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Thrill, crime, suspense and investigation stories always entice everyone. Crime and mystery is a literary genre that fictionalizes criminals, their motives and crime. Mystery and suspense are the key elements of any crime story. Crime and mystery books online is divided into various sub-genres like legal thrillers, courtroom drama, detective fiction and so on. Most of the crime and mystery books online mainly focus on investigation. The genre of crime and mystery has psychological impacts on its readers as it enables them to become witnesses to a crime. Readers of crime and mystery books escape from their personal lives and crime fiction is said to improve mental health and is considered as a treatment to avert depression.
 

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Crime and mystery books is one the biggest selling literary genres. We all enjoy reading about murders, solving of mysteries and about criminals. One of the earliest and most popular crime fiction book is the series of ‘Sherlock Holmes’ stories written by Sir Arthur Canon Doyle. Crime and mystery books online follow some conventions like along the way there will be an event or a crime that will result in death or murder. The protagonist will be a detective, a civilian or an investigator who will bring culprits to the book. Crime and mystery books online give this genre a platform to explore wide variety of themes like the corruption of authority, race, gender equality etc. pick up your favorite crime and mystery book online on Bookswagon and enjoy reading.

• An invention of twelve stories, The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes is the third book in the first Sherlock Holmes series. It brings out the encounters of the famous detective Sherlock Holmes, a sociopath, as he attempts to disentangle the mystery of every investigation he participates in. Set in late nineteenth-century London, the novel makes a fruitful thrilling plot, yet is located in real areas like Hyde Park, the stream Thames, St George's Church in Hanover Square along with fictitious spots to zest things up. The dynamic repeating representations of London's method of transportation are likewise significant. The first story of the series begins in the renowned apartment 221B Baker Street, home to Sherlock Holmes who is visited by clients needing help with settling different issues. Sherlock Holmes does something amazing to track down a sensible answer for every secret. Described through the viewpoint of Dr. Watson, Holmes's companion and a dear friend, he monitors him as he accompanies or is given a full record of the succession of occasions encompassing examination. Watson then reports each experience and offers it to the readers which get published as journals of Holmes' accomplishments. This kind of portrayal upgrades the atmosphere of the mystery of each case due to the periodic missing details and leaves the reader pondering the following strategy. Strangely, Holmes offers intelligent clarifications for every one of his answers. Family fortune, notoriety, societal position, and moral shortcoming are a portion of the subjects. Doyle creates in his novels both anticipation and secret. Doyle's utilization of nineteenth-century English vernaculars ends up being admired by the readers yet he successfully follows a clear writing style that is simple to be followed. For those who are about to venture into the reading experience with the line smoking, violin-playing investigator, this is only the start of a journey of a lifetime.

• Miss or Mrs.?  a story by Wilkie Collins and it is originally printed in 1872. Primarily, this book is about a 38-year-old man about to marry a 15-16 year old girl in 1880, England. The girl wants her cousin who is in his early twenties. She is assured to marry the cousin secretly through posting of the banner in a remote area where no one will know to context the marriage. It is a tale of true love, greed, dark deeds and secret marriage. Evidently, there is an abduction law for girls under 15 so she can leave with her new husband. Collins has imagined one of the most weak leading ladies in Victorian fiction. The heroine of Miss or Mrs.? Natalie, is the daughter of wealthy Sir Joseph Graybrook. She has two lovers fighting for her attention. Richard Turlington observes his business falling and designs plans to save it that carry blackmail, attempted murder, and fraud. There is also a murderous sea captain in this story. This entire novel might be build in architectural style from its events by Collins.

• My Lady's Money is a social parody about the robbery. A monetary certificate from the bank is taken from Lady Lydiard, and an unacceptable individual is thought of. To find the genuine criminal, Robert Moody, who is infatuated with Lady Lydiard's little girl Isabel who is taken care of by her, draws in a messy agent, Old Sharon. The clever mixes investigator fiction with social parody.

• Jezebel's Daughter, printed in 1880, is a Victorian thriller from Wilkie Collins. Based in the 1858 play 'The Red Vial', it is a story of fraud, betrayal and mystery based around Mrs. Fontaine, a disturbing widow who employs various poisons and remedies to control her family and friends. A talented chemist and a shrewd businessman die on the same day. Mrs. Fontaine, widow of the chemist, is leave with the poisons he was researching, while Mrs. Wagner is leave with her husband's reforms and plans for hiring women staff along with men in his firm. Mrs. Wagner trusts in dealing madman gently and appeals for the funny little man Jack Straw to be released from the madhouse. At that time, her nephew David Glenny is appointed to the Frankfurt office, where he works with Mr. Keller and Mr. Engelmann. Keller son, Fritz has enamoured with Minna Fontaine, but the marriage is not being approved of by his father because Mrs. Fontaine is in debt after  her husband's death. The story is  narrated by Mrs. Wagner's nephew David  Glenny, and enriched with extracts from the letters and diaries of different characters. Supposed to have been responsible for her husband's downfall, Madame Fontaine becomes known as Jezebel, and her charming daughter is known as Jezebel's daughter. 

• The Guilty River is a short novel, written by Wilkie Collins, late in his career. It was previously published as the 1886 Arrowsmith's Christmas Annual. The psychological impact of  physical disability of a deaf man and love between a rich young man and low social status woman is the theme of this novel. The guilty river is the unattractive, filthiest stream in England. It passes by an old mill where the miller, his beautiful daughter, and a deaf lodger lived. The wealthy young man of the place, returns to his territory, after being absent for years. Accidentally he meets, this lodger and comes to know his peculiar story. Gerard and Cristal fall in love, sustaing lodger's enviousness.

• One of the earliest and satisfactory english detective novels, "the moonstone" by wilkie collins is unlike every other thriller you may ever examine. Lady rachel verinder gets a gift from her deceased uncle on her 18th birthday: the moonstone, a very huge, wonderful yellow diamond, whitch he stole from a shrine in india in the course of a navy operation. The diamond is supposedly cursed via the 3 clergymen who had been entrusted with its care. They comply with the moonstone, which travels with rachel's cousin franklin to england. On the night rachel gets the diamond, it's far stolen. A detective from scotland yard is called into the manor to investigate, however the clues are few, and anyone has a strong alibi. The identity of the thief stays a baffling mystery till the very stop, as the events main as much as and at once after the robbery are acknowledged in detail by way of each member of the household.

• Hilda Wade- A Woman With Tenacity of Purpose is a mystery novel, written by Grant Allen. As a female protagonist author had written this delightful, interesting, detective novel. It was author's last book, due to illness he could not complete the last chapter. So Arthur Conan Doyle, his writer friend completed it. Arthur is also famous for his detective stories. The novel was published in 1899, popularly termed as a New Woman Novel. Hilda Wade is dutiful professionally good nurse. She joins Dr. Hubert Cumberledge's hospital in London. Doctor praises her qualities and becomes her true friend. Hilda has one purpose in her life. She acts as detective and saves her life from prime suspects. She flees from London to South Africa, India,Tibet, Nepal and back. She gets full support of Dr. Cumberledge. 

• The novel Monsieur Lecoq is a novel written by Emile Gobariau a French author, regarded as 'father of detective novels'. Gobariau introduced this character Lecoq, first time in his novel,'L'Affaire Lerogue, published in 1866. In this novel Lecoq plays a minor role later it became a well-known name in detective novels. In 1869 the novel Monsieur Lecoq  was published in two parts. It's a story related with investigation of three murders in a suspecting barroom in Paris. Police patrolling party, Patrolling officer Gevrol investigates it as a barroom squabble and prepares his report. But Lecoq a young police detective finds some clues that indicates it's not mere a barroom brawl but more than that. Later, Lecoq seeks permission to investigate the case. It's a tricky tale of three powerful families of France during Napoleon's downfall, showing us consequences of greed and revenge. To solve the mystery Lecoq seeks advice from old M. Tabaret.

• The Great Secret - The story includes an international conspiracy. The pretty American young lady is the heroine of the story. Sir Hardross Courage is the upper-class cricketer whose life gets changed after a chance encounter with a secret agent named Guest, who has revealed a secret that could decide the destiny of England. As Guest feels that his death is coming, and as Courage doesn't want to stand by casually while his nation might be in danger, he agrees to Guest telling him the secret. In this way, he involves himself in a world of international conspiracies where danger seems to lurk around every corner, and there he meets the lady of his dreams. The journey of these characters and their involvement in the controversies, including the romance, create more suspense in the story.

• The Weapons of Mistory - The Joseph Hocking's, Literary Romance and adult mystery, The weapon of Mystery is a Thriller science fiction novel where the character Justin Blake gets an invitation from his old school classmate Tom Temple to go along with him and his family for the Christmas vacations in Yorkshire. Having no different plans, he was thinking that what it would be called a lady's man, as he falls immediately in love with Miss Forrest, one of the visitors over there, with whom he had already shared his train compartment on the way. At the point when he meets the weird Herod Voltaire and finds that he should protect the young lady from him and his weapons of secret, A love story which has threads of black magic in it where the adventure starts. 

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