Harry Pearson

Sometimes real life crimes are just as strange as fiction. 

Get to know a long-lost thriller master.

The best of the baddies. 

Meet the real people behind some of the most iconic characters from the Sherlock Holmes books.

Without the guiding hand of this Bostonian gothic, the modern detective genre would be very different.

Check out the best of classic crime fiction!

These classic series offer endless hours of reading escape for every committed mystery reader.

Clever characters create lasting stories.

The book's iconic plot twist sent shock-waves through the literary ages.

These tried and true mystery books are sure to become new favorites.

It's curtains down for these killers.

Cozy up with one of our favorite mysteries of all time.

The 19th-century author of the macabre exerts enormous influence over the detective fiction we know today.

Sometimes reality and fiction are intertwined.

An eccentric diplomat from the Netherlands exposed the West to Chinese detective fiction—some of the oldest in the world.

Detectives around the globe have been inspired by the English supersleuth.

Jacques Futrelle was lost to tragedy, but his captivating works live on.

How a haunting crime inspired an author of classic detective fiction.

A prolific author and his charmingly vivid detective.

A champion of the downtrodden with remarkable sense-driven deductions.