PDF Books in Crime Fiction
The Valley of Fear
by Arthur Conan DoyleThe Valley of Fear is another crime novel written by Arthur Conan Doyle, a Scottish writer and the creator of world famous detective characters Sherlock Holmes and Professor Challenger. His long arrays of literary works written in many genres include The lost World, The Sign of the Four, The Hound of the Baskervilles and The Adventures of Sherlock ..
The Monk - A Romance
by Matthew Gregory LewisThe Monk: A Romance is a gothic novel written by Matthew Gregory Lewis, an English writer of novels and plays, notable among them are The Castle Spectre, Tales of Wonder, The Bravo of Venice, and My Uncle’s Garret Window. This novel narrates the story of a disposed child, Ambrosio who rises to become a celebrated Priest, end up with the steep fa..
The Crime Club
by William Holt WhiteThe Crime Club is a crime thriller novel written by English novelist William Edward Bradden Holt-White, who has written many novels such as The Earthquake. A romance of London, The Man Who Stole the Earth, Helen of All Time, and The Man Who Dreamed Right. The Crime Club narrates the story of Sir Paul Westerham, who is in a dilemma of inheriting ..
To Be Read at Dusk
by Charles DickensTo Be Read at Dusk (1852) is a short story written by Charles Dickens, and was first published in Heath's Keepsake. In the text, five couriers talking amongst themselves outside a convent on the summit of the Great St Bernard Pass are overheard by the narrator as two of their group's members relate short ghost stories; one of a woman who abandons h..
Prey on the Prowl - A Crime Novel
by BS Murthy‘Prey on the Prowl’ was born out of my conviction that for fiction to impact readers, it should be the soulful rendering of characters rooted in their native soil but not the hotchpotch of local and foreign caricatures sketched on a hybrid canvas.Even as Detective Dhruva was enamored of Kavya, whom he rescues from her kidnapper, Radha, an alleged m..
The Conspirators
by Alexandre DumasThe Conspirators is a novel written by Alexandre Dumas and Auguste Maquet, published in 1843. Dumas reworked a preliminary version by Maquet; this was the beginning of their collaboration which was to produce eighteen novels and many plays. The dramatisation of the novel – in five acts, a prologue and ten tableaux – was first performed on 16 July 1..
Mary Stuart
by Alexandre DumasMary Stuart was first published as part of his eight-volume series “Celebrated Crimes” (1839 – 1840), and recounts the fascinating story of Mary Queen of Scots from her early childhood to her abdication, exile in England, and execution. Told by the master story-teller Alexandre Dumas, “Mary Stuart” constitutes a thrilling and highly entertaining re..
Martin Guerre
by Alexandre DumasMartin Guerre is a novel written by Alexandre Dumas which is part of his work Celebrated Crimes. Martin Guerre, a French peasant of the 16th century, was at the center of a famous case of imposture. Several years after Martin Guerre had left his wife, child, and village, a man claiming to be him reappeared. He lived with Guerre's wife and son ..