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Mystery Genre
Books in the Mystery genre:
The Man Who Knew Too Much (1922)
A collection of mystery short stories. Read online at archive.org.
Author(s):
G. K. Chesterton
Illustrator(s):
W. Hatherell
The Man Who Knew Too Much and Other Stories (1922)
A collection of mystery short stories. Read online at archive.org.
Author(s):
G. K. Chesterton
Illustrator(s):
Unknown
The Incredulity of Father Brown (1926)
The third collection of detective stories about a Catholic priest who is considered one of the high spots of detective fiction.
Author(s):
G. K. Chesterton
Illustrator(s):
Unknown
Payment Deferred (1926)
William Marble did the murder. The question is, will fate let him get away with it?
Author(s):
C. S. Forester
Illustrator(s):
Unknown
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
The House on the Cliff (1927)
Frank and Joe Hardy are following in the footsteps of their famous father.
Author(s):
Franklin W. Dixon
Illustrator(s):
None
The Secret of Father Brown (1927)
The fourth collection of detective stories about a Catholic priest who is considered one of the high spots of detective fiction.
Author(s):
G. K. Chesterton
Illustrator(s):
Unknown
The Monk of Hambleton (1928)
Detective Peter Creighton gets caught up in a mystery after a strike at a tannery.
Author(s):
Armstrong Livingston
Illustrator(s):
Elmer Hader
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
Dorna or The Hillvale Affair (1929)
A summertime story and a mystery.
Author(s):
Ellis Parker Butler
Illustrator(s):
Unknown
The Garden of the Lost Key (1929)
A mystery story.
Author(s):
Forrestine Cooper Hooker
Illustrator(s):
Elmer Hader
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
The Bold Dragoon and Other Ghostly Tales (1930)
A collection of tales by Washington Irving.
Author(s):
Washington Irving
Illustrator(s):
James Daugherty
Emil and the Detectives (1930)
Author(s):
Erich Kästner
Illustrator(s):
Walter Trier
The House of Usher (1930)
An etching illustrating The Fall of the House of Usher by Edgar Allen Poe.
Author(s):
Edgar Allen Poe
Illustrator(s):
Robert Lawson
Lorna Doone: A Romance of Exmoor (1930)
Author(s):
R. D. Blackmore
Illustrator(s):
Mead Schaeffer
Plain Murder (1930)
Three advertising men murder their boss to avoid dismissal, but one of them has developed a taste for murder.
Author(s):
C. S. Forester
Illustrator(s):
Unknown
Plain Murder (1930)
Three advertising men murder their boss to avoid dismissal, but one of them has developed a taste for murder.
Author(s):
C. S. Forester
Illustrator(s):
Bill George
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
Mashinka’s Secret (1932)
A story of Masha Oblonoff’s life in Russia at the time of the revolution.
Author(s):
Sonia Medvedeva Daugherty
Illustrator(s):
James Daugherty