Scholastic
Scholastic: Teacher: Mystery Writing With Joan Lowery Nixon
Have you ever wanted to know how to write a mystery novel? Use this site to learn more about how a professional author goes about writing mysteries. With tips from prolific mystery writer Joan Lowery Nixon.
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Eric Wilson
Information about Canadian novelist Eric Wilson and his fiction are included along with the first chapter from each of his mystery novels.
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Fitzhenry and Whiteside: 'Dooley Takes the Fall' Teaching Guide [Pdf]
"Dooley Takes the Fall", a mystery novel by Canadian author Norah McClintock for grade nine and up, is about a boy who has made some mistakes in the past. He becomes a suspect after he witnesses a boy jumping off a bridge and has to...
Sophia Learning
Sophia: Mystery
This slideshow focuses on the genre of mystery; it provides background, compares and contrasts mystery and crime fiction, lists the common elements of mystery, and provides literary examples with Nancy Drew and Agatha Christie novels.
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Gaslight: The Mystery of Edwin Drood
This uncompleted novel by Charles Dickens is reproduced here in its 1912 edition. The thorough transcription indicates the revisions that both Dickens and his executor made. Be sure to read the message about copyright and permissions.
Blackdog Media
Classic Reader: Green Tea by Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu
This is the full text of the novel Green Tea by Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu, an Irish writer of Gothic tales, mystery novels, and horror fiction. A drink opens the inner eye of the protagonist. What follows is a mind-boggling tale of...
Blackdog Media
Classic Reader: Authors: Agatha Christie
This site features the author Agatha Christie including a biography and the full text of two novels: The Mysterious Affair at Styles and The Secret Adversary.
Blackdog Media
Classic Reader: The Great Impersonation by E. Phillips Oppenheim
This is the full text of the novel The Great Impersonation by E. Phillips Oppenheim, a mystery novel. German Leopold von Ragastein meets Englishman Everard Dominey, in Africa, and plans to murder him and steal his identity to spy on...
Curated OER
Mystery Writing With Joan Lowery Nixon
Have you ever wanted to know how to write a mystery novel? Use this site to learn more about how a professional author goes about writing mysteries.
Orca Book Publishers
Orca Book Publishers: Bio Pirate Teaching Guide [Pdf]
Bio-Pirate, a novel by Michele Martin Bossley, is a science mystery about medical research materials that go missing. This teacher's guide includes a book summary, extensive teaching ideas and a short profile of the author.
abcteach
Abcteach: Book Report Forms
[Free Registration/Login Required] Teachers will find several blackline masters for primary, elementary and middle school students for use when doing various types of book reports such as fiction, biography, fairy tales, historical...
Blackdog Media
Classic Reader: "The Mill Mystery" by Anna Katharine Green
This is the complete text of the novel "The Mill Mystery" by Anna Katharine Green.
Blackdog Media
Classic Reader: Authors: R. Austin Freeman
This site features the author R. Austin Freeman including the full text of five novels including John Thorndyke's Cases, The Mystery of 31 New Inn, and The Red Thumb Mark.
Blackdog Media
Classic Reader: Authors: Fergus Hume
This site features the author Fergus Hume including the full text of four novels including The Green Mummy, Madame Midas, The Mystery of a Hansom Cab, and The Secret Passage.
ReadWriteThink
Read Write Think: Becoming History Detectives Using Shakespeare's Secret
Is the case closed on the authorship of Shakespeare's plays? Student history detectives explore the evidence for and against one of the possible alternatives, Edward deVere, using the novel Shakespeare's Secret plus a variety of online...
Blackdog Media
Classic Reader: Author: Ann Radcliffe
This site features the author Ann Radcliffe by providing links to the full text of two of her novels: The Mysteries of Udolpho, and A Sicilian Romance.
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Dashiell Hammett Bibliography
A complete listing of Hammett's works can be found at this site, including novels, stories and film scripts.
Blackdog Media
Classic Reader: Authors: Gaston Leroux
This site features the author Gaston Leroux including a biography and the full text of three novels: The Phantom of the Opera, The Mystery of the Yellow Room, and The Secret of the Night.
Orca Book Publishers
Orca Book Publishers: Middle Row Teaching Guide [Pdf]
When their friend Dune goes missing, Raedawn and Vince launch a search for him, eventually finding him at a mountain grow-op. The novel Middle Row by Sylvia Olsen also deals with racial barriers at school. This teacher's guide includes a...
Orca Book Publishers
Orca Book Publishers: Things Are Looking Up, Jack Teaching Guide [Pdf]
Things are Looking Up, Jack. a novel by Dan Bar-el, follows the adventures of King Jack and his sister, Princess Jill, as they meet characters from the Grimm Brothers fairy tales and try to solve a mystery. This teacher's guide includes...
Blackdog Media
Classic Reader: Authors: Emile Gaboriau
This site features the author Emile Gaboriau including the full text of nine novels including The Mystery of Orcival, Other People's Money, and The Widow Lerouge.
Bartleby
Bartleby.com: "The Mysterious Affair at Styles"
The unabridged text of Agatha Christie's first novel. A no-expense way to read the book that started the career of one of world's best known mystery writers.
Blackdog Media
Classic Reader: The Golden Fleece by Julian Hawthorne
This is the full text of the novel The Golden Fleece by Julian Hawthorne, a combination romance, adventure, metaphysical and mystery from the Victorian era by the son of Nathaniel Hawthorne.
Blackdog Media
Classic Reader: Authors: Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu
This site features the author Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu including a biography and the full text of 9 novels and 13. He is called the father of the modern ghost story; his vampire story Carmilla influenced Bram Stoker's Dracula.