Oliver Twist
Charles Dickens · Victorian · Novel
Subject guide
Crime
Explore 15 works associated with Crime in The Western Canon. This page is generated from reviewed catalog classifications and links directly to each featured work.
Featured works
The Testament
François Villon · Late Medieval · Poetry
Moll Flanders
Daniel Defoe · Enlightenment · Novel / journalism
A Journal of the Plague Year
Daniel Defoe · Enlightenment · Novel / journalism
Roxana
Daniel Defoe · Enlightenment · Novel / journalism
The Beggar’s Opera
John Gay · Enlightenment · Drama, satire
On Crimes and Punishments
Cesare Beccaria · Enlightenment · Political and legal thought
A Study in Scarlet
Arthur Conan Doyle · Victorian · Detective fiction
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes
Arthur Conan Doyle · Victorian · Detective fiction
The Hound of the Baskervilles
Arthur Conan Doyle · Victorian · Detective fiction
The Murder of Roger Ackroyd
Agatha Christie · Modern · Mystery
Murder on the Orient Express
Agatha Christie · Modern · Mystery
And Then There Were None
Agatha Christie · Modern · Mystery
Breakfast at Tiffany’s
Truman Capote · Postwar · Fiction / reportage
In Cold Blood
Truman Capote · Postwar · Fiction / reportage