Hamlet
William Shakespeare
1877 · 1899 edition
228 pages
Free murder books
A murder sits at the center of these books. Someone is dead, and everything that follows turns on who did it, why, and what it does to those left behind. You will find classic whodunits, dark psychological novels and true cases reconstructed in detail. This list shows the ones you can read in full for free.
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The Complete Works of William Shakespeare
William Shakespeare
1598 · 1892 edition
478 pages
Adventures of Sherlock Holmes
Arthur Conan Doyle
Published 1893
330 pages
McTeague
Frank Norris
Published 1899
476 pages
The Works of Edgar Allan Poe
Edgar Allan Poe
Published 1871
526 pages
Strictly ghetto property; the story of Los Siete de la Raza
Marjorie Heins
Published 1972
324 pages
Celebrated Crimes
Alexandre Dumas
Published 1895
288 pages
Tess of the D'Urbervilles
Thomas Hardy
Published 1893
512 pages
Questions and Answers in Lethal and Non-Lethal Violence
Carolyn Rebecca Block, Richard L. Block
Published 1994
141 pages
Nordic Homicide in Deep Time
Janne Kivivuori
Published 2022
357 pages
The Headless Horseman
Mayne Reid
Published 1892
522 pages
Preliminary Investigation and Trial of Ambroise D. Lepine for the Murder of Thomas Scott
Elliott, Ambroise Dydime Lepine, Brokovski
Published 1874
150 pages
Uncle Silas
Sheridan Le Fanu
1865 · 1871 edition
480 pages
Mysteries of Crime, as Shown in Remarkable Capital Trials
Member of the Massachusetts Bar
Published 1870
466 pages
A Treatise on the Law of Homicide
James Manford Kerr
Published 1891
720 pages
A Treatise on the Law of Homicide in the United States
Francis Wharton
Published 1875
856 pages
Lives and Exploits of the Most Noted Highwaymen, Robbers and Murderers, of All Nations
Charles Whitehead
Published 1854
306 pages
Murder in All Ages
Matthew Worth Pinkerton
Published 1898
638 pages
The marble faun, or, The romance of Monte Beni
Nathaniel Hawthorne
Published 1883
34 pages
The Works of Mr. William Shakespear
William Shakespeare
Published 1709
560 pages
Who Committed the Great Coram-Street Murder? An Original Investigation. The Track Shown; the Criminal Indicated
Waldemar Fitzroy Peacock
Published 1873
26 pages
Punjab Poisons
T. E. B. Brown
Published 1888
238 pages
The Clan-Na-Gael and the Murder of Dr. Cronin
John T. McEnnis
Published 1889
540 pages
Trial of Israel Thayer, Jr., Isaac Thayer, and Nelson Thayer, for the Murder of John Love, at the Court of Oyer and Terminer of Erie County
James Sheldon, Israel Thayer
Published 1825
60 pages