Browse 27 free Mystery books you can read online right now — every one a public-domain classic, written between 1859 and 1920. Authors include Robert W. Chambers, Thomas Peckett Prest, Austin Bidwell, and Ann Ward Radcliffe, and more. Standout mystery reads: The King in Yellow, The String of Pearls, and Bidwell's Travels, from Wall Street to London Prison. Read any title in your browser, or download a free EPUB, PDF, or Kindle copy from Project Gutenberg.
The King in Yellow by Robert W. Chambers is a public-domain mystery work, free to read online in full. One of Project Gutenberg's most-downloaded titles. It is catalogued under Horror tales, American. A full text excerpt is included below, with EPUB and Kindle editions. Read free →
The String of Pearls by Thomas Peckett Prest is a public-domain mystery work, free to read online in full. One of Project Gutenberg's most-downloaded titles. It is catalogued under Horror tales. A full text excerpt is included below, with EPUB and Kindle editions. Read free →
Bidwell's Travels, from Wall Street to London Prison by Austin Bidwell is a public-domain mystery work, free to read online in full. One of Project Gutenberg's most-downloaded titles. It is catalogued under Bank fraud, England. A full text excerpt is included below, with EPUB and Kindle editions. Read free →
The Mysteries of Udolpho by Ann Ward Radcliffe is a public-domain mystery work, free to read online in full. One of Project Gutenberg's most-downloaded titles. It is catalogued under Horror tales. A full text excerpt is included below, with EPUB and Kindle editions. Read free →
The Secret of Chimneys by Agatha Christie is a public-domain mystery work, free to read online in full. One of Project Gutenberg's most-downloaded titles. It is catalogued under Detective and mystery stories. A full text excerpt is included below, with EPUB and Kindle editions. Read free →
Carmen by Prosper Mérimée is a public-domain mystery work, free to read online in full. One of Project Gutenberg's most-downloaded titles. A full text excerpt is included below, with EPUB and Kindle editions. Read free →
The Green Mummy by Fergus Hume is a public-domain mystery work, free to read online in full. One of Project Gutenberg's most-downloaded titles. It is catalogued under Detective and mystery stories. A full text excerpt is included below, with EPUB and Kindle editions. Read free →
Under the Red Dragon by James Grant is a public-domain mystery work, free to read online in full. One of Project Gutenberg's most-downloaded titles. A full text excerpt is included below, with EPUB and Kindle editions. Read free →
That Girl Montana by Marah Ellis Ryan is a public-domain mystery work, free to read online in full. One of Project Gutenberg's most-downloaded titles. It is catalogued under Western stories. A full text excerpt is included below, with EPUB and Kindle editions. Read free →
Poirot Investigates by Agatha Christie is a public-domain mystery work, free to read online in full. One of Project Gutenberg's most-downloaded titles. It is catalogued under Detective and mystery stories, English. A full text excerpt is included below, with EPUB and Kindle editions. Read free →
The Man in the Brown Suit by Agatha Christie is a public-domain mystery work, free to read online in full. One of Project Gutenberg's most-downloaded titles. It is catalogued under Detective and mystery stories. A full text excerpt is included below, with EPUB and Kindle editions. Read free →
The Murder on the Links by Agatha Christie is a public-domain mystery work, free to read online in full. One of Project Gutenberg's most-downloaded titles. It is catalogued under Detective and mystery stories. A full text excerpt is included below, with EPUB and Kindle editions. Read free →
One of the Six Hundred by James Grant is a public-domain mystery work, free to read online in full. One of Project Gutenberg's most-downloaded titles. A full text excerpt is included below, with EPUB and Kindle editions. Read free →
Whose Body? A Lord Peter Wimsey Novel by Dorothy L. Sayers is a public-domain mystery work, free to read online in full. One of Project Gutenberg's most-downloaded titles. It is catalogued under Detective and mystery stories. A full text excerpt is included below, with EPUB and Kindle editions. Read free →
The Rover Boys on the Farm by Edward Stratemeyer is a public-domain mystery work, free to read online in full. One of Project Gutenberg's most-downloaded titles. A full text excerpt is included below, with EPUB and Kindle editions. Read free →
Changeling, and Other Stories by Donn Byrne is a public-domain mystery work, free to read online in full. One of Project Gutenberg's most-downloaded titles. It is catalogued under Short stories, Irish. A full text excerpt is included below, with EPUB and Kindle editions. Read free →
Minute Mysteries by H. A. Ripley is a public-domain mystery work, free to read online in full. One of Project Gutenberg's most-downloaded titles. It is catalogued under Detective and mystery stories. A full text excerpt is included below, with EPUB and Kindle editions. Read free →
The Mystery of Edwin Drood by Charles Dickens is a public-domain mystery work, free to read online in full. One of Project Gutenberg's most-downloaded titles. A full text excerpt is included below, with EPUB and Kindle editions. Read free →
The Silent Barrier by Louis Tracy is a public-domain mystery work, free to read online in full. One of Project Gutenberg's most-downloaded titles. It is catalogued under Adventure stories. A full text excerpt is included below, with EPUB and Kindle editions. Read free →
A drawing master's chance meeting with a fugitive woman in white unravels a conspiracy of stolen identity and inheritance. Read free →
Often called the first English detective novel: a cursed Indian diamond vanishes, and many narrators piece together the theft. Read free →
The first Sherlock Holmes novel. Dr. Watson meets Holmes and they investigate a mysterious murder together. Read free →
Sherlock Holmes investigates a case involving a stolen treasure, a secret pact, and a mysterious one-legged man with a poisoned dart. Read free →
A collection of twelve stories featuring the legendary detective Sherlock Holmes and his companion Dr. Watson. Read free →
Sherlock Holmes investigates the legend of a demonic hound terrorizing the Baskerville family on the moorlands of Devon. Read free →
A poet-turned-detective infiltrates a secret anarchist council where each member is named after a day of the week. A metaphysical thriller. Read free →
Agatha Christie's debut novel introduces Hercule Poirot investigating a poisoning at an English country manor. The birth of detective fiction's greatest sleuth. Read free →
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