Mystery Stories
Mystery stories offer readers the chance to solve a 'whodunnit' in a short story format, often a more intense drama than a longer Detective Novel. Featured mystery writers:
- Edgar Allan Poe (invented detective story genre)
- Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (creator of Sherlock Holmes)
- Mary Roberts Rinehart (the American Agatha Christie)
- R. Austin Freeman (created "inverted" detective stories)
- W.F. Harvey
- Susan Glaspell
- Robert Barr
- Mary E. Wilkins Freeman
- Richard Connell
- G.K. Chesterton (Father Brown stories)
- Nathaniel Hawthorne
Detective Novels
You may also enjoy these collections:
Gothic, Ghost, Horror & Weird Library
Science Fiction Stories
Dystopian Stories
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