Detective & Mystery Library

Detective & Mystery Stories

Read detective stories, mystery stories, crime puzzles and investigations from writers around the world.

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58 Detective Stories

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Follow clues, suspects, hidden motives and impossible cases across classic and original detective fiction. This collection is organized around the way readers actually search: detective stories, mystery stories, short cases, crime puzzles and investigations.

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The Case of Mr. Foggatt

The Case of Mr. Foggatt: complete original-language literary text.

Arthur Morrison English
Detective

The Case of Janissary

The Case of Janissary: complete original-language literary text.

Arthur Morrison English
Detective

The Missing Finger

The Missing Finger — verified public-domain source text from Book of Detective Stories.

Uncredited English
Detective

The Key to the Mystery

The Key to the Mystery — verified public-domain source text from Book of Detective Stories.

Uncredited English
Detective

Betrayed by a Dog

Betrayed by a Dog — verified public-domain source text from Book of Detective Stories.

Uncredited English
Detective

A Strange Story

A Strange Story — verified public-domain source text from Book of Detective Stories.

Uncredited English
Detective

A Grave Robbery

A Grave Robbery — verified public-domain source text from Book of Detective Stories.

Uncredited English
Detective

Saa ya Kale ya Mombasa

Saa iliyosimama miaka ishirini ilipoanza kwenda tena, Amani alijua siri ya zamani ilikuwa imeamka.

ExtremeWrites Editorial Swahili
Detective

Platform Nine After Midnight

Every Thursday at 12:09 a dead platform light switched on—and somebody left a fresh ticket beneath it.

ExtremeWrites Editorial English
Detective

The Three Tools Of Death

Public-domain detective story from The Innocence of Father Brown.

G. K. Chesterton English
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