Subject heading
Detective and mystery stories
96 books carry this heading. It is a source-library term, kept as recorded; related traditions and headings below are drawn from co-occurrence, not editorial judgment.
Related traditions
- Mythology, folklore, and sacred legends35
- Ghosts, hauntings, and poltergeists25
- Demonology, angelology, and possession7
- Mesmerism, animal magnetism, and hypnosis7
- Ancient religions, animism, and ritual7
- Initiatory orders and secret societies4
- Telepathy, clairvoyance, and precognition4
- Legendary beings and transformations4
Related subjects
- Fiction74
- Juvenile fiction37
- Children's fiction33
- Horror tales26
- Mystery and detective stories26
- Short Stories24
- Horror stories21
- Classic Literature20
- Crime20
- murder20
- American Horror tales19
- Gothic fiction19
- Horror fiction19
- Crime, fiction18
- horror18
- American literature16
- catalepsy16
- first-person narrative16
- Homicide15
- Hyperesthesia15
Books
Open in Browse96 books
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Falling Angel
William Hjortsberg
1978
L.A. Confidential
James Ellroy
1990
Violets Are Blue
James Patterson
2001
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Seltsame Geschichten (Balloon-Hoax / Descent into the Maelström / Facts in the Case of M. Valdemar / Gold-Bug / Murders in the Rue Morgue / Mystery of Marie Roget / Purloined Letter / Tell-Tale Heart)
Edgar Allan Poe
1890German
Two Little Girls in Blue
Mary Higgins Clark
2006
The Ghost of Blackwood Hall
Carolyn Keene
1948
The Ghost in the Big Brass Bed
Bruce Coville
1991
Touch Not the Cat
Mary Stewart
1976
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Nouvelles histoires extraordinaires (Berenice / Black Cat / Cask of Amontillado / Colloquy of Monos and Una / Conversation of Eiros and Charmi / Devil in the Belfry / Fall of the House of Usher / Four Beasts in One / Hop-Frog / Imp of the Perverse / Island of the Fay / King Pest / Lionizing / Man of the Crowd / Masque of the Red Death / Oval Portrait / Pit and the Pendulum / Power of Words / Shadow / Silence / Some Words with a Mummy / Tell-Tale Heart / William Wilson)
Edgar Allan Poe, Charles Baudelaire
1857French
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The Fall of the House of Usher, and Other Tales and Prose Writings of Edgar Allan Poe
Edgar Allan Poe, Ernest Rhys
1889
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The haunted house
Hilaire Belloc, Gilbert Keith Chesterton
Date unknown
A maça no escuro
Clarice Lispector, Benjamin Moser, Elena Losada
1961
Doll's eyes
Bari Wood
1993
Legion
William Peter Blatty
1983
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Poems and Tales from the Writings of Edgar Allan Poe [8 stories, 8 poems]
Edgar Allan Poe, William Peterfield Trent
1898
Superstitious
Robert Lawrence Stine
1995
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The Works of Edgar Allan Poe in Ten Volumes - Volume I - Tales of the Grotesque and Arabesque I
Edgar Allan Poe, Edmund Clarence Stedman, George Edward Woodbury
1894
Trixie Belden and the Mystery of the Blinking Eye
Kathryn Kenny
1971
White Jazz
James Ellroy
1991
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HISTORIAS ESTRAORDINARIAS (Black Cat / Cask of Amontillado / Four Beasts in One / Gold-Bug / Imp of the Perverse / Lionizing / Man of the Crowd / Oval Portrait / Premature Burial / Some Words with a Mummy / Tell-Tale Heart / Unparalleled Adventure of One Hans Pfaall / William Wilson)
Edgar Allan Poe
1871Spanish
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Nouvelles Histoires Extraordinaires (Angel of the Odd / Berenice / Black Cat / Cask of Amontillado / Colloquy of Monos and Una / Conversation of Eiros and Charmi / Devil in the Belfry / Domain of Arnheim / Eleonora / Fall of the House of Usher / Four Beasts in One / Hop-frog / Imp of the Perverse / Island of the Fay / King Pest / Landor's Cottage / Lionizing / Maelzel's Chess Player / Man of the Crowd / Masque of the Red Death / Oval Portrait / Pit and the Pendulum / Power of Words / Shadow / Silence / Some Words with a Mummy / System of Dr. Tarr and Prof. Fether / Tale of Jerusalem / Tell-Tale Heart / William Wilson)
Edgar Allan Poe
1884French
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Oeuvres complètes de Ch. Baudelaire - Nouvelles histoires extraordinaires (Angel of the Odd / Berenice / Black Cat / Cask of Amontillado / Conversation of Eiros and Charmi / Devil in the Belfry / Domain of Arnheim / Eleonora / Fall of the House of Usher / Hop-Frog / Imp of the Perverse / King Pest / Landor's Cottage / Lionizing / Oval Portrait / Power of Words / Silence / Some Words with a Mummy / System of Dr. Tarr and Prof. Fether / Tell-Tale Heart / William Wilson)
Edgar Allan Poe
1892French
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Storie incredibili (Berenice / Colloquy of Monos and Una / Descent Into the Maelstrom / Fall of the House of Usher / Ligeia / Man of the Crowd / Masque of the Red Death / Morella / Shadow / Silence / Tell-Tale Heart / William Wilson)
Edgar Allan Poe
1869Italian
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Unbegreifliche Ereignisse und geheimnißvolle Thaten (Assignation / Black Cat / Cask of Amontillado / Devil in the Belfry / Fall of the House of Usher / Hop-Frog / Man of the Crowd / Morella / Mystery of Marie Roget / Oblong Box / Pit and the Pendulum / Spectacles / Sphinx / Tale of the Ragged Mountains / Tell-Tale Heart / Thou Art the Man / Three Sundays in a Week / William Wilson)
Edgar Allan Poe
1861German