Mystery & Detective
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Maurice Leblanc sends Arsène Lupin through a fast-moving mystery involving murder, disappearance, stolen identities, deception, and a cryptic number
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Mystery & Detective
Browse mystery and detective fiction built around questions, investigations, clues, and the uncovering of hidden truths. This collection currently contains 44 titles in Literra’s catalogue.
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A rogue by compulsion
A Rogue by Compulsion begins with a man who discovers that his circumstances are pushing him toward a life of deception and adventure he never intended to choose. Victor Bridges builds the story around the classic thrill of the reluctant rogue: someone respectable becomes trapped by events
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A Study in Scarlet
The first Sherlock Holmes story introduces the detective pair and shows how clues, retrospective explanation and narrative structure fit together
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Crime and punishment
Crime and Punishment follows Rodion Raskolnikov, an impoverished former student in St. Petersburg who convinces himself that certain extraordinary people have the right to break ordinary moral laws if their actions serve a greater purpose
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Poirot Investigates
A collection of Hercule Poirot mysteries in which Christie uses clues, interviews, misdirection, and deduction to resolve crimes ranging from theft and disappearance to murder
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That Affair Next Door
An amateur woman detective investigates a murder discovered in a neighboring house, piecing together clues, motives, and hidden relationships
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The Adventure of the Clapham Cook
In this Poirot story, the disappearance of a domestic servant initially seems trivial but becomes a small mystery whose details lead to the truth
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The Adventure of the Crooked Man
Holmes investigates the strange death of a retired army officer, reconstructing a hidden past and a marriage in which appearances conceal a much more complicated story
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The Adventure of the Egyptian Tomb
Poirot investigates a string of deaths connected with an Egyptian excavation, balancing apparently supernatural explanations against rational detection
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The Adventure of the Greek Interpreter
Holmes investigates a kidnapping case brought to him by his brother Mycroft, revealing Mycroft’s unusual intelligence and the limits of Holmes’s more familiar methods
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The Adventure of the Resident Patient
Holmes investigates a strange case involving a doctor’s patient and a disturbing chain of events, relying on observation and deduction
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The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes
A collection that establishes Holmes through varied cases, letting readers see his observation, inference and narrative partnership with Dr. Watson in different forms
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The case of the lamp that went out
The Case of the Lamp That Went Out is a detective mystery built around the unsettling disappearance of a source of light—and the suggestion that the darkness hides more than a simple accident. Grace Isabel Colbron’s detective, Joseph Muller of the Austrian secret service, approaches the case
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The cinema murder
The Cinema Murder is a classic Edward Phillips Oppenheim mystery built around the strange intersection of entertainment, secrecy, money, and crime. A murder connected with the world of cinema creates a situation in which appearances become especially unreliable
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The Complete Celebrated Crimes
A collection of Alexandre Dumas narratives based on notorious historical crimes, criminals, conspiracies, and the dramatic circumstances surrounding them
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The Dain Curse
Hammett follows private detective Continental Op through a case involving murder, superstition, corruption, and a family haunted by an alleged curse
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The glands regulating personality
The Glands Regulating Personality is an early twentieth-century attempt to connect biology, hormones, temperament, and human behavior. Louis Berman argues that the endocrine glands—organs that release hormones into the body—have an important influence on physical characteristics and personality
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The Gold-Bug
Poe mixes treasure hunting, code-breaking and adventure in a story where deciphering written signs is itself the central action
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The hampstead mystery
The Hampstead Mystery is a detective story centered on a puzzling crime in suburban London, where ordinary streets and apparently respectable lives conceal secrets that become visible only after something goes terribly wrong. The opening question—contacting Hampstead police about a strange
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The Hollow Needle
Arsène Lupin races against detectives in a mystery involving thefts, hidden identities, a secret stronghold, and the legendary Hollow Needle
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The Hound of the Baskervilles
Holmes and Watson investigate a death on the Baskerville estate where a family legend about a supernatural hound appears to have become frighteningly real
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The hunt ball mystery
The Hunt Ball Mystery is a classic country-house detective story in which a fashionable social event becomes the setting for crime, secrets, and suspicion. A hunt ball should represent leisure, status, and carefully controlled social behavior
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The Hunter's Lodge Case
Poirot investigates a locked-house murder at a remote hunting lodge, using small contradictions and overlooked details to reconstruct the crime
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The Leavenworth Case
Anna Katharine Green's detective novel begins with the murder of a wealthy man and follows the investigation through inheritance, suspicion, family secrets, and conflicting testimony
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The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes
Holmes stories with a broader range of tone and case structure, useful for readers who already know the basic Watson-and-Holmes formula
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The middle temple murder
The Middle Temple Murder is a detective novel built around a killing connected to London’s legal world, where professional respectability hides a web of money, identity, and deception. Joseph Smith Fletcher’s mysteries emphasize reconstruction: the detective must understand what happened before
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The Murder of Roger Ackroyd
Christie uses village suspicion, a murder investigation and a highly controlled narrative structure to make point of view part of the mystery itself
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The Mysterious Affair at Styles
Poirot’s first major case demonstrates how apparently domestic details can become evidence when a detective reconstructs motive, timing and opportunity
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The Mysterious Mr. Quin
A collection of atmospheric mysteries in which the enigmatic Mr. Quin appears at moments of crisis and helps reveal hidden relationships, secrets, and motives
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The mystery
The title The Mystery is misleadingly simple, because this book sits within a period of Agatha Christie's career when she was experimenting with the appeal of the mystery form itself: secrets, uncertainty, identity, motive, and the possibility that appearances conceal an entirely different
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The Mystery of Edwin Drood
Dickens's unfinished final novel revolves around Edwin Drood's disappearance and the suspicions surrounding his family, relationships, and the mysterious John Jasper
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The mystery of the boule cabinet
The Mystery of the Boule Cabinet is a classic puzzle mystery built around an object that should be decorative but proves to be dangerously significant. A mysterious disappearance, a valuable cabinet, hidden information, and competing explanations draw the characters into an investigation where
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The Mystery of the Yellow Room
Gaston Leroux builds a locked-room puzzle around an attempted murder in a sealed chamber, with young reporter Rouletabille pursuing apparently impossible clues
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The Red House Mystery
A country-house murder becomes a puzzle for amateur investigators, with concealed identities, competing explanations, and clues hidden among an apparently ordinary weekend gathering
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The return of sherlock holmes
The Return of Sherlock Holmes brings Arthur Conan Doyle’s famous detective back after the events that had apparently ended his career. Holmes’s reappearance is itself part of the pleasure, but the real engine of the collection is the return to the classic Holmes method: observe everything
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The Return of Sherlock Holmes
A later Holmes collection that restores the detective to the center of a new run of puzzles, disguises, crimes and deductions
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The secret of the tower
The Secret of the Tower is an adventure mystery in the tradition of stories where an old building hides a secret that can change the fortunes or safety of the people connected to it. Anthony Hope combines suspense with the atmosphere of the English country-house and historical-adventure tale
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The Seven Dials mystery
Christie’s mystery combines a country-house gathering, a hidden organization, secret identities, and murder as young investigators uncover a conspiracy
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The Shore Road Mystery
The Hardy Boys investigate a mysterious boat and a chain of suspicious incidents along the shore, using clues, surveillance, and persistence to solve the case
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The Sign of Four
A Holmes mystery combining a locked-room atmosphere, colonial treasure, pursuit and the Thames with one of the series’ clearer adventure plots
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The Stowmarket Mystery
Louis Tracy’s detective mystery centers on a puzzling crime in an English town where hidden motives and careful investigation reveal the answer
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Their crimes
Their Crimes is a collection in which wrongdoing becomes a lens for exploring character, motive, and consequence. Because the volume contains work by multiple contributors, the specific stories may differ widely, but the unifying subject is the human response to crime: why people break rules
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Unnatural Death
Lord Peter Wimsey investigates the suspicious death of an apparently healthy woman, challenging the assumption of natural causes and following the evidence through family and inheritance questions
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Whose Body
Lord Peter Wimsey investigates a corpse discovered in a London bathtub, launching a series built around social observation, evidence and the personality of the detective. It is an excellent route beyond Holmes and Poirot
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