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Crime, Thrillers and Mystery
47 public-domain crime, thrillers and mystery books, summarised. Page 1 of 1.
Carmen
Prosper Mérimée
A chance encounter in the Spanish wilderness reveals a hidden world where law is a suggestion, passion is a death sentence, and the only path to freedom is to break every chain.
The Green Mummy
Fergus Hume
A stolen relic, a brutal strangling, and a village hiding secrets behind its quiet garden walls—the search for an ancient treasure leads to a web of greed that threatens to destroy everyone involved.
Time Crime
H. Beam Piper
The mystery of a missing person is trivial compared to the hunt for an invisible criminal syndicate operating across the infinite, parallel histories of a billion worlds.
Lone Star Planet
H. Beam Piper
The galaxy is a dangerous place, but nowhere is quite as lethal—or as stubborn—as a world that refuses to play by the rules of the Solar League.
The Ambulance Made Two Trips
Murray Leinster
A single, strange gift delivered with the morning milk leaves a veteran detective suspicious, but he soon realizes that in a town dominated by a ruthless racketeer, the most dangerous weapon is not a gun, but a change in the laws of probability.
The Big Fix
George O. (George Oliver) Smith
HOOK In a world where telepathic secrets are as common as a bad poker hand, one gambler must outwit a crime lord at the Kentucky Derby—without ever actually breaking the law.
Library of the World's Best Mystery and Detective Stories
Unknown
The world is a place of secrets, where the boundary between the seen and the unseen is thinner than a heartbeat, and the truth is often the most dangerous thing one can possess.
The Phantom of the Opera
Gaston Leroux
Beneath the gilded ceiling and velvet curtains of the Paris Opera House, a disfigured musical genius haunts the shadows, desperate to claim the heart of a young soprano through terror and song.
Celebrated Crimes (Complete)
Alexandre Dumas
History is often written by the victors, but these accounts are carved by the edge of a blade. Beneath the gilded veneer of centuries past lies a grim, unvarnished chronicle of ambition, betrayal, and the cold mechanics of power.
The Mystery of the Yellow Room
Gaston Leroux
The case of the Yellow Room offers a puzzle so locked, so physically impossible, that it challenges the very nature of reality—until a young reporter decides to solve it.
The Secret of the Night
Gaston Leroux
The shadows of a revolution stretch long across the datcha of General Trebassof, where a young man’s arrival marks the only barrier between a decorated war hero and an unseen, relentless assassin.
The Yellow Crayon
E. Phillips (Edward Phillips) Oppenheim
A man of dangerous secrets stands at the center of a web of international intrigue, forced to choose between his grand political ambitions and the woman he loves.
Washington Confidential
Jack Lait
The halls of power are shadowed by a hidden, grimy metropolis where the law is a suggestion, the police are often compromised, and the real business of the capital is conducted in the dark.
Weird Tales, Volume 1, Number 4, June, 1923: The unique magazine
Various
The boundaries between the rational world and the encroaching dark dissolve in these pages, where science, crime, and the supernatural collide. This collection offers a glimpse into an era of pulp storytelling that hungered for the strange, the macabre, and the unexplained.
The Sex Life of the Gods
M. E. (Michael E.) Knerr
The line between the mundane and the impossible blurs when a man wakes up in a strange cabin, married to a woman he doesn’t recognize, while the world above searches for a downed vessel from the stars.
Weird Tales, Volume 1, Number 1, March 1923: The unique magazine
Various
A restless, shadow-drenched collection, this inaugural gathering of tales probes the fragile boundary between the orderly world of men and the encroaching, inexplicable darkness that waits just beyond the porch light.
The problem of Cell 13
Jacques Futrelle
A man who claims that any puzzle can be solved through pure logic offers to escape from a maximum-security prison cell, relying only on his own formidable, unrivaled brain.
Twenty-Five Ghost Stories
Unknown
The veil between the living and the dead is often thinner than we dare to believe, waiting only for a quiet moment or a sudden shadow to reveal what we have spent a lifetime ignoring.
Space Station 1
Frank Belknap Long
A journey to the stars begins with the promise of exploration, but for one man, the silence of the void quickly becomes a suffocating trap set by those who wear masks of friendship.
Supermind
Randall Garrett
The truth behind a global wave of chaos is far more intimate than a conspiracy of spies, pulling an FBI agent into a web where his own latent powers are the only key to survival.
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Minute Mysteries [Detectograms]
H. A. (Harold Austin) Ripley
If you think you can spot a lie before a detective does, look closer—the smallest detail is often the one that gives the game away.
The Girl Philippa
Robert W. (Robert William) Chambers
HOOK As the shadows of the Great War lengthen over the French countryside, an American expatriate and a mysterious, nameless girl find themselves entangled in a web of espionage that will change their lives forever.
A Woman at Bay
Nicholas (House name) Carter
The game of cat and mouse begins in the deep, untamed woods, where a master of disguise infiltrates a criminal empire to confront a woman who commands an army of outlaws.
The Red Seal
Natalie Sumner Lincoln
The death of a man in disguise leads a young lawyer into a web of forgery and high-society secrets, where the truth is hidden behind identical faces and a single crimson seal.
Occasion ... for Disaster
Randall Garrett
The country is crumbling into chaos, and for an FBI agent with a secret penchant for teleportation, the only way to save a nation from its own madness is to solve the impossible.
The mysterious Mr. Quin
Agatha Christie
The drama of human life is rarely found on the stage, but rather in the quiet, desperate moments when a stranger’s chance remark reveals the truth hidden behind a mask.
The unknown seven
Herman Landon
A shadowed investigator stalks the dark streets of New York, tracking a secret society obsessed with the impossible. He descends into a world where science, greed, and lethal deception collide behind locked doors.
The trouble at Pinelands
Ernest M. Poate
A quiet wedding is derailed by a sudden, violent death, leaving an innocent man in jail and a household haunted by a restless poltergeist.
The dangerous game
William Le Queux
A famous novelist masks his true identity as a government operative, using his global travels as cover to dismantle an international web of intrigue while grappling with a deeply painful, unrequited love.
The haunting hand
Walter Adolphe Roberts
A young actress faces a chilling nocturnal visitor in her New York brownstone, sparking a dangerous investigation that weaves together the glitz of the movie industry and the cold reality of criminal greed.
Three sevens
Perley Poore Sheehan
A man walks out of a prison hell, not to flee the law, but to settle a debt of conscience that weighs heavier than his iron chains.
The new terror
Gaston Leroux
The boundary between the physical self and the wandering mind is thin, and once crossed, the shadows of the past can turn a wedding chamber into a prison of stolen souls.
Dr. Mabuse, master of mystery
Norbert Jacques
This is a story of a city gripped by a nameless, invisible terror—a master criminal whose reach, influence, and identity remain as shifting as the shadows he hides within.
The double dagger
Nat Ridley
A famous detective steps into a web of international intrigue, using his wits to dismantle a ruthless organization terrorizing the oil-rich borderlands of Mexico.
Only seven were hanged
Stuart Martin
A secret society of elite crime enthusiasts gathers on Christmas Eve, only to find their orderly debate hijacked by a stranger with a lethal challenge to the state’s right to kill.
Lillian's vow
Collins, E. Burke, Mrs.
The path to truth is often paved with secrets, and in the high-society world of Raleigh House, every elegant facade hides a ghost. One woman’s vow becomes a trap, forcing her to choose between her heart and her survival.
Just a bit too fast
Hal Moore
A professional thief meets a bumbling detective whose spectacular, accidental incompetence saves the day.
Chambers's Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, fifth series, no. 153, vol. III, December 4, 1886
Various
This edition of a long-running Victorian periodical offers a mosaic of the era’s literary and intellectual life, ranging from the mundane realities of castle guard duty to the high-stakes intrigue of international conspiracy and domestic melodrama. It presents a world where the precision of government cartography…
Arsène Lupin intervenes
Maurice Leblanc
In a world where the shadows of war and the grit of modern crime have yet to take hold, a singular, monocled detective performs miracles of deduction, leaving only laughter and confusion in his wake.
The Copper House
Julius Regis
The world is a whirlpool of shifting allegiances, and Maurice Wallion is the only man standing at the center, determined to trace the invisible threads of power before they tighten around the throat of Europe.
Murder mask
Edgar Daniel Kramer
A cursed piece of silk carries a grim promise: whoever wears the mask is fated to destroy their heart’s desire before the morning light. Can a soul escape a doom written in fading ink?
"And That's How It Was, Officer"
Ralph Sholto
The underworld of Morton City has vanished, not into a prison, but into thin air. In this brisk, eccentric tale, a brilliant scientist’s experiment turns a society wedding into a staging ground for a cosmic vanishing act.
The Mandarin's Fan
Fergus Hume
A jade-encrusted fan, a secret map hidden in a tree, and a murder in a quiet English town set off a desperate, global struggle for a fortune that spans from China to the rugged coast.
Fantômas
Pierre Souvestre
The shadow of a man who is both nobody and everything looms over Paris, a shape-shifting specter whose only signature is a trail of terror that defies the reach of the law.
The Diamond Coterie
Lawrence L. Lynch
A cold, calculated robbery leaves a wealthy heiress under suspicion, while a dark family secret threatens to destroy everyone she loves. In this tangled web of high-society crime, the truth is the most dangerous possession of all.
Oswald Langdon
Levi Jackson Hamilton
HOOK A tangled web of mystery, betrayal, and redemption unfolds across England, India, and beyond, where secrets of identity, family loyalty, and justice collide in a gripping tale of human frailty and moral struggle.
The Crooked House
Brandon Fleming
A murder in a garden of lights draws a circle of witnesses into guilt, longing, and fear. What begins as a closed-room suspicion grows into a darker puzzle about inherited madness and the things people destroy.