Detective Fiction

Four Noncanonical Sherlock Holmes Short Stories

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Sir Arthur Conan Doyle


Although the Sherlock Holmes canon traditionally consists of four novels and 56 short stories written by Arthur Conan Doyle, there are many …

Philo Gubb, Correspondence-School Detective

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Ellis Parker Butler


Philo Gubb, not being content with his job as wallpaper-hanger, has higher aspirations: to become a detective, just like Sherlock Holmes. To…

Hidden Foes

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Nicholas Carter


Nick Carter is a fictional detective who first appeared in 1886 in dime store novels. Over the years, different authors, all taking the nom …

The Lost Stradivarius

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John Meade Falkner


The Lost Stradivarius (1895), by J. Meade Falkner, is a short novel of ghosts and the evil that can be invested in an object, in this case a…

Clara Vaughan, Vol I.

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Richard Doddridge Blackmore


CLARA VAUGHAN, the young heroine, narrator, and namesake for R. D. Blackmore’s early detective novel, is determined to solve the mystery of …

Clouds Cover the Campus

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Daniel A. Lord


On an American college campus, in the early years of World War II, a professor from Germany is murdered and the plans for a new bomb sight h…

The Exploits of Juve

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Marcel Allain


Fantômas was introduced a few years after Arsène Lupin, another well-known thief. But whereas Lupin draws the line at murder, F…

The Rebel Rose

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Justin Mccarthy


The Rebel Rose is the story of Mary Stuart Beaton, a descendant of Mary Queen of Scots who has come to London in the hope of having her fami…

Weapons of Mystery

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Joseph Hocking


Justin Blake receives an invitation from his old school-fellow Tom Temple to join him and his family for the Christmas holidays in Yorkshire…

The Rome Express

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Arthur Griffiths


The passengers in the sleeping car of the Rome Express were just woken and informed that they will reach Paris soon, and a bustle ensues. On…

Guy Garrick

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Arthur B. Reeve


Private detective Guy Garrick is at the dawning age of modern criminal forensics in the early twentieth century. He and his friend and assis…

Inspector French's Greatest Case

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Freeman Wills Crofts


Inspector French of Scotland Yard follows the clues of a Hatton Garden murder-heist case leading him far and wide both in Britain and in the…

A Flurry in Diamonds

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Thomas E. Price


The diamonds are gone--vanished! But who could have taken them? And how? With each plot twist author Thomas E. Price (writing as Amos Chiptr…

The House on the Cliff

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Franklin W. Dixon


The second of The Hardy Boys' series, The House on the Cliff involves Frank and Joe, along with their father, the famous detective, in the i…

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