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101 Mystery & Detective Classics You Should Read Before You Die - cover

101 Mystery & Detective Classics You Should Read Before You Die

Edgar Allan Poe, Charles Dickens, Mark Twain, Oscar Wilde, Alexandre Dumas, Bram Stoker, Joseph Conrad, Charlotte Brontë, Daniel Defoe, Emily Brontë, Washington Irving, Wilkie Collins, D. H. Lawrence, Guy de Maupassant, Anne Brontë, Mary Roberts Rinehart, Erskine Childers, William Hope Hodgson, Émile Gaboriau, E. W. Hornung, Anton Chekhov, Richard Marsh, Walter Scott, H. P. Lovecraft, Francis Hodgson Burnett, F Scott itzgerald, G. K. Chesterton, John Buchan, Sax Rohmer, Algernon Blackwood, Agatha Christie, E. Phillips Oppenheim, Marie Belloc Lowndes, Dorothy L. Sayers, A. Milne, Anna Katharine Green, Maurice Leblanc, H. G. Wells, Nikolai Gogol, Arthur Conan Doyle, Ernest Bramah, Sheridan Le Fanu, S. S. Van Dine, E. C. Bentley, R. Austin Freeman, Sapper, Earl Derr Biggers, Arthur Morrison, Fyodor Dostoyevsky, J. S. Fletcher, Marcel Allain, Annie Haynes, Robert William Chambers, Thomas Hardy, Jules Verne, Gaston Leroux

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Summary

This collection includes the great masterpieces of thriller and mystery every fan of the genre should experience:
Agatha Christie:
The Mysterious Affair at Styles
The Murder on the Links
The Secret Adversary
The Man in the Brown Suit
The Secret of Chimneys
The Murder of Roger Ackroyd
Edgar Allan Poe:
The Murders in the Rue Morgue
The Masque of the Red Death
The Fall of the House of Usher
The Tell-Tale Heart
The Cask of Amontillado
The Purloined Letter
Arthur Conan Doyle:
A Study in Scarlet
The Sign of Four
The Valley of Fear
The Hound of the Baskervilles
Sherlock Holmes Stories
G. K. Chesterton:
Father Brown Mysteries
The Man Who Knew Too Much
The Man Who Was Thursday
Wilkie Collins:
The Woman in White
The Moonstone
Charles Dickens:
Bleak House
Great Expectations
The Mystery of Edwin Drood
Jane Eyre (Charlotte Brontë)
Wuthering Heights (Emily Brontë)
Tenant of Wildfel Hall (Anne Brontë)
The Secret Garden (Frances Hodgson Burnett)
Tess of the D'Urbervilles (Thomas Hardy)
Heart of Darkness (Joseph Conrad)
Nostromo (Joseph Conrad)
Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde (Robert Louis Stevenson)
Treasure Island (Robert Louis Stevenson)
Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea (Jules Verne)
The Mysterious Island (Jules Verne) 
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (Mark Twain)
Tom Sawyer, Detective (Mark Twain) 
The Turn of the Screw (Henry James)
The Wings of the Dove (Henry James)
Crime and Punishment (Fyodor Dostoyevsky)
The Double (Fyodor Dostoyevsky)
The Shooting Party (Anton Chekhov)
The Mysterious Portrait (Nikolai Gogol)
Guy Mannering (Walter Scott)
Moll Flanders (Daniel Defoe)
The Great Gatsby (F. Scott Fitzgerald)
The Plumed Serpent (D. H. Lawrence)
The Picture of Dorian Gray (Oscar Wilde)
The Invisible Man (H. G. Wells)
The Four Just Men (Edgar Wallace)
The Clue of the Twisted Candle (Edgar Wallace)
The Red Thumb Mark (R. Austin Freeman)
The Leavenworth Case (Anna Katharine Green)
That Affair Next Door (Anna Katharine Green)
The Bat (Mary Roberts Rinehart)
Available since: 10/28/2022.
Print length: 22700 pages.

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