101 Mystery & Detective Classics You Should Read Before You Die

This collection includes the great masterpieces of thriller and mystery every fan of the genre should experience:

Agatha Christie:

The Mysterious Affair at Styles

The Murder on the Links

The Secret Adversary

The Man in the Brown Suit

The Secret of Chimneys

The Murder of Roger Ackroyd

Edgar Allan Poe:

The Murders in the Rue Morgue

The Masque of the Red Death

The Fall of the House of Usher

The Tell-Tale Heart

The Cask of Amontillado

The Purloined Letter

Arthur Conan Doyle:

A Study in Scarlet

The Sign of Four

The Valley of Fear

The Hound of the Baskervilles

Sherlock Holmes Stories

G. K. Chesterton:

Father Brown Mysteries

The Man Who Knew Too Much

The Man Who Was Thursday

Wilkie Collins:

The Woman in White

The Moonstone

Charles Dickens:

Bleak House

Great Expectations

The Mystery of Edwin Drood

Jane Eyre (Charlotte Brontë)

Wuthering Heights (Emily Brontë)

Tenant of Wildfel Hall (Anne Brontë)

The Secret Garden (Frances Hodgson Burnett)

Tess of the D'Urbervilles (Thomas Hardy)

Heart of Darkness (Joseph Conrad)

Nostromo (Joseph Conrad)

Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde (Robert Louis Stevenson)

Treasure Island (Robert Louis Stevenson)

Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea (Jules Verne)

The Mysterious Island (Jules Verne)

The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (Mark Twain)

Tom Sawyer, Detective (Mark Twain)

The Turn of the Screw (Henry James)

The Wings of the Dove (Henry James)

Crime and Punishment (Fyodor Dostoyevsky)

The Double (Fyodor Dostoyevsky)

The Shooting Party (Anton Chekhov)

The Mysterious Portrait (Nikolai Gogol)

Guy Mannering (Walter Scott)

Moll Flanders (Daniel Defoe)

The Great Gatsby (F. Scott Fitzgerald)

The Plumed Serpent (D. H. Lawrence)

The Picture of Dorian Gray (Oscar Wilde)

The Invisible Man (H. G. Wells)

The Four Just Men (Edgar Wallace)

The Clue of the Twisted Candle (Edgar Wallace)

The Red Thumb Mark (R. Austin Freeman)

The Leavenworth Case (Anna Katharine Green)

That Affair Next Door (Anna Katharine Green)

The Bat (Mary Roberts Rinehart)