Detective & Mystery Stories

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.

Where a story is available in another language, its original language remains primary rather than being replaced by English keywords.

Classic detective collections

• Sherlock Holmes Stories by Arthur Conan Doyle
• Father Brown Stories by G. K. Chesterton

Detective stories in other languages

• سفید زہر — اردو جاسوسی کہانی
• Saa ya Kale ya Mombasa — hadithi ya upelelezi ya Kiswahili
• Gölgedeki Mektuplar — Türkçe kısa dedektif hikayesi

Start with a classic mystery

Each link leads directly to the story, rather than to a search or filter page:

• A Scandal in Bohemia — a Sherlock Holmes case involving a photograph.
• The Red-Headed League — an apparently eccentric job conceals a plan.
• The Speckled Band — a locked-room mystery with an unusual clue.
• The Blue Carbuncle — Holmes investigates a jewel found in an unexpected place.
• The Blue Cross — Father Brown notices what other investigators overlook.
• The Invisible Man — a Father Brown mystery about an unseen visitor.
• The Secret Garden — a classic Father Brown investigation.