50 Masterpieces of Murder Mystery & Detective Fiction (Vol. 1)

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 Murder of Roger Ackroyd (Agatha Christie)

The Mysterious Affair at Styles (Agatha Christie)

The Secret Adversary (Agatha Christie)

The Murders in the Rue Morgue (Edgar Allan Poe)

The Masque of the Red Death (Edgar Allan Poe)

The Purloined Letter (Edgar Allan Poe)

A Study in Scarlet (Arthur Conan Doyle)

The Sign of Four (Arthur Conan Doyle)

The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (Arthur Conan Doyle)

The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes (Arthur Conan Doyle)

The Innocence of Father Brown (G. K. Chesterton)

The Abbey Court Murder (Annie Haynes)

The Man Who Knew Too Much (G. K. Chesterton)

The Woman in White (Wilkie Collins)

Bleak House (Charles Dickens)

Jane Eyre (Charlotte Brontë)

Tess of the D'Urbervilles (Thomas Hardy)

Heart of Darkness (Joseph Conrad)

Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde (Robert Louis Stevenson)

Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea (Jules Verne)

The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (Mark Twain)

Tom Sawyer, Detective (Mark Twain)

The Turn of the Screw (Henry James)

Crime and Punishment (Fyodor Dostoyevsky)

The Shooting Party (Anton Chekhov)

Guy Mannering (Walter Scott)

The Picture of Dorian Gray (Oscar Wilde)

The Invisible Man (H. G. Wells)

The Four Just Men (Edgar Wallace)

The Red Thumb Mark (R. Austin Freeman)

The Leavenworth Case (Anna Katharine Green)

The Circular Staircase (Mary Roberts Rinehart)

Bulldog Drummond (Sapper)

Martin Hewitt Investigator (Arthur Morrison)

The Lodger (Marie Belloc Lowndes)

Whose Body? (Dorothy L. Sayers)

The Thirty-Nine Steps (John Buchan)

The Count of Monte Cristo (Alexandre Dumas)

Arsène Lupin (Maurice Leblanc)

The Phantom of the Opera (Gaston Leroux)

The Widow Lerouge (Émile Gaboriau)

Fantômas (Marcel Allain)

Dracula (Bram Stoker)

Uncle Silas (Sheridan Le Fanu)

The Call of Cthulhu (H. P. Lovecraft)

The House on the Borderland (William Hope Hodgson)

The Willows (Algernon Blackwood)

The Legend of Sleepy Hollow (Washington Irving)

The Mystery of Edwin Drood (Charles Dickens)

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50 Masterpieces of Murder Mystery & Detective Fiction (Vol. 1)

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Meurtre en Mésopotamie

Agatha Christie

Le Noël d'Hercule Poirot

Agatha Christie

Mon petit doigt m'a dit

Agatha Christie

ABC contre Poirot

Agatha Christie

The Murder of Roger Ackroyd

Agatha Christie

Les Vacances d'Hercule Poirot

Agatha Christie

Marple: Twelve New Stories

Agatha Christie, Naomi Alderman, Leigh Bardugo, Alyssa Cole, Lucy Foley, Elly Griffiths, Natalie Haynes, Jean Kwok, Val McDermid, Karen M. McManus, Dreda Say Mitchell, Kate Mosse, Ruth Ware

Capital Christie : Twelve London Mysteries

Agatha Christie

The Man in the Brown Suit :

Agatha Christie

Asesinato en el Campo de Golf :

Agatha Christie

El Misterio Del Tren Azul :

Agatha Christie

The Market Basing Mystery

Agatha Christie

Agatha Christie

Edgar Allan Poe

Arthur Conan Doyle

Wilkie Collins

Charles Dickens

Charlotte Brontë

Emily Brontë

Anne Brontë

Frances Hodgson Burnett

Thomas Hardy

Joseph Conrad

Jules Verne

Mark Twain

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Anton Chekhov

Walter Scott

Daniel Defoe

F. Scott Fitzgerald

D. H. Lawrence

Oscar Wilde

H. G. Wells

ALEXANDRE DUMAS

Gaston Leroux

Bram Stoker

H. P. Lovecraft

Washington Irving

E. C. Bentley