BOOKS I WOULD HAVE ASSIGNED IF THERE WAS TIME (I.E. FURTHER READING)

The Name of the Rose - Umberto Eco
The Dante Club - Matthew Pearl
The York Mystery Plays 
The Poe Shadow - Matthew Pearl
The Adventure of the Speckled Band [pdf] - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
to be continued...
More Books
The Mystery of Edwin Drood - Charles Dickens
Monsieur Pain - Roberto Bolano
Father Brown Stories - GK Chesterton
The Woman in White - Wilkie Collins
Lord Peter - Dorothy Sayers