Mystery Classics Books

A woman is stabbed to death in a very public location, in full view of witnesses, yet the killer remains unknown.

A well plotted American detective novel.

The War Terror by Arthur B. Reeve.

Innocent Smith is a man full of boyish exuberance. Deliberately defying convention, he is involved in a series of madcap pranks. He picnics on rooftops, breaks into his own house and has an affair with his own wife. This unconventional behavior makes him mistrusted and extremely unpopular with...

The Mystery of Orcival is a detective novel by Emile Gaboriau.

Fast-paced and psychologically absorbing, each novella proceeds through a series of dramatic scenes to a climax that is literally explosive.

Monsieur Lecoq, a dynamic young police officer, investigates the death of two men.

Detective Jefferson Davis Rand is hired to examine a large gun collection after the owner seemingly commits suicide, and he discovers foul play.

A drawing-room story that involves a robbery, the Jockey Club and it's society, the betting-ring, and marriage plans.

Wilkie Collins tells the story of Magdalen Vanstone. When she and her sister are revealed as illegitimate, they are denied their inheritance and excluded from society. Her sister bows to her fate, but Magdalen herself is determined to overcome society's obstacles to claim her money and her position.