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From the foggy alleys of Sherlock Holmes's London to the tangled family secrets of Wilkie Collins's Victorian drawing rooms, our mystery shelves are packed with puzzles that demand to be solved. Whether you're revisiting a classic or uncovering a hidden gem, these are the stories that keep you turning pages long after dark.

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The Extraordinary Adventures of Arsène Lupin, Gentleman-Burglar

The Extraordinary Adventures of Arsène Lupin, Gentleman-Burglar

Maurice Leblanc's dazzling debut collection introducing Arsène Lupin, the charming master thief who robs the rich, outwits the police, and turns every crime into a performance.

$9.50

The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes

The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes

London’s foggy alleyways conceal crimes only Sherlock Holmes can unravel.

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Thomas More's slender, sly book coined a word and launched a whole tradition of imagining better worlds.

$8.00

The Mysteries of London, v. 4/4

The Mysteries of London, v. 4/4

The concluding volume of G.

$8.50

The problem of Cell 13

The problem of Cell 13

Jacques Futrelle's classic detective tale, in which the brilliant Professor Van Dusen, the Thinking Machine, wagers he can escape a locked prison cell using only his intellect.

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The Hunter's Lodge Case

The Hunter's Lodge Case

A compact Hercule Poirot mystery from Agatha Christie.

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The Plymouth Express Affair

The Plymouth Express Affair

A young woman is found dead beneath the seat of a railway carriage, her jewels missing, and Hercule Poirot untangles a crime of theft, deception and family secrets in this compact

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Unnatural death

Unnatural death

Dorothy L.

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The Missing Will

The Missing Will

Agatha Christie's short case sends Hercule Poirot after a dead man's hidden testament, a puzzle set as a deliberate test of wits, solved by the little Belgian's endlessly methodica

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The Diamond Coterie

The Diamond Coterie

A twisting Victorian mystery of stolen jewels, hidden identities and patient detection, in which a determined investigator works to unmask the schemers behind a web of theft and de

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Madeline Payne, the Detective's Daughter

Madeline Payne, the Detective's Daughter

A Victorian-American tale of deception and detection, in which a young woman betrayed by those she trusted is drawn into a world of disguise, pursuit and hard-won justice.

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The secret of Father Brown

The secret of Father Brown

A later collection of Chesterton's Father Brown mysteries, framed by the priest's own account of his method.

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Desperate Remedies

Desperate Remedies

Thomas Hardy’s first published novel blends romance, secrecy, mistaken motives, and melodramatic danger into a fast-moving story of ambition and manipulation.

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A Woman at Bay

A Woman at Bay

A fast-paced Nick Carter detective adventure from the great age of the American dime novel, pitting the famous sleuth against a formidable and dangerous woman.

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Whose Body? A Lord Peter Wimsey Novel

Whose Body? A Lord Peter Wimsey Novel

Dorothy L.

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The Czar's Spy

The Czar's Spy

William Le Queux's fast-moving tale of intrigue and espionage, set among the secrets and dangers of imperial Russia's reach.

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The Big Four

The Big Four

Hercule Poirot faces not a single killer but a global criminal conspiracy of four masterminds bent on world domination, in Agatha Christie's most unusual and action-packed Poirot a

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The Mystery of the Blue Train

The Mystery of the Blue Train

A wealthy heiress is found murdered aboard the luxury train to the Riviera, her famous rubies gone, and Hercule Poirot, a fellow passenger, takes up a case tangled in money, love a

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The Insidious Dr. Fu Manchu

The Insidious Dr. Fu Manchu

Sax Rohmer's pulp thriller unleashes the criminal mastermind Dr.

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The case-book of Sherlock Holmes

The case-book of Sherlock Holmes

The final collection of Arthur Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes stories gathers twelve late cases for the world's most famous detective, closing the canon with fresh puzzles and a few

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The Grand Babylon Hôtel

The Grand Babylon Hôtel

Arnold Bennett's sparkling comic thriller set in a grand London hotel, where a millionaire's whim, a vanished guest and a tangle of intrigue turn luxury into high-stakes mystery.

$9.50

The Secret of the Night

The Secret of the Night

A tense mystery of intrigue and hidden danger, in which a young investigator must unravel a deadly conspiracy shrouded in secrecy.

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The Yellow Crayon

The Yellow Crayon

An Edwardian thriller by E.

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Cruel as the grave

Cruel as the grave

A dramatic tale of love, jealousy and dark secrets in the sensational tradition, its title drawn from the old warning that jealousy is cruel as the grave.

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The Man in the Brown Suit

The Man in the Brown Suit

A young woman witnesses a death in a London Underground station and follows a cryptic clue aboard a liner bound for South Africa, launching one of Agatha Christie's most dashing ea

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The Mystery of the Yellow Room

The Mystery of the Yellow Room

Gaston Leroux’s pioneering locked-room mystery follows Joseph Rouletabille into an impossible crime, a country-house labyrinth, and a duel of reason against deception.

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The Murder on the Links

The Murder on the Links

Summoned to France by a frightened millionaire, Hercule Poirot arrives too late to prevent a murder and finds himself matching wits with a proud French detective, in one of Agatha

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The Seven Dials Mystery

The Seven Dials Mystery

A practical joke at a country house ends in death, and the irrepressible Bundle Brimble finds herself chasing a secret society through 1920s England in one of Agatha Christie's bre

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The Red House Mystery

The Red House Mystery

A country-house murder, a locked-room puzzle and an amateur sleuth with a sharp eye and a lighter touch: A.A.

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The Lock and Key Library: Classic Mystery and Detective Stories: Modern English

The Lock and Key Library: Classic Mystery and Detective Stories: Modern English

An anthology of classic mystery and detective fiction, this volume gathers modern English tales of crime, puzzle and suspense from the golden age of the short story.

$9.50

The Riddle of the Sands

The Riddle of the Sands

Erskine Childers's pioneering spy novel of two Englishmen who stumble on a secret while yachting the tidal shallows of the North Sea.

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The Big Fix

The Big Fix

A story whose title promises intrigue and the solving of a large problem, a tale of scheming, stakes, and the effort to set something right or put it over.

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Tales of Terror and Mystery

Tales of Terror and Mystery

A collection of dark and suspenseful stories by Arthur Conan Doyle, ranging from the eerie to the horrifying.

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The Hand in the Dark

The Hand in the Dark

A classic golden-age style mystery in which a death in a country house sets detection in motion, unfolding through suspicion, hidden motives and patient investigation toward a conc

$9.50

Peter the Brazen

Peter the Brazen

George F.

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Poirot Investigates

Poirot Investigates

Eleven brisk cases showcase Hercule Poirot's little grey cells at their sharpest, narrated by the loyal Captain Hastings, in Agatha Christie's first and much-loved collection of th

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Lady Audley's Secret

Lady Audley's Secret

Mary Elizabeth Braddon's sensational Victorian bestseller, in which a beautiful, seemingly angelic young wife guards a dangerous secret, and a determined amateur sleuth sets out to

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His last bow : $b Some later reminiscences of Sherlock Holmes

His last bow : $b Some later reminiscences of Sherlock Holmes

A late gathering of Sherlock Holmes cases by Arthur Conan Doyle, ranging from cryptic country mysteries to wartime espionage, closing with the great detective's most sombre and mem

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Library of the World's Best Mystery and Detective Stories

Library of the World's Best Mystery and Detective Stories

A wide-ranging anthology of classic mystery and detective fiction, gathering tales of crime, deduction and the uncanny from many hands.

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The Thirty-Nine Steps

The Thirty-Nine Steps

John Buchan's breakneck thriller of espionage and pursuit.

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A Case in Camera

A Case in Camera

A novel by Oliver Onions, a writer prized for his craft and his unsettling command of atmosphere.

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The Valley of Fear

The Valley of Fear

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The Secret Adversary

The Secret Adversary

Two out-of-work friends advertise themselves as adventurers for hire and stumble into international intrigue, introducing Agatha Christie's beloved sleuthing pair, Tommy and Tuppen

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The wisdom of Father Brown

The wisdom of Father Brown

The second collection of G.K.

$9.50

The Camp Fire Girls Solve a Mystery

The Camp Fire Girls Solve a Mystery

An entry in the popular early-twentieth-century series following a group of Camp Fire Girls as they turn detective.

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The innocence of Father Brown

The innocence of Father Brown

The first collection of G.K.

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The Mysterious Affair at Styles

The Mysterious Affair at Styles

Agatha Christie's very first novel, and the debut of Hercule Poirot.

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The Cask of Amontillado

The Cask of Amontillado

Edgar Allan Poe's masterpiece of cold revenge, told by a narrator luring his victim into the catacombs by the promise of a rare wine.

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Minute Mysteries [Detectograms]

Minute Mysteries [Detectograms]

A collection of bite-sized detective puzzles, each a small crime laid out for the reader to solve in minutes — with the solution turning on a single telling detail.

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The Mystery of Edwin Drood

The Mystery of Edwin Drood

Dickens's tantalizing final novel, a tale of obsession and disappearance in a cathedral town, left forever unfinished by the author's death mid-story.

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The Phantom of the Opera

The Phantom of the Opera

Gaston Leroux's haunting gothic romance of a disfigured musical genius who haunts the Paris Opera and fixes his obsession on a young soprano.

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The String of Pearls

The String of Pearls

The original penny dreadful that gave the world Sweeney Todd, the demon barber of Fleet Street, and Mrs Lovett's terrible pies.

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The Murder of Roger Ackroyd

The Murder of Roger Ackroyd

A retired industrialist is found stabbed in his study, and Hercule Poirot comes out of quiet seclusion to investigate, in the Agatha Christie novel routinely named one of the fines

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The Sign of the Four

The Sign of the Four

The second Sherlock Holmes novel sends the great detective and Dr.

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The Man Who Was Thursday

The Man Who Was Thursday

G.

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The Green Mummy

The Green Mummy

A twisting Victorian-era mystery from Fergus Hume, in which a stolen Peruvian mummy, a scholar's obsession and a sudden death draw a small English circle into suspicion and detecti

$9.50

The Secret of Chimneys

The Secret of Chimneys

A casual errand draws a footloose adventurer into murder, blackmail and international intrigue at a grand English country house, in one of Agatha Christie's most sparkling early th

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The Mysteries of Udolpho

The Mysteries of Udolpho

Ann Radcliffe's landmark Gothic novel, in which a young woman, orphaned and imperilled, is carried to a brooding Italian castle where terror, mystery and the power of the imaginati

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The Turn of the Screw

The Turn of the Screw

Henry James’s gothic novella traps a young governess, two children, and a country house inside one of literature’s most unnerving studies in ambiguity, repression, and dread.

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The Return of Sherlock Holmes

The Return of Sherlock Holmes

The world's greatest detective is back from the dead and back on the trail.

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The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes

The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes

A superb Sherlock Holmes collection featuring some of Arthur Conan Doyle's most memorable investigations and character moments.

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The Sign of Four

The Sign of Four

Sherlock Holmes and Dr.

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A Study in Scarlet

A Study in Scarlet

The novel that lit the fuse.

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The Hound of the Baskervilles

The Hound of the Baskervilles

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No Name

No Name

Wilkie Collins delivers a gripping sensation novel of inheritance, identity, sisters, and revenge in Victorian England.

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Armadale

Armadale

Wilkie Collins's audacious sensation novel.

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The Woman in White

The Woman in White

Wilkie Collins invented the modern thriller with this tale of a night-time encounter, a stolen inheritance, and two women whose lives are dangerously entangled.

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The Moonstone

The Moonstone

A cursed Indian diamond vanishes from an English country house, and everyone becomes a suspect.

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Bleak House

Bleak House

Charles Dickens's sprawling masterpiece revolves around an endless court case that consumes everyone it touches, binding a foggy London of lords, orphans and lawyers in one of fict

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The Truth About the Harry Quebert Affair

The Truth About the Harry Quebert Affair

Joël Dicker's twisting literary thriller sends a blocked young novelist to clear his mentor of a decades-old murder, unspooling a small New England town's buried secrets one revela

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