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50 Masterpieces of Murder Mystery & Detective Fiction (Vol 2) - cover

50 Masterpieces of Murder Mystery & Detective Fiction (Vol 2)

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, Frances Hodgson Burnett, Edgar Wallace, F. Scott Fitzgerald, 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

Publisher: e-artnow

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Summary

E-artnow presents to you this unique collection of the greatest classics of thriller and mystery every fan of the genre should experience at least once in their life:
The Hound of the Baskervilles (Arthur Conan Doyle)
The Valley of Fear (Arthur Conan Doyle)
The Return of Sherlock Holmes (Arthur Conan Doyle)
His Last Bow (Arthur Conan Doyle)
The Double (Fyodor Dostoyevsky)
The Murder on the Links (Agatha Christie)
The Man in the Brown Suit (Agatha Christie)
The Secret of Chimneys (Agatha Christie)
The Fall of the House of Usher (Edgar Allan Poe)
The Tell-Tale Heart (Edgar Allan Poe)
The Cask of Amontillado (Edgar Allan Poe)
The Clue of the Twisted Candle (Edgar Wallace)
That Affair Next Door (Anna Katharine Green)
The Wisdom of Father Brown (G. K. Chesterton)
The Incredulity of Father Brown (G. K. Chesterton)
The Man Who Was Thursday (G. K. Chesterton)
The Moonstone (Wilkie Collins)
Great Expectations (Charles Dickens)
Wuthering Heights (Emily Brontë)
The Secret Garden (Frances Hodgson Burnett)
Nostromo (Joseph Conrad)
Treasure Island (Robert Louis Stevenson)
The Mysterious Island (Jules Verne)
The Wings of the Dove (Henry James)
The Mysterious Portrait (Nikolai Gogol)
Moll Flanders (Daniel Defoe)
The Plumed Serpent (D. H. Lawrence)
The Great Gatsby (F. Scott Fitzgerald)
The Bat (Mary Roberts Rinehart)
Max Carrados (Ernest Bramah)
The King in Yellow (Robert William Chambers)
The Great Impersonation (E. Phillips Oppenheim)
The Middle Temple Murder (J. S. Fletcher)
The Beetle (Richard Marsh)
The Man in the Iron Mask (Alexandre Dumas)
The Hollow Needle (Maurice Leblanc)
The Mystery of the Yellow Room (Gaston Leroux)
Monsieur Lecoq (Émile Gaboriau)
The Jewel of Seven Stars (Bram Stoker)
In a Glass Darkly (Sheridan Le Fanu)
At the Mountains of Madness (H. P. Lovecraft)
Carnacki, the Ghost Finder (William Hope Hodgson)
The Horla (Guy de Maupassant)
Trent's Last Case (E. C. Bentley)
The Red House Mystery (A. A. Milne)
The Mystery of Dr. Fu-Manchu (Sax Rohmer)
The Riddle of the Sands (Erskine Childers)
The Amateur Cracksman (E. W. Hornung)
The House Without a Key (Earl Derr Biggers)
The Benson Murder Case (S. S. Van Dine)
Available since: 10/28/2022.
Print length: 10695 pages.

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