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• Crime and Punishment — Dostoyevsky, Fyodor
• The Mysteries of Udolpho — Radcliffe, Ann Ward
• Carmen — Mérimée, Prosper
• The Green Mummy — Hume, Fergus
• The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes — Doyle, Arthur Conan
• Dracula — Stoker, Bram
• Oliver Twist, Vol. 2 (of 3) — Dickens, Charles
• Dracula — Stoker, Bram
• The Man Who Was Thursday: A Nightmare — Chesterton, G. K. (Gilbert Keith)
• The Extraordinary Adventures of Arsène Lupin, Gentleman-Burglar — Leblanc, Maurice
• The String of Pearls; Or, The Barber of Fleet Street. A Domestic Romance. — Prest, Thomas Peckett
• The strange case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde — Stevenson, Robert Louis
• The Silent Barrier — Tracy, Louis
• The King in Yellow — Chambers, Robert W. (Robert William)
• The strange case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde — Stevenson, Robert Louis
• The Mystery of Edwin Drood — Dickens, Charles
• That Girl Montana — Ryan, Marah Ellis
• The Shunned House — Lovecraft, H. P. (Howard Phillips)
• The Rover Boys on the Farm; or, Last Days at Putnam Hall — Stratemeyer, Edward
• The Camp Fire Girls Solve a Mystery; Or, The Christmas Adventure at Carver House — Frey, Hildegard G.
• The Hand in the Dark — Rees, Arthur J. (Arthur John)
• A Study in Scarlet — Doyle, Arthur Conan
• Time Crime — Piper, H. Beam
• The Empty House and Other Ghost Stories — Blackwood, Algernon
• The Hound of the Baskervilles — Doyle, Arthur Conan
• The Damned Thing: 1898, From "In the Midst of Life" — Bierce, Ambrose
• The Daughter of Anderson Crow — McCutcheon, George Barr
• The Works of Edgar Allan Poe — Volume 2 — Poe, Edgar Allan
• By Advice of Counsel — Train, Arthur Cheney
• Friday, the Thirteenth: A Novel — Lawson, Thomas William
• The Works of Edgar Allan Poe — Volume 1 — Poe, Edgar Allan
• The innocence of Father Brown — Chesterton, G. K. (Gilbert Keith)
• The House on the Borderland — Hodgson, William Hope
• Lady Audley's Secret — Braddon, M. E. (Mary Elizabeth)
• The Sign of the Four — Doyle, Arthur Conan
• The Turn of the Screw — James, Henry
• The wisdom of Father Brown — Chesterton, G. K. (Gilbert Keith)
• The Czar's Spy: The Mystery of a Silent Love — Le Queux, William
• The Return of Sherlock Holmes — Doyle, Arthur Conan
• The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes — Doyle, Arthur Conan
• The Phantom of the Opera — Leroux, Gaston
• The Woman in White — Collins, Wilkie
• The Moonstone — Collins, Wilkie
• The Valley of Fear — Doyle, Arthur Conan
• His last bow : $b Some later reminiscences of Sherlock Holmes — Doyle, Arthur Conan
• Celebrated Crimes (Complete) — Dumas, Alexandre
• Paul Clifford — Complete — Lytton, Edward Bulwer Lytton, Baron
• The Return of Sherlock Holmes — Doyle, Arthur Conan
• Ghost Stories of an Antiquary — James, M. R. (Montague Rhodes)
• The Riddle of the Sands — Childers, Erskine
• The Secret Agent: A Simple Tale — Conrad, Joseph
• The Thirty-Nine Steps — Buchan, John
• The Mystery of the Yellow Room — Leroux, Gaston
• The call of Cthulhu — Lovecraft, H. P. (Howard Phillips)
• The Red House Mystery — Milne, A. A. (Alan Alexander)
• The Cask of Amontillado — Poe, Edgar Allan
• The Great God Pan — Machen, Arthur
• Children of the Whirlwind — Scott, Leroy
• Tales of Terror and Mystery — Doyle, Arthur Conan
• The Zeppelin's Passenger — Oppenheim, E. Phillips (Edward Phillips)