- all stories     list by rating     list by author     list by date added     list by length - contemporary stories - classic stories - new titles - authors A-Z - all collections     list by rating     list by author     list by date added     list by length subgenres: - detective - sherlock holmes The Crooked Man by Arthur Conan Doyle Holmes investigates the murder of a popular and apparently happily married Colonel. - Length: 16 pages - Age Rating: PG - Rating: - Eight Letters ... - Daily Cryptoquote - Definetime - Wordsearch ... and more - Custom games - Study questions & activities ... and more - The Short Guide To Vampires - The Short Guide To Fables - The Short Guide To Katherine Mansfield ... and more Death By Scrabble by Charlie Fish A game of Scrabble has serious consequences. - Length: 4 pages - Age Rating: PG Fall North by Tim McLean Ed runs an errand for Mr. Rollo. - Length: 14 pages - Age Rating: 15 Letter from the Understudy by Kathryn Simmonds An apology from an actor involved in some drama outside working hours. - Length: 5 pages - Age Rating: 15 - Rating: Impersonating Elvis by Polly Nelson When Chuck Walaach enters the Elvis Look-Alike Competition, something has to give. - Length: 3 pages - Age Rating: PG - Rating: The Return Of Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle The third Sherlock Holmes collection - includes 'The Adventure Of The Dancing Men' and 'The Adventure Of The Six Napoleons' along with others published between 1903 and 1904. - Length: 259 pages - Age Rating: PG - Rating: The Memoirs Of Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle The second collection of Sherlock Holmes adventures including 'The Crooked Man' and 'The Final Problem' along with others published between 1892 and 1893. - Length: 204 pages - Age Rating: PG - Rating: Gentlemen and Players by E. W. Hornung The master criminal Raffles sets his sights on a priceless collection of jewels. Crime story in which the villain is the hero. - Length: 17 pages - Age Rating: PG - Rating: The Man With The Cough by Mrs Molesworth A young engineer is charged with transporting secret documents across the English channel - but criminal elements are on his trail and things soon start to go wrong. - Length: 15 pages - Age Rating: PG - Rating: Welcome to the crime short story section at east of the web. Find this month's featured stories above. You can browse the crime library by subgenre or search it for a title, author or keyword. Clicking on an author's name lists all their stories along with further information and links. Stories can be read online, printed or downloaded for reading offline or on handheld devices.		The Man with the Watches by Arthur Conan Doyle An apparently impossible scenario involving the diappearance of three people from and the appearance of a totally unknown - dead - fourth on a moving train. - Length: 15 pages - Age Rating: PG - Rating: Lord Arthur Savile's Crime by Oscar Wilde A man is told by a palm reader that he will commit a murder. A satirical crime story that cleverly reverses the conventions of the genre. - Length: 29 pages - Age Rating: PG - Rating: The Murders in the Rue Morgue by Edgar Allan Poe Often cited as the first detective story. The genre arrives pretty much fully formed: a brilliant detective, the bumbing police officer and a (particularly) gruesome murder. - Length: 29 pages - Age Rating: PG - Rating: The Cask of Amontillado by Edgar Allan Poe A man takes his enemy to taste a rare wine - which he happens to keep at the far end of a vast, damp cellar. - Length: 7 pages - Age Rating: PG - Rating: The Black Doctor by Arthur Conan Doyle When a popular local doctor is murdered, the angry brother of his ex-fiance seems the obvious suspect - until the doctor's uknown past begins to reveal itself. - Length: 15 pages - Age Rating: PG - Rating:

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