Free crime & mystery books

Crime and mystery books start with a crime or a puzzle and follow the effort to solve it. You read alongside detectives, amateurs and sometimes the culprits themselves, weighing clues and suspects until the truth comes out. The genre runs from gentle village mysteries to hard-edged police procedurals and noir. This list shows the ones you can read in full for free.

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Little Women
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Little Women

Louisa May Alcott

1884 · 1896 edition

256 pages

Jane Eyre
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Jane Eyre

Charlotte Brontë

Published 1895

516 pages

Hamlet
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Hamlet

William Shakespeare

1877 · 1899 edition

228 pages

Emma
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Emma

Jane Austen

Published 1892

646 pages

Il principe
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Il principe

Niccolò Machiavelli

Published 1891

468 pages

Paradise Lost
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Paradise Lost

John Milton

1850 · 1892 edition

308 pages

Middlemarch
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Middlemarch

George Eliot

Published 1873

308 pages

Antigone
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Antigone

Sophocles, E. A. Sophocles, Griffith, Mark, Ph. D.

1758 · 1888 edition

216 pages

The Divine Comedy
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The Divine Comedy

Dante Alighieri

1870 · 1895 edition

780 pages

Æneid
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Æneid

Virgil

1839 · 1886 edition

160 pages

The Jungle Book
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The Jungle Book

Rudyard Kipling

Published 1894

230 pages