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Mystery Genre
Books in the Mystery genre:
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (1892)
Author(s):
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Illustrator(s):
Sidney Paget
Pudd’nhead Wilson a Tale (1894)
Author(s):
Mark Twain
Illustrator(s):
James Mapes Dodge
Louis Loeb
The Fate of a Crown (1905)
An adventure novel that combines elements of political intrigue, melodrama, and mystery story.
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Author(s):
Schuyler Staunton
Illustrator(s):
Glen C. Sheffer
The Daring Twins (1911)
The story of the adventurous Gamadge twins. A novel filled with mystery.
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Author(s):
L. Frank Baum
Illustrator(s):
Pauline Batchelder
The Innocence of Father Brown (1911)
Author(s):
G. K. Chesterton
Illustrator(s):
Sydney Seymour Lucas
Beau Geste (1927)
When a woman’s precious jewel goes missing, suspicion falls on her nephew. Beau leaves Britain to join the French Foreign Legion, followed by his brothers.
Author(s):
P. C. Wren
Illustrator(s):
Helen McKie
Blair’s Attic (1929)
A Cape Cod tale about memory and unreliable narrators.
Author(s):
Freeman Lincoln
Joseph C. Lincoln
Illustrator(s):
N. C. Wyeth
In a Glass Darkly (1929)
A collection of horror and mystery stories by the Irish master. The first issue is in black cloth with a larger page size.
Author(s):
Sheridan Le Fanu
Illustrator(s):
Edward Ardizzone
Emil and the Detectives (1930)
Author(s):
Erich Kästner
Illustrator(s):
Walter Trier
Freddy the Detective (1932)
Freddy discovers a talent for detective work and is soon on the case of the missing toy train.
Author(s):
Walter R. Brooks
Illustrator(s):
Kurt Wiese
King of the Hills (1933)
Author(s):
Stephen W. Meader
Illustrator(s):
Lee Townsend
The Cadaver of Gideon Wyck: By a Medical Student (1934)
A hybrid of horror, crime and science fiction narrated by a senior medical student who is keeping a diary about the strange goings-on leading up to the death of Wyck.
Author(s):
Alexander Laing
Illustrator(s):
Lynd Ward
Mr. Sheridan’s Umbrella (1935)
Author(s):
L. A. G. Strong
Illustrator(s):
C. Walter Hodges
No-Sitch: The Hound (1936)
Bert is nine years old and needs a dog and No-Sitch fills the bill.
Author(s):
Phil Stong
Illustrator(s):
Kurt Wiese
The Story of Freginald (1936)
Freginald joins the Boomschmidt Circus and meets fellow poet Freddy the pig. Together they solve a mystery and save the Circus.
Author(s):
Walter R. Brooks
Illustrator(s):
Kurt Wiese
Dead Ned (1938)
Condemned to hang for a murder he did not commit, Ned Mansell is revived by his physician friends and smuggled on to a ship bound for Africa.
Author(s):
John Masefield
Illustrator(s):
Unknown
Studies in Murder (1938)
A book including five famous murder cases.
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Author(s):
Edmund Pearson
Illustrator(s):
Lynd Ward
The Big Six (1940)
Author(s):
Arthur Ransome
Illustrator(s):
Arthur Ransome
Freddy’s Cousin Weedly (1940)
Author(s):
Walter R. Brooks
Illustrator(s):
Kurt Wiese
T-Model Tommy: Study Edition (1940)
This special school edition of the adventures of Tommy Ballard and his trucking company has study questions and a glossary.
Author(s):
Stephen W. Meader
Illustrator(s):
Edward Shenton