Books like The locked room reader by Hans Stefan Santesson

Shirley Jackson’s classic psychological horror, *The Haunting of Hill House*, follows a lonely woman drawn into an abandoned mansion whose malevolent presence ultimately consumes her.

H.P. Lovecraft’s dream‑teller Randolph Carter embarks on a quest to reach the fabled city of Kadath, pursued through night‑marshes and guarded by cosmic horrors such as Azathoth and Nyarlathotep.

Set in a crumbling Georgian manor in rural Warwickshire, *The Little Stranger* follows a doctor arriving at a long‑standing family home where a death‑bed patient and chilling supernatural forces intertwine against the backdrop of post‑war Britain.

A collection of tightly crafted short mysteries that follow Inspector C. D. Sloan through a wealthier businessman’s death, a Christmas family drama, and a hospital scandal, plus a 1930s Foreign Office case and a 16th-century Scottish clansman’s murder.

A collection of locked‑room mysteries, impossible crimes and vanished treasures featuring 12 classic authors, with most stories unpublished before and a first‑appearance tale by Hake Talbot.

An anthology of golden‑age detective short stories that brings together iconic sleuths—Sherlock Holmes, Raffles, Sexton Blake—and other colorful characters in classic London mystery tales.

An anthology showcasing Victorian and Edwardian rival detectives to Sherlock Holmes, featuring the intellectual Philosopher Van Dusen, the occult sleuth Carnacki, the Canadian woodsman November Joe, and the science‑based investigator Craig Kennedy.

An anthology tracing a century of detective fiction, featuring classic and lesser‑known works from Poe, Doyle, Twain, and more, for readers and scholars alike.

An anthology of fourteen classic detective and mystery short stories by renowned authors such as Poe, Doyle, Christie, and Christie.

A darkly atmospheric anthology of water‑borne crime tales, featuring stories by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, William Hope Hodgson, and R. Austin Freeman.

"I very much need to be dead." These are the chilling last words left by a man who had everything to live for but took his own life. In the void that remains stands his widow, FBI agent Jane Hawk, surrounded by questions destined to go unanswered unless she does what all the grief and fury inside her demand: Find the truth, no matter what. People of talent and accomplishment, people seemingly happy and sound of mind, have recently been committing suicide in surprising numbers. A disturbing pattern is beginning to emerge. Jane is determined to give up everything to find out why. And if that means going rogue and becoming America's Most Wanted, then so be it. Those arrayed against her are legion, and devoted to protecting something profoundly important-or terrifying-enough to exterminate any and all in their way. But Jane is as clever as these enemies are cold-blooded, as relentless as they are ruthless. And she is driven by a righteous rage they can never comprehend. Because it is born of love.

An eleven‑year‑old girl and her brother suspect their new stepfather’s motives are sinister and must uncover the truth before danger strikes.

An anthology of twelve classic detective short stories featuring the four-and-twenty sleuths, hand‑picked by the Mystery Writers of America and introduced by Anthony Boucher with editorial commentary and a Detective Who's Who.

An anthology of seventeen mystery stories that celebrate ethnic detectives—each sleuth reflects his or her cultural heritage in quests of identity, heritage and crime-solving.

An anthology of Golden Age detective stories, honoring Agatha Christie’s centenary with original tales set between the world wars.

When reclusive novelist Vida Winter’s health wanes, she tasks biographer Margaret Lea with revealing the truth of her life, though Margaret must sift through Winter’s penchant for exaggeration to arrive at facts.

Six classic crime writers—Aldingham, Berkeley, Crofts, Knox, Sayers and Thorndike—each pen an unsolvable murder which Superintendent Cornish of Scotland Yard must try to crack, in this Golden Age anthology.

A collection of classic locked room mysteries featuring ingenious solutions and twists.