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• In the Wind (read by the author in its entirety; c2008), by Barbara Fister (MP3 files with commentary at gac.edu)
• The Almost Perfect Murder: A Case Book of Madame Storey (c1937), by Hulbert Footner (HTML in Canada; NO US ACCESS)
• The Kidnapping of Madame Storey, and Other Stories (c1936), by Hulbert Footner (HTML in Canada; NO US ACCESS)
• Easy to Kill (c1931), by Hulbert Footner (HTML in Canada; NO US ACCESS)
• The Doctor Who Held Hands (c1929), by Hulbert Footner (HTML in Canada; NO US ACCESS)
• The Velvet Hand: New Madame Storey Mysteries (c1928), by Hulbert Footner (HTML in Canada; NO US ACCESS)
• Madame Storey (c1926), by Hulbert Footner (HTML in Canada; NO US ACCESS)
• The Bat: A Novel From the Play, by Mary Roberts Rinehart, Avery Hopwood, and Stephen Vincent Benét (Gutenberg text)
• Constance Dunlap, by Arthur B. Reeve (Gutenberg text)
• Helen Elwood, the Female Detective: or, A Celebrated Forger's Fate (Chicago: George W. Ogilvie, c1885), by B. and R. (page images at HathiTrust)

• The Experiences of Loveday Brooke, Lady Detective, by Catherine Louisa Pirkis, illust. by Bernard Higham (illustrated HTML at Celebration of Women Writers)
• The Law and the Lady, by Wilkie Collins
  • HTML at digitalpixels.org
  • Gutenberg text

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• Penny Nichols and the Knob Hill Mystery (Chicago: Goldsmith Pub. Co., c1939), by Joan Clark (Gutenberg text)
• Penny Nichols and the Black Imp (Chicago: Goldsmith Pub. Co., c1936), by Joan Clark (Gutenberg text)
• Penny Nichols and the Mystery of the Lost Key (Chicago: Goldsmith Pub. Co., c1936), by Joan Clark (Gutenberg text)
• Penny Nichols Finds a Clue (Chicago: Goldsmith Pub. Co., c1936), by Joan Clark (Gutenberg text)
• Signal in the Dark (New York: Cupples and Leon, c1946), by Mildred A. Wirt (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• Whispering Walls (New York: Cupples and Leon, c1946), by Mildred A. Wirt (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• Guilt of the Brass Thieves (New York: Cupples and Leon, c1945), by Mildred A. Wirt (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• Hoofbeats on the Turnpike (New York: Cupples and Leon, c1944), by Mildred A. Wirt (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• Voice from the Cave (New York: Cupples and Leon, c1944), by Mildred A. Wirt (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• Ghost Beyond the Gate (New York: Cupples and Leon, c1943), by Mildred A. Wirt (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• Saboteurs on the River (New York: Cupples and Leon, c1943), by Mildred A. Wirt (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• The Clock Strikes Thirteen (New York: Cupples and Leon, c1942), by Mildred A. Wirt (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• The Wishing Well (New York: Cupples and Leon, c1942), by Mildred A. Wirt (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• Clue of the Silken Ladder (New York: Cupples and Leon, c1941), by Mildred A. Wirt (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• The Secret Pact (New York: Cupples and Leon, c1941), by Mildred A. Wirt (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• Danger at the Drawbridge (New York: Cupples and Leon, c1940), by Mildred A. Wirt (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)

• 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)

• 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)
• Paper Covered Books: A Catalogue (San Francisco: W. E. Price, 1894), by Warren Elbridge Price (page images at HathiTrust)

• The Harvard Classics Shelf of Fiction (20 volumes; New York: P.F. Collier and Son, c1917), ed. by Charles William Eliot
  • HTML at Bartleby
  • page images at HathiTrust

• An Explanatory and Pronouncing Dictionary of the Noted Names of Fiction, including Also Familiar Pseudonyms, Surnames Bestowed on Eminent Men, and Analogous Popular Appellations Often Referred to in Literature and Conversation (with appendix; Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin Co., c1917), by William A. Wheeler, contrib. by Charles G. Wheeler (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The Reader's Handbook, by Ebenezer Cobham Brewer (frame- and JavaScript-dependent HTML at Bibliomania)

• Real Mysteries: Narrative and the Unknowable (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c2013), by H. Porter Abbott (PDF at Ohio State)
• Reading Graphs, Maps, Trees: Responses to Franco Moretti (Anderson, SC: Parlor Press, c2011), ed. by Jonathan Goodwin and John Holbo (PDF at parlormultimedia.com)
• The Reader as Peeping Tom: Nonreciprocal Gazing in Narrative Fiction and Film (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c2014), by Jeremy Hawthorn (PDF with commentary at Ohio State)
• Structure and Theme: "Don Quixote" to James Joyce (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c1983), by Margaret Church (PDF files with commentary at Ohio State Press)
• Five Strands of Fictionality: The Institutional Construction of Contemporary American Writing (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c2010), by Daniel Punday (PDF at Ohio State)
• The Novel According to Cervantes (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1989), by Stephen Gilman (HTML at UC Press)
• The Certain Hour (Dizain des Poëtes), by James Branch Cabell (HTML at Virginia)
• The Responsibilities of the Novelist, and Other Literary Essays (New York: Doubleday, Page and Co., 1903), by Frank Norris
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• Criticism and Fiction, by William Dean Howells (Gutenberg text)
• The Imaginary Voyage in Prose Fiction: A History of its Criticism and a Guide for its Study, With an Annotated Check List of 215 Imaginary Voyages From 1700 to 1800 (New York: Columbia University Press, 1941), by Philip Babcock Gove (page images at HathiTrust)

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