Library of the World's Best Mystery and Detective Stories

Poe's chilling first-person confession of guilt, alcoholism, and supernatural revenge. A short tale that fuses gothic horror with a hidden crime brought to light by the cat itself.

Edgar Allan Poe

Hercule Poirot's first case, set in a country house where the wealthy mistress is poisoned. The novel that launched the golden age of the detective genre, told as a structured whodunit with every clue available to the reader.

Agatha Christie

The first true detective story ever written. Poe's amateur sleuth Dupin solves a locked-room double murder in Paris and invents every convention later used by Holmes and Poirot.

Edgar Allan Poe

A guest watches an isolated family fall apart in a crumbling mansion that mirrors their decay. Less a mystery than a slow-burning psychological puzzle from one of the genre's founders.

Edgar Allan Poe