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Books in the Mystery genre:

The Mystery of Edwin Drood (1870)

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In this unfinished murder mystery, young Edwin Drood disappears shortly after breaking off his engagement. Read online at archive.org.... View More

Author(s): Charles Dickens
Illustrator(s): Charles Allston Collins
S. Luke Fildes

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A Study in Scarlet (1888)

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Dr. John Watson, invalided home from the second Afghan war, is looking to share lodgings and ends up rooming with world's first consulting detective. In this their first adventure, Holmes solves a double murder. The image above is from an 1892 editio... View More

Author(s): Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Illustrator(s): Charles Doyle

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The Sign of Four (1890)

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A young woman consults Sherlock Holmes about her father's disappearance. The cover image above is of the second printing. Read online at archive.org.... View More

Author(s): Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Illustrator(s): Charles Kerr

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A Study in Scarlet (1891)

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Dr. John Watson, invalided home from the second Afghan war, is looking for someone to share lodgings and is introduced to Mr. Sherlock Holmes, the world's first consulting detective. In this their first adventure, Holmes solves a double murder. Read ... View More

Author(s): Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Illustrator(s): George Hutchinson

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The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (1892)

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The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes is a collection of twelve stories written by Arthur Conan Doyle, featuring his famous detective, and illustrated by Sidney Paget. READ NOW.... View More

Author(s): Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Illustrator(s): Sidney Paget

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Pudd’nhead Wilson a Tale (1894)

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A slave woman switches her son for the son of her master. Is it nature or nurture that forms character? This first British edition does not include The Comedy Those Extraordinary Twins, published in the first American edition. Read online at Hathitru... View More

Author(s): Mark Twain
Illustrator(s): James Mapes Dodge
Louis Loeb

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The Tragedy of Pudd’nhead Wilson and the Comedy Those Extraordinary Twins (1894)

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The son of a free woman and the son of a slave woman are switched at birth. Is it nature or nurture that determines their character? Those Extraordinary Twins was written first as a satire, but the story of the two children and Pudd’nhead Wilso... View More

Author(s): Mark Twain
Illustrator(s): F. M. Senior
C. H. Warren

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Tom Sawyer Detective: As Told by Huck Finn, and Other Tales (1897)

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This British edition contains the original text of Extracts from Adam’s Diary as well as the title story and five other pieces.... View More

Author(s): Mark Twain
Illustrator(s): None

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The River Syndicate and Other Stories (1899)

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Seven detective stories by the master of comic verse. Read online at Hathitrust.

Author(s): Charles E. Carryl
Illustrator(s): Harry C. Edwards

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Mysteries of Police and Crime (1901)

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A three-volume compendium of crime stories. Read for free online: Volume 1 at Internet Archive Volume 2 at HathiTrust Volume 3 at HathiTrust ... View More

Author(s): Major Arthur Griffiths
Illustrator(s): Arthur Rackham
Et al

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A Double Barrelled Detective Story (1902)

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A burlesque on the Sherlock Holmes craze. Read online at archive.org.

Author(s): Mark Twain
Illustrator(s): Lucius Wolcott Hitchcock

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The Hound of the Baskervilles (1902)

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The game is afoot as Holmes tracks down a killer with the assistance of Dr. Watson.

Read online at Internet Archive.

Author(s): Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Illustrator(s): Sidney Paget

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The Man Who Was Thursday: A Nightmare (1908)

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An undercover London policeman is recruited into an Anarchist council only to discover most of his fellow anarchists are also undercover agents. Read online at archive.org.... View More

Author(s): G. K. Chesterton
Illustrator(s): None

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The Innocence of Father Brown (1911)

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A collection of detective stories about a Catholic priest who is considered one of the high spots of detective fiction. Read online at archive.org.... View More

Author(s): G. K. Chesterton
Illustrator(s): Sydney Seymour Lucas

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The Apaches of New York (1912)

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A collection of true crime stories from the early twentieth century in New York City.

Author(s): Alfred Henry Lewis
Illustrator(s): James Daugherty
Et al

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The Little Nugget (1914)

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The Little Nugget is Ogden Ford, object of kidnappers employed by his mother, who is divorced from his father, who has also employed kidnappers to keep him away from his mother’s bad influence and then there is White, the school butler who is a... View More

Author(s): P. G. Wodehouse
Illustrator(s): Will Grefe

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The Little Nugget (1914)

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The Little Nugget is Ogden Ford, object of kidnappers employed by his mother, who is divorced from his father, who has also employed kidnappers to keep him away from his mother’s bad influence and then there is White, the school butler who is a... View More

Author(s): P. G. Wodehouse
Illustrator(s): Unknown

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The Wisdom of Father Brown (1914)

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The second collection of detective stories about a Catholic priest who is considered one of the high spots of detective fiction. Read online at archive.org.... View More

Author(s): G. K. Chesterton
Illustrator(s): Sydney Seymour Lucas

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Philo Gubb: Correspondence School Detective (1918)

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Seventeen adventures of the world’s first correspondence school detective. Read online at archive.org.

Author(s): Ellis Parker Butler
Illustrator(s): Rea Irvin

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Pollyooly Dances (1920)

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Pollyooly grows up and is caught up in a German plot during World War I. Read online at archive.org.

Author(s): Edgar Jepson
Illustrator(s): None

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