Subject heading
Mystery and detective stories
87 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
- Ghosts, hauntings, and poltergeists35
- Mythology, folklore, and sacred legends22
- Mesmerism, animal magnetism, and hypnosis10
- Ancient religions, animism, and ritual10
- Legendary beings and transformations5
- Parapsychology and psychical research4
- Out-of-body, astral, and dream studies4
- UFOs, extraterrestrials, and contact3
Related subjects
- Fiction68
- Children's fiction61
- Juvenile fiction54
- Detective and mystery stories26
- Horror stories26
- Horror tales23
- Ghost stories18
- Ghosts18
- Short Stories18
- horror17
- Classic Literature14
- Horror fiction13
- murder13
- Ghosts, fiction12
- Haunted houses12
- Supernatural12
- monograms12
- Gothic fiction11
- Mountaineering11
- Ratiocination11
Books
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The Haunted Bookshop
Christopher Morley
1919
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Tales (Black Cat / Colloquy of Monos and Una / Conversation of Eiros and Charmion / Descent Into the Maelström / Fall of the House of Usher / Gold-Bug / Lionizing / Man in the Crowd / Mesmeric Revelation / Murders in the Rue Morgue / Mystery of Marie Roget / Purloined Letter)
Edgar Allan Poe
1845
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The Moonstone
Wilkie Collins
1800
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The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
Robert Louis Stevenson
1875
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The Woman in White
William Collins
1859
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The Works of the Late Edgar Allan Poe in Four Volumes - I - Tales
Edgar Allan Poe
1857
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At War with Society; or, Tales of the Outcasts
James M'Levy
Date unknown
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Tales of Secret Egypt
Sax Rohmer
Date unknown
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The War of the Worlds
H. G. Wells
0 CE
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The House on the Borderland
William Hope Hodgson
1946
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The Works of Edgar Allan Poe - Vol. I
Edgar Allan Poe, John H. Ingram
1874
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The Works of Edgar Allan Poe - Vol. II (Assignation / Balloon-Hoax / Black Cat / Cask of Amontillado / Descent Into the Maelstrom / Facts in the Case of M. Valdemar / Fall of the House of Usher / Gold-Bug / Imp of the Perverse / Island of the Fay / Masque of the Red Death / Mesmeric Revelation / Ms. Found in a Bottle / Murders in the Rue Morgue / Mystery of Marie Roget / Oval Portrait / Pit and the Pendulum / Premature Burial / Purloined Letter / Tell-Tale Heart / Thousand-and-Second Tale of Scheherazade / Unparalleled Adventure of One Hans Pfaall / Von Kempelen and His Discovery)
Edgar Allan Poe
1884
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The Works of Edgar Allan Poe including the choicest of his critical essays [42 stories, 37 poems, 10 essays]
Edgar Allan Poe
1872
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The Camp Fire Girls; Or, The Secret of an Old Mill
Howard Roger Garis, Warren Y Cluff
Date unknown
The Big Sleep
Raymond Chandler
1939
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Short Stories (Black Cat / Descent Into the Maelstrom / Facts in the Case of M. Valdemar / Fall of the House of Usher / Gold Bug / Ligeia / Masque of the Red Death / Ms. Found in a Bottle / Murders in the Rue Morgue / Mystery of Marie Roget / Pit and the Pendulum / Purloined Letter)
Edgar Allan Poe
1845
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Histoires Extraordinaires (Balloon-Hoax / Descent into the Maelstrom / Facts in the Case of M. Valdemar / Gold-Bug / Ligeia / Mesmeric Revelation / Metzengerstein / Morella / MS. Found in a Bottle / Murders in the Rue Morgue / Purloined Letter / Tale of the Ragged Mountains / Unparalleled Adventure of One Hans Pfaall)
Edgar Allan Poe
1857French
The Bad Place
Dean Koontz
1901
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Copper Coleson's Ghost
Edward P Hendrick, Harold James Cue
Date unknown
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Dan Carter and the Haunted Castle
Mildred Mildred Augustine Wirt
Date unknown
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Ghost Beyond the Gate
Mildred Mildred Augustine Wirt
Date unknown
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The Haunted Fountain
Margaret Sutton
Date unknown
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The Magic Curtain
Roy Roy Judson Snell
Date unknown
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The Mystery Hunters at the Haunted Lodge
Capwell Wyckoff
Date unknown