The Blithedale romance
Nathaniel Hawthorne
Published 1852
308 pages
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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The Works of Edgar Allan Poe
Edgar Allan Poe
Published 1871
526 pages
Monsieur Judas
Fergus Hume
Published 1896
196 pages
One Night's Mystery
May Agnes Fleming
Published 1876
460 pages
The Joker
Edgar Wallace
Published 1926
328 pages
A Strange Story
Baron Edward Bulwer Lytton Lytton
1861 · 1887 edition
424 pages
The Life and Adventures of Robinson Crusoe, Mariner, of Hull
Daniel Defoe
Published 1882
444 pages
The Works of Charles Lamb ...
Charles Lamb
1880 · 1889 edition
814 pages
De officiis
Marcus Tullius Cicero, Henry Ellis Allen, Charles Anthon
1825 · 1881 edition
334 pages
Phineas Finn, the Irish Member
Anthony Trollope, Restoration Restoration Editors
Published 1869
328 pages
Myths and Marvels of Astronomy
Richard Anthony Proctor
Published 1877
382 pages
Dr. Chase's Recipes; Or, Information for Everybody
Alvin Wood Chase
1866 · 1871 edition
398 pages
Reflections on Organization; Or, Suggestions for the Construction of an Organic Atomic Theory
Henry Freke
Published 1848
96 pages
Dombey and son
Charles Dickens
Published 1871
1286 pages
The Memoirs of a Physician
Henry Williams, Alexandre Dumas
1893 · 1894 edition
438 pages
The Three Musketeers
Alexandre Dumas
Published 1893
872 pages
The Water-witch
James Fenimore Cooper
Published 1872
462 pages
Picked Up Adrift
James De Mille
Published 1872
358 pages
Cosmos
Alexander von Humboldt, William Sweetland Dallas, Elise C. Otté, E C. Otté, Allyne Litchfield Merrill, B H. Paul
1848 · 1868 edition
232 pages
So Fair, Yet False; Or, "Pourquoi?"
Eugène Chavette, O. Vibeur
Published 1874
386 pages
Colomba
Prosper Mérimée
Published 1891
204 pages
The Bradys in Washington; Or, Working for the President
Published 1900
36 pages
Septimius Felton ; Or, the Elixir of Life
Nathaniel Hawthorne, Taylor Anderson
Published 1876
228 pages
The Conjure Woman
Charles Waddell Chesnutt
Published 1899
248 pages