Cupples and Leon Co., c1912), by Clarence Young (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)

• Witter Whitehead's Own Story: About a Lucky Splash of Whitewash, Some Stolen Silver, and a House that Wasn't Vacant (New York: H. Holt and Co., 1909), by Gardner Hunting, illust. by H. S. De Lay (multiple formats at Google)

• True Detective Stories, From the Archives of the Pinkertons (New York: G. W. Dillingham Co., c1897), by Cleveland Moffett
  • Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML
  • multiple formats at archive.org

• The Expressman and the Detective, by Allan Pinkerton (Gutenberg text, illustrated HTML, and page images)

• Convict Life at the Minnesota State Prison, Stillwater, Minnesota (second edition, with Younger's "Real Facts About the Northfield, Minnesota, Bank Robbery"; St. Paul: W. C. Heilbron, 1909), by William Casper Heilbron, contrib. by Cole Younger (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)

• The Story of Cole Younger, by Himself: Being an Autobiography of the Missouri Guerrilla Captain and Outlaw, His Capture and Prison Life, and the Only Authentic Account of the Northfield Raid Ever Published (Chicago: The Henneberyy Co., 1903), by Cole Younger (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)

• Trial of Deacon Brodie (Glasgow and Edinburgh: W. Hodge and Co., 1906), ed. by William Roughead (Gutenberg text)

• Ashes to Ashes (New York: R. M. McBride and Co., 1919), by Isabel Ostrander (page images at HathiTrust)

• The Five Knots (Boston: Little, Brown, and Co., 1908), by Fred M. White (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• A Gentleman of Leisure (c1921), by P. G. Wodehouse (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)

• The Virginian, by Owen Wister (multiple editions)
• The Rustler: A Tale of Love and War in Wyoming (New York and London: Funk and Wagnalls Co., 1902), by Frances McElrath, illust. by Edwin Willard Deming (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Rustler of Wind River (New York: A. L. Burt Co., 1917), by George W. Ogden, illust. by Frank E. Schoonover (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• To the Last Man, by Zane Grey (Gutenberg text)
• To the Last Man (Roslyn, NY: W. J. Black, c1922), by Zane Grey (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Cattle-Raid of Cualnge (London: David Nutt, 1904), trans. by L. Winifred Faraday (HTML with commentary at sacred-texts.com)

• Adèle and Co. (c1931), by Dornford Yates (HTML in Canada; NO US ACCESS)
• The Moonstone (novel), by Wilkie Collins
  • Gutenberg text
  • HTML at Bibliomania
• The Puzzle Lock (New York: Dodd, Mead and Co., 1926), by R. Austin Freeman (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Eustace Diamonds, by Anthony Trollope (Gutenberg text)
• The Eustace Diamonds (2 volumes; New York: Dodd, Mead and Co., 1912), by Anthony Trollope, illust. by George Willis Bardwell (illustrated HTML with commentary at fiftywordsforsnow.com)
• The Mystery of the Blue Train (c1928), by Agatha Christie (Guteberg text)

• The Call of the Wild, by Jack London (multiple editions)

• Fool's Goal (1930), by B. M. Bower (HTML in Canada; NO US ACCESS)

• Why We Read Fiction: Theory of Mind and the Novel (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c2006), by Lisa Zunshine (PDF at Ohio State)
• The Fiction Factory: Being the Experience of a Writer Who, for Twenty-Two Years, Has Kept a Story-Mill Grinding Successfully (published under "John Milton Edwards" pen name; Ridgewood, NJ: The Editor Company, c1912), by William Wallace Cook
  • Gutenberg text
  • page images at Google; US access only
• Last Lectures by Wilfrid Ward: Being the Lowell Lectures, 1914, and Three Lectures Delivered at the Royal Institution, 1915 (London et al.: Longmans, Green, and co., 1918), by Wilfrid Ward, ed. by Mrs. Wilfrid Ward and Maisie Ward (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Character Sketches of Romance, Fiction and the Drama: A Revised American Ed. of the Readers' Handbook (4 volumes; New York: S. Hess, 1892), by Ebenezer Cobham Brewer, ed. by Marion Harland (page images at Wisconsin)
• Character Sketches of Romance, Fiction, and the Drama: A Revised American Edition of the Reader's Handbook (8 volumes; New York: S. Hess, 1892-1896), by Ebenezer Cobham Brewer, ed. by Marion Harland
  • Volume I: multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume II: multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume III: multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume IV: multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume V: multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume VI: multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume VII: multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume VIII: multiple formats at archive.org

• The Career Novelist: A Literary Agent Offers Strategies for Success (c1996), by Donald Maass (PDF in Canada)
• This Fiction Business (New York: Covici, Friede, 1929), by H. Bedford-Jones (page images at HathiTrust)
• How to Write a Novel: A Practical Guide to the Art of Fiction (London: Grant Richards, 1901) (Gutenberg text)
• How to Write Fiction, Especially the Art of Short Story Writing (New York: Riverside Literary Bureau, C. T. Dillingham and Co., c1894), by Sherwin Cody
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• How to Write Fiction, Especially the Art of Short Story Writing: A Practical Study of Technique (London: Bellairs and Co., 1895), by Sherwin Cody (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Primer of the Novel (New York: Random House, c1950), by Vincent McHugh (page images at HathiTrust)

• Fiction Catalog (partial serial archives)
• English Prose Fiction: A Selected List Cataloged by Author and Title With Annotations (abridged version of Fiction Catalog; Minneapolis: H. W. Wilson Co., 1908) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Fiction Catalog: A Complete List Cataloged by Author and Title With Annotations (Minneapolis: H. W. Wilson Co., 1911) (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Fiction Catalog: A Selected List Cataloged by Author and Title With Annotations (Minneapolis: H. W. Wilson Co., 1908) (page images at HathiTrust)
• A Guide to the Best Fiction in English (new edition; London: G. Routledge and Sons, 1913), by Ernest A. Baker (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Manual of Ready Reference to Classic Fiction: Containing Brief Analyses of the World's Great Stories, and Analytical Indexes of the Chief Elements Found Therein (New York, Authors Press, c1909), by Marion Mills Miller (page images at HathiTrust)
• Novelistas Malos y Buenos (second edition, in Spanish; Bilbao: Sr. Administrator de el Mensajero del Corazón de Jesús, ca. 1911), by Pablo Ladrón de Guevara (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Novelistas Malos y Buenos Juzgados en Orden de Naciones: Júzganse 2,057 Novelistas: 288 Españoles, 97 Hispanoamericanos, 24 Portugueses, 65 Italianos, 1173 Franceses, 143 Ingleses, 98 Alemanes, 169 Rusos, Belgas, Escandinovos, etc. (in Spanish; Bogotá: Impr. Eléctrica, 1910), by Pablo Ladrón de Guevara (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Checklist: A Complete, Cumulative Checklist of Lesbian, Variant and Homosexual Fiction, in English or Available in English Translation, With Supplements of Related Material, for the Use of Collectors, Students and Librarians (Rochester, TX: M. Z. Bradley, c1960), ed. by Marion Zimmer Bradley and Gene Damon (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• Paper Covered Books: A Catalogue (San Francisco: W. E. Price, 1894), by Warren Elbridge Price (page images at HathiTrust)

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