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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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.
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle | Fiction
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Excellent classic! Download it today!
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.
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.
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.
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.
Raymond Chandler | Fiction Classics
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The classic book, The Big Sleep, by Raymond Chandler.
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".
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.
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.
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.
