Classic Mysteries

Updated July 11, 2025
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The big sleep
Chandler, Raymond
Paper Book
Published in 1939, this is Raymond Chandler's first novel and features Philip Marlowe, the neat, clean, shaved and sober man who was everything the well-dressed detective should be. Raymond Chandler wrote three other classic novels- Farewell my Lovely, The Lady in the Lakeand The Long...
And then there were none
Christie, Agatha
Paper Book
A collectable hardback of the world's best-selling crime novel, with a facsimile of the first jacket design from 1939 to bear the legendary title 'And Then There Were None'. Ten strangers, apparently with little in common, are lured to an island mansion off the coast of Devon by the mysterious U.N...
The moonstone
Collins, Wilkie
Paper Book
At a party celebrating her eighteenth birthday, Rachel Verinder wears the stunning yellow diamond she unexpectedly inherited from her uncle, Colonel John Herncastle. She is not aware that the precious gem, known as the Moonstone, was plundered from a sacred Hindu shrine in southern India where...
The name of the rose
Eco, Umberto.
Paper Book
Now available from HarperVia in a deluxe paperback edition featuring never-before-seen illustrations by the author, the beloved internationally bestselling historical mystery about a brilliant monk called upon to solve a series of baffling murders in a fourteenth-century Italian abbey ...
Celebrated cases of Judge Dee = Dee goong an an authentic eighteenth-century Chinese detective novel
Gulik, Robert Hans van, 1910-1967
Paper Book
Long before Western writers had even conceived the idea of writing detective stories, the Chinese had developed a long tradition of literary works that chronicled the cases of important district magistrates. These judges held a unique position. As "fathers to the people" they...
The Maltese falcon
Anobile, Richard J.
Paper Book
Lord Peter a collection of all the Lord Peter Wimsey stories.
Sayers, Dorothy L. (Dorothy Leigh), 1893-1957.
Paper Book
One of the founding mothers of mystery, Dorothy L. Sayers first introduced the popular character Lord Peter Wimsey in 1923 with the publication of Whose Body? Over the next twenty years, more novels and short stories about the aristocratic amateur sleuth appeared, each one as cunningly written as...

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