50+ Masterpieces of Detective Fiction You Have to Read Before You Die: Hunted Down by Charles Dickens, The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle, The Murders in the Rue Morgue by Edgar Allan Poe, The Blue Cross by Gilbert Keith Chesterton (illustrated) The Murders in the Rue Morgue by Edgar Allan Poe; Hunted Down by Charles Dickens; The Blue Cross by Gilbert Keith Chesterton; The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle.