Detective fiction is a subgenre of crime fiction and mystery fiction in which an investigator or a detectiveeither professional, amateur or retiredinvestigates a crime, often murder. The detective genre began around the same time as speculative fiction and other genre fiction in the mid-nineteenth century and has remained extremely popular. Join the world's most famous researchers in this seven short stories selected by critic August Nemo: – The Red-Headed League by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle – The Blue Cross by G. K. Chesterton – Traces of Crime by Mary Fortune – The Purloined Letter by Edgar Allan Poe – The Case of the Dixon Torpedo by Arthur Morrison – The Coin Of Dionysius by Ernest Bramah – The Crooked Man by Arthur Conan Doyle For more books with interesting themes, be sure to check the other books in this collection!
