Until you’ve consumed all of the best Classic Mystery books, can you even claim to be a true fan?
- The Christmas Egg: A Seasonal Mystery (British Library Crime Classics) (2019)
- The Mysteries of Udolpho (Penguin Classics) (2001)
- Death on the Aisle: A Mr. & Mrs. North Mystery (American Mystery Classics) (2019)
- Murder by an Aristocrat (American Mystery Classics) (2019)
- The Sherlock Holmes Mysteries (2014)
- The Mad Hatter Mystery (American Mystery Classics) (2019)
- The Secret Garden by G. K. Chesterton: Super Large Print Edition of the Classic Father Brown Mystery Specially Designed for Low Vision Readers (2018)
- Murder in the Museum (British Library Crime Classics) (2016)
- The Puzzle of the Happy Hooligan (A Hildegarde Withers Mystery) (2018)
- Smallbone Deceased: A London Mystery (British Library Crime Classics) (2019)
- Blood on the Tracks: Railway Mysteries (British Library Crime Classics) (2018)
- The Case of the Careless Kitten: A Perry Mason Mystery (American Mystery Classics) (2019)
- Teatime Pastries and Punishments (Teatime Classic Whodunit Cozy Mystery) (2019)
- Classic Mystery Stories (Dover Thrift Editions) (1999)
The Christmas Egg: A Seasonal Mystery (British Library Crime Classics) (2019)
In a gloomy flat off Islington High Street, Chief Inspector Brett Nightingale and Sergeant Beddoes find an old woman dead. The Princess Olga Karukhin, who fled from Russia at the time of the Revolution, has lived in terror of being discovered ever since.Olga’s grandson, Ivan, appears to have run from the scene, but is later seen returning to the flat as though oblivious to the terrible crime.
The Mysteries of Udolpho (Penguin Classics) (2001)
With , Ann Radcliffe raised the Gothic romance to a new level and inspired a long line of imitators. Portraying her heroine’s inner life, creating a thick atmosphere of fear, and providing a gripping plot that continues to thrill readers today, is the story of orphan Emily St. Aubert, who finds herself separated from the man she loves and confined within the medieval castle of her aunt’s new husband, Montoni.
Death on the Aisle: A Mr. & Mrs. North Mystery (American Mystery Classics) (2019)
They say Broadway is a graveyard of hopes and dreams, but someone’s adding corpses to its tombs…Mr. and Mrs. North live as quiet a life as a couple can amidst the bustle of New York City. For Jerry, a publisher, and Pamela, a homemaker, the only threat to their domestic equilibrium comes in the form of Mrs.
Murder by an Aristocrat (American Mystery Classics) (2019)
After a murder at the manor where she’s employed, a nurse trades her stethoscope for a magnifying glass…When Nurse Keate arrives at the Thatcher estate to care for a man with a bullet in his shoulder, she’s told that he shot himself accidentally―but when the convalescing man is murdered soon thereafter, it becomes clear that the only “accident” was his not being fully killed the first time around.
The Sherlock Holmes Mysteries (2014)
Indisputably the greatest fictional detective of all time, Sherlock Holmes lives on—in films, on television, and of course through Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s inimitable craft.
The Mad Hatter Mystery (American Mystery Classics) (2019)
A murdered man in a top hat leads Dr. Gideon Fell to a killer with a sick sense of humorAt the hand of an outrageous prankster, top hats are going missing all over London, snatched from the heads of some of the city’s most powerful people―but is the hat thief the same as the person responsible for stealing a lost story by Edgar Allan Poe, the manuscript of which has just disappeared from the collection of Sir William Bitton?
The Secret Garden by G. K. Chesterton: Super Large Print Edition of the Classic Father Brown Mystery Specially Designed for Low Vision Readers (2018)
When a beheaded body is found inside a high walled garden, the mysterious death seems unsolvable. But Father Brown is on the case! All our books are published with a font designed for maximum readability at twice the size of traditional Large Print books.
Murder in the Museum (British Library Crime Classics) (2016)
Mystery crime fiction written in the Golden Age of MurderWhen Professor Julius Arnell breathes his last in the hushed atmosphere of the British Museum Reading Room, it looks like death from natural causes. Who, after all, would have cause to murder a retired academic whose life was devoted to Elizabethan literature?
The Puzzle of the Happy Hooligan (A Hildegarde Withers Mystery) (2018)
After a screenwriter is murdered on a film set, a street-smart school teacher searches for the killer.Hildegarde Withers is just your average school teacher―with above-average skills in the art of deduction. The New Yorker often finds herself investigating crimes led only by her own meddlesome curiosity, though her friends on the NYPD don’t mind when she solves their cases for them.
Smallbone Deceased: A London Mystery (British Library Crime Classics) (2019)
Mystery crime fiction written in the Golden Age of Murder”A first-rate job”―New York Times”A classic of the genre”―GuardianHorniman, Birley and Craine is a highly respected legal firm with clients drawn from the highest in the land. When a deed box in the office is opened to reveal a corpse, the threat of scandal promises to wreak havoc on the firm’s reputation―especially as the murder looks like an inside job.
Blood on the Tracks: Railway Mysteries (British Library Crime Classics) (2018)
Mystery crime fiction written in the Golden Age of Murder”This is the perfect volume for fans of short, high-quality, fair-play detective fiction.” ―Publishers Weekly”Never had I been given a tougher problem to solve, and never had I been so utterly at my wits’ end for a solution.”A signalman is found dead by a railway tunnel. A man identifies his wife as a victim of murder on the underground.
The Case of the Careless Kitten: A Perry Mason Mystery (American Mystery Classics) (2019)
Perry Mason seeks the link between a poisoned kitten, a murdered man, and a mysterious voice from the pastHelen Kendal’s woes begin when she receives a phone call from her vanished uncle Franklin, long presumed dead, who urges her to make contact with criminal defense attorney Perry Mason; soon after, she finds herself the main suspect in the mur…
Teatime Pastries and Punishments (Teatime Classic Whodunit Cozy Mystery) (2019)
A dead body in the koi pond of the Twigsledge Flower Show is nothing unusual for amateur sleuth Ida Johnston who is vacationing in the English village where the show is being held. She’s sure she can solve the crime before afternoon tea, especially since she already has her first suspect – the strange cat-attracting woman who is vacationing in the cottage next to her.Elspeth Whipple is no slouch when it comes to solving murders, either.
Classic Mystery Stories (Dover Thrift Editions) (1999)
A tribute to the first great age of fictional sleuthing, this delightful collection of 13 mystery classics is devoted to the genuine tale of ratiocination, in which the detective solves the crime by investigation and observation, by using his or her wits.Included among these gems, written between 1841 and 1920, are Edgar Allan Poe’s “The Murders in the Rue Morgue,” widely acknowledged as the first detective story; Charles Dickens’ “Three Detective Anecdotes,” in which a policeman is the detectiv…
Best Classic Mystery Books You Should Read
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Mystery Cults, Theatre and Athenian Politics: A Reading of Euripides' Bacchae and Aristophanes' Frogs
Author(s): Luigi Barzini
ID: 3070748, Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic, Year: 2021, Size: 2 Mb, Format: pdf
50 Mystery and Detective Masterpieces you have to Read Before you Die vol: 2: 2020 Edition [newly updated]
Author(s): Mark Twain; Agatha Christie; Arthur Conan Doyle; Edgar Allan Poe; Dorothy Leigh Sayers; g.k Chesterton; Charles Dickens; Jules Verne; Wilkie Collins; Joseph Smith Fletcher; Maurice Leblanc; Sax Rohmer; Golden Deer Classics; Edgar Allan Poe; Marcel Allain; Pierre Souvestre; Emile Gaboriau; John Meade Falkner; Thomas W. Hanshew; Ernest William Hornung; Herbert George Jenkins; Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu; Sheridan Le Fanu; William Le Queux; Harold MacGrath; George Barr McCutcheon; John T. McIntyre; Arthur Morrison; Edward Phillips Oppenheim; Allan Pinkerton; Melville Davisson Post; Arthur John Rees; Mary Roberts Rinehart; Harrington Strong; Louis Tracy; Louis Joseph Vance; Carolyn Wells; Herman Whitaker; George F. Worts; Israel Zangwill
ID: 3590124, Publisher: Oregan Publishing, Year: 2020, Size: 12 Mb, Format: epub
Mystery Spinner
Author(s): Gideon Haigh
ID: 2588803, Publisher: The Text Publishing Company, Year: 2018;2017, Size: 674 Kb, Format: epub
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