Books

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Title	Authors	Description	OpenBook ID
The Complete Casebook of Herlock Sholmes	Charles Hamilton	A collection of Sherlock Holmes pastiches.	OL10553048W
Here comes the copper	Henry Wade	Unlike Wade's mysteries with his series detective Inspector Poole, this book is set of short whodunnits, each chapter covering a crime investigated by an ambitious young policeman who hopes someday t…	OL10563314W
Tales of Mystery and Horror	Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell	> Admirers of Mrs. Gaskell's immensely popular novel Cranford may not realize that the celebrated Victorian novelist also wrote short stories of a high quality. The seven stories in the present vol…	OL1103178W
Sight for Sore Eyes, A	Ruth Rendell	Damaged children grow up in different ways. Some can shuffle off the horrors of the past. Others cannot change who they are, or will never know how. Teddy Grex became a handsome young man. Francine H…	OL12106W
Piranha to Scurfy	Ruth Rendell	In these pages, internationally celebrated novelist Ruth Rendell, author of Harm Done, offers a collection of unforgettable stories evocative of Edgar Allan Poe, Stephen King, and other masters of th…	OL12139W
La Pipe de Maigret	Georges Simenon	From amazon.com: "Prewar Paris - where buses still sported outside platforms and every neighborhood its own bistro, policemen took time for human problems, and car fumes hadn't yet smothered the smel…	OL1242834W
The Old Man in the Corner	Emmuska Orczy, Baroness Orczy	The Old Man (Bill Owen) sits in a cheap restaurant frequented by journalists and plays with a bit of string, which he ties into elaborate knots as he talks. Addressing himself to Polly Burton, a youn…	OL1253282W
The chronicles of Sherlock Holmes	Paul D. Gilbert	Dr John Watson reveals unchronicled cases only previously alluded to: The Baron Maupertuis, The Remarkable Disappearance of James Phillimore, The Aluminium Crutch, The Abominable Wife, The Cutter ALI…	OL13839258W
Sherlock Holmes	H. R. F. Keating	See https://openlibrary.org/works/OL14855633W	OL14855604W
Ask A Policeman	Gladys Mitchell,Milward Kennedy,Anthony Berkeley,Dorothy L. Sayers,Helen Simpson,The Detection Club,Helen Simpson,Agatha Christie,Martin Edwards,Cecil John Charles Street	**Lord Comstock is a barbarous newspaper tycoon with enemies in high places. His murder in the study of his country house poses a dilemma for the Home Secretary. In the hours before his death, Lord C…	OL14873777W
The Extraordinary Cases of Sherlock Holmes (Adventure of the Blue Carbuncle / Adventure of the Danc…	Arthur Conan Doyle	[Adventure of the Speckled Band](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL262561W/Adventure_of_the_Speckled_Band) [Adventure of the Blue Carbuncle](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL1518317W/Adventure_of_the_B…	OL14930075W
Sherlock Holmes Stories (Adventure of Shoscombe Old Place / Adventure of the Bruce-Partington Plans…	Arthur Conan Doyle	[Red-Headed League](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL262476W/The_Red-Headed_League) [Man with the Twisted Lip](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL14930258W/Man_With_the_Twisted_Lip) [Adventure of the S…	OL14930296W
Stranded	Val McDermid	'There are stories here which will make you shudder, and which will linger long in the mind' Ian Rankin Passion. Obsession. Revenge. A stunning collection of chilling short stories from the queen of …	OL15011214W
Favorite Sherlock Holmes Detective Stories (Adventure of the Crooked Man / Adventure of the Dancing…	Arthur Conan Doyle	Throughout the annals of literature there is one detective who reigns supreme - Mr. Sherlock Holmes of 212 Baker Street, London. From that celebrated address, Holmes and his friend Dr. Watson set out…	OL1518175W
The Black Mask: Further Adventure of the Amateur Cracksman	E. W. Hornung	First published in 1901, The Black Mask is the second collection of stories detailing the exploits and intrigues of gentleman thief A. J. Raffles in late Victorian London. Raffles was E. W. Hornung's…	OL15181943W
Silver Blaze	Arthur Conan Doyle	When a horse called Silver Blaze, the favourite to win the Wessex Cup, disappears in mysterious circumstances and its trainer is murdered, the story is front page news. But is Fitzroy Simpson the mur…	OL1518358W
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's Celebrated Cases of Sherlock Holmes [18 stories]	Arthur Conan Doyle	Contains: [Scandal in Bohemia](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL14930611W/A_Scandal_in_Bohemia) [Red-Headed League](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL262476W/The_Red-Headed_League) [Case of Identity]…	OL1518360W
Murder in Baker Street	Jon L. Lellenberg,Arthur Conan Doyle,Martin H. Greenberg,Howard Engel,Gillian Linscott,Daniel Stashower,Stuart M. Kaminsky,Anne Perry,Jon L. Breen,Lloyd Rose,Loren D. Estleman,Peter Berresford Ellis,Carolyn Wheat,Edward D. Hoch,L. B. Greenwood,Bill Crider	The man from Capetown / Stuart M. Kaminsky -- The case of the Borderland dandelions / Howard Engel -- The siren of Sennen Cove / Peter Tremayne -- The case of the bloodless sock / Anne Perry -- T…	OL15848489W
The Arbor House treasury of mystery and suspense	Martin H. Greenberg,Mark Twain,Edgar Allan Poe,Bill Pronzini,Barry N. Malzberg	Contains: The gold-bug by Edgar Allan Poe Hunted down by Charles Dickens The stolen white elephant by Mark Twain Ransom by Pearl S. Buck The adventure of the glass-domed clock by Ellery Queen T…	OL16479379W
The Improbable Adventures of Sherlock Holmes	Chris Roberson,Anthony Burgess,Tim Lebbon,Naomi Novik,Dominic Green,Stephen Baxter,Laurie R. King,Stephen King,Darrell Schweitzer,Vonda N. McIntyre,Robert J. Sawyer,Tanith Lee,H. Paul Jeffers,Anne Perry,Barbara Roden,Bradley H. Sinor,Barbara Hambly,Sharyn McCrumb,Mark Valentine,Geoffrey A. Landis,Christopher Roden,Amy Myers,Peter Berresford Ellis,Michael Moorcock,Neil Gaiman,Rob Rogers,Edward D. Hoch,Mary Robinette Kowal,John Joseph Adams,Tony Pi	A Sherlockiana primer / Christopher Roden -- [The doctor's case / Stephen King][1] -- The horror of the many faces / Tim Lebbon -- The case of the bloodless sock / Anne Perry -- The adventure of …	OL16960410W