Mystery Books

Mystery fiction revolves around the investigation and resolution of crimes, puzzles, and unexplained events. Featuring detectives both amateur and professional, this genre challenges readers to piece together clues alongside protagonists navigating webs of deception, motive, and hidden truth. From classic whodunits and hardboiled detective noir to cozy mysteries and police procedurals, the genre satisfies the universal human desire to uncover secrets and see justice served.

520 books in this genre

The Secret House

The Secret House

Edgar Wallace (1917)

The Strange Case of Mortimer Fenley

The Strange Case of Mortimer Fenley

Louis Tracy (1919)

Mr Fortune Explains

Mr Fortune Explains

H. C. Bailey (1930)

The Secret of High Eldersham

The Secret of High Eldersham

Cecil John Charles Street (1930)

Gees First Case

Gees First Case

Jack Mann (1936)

Beware Your Neighbour

Miles Burton (1951)

The Fabulous Clipjoint

The Fabulous Clipjoint

Fredric Brown (1947)

Pick-up

Charles Ray Willeford (1987)

The Woman-Chaser

The Woman-Chaser

Charles Ray Willeford (1990)

Wild Wives

Charles Ray Willeford (1995)

Corporal Downey Cracks A Case

Whip Hand

Dick Francis (1787)

Boston Blackie

Jack Boyle (1919)

Crime on My Hands

Crime on My Hands

George Sanders (1944)

No Good from a Corpse

No Good from a Corpse

Leigh Brackett (1944)

Oh, Murderer Mine

Oh, Murderer Mine

Norbert Davis (2003)

Clancy, Detective

Clancy, Detective

H. Bedford-Jones (2006)

Honey Gal

Charles Ray Willeford (2007)

Black Wings Has My Angel

Black Wings Has My Angel

Elliott Chaze (2010)

A Plot for Murder

Clue Of Courage

Dames on a Bullet Binge

Sally's In the Alley

The Crime Circus Murder Case

The Cryptogram

James De Mille (1871)

The Secret Adversary

The Secret Adversary

Agatha Christie (1922)

The Face on the Cutting-Room Floor

The Face on the Cutting-Room Floor

Ernest Borneman (1937)

Nightmare Town

Dashiell Hammett (1948)

The Screaming Mimi

The Screaming Mimi

Fredric Brown (1949)

Death Paints a Picture

Death Paints a Picture

Cecil John Charles Street (1960)

To Kiss, Or Kill

Day Keene (1962)

Shoot It Again

Fast One

George Carrol Sims (1987)

42 Days for Murder

42 Days for Murder

Roger Torrey (1988)

Sinister Paradise

Sinister Paradise

Carolyn Keene (1988)

Night Squad

David Goodis (1992)

feet of clay

Terry Pratchett (1996)

The Snatch

Gerald Hammond (2003)

Dead Heat

Dick Francis (2007)

Dealing Out Death

Dealing Out Death

W. T. Ballard (2009)

The La Chance Mine Mystery

The La Chance Mine Mystery

Susan Morrow Jones (2014)

Holocaust House

Norbert Davis (2015)

Say Yes To Murder

Todhunter Ballard (2015)

pledged to the dead

Seabury Quinn (2015)

In This Corner--Death

James O. Causey (2018)

42 Days For Murder

42 Keys to Murder

A Box of Dead Roses

A Case of Conscience

A Christmas Mystery

A Dog-House Detective

A Double-Barreled Detective Story

A Double-Barreled Detective Story

A Frontier Mystery

A LETTER to Grover Cleveland on his False Inaugural Address, the Usurpations and Crimes of Lawmakers

A Mystery of the Sand-hills

A Most Extraordinary Case

A Murder Conspiracy

A Mystery with a Moral

A Secret of the Lebombo

A Solution of the Algiers Mystery

A Stitch in Crime

A hora do crime

Adonais an Elegy on the Death of John Keats

The Assistant Murderer

Agent for Murder

An Artist in Crime

An Historical Mystery

An Intimate Study of Sherlock Holmes

And the Dead Spake

And the Dead Spake

Anderson Crow, Detective

Apparitions or, The Mystery of Ghosts, Hobgoblins, and Haunted Houses Developed

Baldy and the Strip-Tease Murder

Ballads of Mystery and Miracle and Fyttes of Mirth

The Case of the Ward Lane Tabernacle

Bombshell Murder

Buck Hawk, Detective

The Case of Janissary

The Case of Mr Lucraft

The Case of the Amateur Actor

The Case of the Golden Bullet

Clue in Crimson

Clue of Courage

The Crime of Sylvestre Bonnard

The Crime of the French Cafe

Cad Metti, The Female Detective Strategist

Candidate for Murder

Carnacki, Supernatural Detective and Others

Carnival of Crime in Ct

Cleek, the Master Detective

Close To A Corpse

Close To A Corpse

Companions Of The Corpse

Corpse Collector

Corpses Is Corpses

Crime Gets A Head

Crime and Its Causes

Crime and Punishment

Crime and Punishment

Crime: Its Cause and Treatment

Death Has No Double

Death in a Duffle Coat

Death is Too Easy

Death Mates for the Lust-lost

DEATH OF CAESAR By Voltaire

DEATH OF CAESAR By Voltaire

The Death of Pilate, Who Condemned Jesus

Death on Pine Street

Death Takes a Detour

Death Takes the Living

Daughter of Murder

Dead End, Originally Be Careful How You Live

Dead Letter Officer

Dead Man's Guilt

Dead Man's Holiday

Dead Man's Nerve

Dead Man's Rock

Dead Man's Shakedown

Dead Men Don t Move

Dead Men Don t Move

Dead Men Tell No Tales

Dead Men's Money

Dead Men's Rule

Deadline for Murder

Deadwood Dick's Doom or, Calamity Jane's Last Adventure, a Tale of Death Notch

Deadwood Dick's Doom or, Calamity Jane's Last Adventure, a Tale of Death Notch

Death Brings Down the House

Death Ends the Scene

Death Hangs High

Death Hangs High

Death Of A Dejected Editor

Death On Sunday

Death On The Meter

Death Plays Santa Claus

Death Points a Finger

Death Rides A Motorcycle

Death Scoops A Columnist

Death Stalks the Jury, a Complete Novelet

Death Takes The Wheel, a Complete Novelet

Death Takes Wings

Death Valley in 49

Death With Music, A Complete Novelet

Death and Odysseus

Death and the Woman

Death by Telephone

Death in the School-Room (A Fact)

Death in the School-Room A Fact

Death of Cicero, a Fragment

Death of Cicero, a Fragment

Death of a Viewer

Death of the Flute

Death's Bright Halo

Death's Playgirl

Death's Social Blunder

Death's Sweet Song

Don t Fool With Murder

Don t Meddle With Murder, A Johnny Castle Novelet

Dyke Darrel the Railroad Detective

Fenchurch Street Mystery

Four Max Carrodos Detective Stories

General Instructions For The Guidance Of Post Office Inspectors In The Dominion Of Canada

The House of the Dead Hand

Homemade Murder

In Case of Fire

James VI and the Gowrie Mystery

The Life, Crime, and Capture of John Wilkes Booth

The Life, Crime, and Capture of John Wilkes Booth

Le crime de Lord Arthur Savile

Letters to Dead Authors

Library of the World's Best Mystery and Detective Stories

Lives Of The Most Remarkable Criminals Who have been Condemned and Executed for Murder, the Highway,

Lord Arthur Savile's Crime and Other Stories

THE MAN WHO FELL FROM HEAVEN A Sherlock Holmes Mystery

THE MAN WHO FELL FROM HEAVEN: A Sherlock Holmes Mystery

Milkchurn Murder

The Murder at Jex Farm

The Murder Game

The Murder in Saltashe Woods

The Murder in Saltashe Woods

Murderer's Mistake

The Mystery of Sasassa Valley

The Mystery of St Agnes Hospital

The Mystery of the Pencil Factory

Madam Crowl's Ghost and The Dead Sexton

Madeline Payne, the Detective's Daughter

Make-Up for Murder

Malcolm Sage, Detective

Malcolm Sage, Detective

Malcolm Sage, Detective

Mary Louise Solves a Mystery

Master Tales of Mystery, Volume 3

Masterpieces of Mystery In Four Volumes

Masterpieces of Mystery, Riddle Stories

Masterpieces of Mystery, Vol 1, Ghost Stories

Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes

Mob Murder, A Complete Novelette

Models For Murder

Morass of Mystery

Morass of Mystery

Murder Breeds Murder, a Dwight Berke Novelet

Murder Buys A Hat

Murder Can t Stop

Murder Comes In Threes

Murder Done Twice

Murder Isn t Everything

Murder Note, A Green Ghost Novelette

Murder Note, A Green Ghost Novelette

Murder On Parade

Murder On The Mississippi

Murder Picks the Jury

Murder Rides High

Murder Throws A Ringer

Murder at Bridge

Murder by the Dozen

Murder in Any Degree

Murder in the Fog

Murder in the Gunroom

Murder's Handyman

Murder's Messenger

Murder, She Says

Murderer's Bait

Murderer's Error

My Favorite Murder

My Favorite Murder

My Friend The Murderer

My Strangest Case

My Strangest Case

Mystery at Geneva

Mystery of the Man Who Was Lost

Mystery of the Mexicali Murders

Mystery of the Ralston Bank Burglary

Mystery of the Scarlet Thread

The Ninescore Mystery and Other Stories

Nick Carter, Detective The Solution of a Remarkable Case

On Murder, Considered as One of the Fine Arts, and Other Related Texts

On Murder, Considered as One of the Fine Arts, and Other Related Texts

Original Papers in the Case of Roux de Marsilly

Ode on the Death of ----

Of Crimes and Punishments

Officer Nineteen's Last Case

Once Upon a Crime

Oscar the Detective

Prisons a Social Crime and Failure

Plum Punch: Crime and the Courts

Plus fort que Sherlock Holmes

Publicity For The Corpse

The Real Sherlock Holmes

The Real Sherlock Holmes

The Regent's Park Murder

The Remarkable Case of Davidson's Eyes

Richard Hughes, Railroad Detective

Riddle Of The Plucked Peacock

Riddle of the Sands

Room Number 3 and Other Detective Stories

Sherlock Holmes in the Adventure of the Mulberry Street Irregular

The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde

Secret of the Woods

Shakedown for Murder

Sherlock Holmes and the Grand Horizontals

Sherlock Holmes and the Grand Horizontals

Signal for Murder

Six Tricks Make a Corpse

Sonnet on the Death of Richard West

Sonnet on the Death of Richard West

Sonnets from the Crimea

Story of an Obstinate Corpse

Tictocq, the Great French Detective, in Austin

Tictocq, the Great French Detective, in Austin

Tom Sawyer, Detective

TRACES of CRIME

TRACES of CRIME

Tales of Mystery and Horror

Tales of Terror and Mystery

Teig O Kane and the Corpse

The Adventure of the Dying Detective

The Adventure of the Dying Detective

The Affecting Case of the Unfortunate Thomas Daniels

The Albert Gate Mystery

The Ashiel Mystery

The Auto Boys Mystery

The Bar Sinister

The Bartlett Mystery

The Big Bow Mystery

The Black Death and The Dancing Mania

The Blackout Murders

The Blue Ghost Mystery

The Boiled Ham Mystery

The Boy Ranchers in Death Valley

The Case Book of Sherlock Holmes

The Case Of Wagner, Nietzsche Contra Wagner, and Selected Aphorisms

The Case of Edith Cavell

The Case of Euphemia Raphash

The Case of General Opel

The Case of Jennie Brice

The Case of Jennie Brice

The Case of Mr Helmer

The Case of Mrs Clive

The Case of Richard Meynell

The Case of Summerfield

The Case of The Lamp That Went Out

The Case of The Lamp That Went Out

The Case of The Squealing Duck

The Case of the Hollywood Homicide

The Case of the Negro

The Case of the Petticoat Murder

The Case of the Registered Letter

The Case of the Registered Letter

The Case of the Scientific Murderer

The Champdoce Mystery

The Champdoce Mystery

The Cinema Murder

The Clue of the Silver Spoons

The Clyde Mystery

The Cock Crows Murder

The Color Of Murder

The Continental Classics, Volume XVIII , Mystery Tales

The Corpse From Reno

The Corpse Talks

The Corpse That Played Dead

The Corpse That Walked

The Corpse in the Cage

The Crime Against Europe

The Crime of Micah Rood

The Crime of the Century or, The Assassination of Dr Patrick Henry Cronin

The Crimes of England

The Daffodil Mystery

The Dead Are Silent

The Dead Command

The Dead Don t Dream

The Dead Man Laughs

The Dead Man's Message

The Dead Stay Dumb

The Dead Stay Dumb

The Dead Valley

The Dead Valley

The Dead and the Countess

The Death and Burial of Cock Robin

The Death of Ivan Ilych

The Death of Ivan Ilych

The Death of Lord Nelson

The Death of Olivier Becaille

The Death of Wallenstein (play)

The Death of the Lion

The Death of the Lion

The Debatable Case of Mrs Emsley

The Detective Club

The Diamond Bullet Murder Case

The Diamond Cross Mystery

The Dream Woman A Mystery in Four Narratives

The Dust of Death The Story of the Great Plague of the Twentieth Century

The Egyptian Cat Mystery

The Experiences of Loveday Brooke, Lady Detective

The Expressman and the Detective

The Film Mystery

The Four Pools Mystery

The Gerrard Street Mystery

The Gerrard Street Mystery

The Gerrard Street Mystery

The Gerrard Street Mystery

The Girl Rebel Murder Case

The Gold Coffin Murder Case

The Great Portrait Mystery and other stories

The Great Ruby Robbery A Detective Story

The Grell Mystery

The Hampstead Mystery

The High Seas Murder Case

The Hinda Mystery

The History of a Crime

The Hospital Homicides Murder Case

The House of the Dead Hand

The Hunt Ball Mystery

The Inspector-General

The Inspector-General

The Island Mystery

The Jacob Street Mystery

The Lady In The Case, Complete Mystery Novelet

The Life and Death of Cormac the Skald

The Locked Drawer Mystery

The Lord of Death and the Queen of Life

The Loudwater Mystery

The Master Detective

The Middle Temple Murder

The Mill Mystery

The Miraculous Case of Jesch Claes

The Murder Hole

The Murder of Agrippina

The Murder of Silas Cord

The Murder of the Marionette

The Murders In The Rue Morgue And Other Stories

The Music Box Murders

The Mysterious Murder of Pearl Bryan

The Mystery Mind

The Mystery Of The Boule Cabinet

The Mystery Of The Steel Disk

The Mystery Queen

The Mystery Queen

The Mystery of 31 New Inn

The Mystery of Cloomber

The Mystery of Cloomber

The Mystery of Edwin Drood

The Mystery of Metropolisville

The Mystery of Monastery Farm

The Mystery of Murray Davenport

The Mystery of Orcival

The Mystery of Room Five

The Mystery of a Turkish Bath

The Mystery of the Five Hundred Diamonds

The Mystery of the Four Fingers

The Mystery of the Four Fingers

The Mystery of the Green Ray

The Mystery of the Poisoned Dish of Mushrooms

The Mystery of the Talking Idols

The Mystery of the Yellow Room

The Mystery of the Yellow Room

The Obstinate Murderer

The Obstinate Murderer

The Old Riddle and the Newest Answer

The Paliser case

The Paradise Mystery

The Problem of Dead Wood Hall

The Queen Of Diamonds Murder

The Return of Sherlock Holmes

The Riddle Of The Rocks

The Riddle of the Night

The Riddle of the Rhine Chemical Strategy in Peace and War

The River of Death A Tale of London In Peril

The Secret House

The Secret of Divine Civilization

The Secret of Dreams

The Secret of Emu Plain

The Secret of Sarek

The Secret of a Happy Home

The Secret of the Creation

The Secret of the Night

The Secret of the Ninth Planet

The Secret of the Ninth Planet

The Secret of the Stradivarius

The Secret of the Tower

The Sheridan Road Mystery

The Sherlock Holmes Theory

The Singular Death of Morton

The Sinister Dr Wong, An Exciting Complete Novel

The Sleuth of St James Street

The Somnambulist and the Detective

The Spiritualists and the Detectives

The Stowmarket Mystery

The Strange Case of M Bezuel

The Strange Crime In Bermuda

The Talkie Murder

The Trailor Murder Mystery

The Trailor Murder Mystery

The Transient Corpse

The Trial and Death of Jesus Christ

The Unsolved Riddle of Social Justice

The Whispering Corpse

This Murder's On Me

Thug Or A Million Murders

Thug Or A Million Murders

Trent's Last Case

True Stories of Crime From the District Attorney's Office

Two Wonderful Detectives

VC -- A Chronicle of Castle Barfield and of the Crimea

Verses on the Death of Doctor Swift

Verses on the Death of Doctor Swift

Vices Are Not Crimes A Vindication of Moral Liberty

Weapons of Mystery

What Was It? A Mystery

The York Mystery

The Dead Alive

Wilkie Collins (1874)

An Historical Mystery

An Historical Mystery

Honoré de Balzac (1891)

The Autobiography Of A Quack And The Case Of George Dedlow

The Autobiography Of A Quack And The Case Of George Dedlow

S. Weir Mitchell (1900)

The Clue of the Twisted Candle

The Clue of the Twisted Candle

Edgar Wallace (1900)

The Golf Course Mystery

The Golf Course Mystery

Chester K. Steele (1919)

The Bittermeads Mystery

The Bittermeads Mystery

E. R. Punshon (1922)

The Red House Mystery

The Red House Mystery

A. A. Milne (1922)

Ten Years of Crime

United States. Federal Bureau of Investigation. (1939)

Maddened by Mystery and Other Stories

Maddened by Mystery and Other Stories

Stephen Leacock (2004)

The Mystery of a Hansom Cab

The Mystery of a Hansom Cab

Fergus Hume (2012)

The Case of the White Footprints

R. Austin Freeman (2014)

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