Best Crime Books Ever
This is one of the most popular book genres - Isn't? Who doesn't love reading a book with tons of twists and turns in every turn of the page? Here are our Best Crime Books of all time.
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The Moonstone
Wilkie Collins | Mystery Classics
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Franklin Blake gives his beloved, Rachel Verinder a moonstone gem which soon disappears, but Franklin resolves to solve the mystery of the missing gem.
The Hound of the Baskervilles
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle | Fiction
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Excellent classic! Download it today!
The Trial
Franz Kafka | Humanities and Arts
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The Trial (German: Der Process) is a novel by Franz Kafka about a character named Josef K., who awakens one morning and, for reasons never revealed, is arrested and prosecuted for an unspecified crime. According to Kafka's friend Max Brod, the author never finished the novel and wrote in his will that it was to be destroyed. After his death, Brod went against Kafka's wishes and edited The Trial into what he felt was a coherent novel and had it published in 1925.
The Innocence of Father Brown
G. K. Chesterton | Mystery Classics
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The beloved fictional detective Father Brown solves 12 of his most puzzling cases in this copiously annotated edition.
The Woman in White
Wilkie Collins | Mystery Classics
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Walter Hartright encounters a mysterious woman dressed entirely in white, whom he later discovers escaped from an insane asylum.
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle | Mystery Classics
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Twelve fascinating stories recount the investigations of Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson as they try to solve crimes in Victorian London.
The Big Sleep
Raymond Chandler | Fiction Classics
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The classic book, The Big Sleep, by Raymond Chandler.
The Murders in the Rue Morgue
Edgar Allan Poe | Short Stories Classics
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"The Murders in the Rue Morgue" is a short story by Edgar Allan Poe published in Graham's Magazine in 1841. It has been claimed as the first detective story; Poe referred to it as one of his "tales of ratiocination".
Crime and Punishment
Fyodor Dostoevsky | Fiction Classics
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Raskolnikov kills two people in the belief that some people are "extraordinary" and have the right to kill others in order to improve the state of the world.
Armadale
Wilkie Collins | Fiction Classics
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Allen Armadale murders the father of his cousin who is also named Allen Armadale, and he eventually confesses to the crime.
The Old Man in the Corner
Baroness Orczy | Mystery Classics
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A nameless, eccentric old man, sitting in the corner of a London tea shop, uses pure deduction to solve a series of baffling crimes.
