Mystery

The Mystery of the Yellow Room by Gaston Leroux

Mystery

French writer Gaston Leroux is the author of the mystery book The Mystery of the Yellow Room (Le mystère de la Chambre Jaune in French). It was one ...

The Detective Stories by Edgar Allan Poe

Mystery

The majority of people concur that this was the first true detective fiction, and it was written by the legendary American author Edgar Allan Poe. ...

The Detective Stories by Edgar Allan Poe

The Adventure of the Dancing Men by Arthur Conan Doyle

Mystery

Sherlock Holmes, unquestionably the most famous fictional detective in history, and his loyal companion Dr. Watson are the scourge of London's ...

The Adventure of the Dancing Men by Arthur Conan Doyle

A Murder is Announced by Agatha Christie

Mystery

A murder is announced in a small-town newspaper advertisement in this special authorized edition by the Queen of Mysteries, and Miss Marple must ...

A Murder is Announced by Agatha Christie

The Crow Road by Iain Banks

Mystery

On that day, my grandmother blew up. My Uncle Hamish was peacefully snoozing to Bach's Mass in B Minor while I sat in the crematorium and thought ...

Night Watch by Terry Pratchett

Mystery

In this fun adventure from Terry Pratchett's bestselling Discworld® series, Sir Sam Vimes is propelled back in time by thirty years. ...

The Lady in the Lake by Raymond Chandler

Mystery

The Lady in the Lake by Raymond Chandler, a master of hardboiled crime fiction, tells the tale of two missing spouses, one belonging to a rich man ...

The Talented Mr Ripley by Patricia Highsmith

Mystery

We first meet the charming Tom Ripley in the first novel of Patricia Highsmith's five-book Ripley series. Tom is a young aspirant looking to move on ...

The Talented Mr Ripley by Patricia Highsmith

The Big Sleep by Raymond Chandler

Mystery

When a dying millionaire engages private investigator Philip Marlowe to deal with the extortionist of one of his two troublesome daughters, Marlowe ...

A Kiss Before Dying by Ira Levin

Mystery

In addition to introducing best-selling author Ira Levin to the world to acclaim, A Kiss Before Dying also raised the bar for mystery and suspense ...

Hangover Square by Patrick Hamilton

Mystery

During the 1930s, Patrick Hamilton was well-liked all around the world. Alfred Hitchcock adapted one of his plays, Rope, into a movie, and another, ...

A Dark-Adapted Eye by Ruth Rendell

Mystery

Faith Severn has spent her entire life with the ominous shadow of murder hanging over her family. The motive behind her desperate act perished along ...