My Weekly Book

Fiction

• Edgar Allan Poe – The Murders in the Rue Morgue
• Edgar Allan Poe – The Tell-Tale Heart
• Wilkie Collins – The Moonstone
• Wilkie Collins – The Woman in White
• Mary Elizabeth Braddon – Lady Audley’s Secret
• Charles Dickens – The Mystery of Edwin Drood
• Charles Dickens – Bleak House
• Charles Dickens – Hunted Down (short story)
• Henry James – The Turn of the Screw (debatable as to whether this is a mystery or a horror/ghost story – read it and decide)
• GK Chesterton – the Father Brown stories
• GK Chesterton – The Club of Queer Trades

Non-fiction

• Newgate: London’s prototype of hell by Stephen Halliday
• Portrait of a Killer: Jack the Ripper – Case Closed by Patricia Cornwell
• Selected Journalism 1850-1870 by Charles Dickens (edited by David Pascoe)
• The Cock Lane Ghost: Murder, Sex and Haunting in Dr. Johnson’s London by Paul Chambers
• The Maul and the Pear Tree: The Ratcliffe Highway Murders of 1811 by PD James and TA Critchley
• The Suspicions of Mr Whicher, or the Murder at Road Hill House by Kate Summerscale