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100 Mystery Masterpieces of World Literature : Murder Mysteries, Detective Novels, Supernatural Mysteries & Thriller Classics

E-artnow presents to you this unique collection of the carefully picked greatest mystery classics of all time 100 classics:

The Mysterious Affair at Styles (Agatha Christie)

The Murder on the Links (Agatha Christie)

The Secret Adversary (Agatha Christie)

The Man in the Brown Suit (Agatha Christie)

The Secret of Chimneys (Agatha Christie)

The Murder of Roger Ackroyd (Agatha Christie)

The Murders in the Rue Morgue (Edgar Allan Poe)

The Masque of the Red Death (Edgar Allan Poe)

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 Purloined Letter (Edgar Allan Poe)

A Study in Scarlet (Arthur Conan Doyle)

The Sign of Four (Arthur Conan Doyle)

The Valley of Fear (Arthur Conan Doyle)

The Hound of the Baskervilles (Arthur Conan Doyle)

Sherlock Holmes Stories (Arthur Conan Doyle)

Father Brown Mysteries (G. K. Chesterton)

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

The Man Who Was Thursday (G. K. Chesterton)

The Woman in White (Wilkie Collins)

The Moonstone (Wilkie Collins)

Bleak House (Charles Dickens)

Great Expectations (Charles Dickens)

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)…


Authors:

  • Agatha Christie
  • Edgar Allan Poe
  • Arthur Conan Doyle
  • G. K. Chesterton
  • 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
  • Nikolai Gogol
  • Walter Scott
  • Daniel Defoe
  • F. Scott Fitzgerald
  • D. H. Lawrence
  • Oscar Wilde
  • H. G. Wells
  • Edgar Wallace
  • R. Austin Freeman
  • Anna Katharine Green
  • Mary Roberts Rinehart
  • Ernest Bramah
  • Sapper
  • Arthur Morrison
  • Marie Belloc Lowndes
  • Dorothy L. Sayers
  • John Buchan
  • E. Phillips Oppenheim
  • Robert William Chambers
  • J. S. Fletcher
  • Richard Marsh
  • Annie Haynes
  • Alexandre Dumas
  • Maurice Leblanc
  • Gaston Leroux
  • Émile Gaboriau
  • Marcel Allain
  • Bram Stoker
  • Sheridan Le Fanu
  • H. P. Lovecraft
  • William Hope Hodgson
  • Algernon Blackwood
  • Washington Irving
  • Guy de Maupassant
  • E. C. Bentley
  • A. A. Milne
  • Sax Rohmer
  • Erskine Childers
  • E. W. Hornung
  • Earl Derr Biggers

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  • E-book

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  • 18888 pages

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