Post #2438409
2026-05-12 01:09 UTC
Replies (8)
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@maj@cosocial.ca 2026-05-12 01:12
@jonobie@social.coop @gutenberg_org@mastodon.social is Dorothy L. Sayers too obvious a suggestion?
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@shadow53@floss.social 2026-05-12 01:30
@jonobie@social.coop @gutenberg_org@mastodon.social The only mystery books I've really read was the original Hardy Boys books. A few of those are in the public domain now, I think. Since I don't have specific suggestions, may I instead offer https://standardebooks.org/subjects/mystery? @standardebooks@mastodon.social takes public domain books and makes high quality ebooks from them.
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@gairdeachas@mastodon.social 2026-05-12 02:27
@jonobie@social.coop I'm a big Agatha Christie fan and quite enjoyed her Mysterious Affair at Styles. Ditto The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle. Both available from @gutenberg_org@mastodon.social
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@StephenBrooke@mastodon.social 2026-05-12 10:45
@jonobie@social.coop @gutenberg_org@mastodon.social Most (if not all) of Chesterton's Father Brown mysteries are PD.
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@Lightfighter@infosec.exchange 2026-05-12 12:21
@jonobie@social.coop @gutenberg_org@mastodon.social You might also want to look at Standard ebooks. They clean up and put proper covers on public domain ebooks. https://standardebooks.org/ebooks
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@wgo@toot.io 2026-05-12 13:35
@jonobie@social.coop @gutenberg_org@mastodon.social Recently read Metta Victor's The Dead Letter from Standard. One of the first detective novels (1864). Hit the spot despite being High Victorian Pulp.
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@tw@writing.exchange 2026-05-12 16:25
@jonobie@social.coop @gutenberg_org@mastodon.social I don't know that this is such a thing as "non-problematic." Heh.
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@nantucketlit@mastodon.social 2026-05-12 16:30
@jonobie@social.coop @gutenberg_org@mastodon.social Have you read The Problem of Cell 13 by Jacques Futrelle? One of the top-ten mystery short stories of all time.