Thomas Bailey Aldrich
The Stillwater Tragedy (novel) 1880

Honoré de Balzac
Illusions perdues (novel) 1843 [Lost Illusions, 1925]

Mary Elizabeth Braddon
Lady Audley's Secret (novel) 1862
A Strange World (novel) 1875
An Open Verdict (novel) 1878
Just As I Am (novel) 1880
Wyllard's Weird (novel) 1885

Edward Bulwer-Lytton
Pelham; or, the Adventures of a Gentleman (novel) 1828
Eugene Aram: A Tale (novel) 1832
Night and Morning (novel) 1841

Wilkie Collins
The Woman in White (novel) 1860
The Moonstone (novel) 1868
The Law and the Lady (novel) 1875

Charles Dickens
Bleak House (novel) 1852-53
The Mystery of Edwin Drood (novel) 1870

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
A Study in Scarlet (novel) 1887
The Sign of Four (novel) 1890
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (short stories) 1892
The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes (short stories) 1893
The Hound of the Baskervilles (novel) 1901-02
The Return of Sherlock Holmes (short stories) 1905
The Valley of Fear (novel) 1914-15
His Last Bow: Some Reminiscences of Sherlock Holmes (short stories) 1917
The Case-Book of Sherlock Holmes (short stories) 1927

Benjamin Leopold Farjeon
119 Great Porter Square (novel) 1881
The Mystery of M. Felix (novel) 1890

Emile Gaboriau
L'affaire Lerouge (novel) 1866 [The Widow Lerouge, 1873]
Le crime d'Orcival (novel) 1867 [The Mystery of Orcival, 1871]
Le dossier no. 113 (novel) 1867 [File No. 133, 1875]
Monsieur Lecoq (novel) 1869 [Monsieur Lecoq, 1880]
Le petit vieux des Batignolles (novella and short stories) 1876 [The Little Old Man of the Batignolles; or, A Chapter from a Detective's Memoirs, 1880]

William Godwin
Things As They Are; or, The Adventures of Caleb Williams (novel) 1794

Anna Katharine Green
The Leavenworth Case: A Lawyer's Story (novel) 1878
A Strange Disappearance (novel) 1880
The Mill Mystery (novel) 1886
Behind Closed Doors (novel) 1888
The Doctor, His Wife, and the Clock (novel) 1895
That Affair Next Door (novel) 1897
Lost Man's Lane: A Second Episode in the Life of Amelia Butterworth (novel) 1898
The Golden Slipper, and Other Problems for Violet Strange (novel) 1915

E. T. A. Hoffmann
*Nachtstücke, herausgegeben von dem Verfasser der Fantasiestücke in Callots Manier. 2 vols. (short stories) 1817
†Die Serapions-Brüder. 4 vols. (short stories) 1819-21; The Serapion Brethren. 2 vols., 1886-92
‡Die letzte Erzählungen von E. T. A. Hoffmann (short stories) 1825

Victor Hugo
Les Misérables (novel) 1862 The Wretched 1863

Fergus Hume
The Mystery of a Hansom Cab (novel) 1888

Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu
Ghost Stories and Tales of Mystery (short stories) 1851
Uncle Silas: A Tale of Bartram-Haugh (novel) 1864
Checkmate (novel) 1871

Arthur Morrison
Martin Hewitt, Investigator (short stories) 1894
Chronicles of Martin Hewitt (short stories) 1895
The Adventures of Martin Hewitt (short stories) 1896

Edgar Allan Poe
§Tales (short stories) 1845
∥Works of Edgar Allan Poe, with Notices of His Life and Genius. 4 vols. [edited by N. P. Willis, J. R. Lowell, and Rufus Wilmot Griswold] (short stories) 1850-56

Matthew Phipps Shiel
Prince Zaleski (short stories) 1895

Robert Louis Stevenson
The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (novel) 1886
The Wrong Box [with Lloyd Osbourne] (novel) 1889

Eugène Sue
Les mystères de Paris. 10 vols. (novel) 1842-43; The Mysteries of Paris, 1896

Eugène François Vidocq
Mémoires de Vidocq: chef de la police de sûreté, jusqu'en 1827, aujourd'hui propriétaire et fabricant de papiers à Saint-Mandé. 4 vols. (memoirs) 1828-29 [Memoirs of Vidocq, Principal Agent of the French Police until 1827, 1828-29]

Mrs. Henry Wood
East Lynne (novel) 1861

Israel Zangwill
The Big Bow Mystery (novel) 1892

*Contains the short story “Das öde Haus.”

†Contains the short story “Das Fräulein von Scuderi.”

‡Contains the short story “Die Marquise de la Pivardière.”

§Contains the short stories “The Murders in the Rue Morgue,” “The Mystery of Marie Rogêt,” “The Purloined Letter,” and “The Gold-Bug.”

∥Contains the short story “Thou Art the Man.”