My Weekly Book

Fiction

• Lady Audley’s Secret – Mary Elizabeth Braddon
• The Father Brown stories – GK Chesterton
• The Club of Queer Trades – GK Chesterton
• The Moonstone – Wilkie Collins
• The Woman in White – Wilkie Collins
• The Mystery of Edwin Drood – Charles Dickens
• Bleak House – Charles Dickens
• Hunted Down (short story) – Charles Dickens
• The Rivals of Sherlock Holmes – Hugh Greene (ed.) (suggested by @melindahaunton)
• The Turn of the Screw – Henry James (debatable as to whether this is a mystery or a horror/ghost story – read it and decide)
• Martin Hewitt, Investigator – Arthur Morrison
• The Chronicles of Martin Hewitt – Arthur Morrison
• A Child of the Jago – Arthur Morrison
• Tales of Mean Streets – Arthur Morrison
• The Murders in the Rue Morgue – Edgar Allan Poe
• The Tell-Tale Heart – Edgar Allan Poe

Non-fiction

• The Cock Lane Ghost: Murder, Sex and Haunting in Dr. Johnson’s London – Paul Chambers
• Portrait of a Killer: Jack the Ripper, Case Closed – Patricia Cornwell
• Confessions of an English Opium Eater – Thomas de Quincey (autobiography)
• Selected Journalism 1850-1870 – Charles Dickens (edited by David Pascoe)
• Newgate: London’s prototype of hell – Stephen Halliday
• The Maul and the Pear Tree: The Ratcliffe Highway Murders of 1811 – PD James and TA Critchley
• The Suspicions of Mr Whicher, or the Murder at Road Hill House – Kate Summerscale
• The Blackest Streets: The life and death of a Victorian slum – Sarah Wise
• Dockers and Detectives: Twentieth-century working class reading and writing in Britain – Ken Worpole