New, free, eBooks

Standard eBooks celebrates "Public Domain Day 2026" by making twenty books published in 1930 available free as eBooks. Among them, first, some of the Golden Age mysteries:

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  The Maltese Falcon by Dashiell Hammett
• The Murder at the Vicarage by Agatha Christie
• Strong Poison by Dorothy L. Sayers

And several of the first Nancy Drews:

• The Secret of the Old Clock by Carolyn Keene
• The Hidden Staircase by Carolyn Keene
• The Bungalow Mystery by Carolyn Keene
• The Mystery at Lilac Inn by Carolyn Keene

Also:

• Ash Wednesday by T.S. Eliot
• Vile Bodies by Evelyn Waugh
• As I Lay Dying by William Faulkner

And others.

Standard eBooks, "Public Domain Day 2026 in Literature," Jan. 1, 2026.