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Cases, Clues & Suspense: Sources & Perspectives
A focused group of public-domain works connected by subject, literary setting and recurring questions.
Independent digital catalogue
The EDIEP Classic Mystery Library: 99 Works of Mystery, Suspense, and Historical Fiction
The EDIEP Classic Mystery Library includes 99 public-domain books by 81 authors, covering categories such as cases and clues, shipwrecks, historical customs, and romance. This digital collection presents a varied selection of early crime fiction, adventure, and domestic narratives drawn from public-domain sources.
99 public-domain works81 represented authorsSource-attributed catalogue records
Subject gateways
Explore by Theme
Move through the collection by subject, historical setting and type of source.
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A Guide to Sea Voyages & Shipwrecks
A focused group of public-domain works connected by subject, literary setting and recurring questions.
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A Guide to Lives, Customs & Historical Worlds
Texts connected with historical lives, social customs, institutions and the worlds in which people lived.
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Romance & Domestic Life — Reader’s Shelf
Texts connected with historical lives, social customs, institutions and the worlds in which people lived.
Mystery — Editor’s Selection
A closer look
Collection Spotlight
One work and three nearby readings from the current catalogue.
Selected from the current catalogue
Dancing Devil range — Text and C...
This work offers one entry point into the authors, subjects and source types represented in the current catalogue.
View catalogue recordNewly Catalogued by EDIEP
The shadow shooter — Text and Co...
In Romance...
The Silver Bar mystery — Backgro...
In Romance...
The girl from Scotland Yard — Ed...
In Cases, ...
Room 13 — Themes and Context
In Romance...
The strange countess — Inside th...
In Romance...
Splashes of red — Inside the Cla...
In Romance...
Chalk face — Themes and Context
In Romance...
The crystal claw — Reading Notes
In Romance...
Routes through the collection
Reading Paths
Four routes into the collection for readers approaching the catalogue with different questions.
Begin with Cases, Clues & Suspense: Sources & PerspectivesOpen a focused route to works connected with Cases, Clues & Suspense: Sources & Perspectives.Explore A Guide to Sea Voyages & ShipwrecksCompare authors, source types and recurring questions within A Guide to Sea Voyages & Shipwrecks.Read through A Guide to Lives, Customs & Historical WorldsMove from introductory records to related works in A Guide to Lives, Customs & Historical Worlds.Browse Romance & Domestic Life — Reader’s ShelfUse this theme as a starting point for nearby catalogue records in Romance & Domestic Life — Reader’s Shelf.
Record framework
How This Catalogue Works
How records are presented and connected without altering the represented source texts.
Source connection
Link catalogue pages with the files and references currently available.
Metadata organization
Present visible title, author and edition information for easier discovery.
Collection grouping
Arrange works by recurring subjects, literary settings and historical questions.
Context layer
Describe relationships between records while preserving the wording of source texts.
About these records
Frequently Asked Questions
How the collection is organized, presented and corrected.
It generally means that the represented source text is no longer protected by copyright in the applicable jurisdiction or has been released for public use. Status may vary by country and edition.
A record may include the title, author, category, cover, description, edition information, source references and available reading or download options.
A category reflects a work’s principal subjects, literary setting, source type and relationship to nearby records in the collection.
The catalogue adds navigation, metadata and editorial context. The represented source text retains its wording, edition information and rights status.
Use the contact page and include the work title, page address and the exact attribution, category, metadata or source detail requiring attention.
Catalogue stewardship
Charles Conrad
Senior Catalogue Editor
The Senior Catalogue Editor maintains the catalogue records, records source attribution for each book, and organizes metadata to improve discoverability. They also assign categories and prepare brief editorial context.
