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Anthony ABBOT

• About the Murder of the Night Club Lady (1931)
• About the Murder of the Circus Queen (1932)

Takemaru ABIKO

• The Eight Mansion Murders (1989)

Herbert ADAMS

• The Body in the Bunker (1935)
• Death of a Viewer (1958)

Boris AKUNIN

• Special Assignments / Особые поручения (1999)
• The Diamond Chariot / Алмазная колесница (2003)

Margery ALLINGHAM

• Death of a Ghost (1934)
• Dancers in Mourning (1937)
• The Fashion in Shrouds (1938)
• Coroner’s Pidgin (1945)
• More Work for the Undertaker (1948)
• Take Two at Bedtime (1950)
• The Tiger in the Smoke (1952)
• The Beckoning Lady (1955)
• Hide My Eyes (1958)
• The China Governess (1962)
• The Mind Readers (1965)
• Cargo of Eagles (1968)
• The Allingham Casebook (1969)

Harriette ASHBROOK

• The Murder of Cecily Thane (1930)
• The Murder of Steven Kester (1931)
• The Murder of Sigurd Sharon (1933)
• A Most Immoral Murder (1935)
• Murder Makes Murder (1937)
• Murder Comes Back (1940)
• The Purple Onion Mystery (1941)

R. C. ASHBY

• Out Went the Taper (1934)

Tetsuya AYUKAWA

• The Red Locked Room (2020)

H. C. BAILEY

• Call Mr. Fortune (1920)
• Mr. Fortune’s Practice (1923)
• Mr. Fortune’s Trials (1925)
• Mr. Fortune, Please (1928)
• Garstons (1930)
• The Man in the Cape (1933)
• Shadow on the Wall (1934)
• The Sullen Sky Mystery (1935)
• Black Land, White Land (1937)
• Clunk’s Claimant (1937)
• The Great Game (1939)
• The Veron Mystery (1939)
• Mr. Fortune Here (1940)
• The Bishop’s Crime (1940)
• The Little Captain (1941)
• No Murder (1942)
• Dead Man’s Shoes (1942)
• Mr. Fortune Finds a Pig (1943)
• Slippery Ann (1944)
• Dead Man’s Effects (1945)
• The Wrong Man (1946)
• The Life Sentence (1946)
• Honour Among Thieves (1947)
• Saving a Rope (1948)

Robert BARNARD

• Death on the High C’s (1977)
• Death and the Chaste Apprentice (1989)

Robert BARR

• The Triumphs of Eugène Valmont (1906)

K. K. BECK

• Death in a Deck Chair (1984)
• Peril Under the Palms (1989)

Francis BEEDING

• The Norwich Victims (1935)

Josephine BELL

• The Port of London Murders (1938)
• From Natural Causes (1939)
• Death at the Medical Board (1944)
• The China Roundabout (1956)
• The Upfold Witch (1964)
• The Catalyst (1966)
• Death of a Con Man (1968)
• The Wilberforce Legacy (1969)
• A Hole in the Ground (1971)
• A Pigeon Among the Cats (1974)
• A Swan-Song Betrayed (1978)

E. C. BENTLEY

• Trent’s Last Case (1913)
• Trent’s Own Case (1936)
• Elephant’s Work (1950)

Anthony BERKELEY (see Francis ILES)

• The Layton Court Mystery (1925)
• The Wychford Poisoning Case (1926)
• Roger Sheringham and the Vane Mystery (1927)
• The Silk Stocking Murders (1928)
• The Piccadilly Murder (1929)
• The Second Shot (1930)
• Murder in the Basement (1932)
• Jumping Jenny (1933)
• Panic Party (1934)
• Trial and Error (1937)
• Not to be Taken (1938)
• Death in the House (1939)
• The Avenging Chance and Other Stories (2004)

Norman BERROW

• The Three Tiers of Fantasy (1947)

George A. BIRMINGHAM

• The Hymn Tune Mystery (1930)

Nicholas BLAKE

• A Question of Proof (1935)
• Thou Shell of Death (1936)
• There’s Trouble Brewing (1937)
• The Beast Must Die (1938)
• The Smiler with the Knife (1939)
• The Case of the Abominable Snowman (1941)
• Minute for Murder (1947)
• Head of a Traveller (1949)
• The Dreadful Hollow (1953)
• The Whisper in the Gloom (1954)
• A Tangled Web (1956)
• End of Chapter (1957)
• The Widow’s Cruise (1959)
• The Worm of Death (1961)

John and Emery BONETT

• A Banner for Pegasus (1951)

Anthony BOUCHER

• The Case of the Crumpled Knave (1939)
• The Case of the Seven Sneezes (1942)
• Rocket to the Morgue (1942)

Dorothy BOWERS

• Postscript to Poison (1938)
• Shadows Before (1939)

Nicholas BRADY

• The House of Strange Guests (1932)
• The Fair Murder (1933)

Christianna BRAND

• Death in High Heels (1941)
• Green for Danger (1944)
• Suddenly at His Residence (1946)
• Death of Jezebel (1948)
• London Particular (1952)
• Tour de Force (1955)
• What Dread Hand (1968)

Gwen BRISTOW & Bruce MANNING

• The Invisible Host (1930)

Lynn BROCK

• The Deductions of Colonel Gore (1924)
• Colonel Gore’s Second Case (1925)
• The Kink: Colonel Gore’s Third Case (1927)
• The Slip-Carriage Mystery (1928)
• The Dagwort Coombe Murder (1929)
• The Mendip Mystery (1929)
• Q. E. D. (1930)
• Fourfingers (1939)

Leo BRUCE

• Case for Three Detectives (1936)
• Case Without a Corpse (1937)
• Case for Sergeant Beef (1947)
• Neck and Neck (1951)
• Death of Cold (1956)
• Dead for a Ducat (1956)
• Dead Man’s Shoes (1958)
• Jack on the Gallows Tree (1960)
• Nothing Like Blood (1962)
• Death in Albert Park (1964)

John BUDE

• Death Knows No Calendar (1942)
• Death in White Pyjamas (1944)

Miles BURTON (pseudonym of Major C. J. Street; see John RHODE and Cecil WAYE)

• The Secret of High Eldersham (1930)
• The Menace on the Downs (1931)
• Death of Mr. Gantley (1932)
• Fate at the Fair (1933)
• The Milk-Churn Murder (1935)
• Death in the Tunnel (1936)
• Murder of a Chemist (1936)
• Where is Barbara Prentice? (1936)
• Death at the Club (1937)
• Death at Low Tide (1938)
• The Platinum Cat (1938)
• Death Leaves No Card (1939)
• Mr. Babbacombe Dies (1939)
• Murder in the Coal Hole (1940)
• Mr. Westerby Missing (1940)
• Death Takes a Flat (1940)
• This Undesirable Residence (1942)
• Murder, M.D. (1943)
• The Three Corpse Trick (1944)
• Not a Leg to Stand On (1945)
• Early Morning Murder (1945)
• The Cat Jumps (1946)
• Situation Vacant (1946)
• Heir to Lucifer (1947)
• Death in Shallow Water (1948)
• Devil’s Reckoning (1948)
• Look Alive (1949)
• Ground for Suspicion (1950)
• Beware Your Neighbour (1951)
• Something to Hide (1953)
• Heir to Murder (1953)
• Found Drowned (1956)
• The Moth-Watch Murder (1957)
• Death Takes a Detour (1958)
• Return from the Dead (1959)

Christopher BUSH

• The Plumley Inheritance (1926)
• The Perfect Murder Case (1929)
• Dead Man Twice (1930)
• Murder at Fenwold (1930)
• Dancing Death (1931)
• Dead Man’s Music (1931)
• Cut Throat (1932)
• The Case of the Unfortunate Village (1932)
• The Case of the April Fools (1933)
• The Case of the Three Strange Faces (1933)
• The Case of the Dead Shepherd (1934)
• The Case of the Chinese Gong (1935)
• The Case of the Monday Murders (1936)
• The Case of the Bonfire Body (1936)
• The Case of the Missing Minutes (1937)
• The Case of the Hanging Rope (1937)
• The Case of the Tudor Queen (1938)
• The Case of the Leaning Man (1938)
• The Case of the Green Felt Hat (1939)
• The Case of the Flying Ass (1939)
• The Case of the Murdered Major (1941)
• The Case of the Kidnapped Colonel (1942)
• The Case of the Fighting Soldier (1942)
• The Case of the Platinum Blonde (1944)
• The Case of the Missing Men (1946)
• The Case of the Second Chance (1946)
• The Case of the Haven Hotel (1948)
• The Case of the Housekeeper’s Hair (1948)
• The Case of the Seven Bells (1949)
• The Case of the Purloined Picture (1949)
• The Case of the Happy Warrior (1950)
• The Case of the Corner Cottage (1951)
• The Case of the Fourth Detective (1951)
• The Case of the Happy Medium (1952)
• The Case of the Counterfeit Colonel (1952)
• The Case of the Silken Petticoat (1953)
• The Case of the Benevolent Bookie (1955)
• The Case of the Amateur Actor (1955)
• The Case of the Flowery Corpse (1956)
• The Case of the Three-Ring Puzzle (1962)
• The Case of the Heavenly Twin (1963)
• The Case of the Prodigal Daughter (1968)

Gwendoline BUTLER

• Death Lives Next Door (1960)
• Coffin on the Water (1986)
• Coffin in Fashion (1987)
• Coffin Underground (1988)

Alice CAMPBELL

• Travelling Butcher (1944)

Carol CARNAC (see E. C. R. LORAC)

• Crossed Skis (1952)

Glyn CARR

• Death Under Snowdon (1954)

John Dickson CARR (see Carter DICKSON)

• It Walks by Night (1930)
• The Lost Gallows (1931)
• The Corpse in the Waxworks (1932)
• Hag’s Nook (1933)
• The Mad Hatter Mystery (1933)
• The Eight of Swords (1934)
• The Blind Barber (1934)
• Death-Watch (1935)
• The Three Coffins (1935)
• The Arabian Nights Murder (1936)
• The Murder of Sir Edmund Godfrey (1936)
• The Burning Court (1937)
• The Four False Weapons (1937)
• To Wake the Dead (1937)
• The Crooked Hinge (1938)
• The Problem of the Green Capsule (1939)
• The Problem of the Wire Cage (1939)
• The Man Who Could Not Shudder (1940)
• The Case of the Constant Suicides (1941)
• Death Turns the Tables (1941)
• Till Death Do Us Part (1944)
• He Who Whispers (1946)
• The Sleeping Sphinx (1947)
• Below Suspicion (1949)
• The Bride of Newgate (1950)
• The Devil in Velvet (1951)
• The Nine Wrong Answers (1952)
• The Exploits of Sherlock Holmes (1954)
• Captain Cut-Throat (1955)
• Patrick Butler for the Defence (1956)
• Fire, Burn! (1957)
• Scandal at High Chimneys (1959)
• In Spite of Thunder (1960)
• The Witch of the Low Tide (1961)
• The Demoniacs (1962)
• Dark of the Moon (1967)
• The Ghosts’ High Noon (1969)
• Deadly Hall (1971)
• The Hungry Goblin (1972)

Raymond CHANDLER

• The Big Sleep (1939)
• Farewell, My Lovely (1940)

G. K. CHESTERTON

• The Man Who Was Thursday (1908)
• The Innocence of Father Brown (1911)
• The Wisdom of Father Brown (1914)
• The Man Who Knew Too Much (1922)
• The Incredulity of Father Brown (1926)
• The Secret of Father Brown (1927)
• The Scandal of Father Brown (1935)
• The Paradoxes of Mr. Pond (1937)

Agatha CHRISTIE

•  The Mysterious Affair at Styles (1921)
• The Secret Adversary (1922)
• The Murder on the Links (1923)
• The Man in the Brown Suit (1924)
• The Secret of Chimneys (1925)
• The Murder of Roger Ackroyd (1926)
• The Mystery of the Blue Train (1928)
• The Seven Dials Mystery (1929)
• Partners in Crime (1929)
• The Murder at the Vicarage (1930)
• The Sittaford Mystery (1931)
• Lord Edgware Dies (1933)
• Murder on the Orient Express (1934)
• Why Didn’t They Ask Evans? (1934)
• Three-Act Tragedy (1935)
• Death in the Clouds (1935)
• The A. B. C. Murders (1936)
• Murder in Mesopotamia (1936)
• Cards on the Table (1936)
• Dumb Witness (1937)
• Death on the Nile (1937)
• Appointment with Death (1938)
• Hercule Poirot’s Christmas (1938)
• Murder is Easy (1939)
• And Then There Were None (1939)
• Sad Cypress (1940)
• One, Two, Buckle My Shoe (1940)
• Evil Under the Sun (1941)
• N or M? (1941)
• The Body in the Library (1942)
• Five Little Pigs (1942)
• The Moving Finger (1943)
• Towards Zero (1944)
• Death Comes as the End… (1945)
• The Hollow (1946)
• The Labours of Hercules (1947)
• Taken at the Flood (1948)
• Crooked House (1949)
• A Murder is Announced (1950)
• Mrs. McGinty’s Dead (1952)
• They Do It With Mirrors (1952)
• After the Funeral (1953)
• A Pocket Full of Rye (1953)
• Destination Unknown (1954)
• Hickory Dickory Dock (1955)
• Dead Man’s Folly (1956)
• 4.50 from Paddington (1957)
• Cat Among the Pigeons (1959)
• The Pale Horse (1961)
• The Mirror Crack’d from Side to Side (1962)
• The Clocks (1963)
• A Caribbean Mystery (1964)
• Third Girl (1966)
• Endless Night (1967)
• By the Pricking of My Thumbs (1968)
• Hallowe’en Party (1969)
• Nemesis (1971)
• Elephants Can Remember (1972)
• Computer game: Hercule Poirot: The First Cases (2021)

Henrietta CLANDON (pseudonym of John Haslette Vahey; see Vernon LODER)

• Inquest (1933)

G. D. H. and M. (Margaret) COLE

• The Brooklyn Murders (1923)
• The Death of a Millionaire (1925)
• The Blatchington Tangle (1926)
• The Murder at Crome House (1927)
• The Man from the River (1928)
• Poison in the Garden Suburb (1929)
• Burglars in Bucks (1930)
• Corpse in Canonicals (1930)
• Dead Man’s Watch (1931)
• The Affair at Aliquid (1933)
• Big Business Murder (1935)
• Dr. Tancred Begins (1935)
• Last Will and Testament (1936)
• Off with her Head! (1938)
• Greek Tragedy (1939)
• Murder at the Munition Works (1940)
• Knife in the Dark (1941)

Wilkie COLLINS

• The Moonstone (1868)

J. J. CONNINGTON

• Death at Swaythling Court (1926)
• The Dangerfield Talisman (1926)
• Murder in the Maze (1927)
• Tragedy at Ravensthorpe (1927)
• Mystery at Lynden Sands (1928)
• The Case with Nine Solutions (1928)
• The Two Tickets Puzzle (1930)
• The Sweepstake Murders (1931)
• Tom Tiddler’s Island (1933)
• The Ha-ha Case (1934)
• A Minor Operation (1937)
• The Counsellor (1939)
• The Four Defences (1940)
• The Twenty-one Clues (1941)
• No Past is Dead (1942)
• Jack-in-the-Box (1944)
• Common Sense Is All You Need (1947)

Joan A. COWDROY

• Murder of Lydia (1933)

Edmund CRISPIN

• The Case of the Gilded Fly (1944)
• Holy Disorders (1945)
• The Moving Toyshop (1946)
• Swan Song (1947)
• Love Lies Bleeding (1948)
• Buried for Pleasure (1948)
• Frequent Hearses (1950)
• The Long Divorce (1951)
• The Glimpses of the Moon (1977)

Freeman Wills CROFTS

• The Cask (1920)
• The Pit-Prop Syndicate (1922)
• The Groote Park Murder (1923)
• Inspector French and the Cheyne Mystery (1926)
• Inspector French and the Starvel Tragedy (1927)
• The Sea Mystery (1928)
• Sir John Magill’s Last Journey (1930)
• Mystery in the Channel (1931)
• Sudden Death (1932)
• Death on the Way (1932)
• The 12.30 from Croydon (1934)
• Crime at Guildford (1936)
• The Loss of the “Jane Vosper” (1936)
• Man Overboard! (1936)
• Antidote to Venom (1938)
• James Tarrant, Adventurer (1941)
• Enemy Unseen (1945)

Moray DALTON

• One by One They Disappeared (1929)
• The Body in the Road (1931)
• The Night of Fear (1931)
• Death in the Cup (1932)
• The Belfry Murder (1933)
• The Belgrave Manor Crime (1935)
• The Strange Case of Harriet Hall (1936)
• The Case of Alan Copeland (1937)
• The Art School Murders (1943)
• The Condamine Case (1947)

William L. DeANDREA

• Killed in the Ratings (1978)

The DETECTION CLUB

• The Floating Admiral (1931)
• Ask a Policeman (1933)

Carter DICKSON (see John Dickson CARR)

• The Bowstring Murders (1933)
• The Plague Court Murders (1934)
• The White Priory Murders (1934)
• The Red Widow Murders (1935)
• The Unicorn Murders (1935)
• The Punch and Judy Murders (1936)
• The Peacock Feather Murders (1937)
• The Judas Window (1938)
• Death in Five Boxes (1938)
• The Reader is Warned (1939)
• Nine – and Death Makes Ten (1940)
• Seeing is Believing (1941)
• She Died a Lady (1943)
• He Wouldn’t Kill Patience (1944)
• The Curse of the Bronze Lamp (1945)
• My Late Wives (1947)
• The Skeleton in the Clock (1948)
• A Graveyard to Let (1949)

Todd DOWNING

• Murder on Tour (1933)
• The Last Trumpet (1937)

Sir Arthur Conan DOYLE

• A Study in Scarlet (1887)
• The Sign of Four (1890)
• The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (1891)
• The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes (1893)
• The Return of Sherlock Holmes (1903)
• The Valley of Fear (1914)
• The Case-Book of Sherlock Holmes (1921)

Roger EAST

• Murder Rehearsal (1933)
• Candidate for Lilies (1934)
• Kingston Black (1960)
• The Pin Men (1963)

Margaret ERSKINE

• Fatal Relations (1955)
• The Woman at Belguardo (1961)

Penelope FITZGERALD

• The Golden Child (1977)

A. FIELDING

• The Charteris Mystery (1925)
• The Upfold Farm Mystery (1931)
• The Tall House Mystery (1933)

Mary FITT

• Death on Herons’ Mere (1941)
• Requiem for Robert (1942)
• Clues to Christabel (1944)
• A Fine and Private Place (1947)
• Mizmaze (1959)
• ‘There Are More Ways of Killing…’ (1960)

Brian FLYNN

• The Billiard-Room Mystery (1927)
• The Mystery of the Peacock’s Eye (1928)
• The Murders Near Mapleton (1929)
• The Five Red Fingers (1929)
• Invisible Death (1929)
• The Creeping Jenny Mystery (1930)
• Murder En Route (1930)
• The Orange Axe (1931)
• The Triple Bite (1931)
• The Padded Door (1932)
• The Edge of Terror (1932)
• The League of Matthias (1934)
• The Horn (1934)
• The Case of the Purple Calf (1934)
• The Sussex Cuckoo (1935)
• The Fortescue Candle (1936)
• Fear and Trembling (1936)
• Tread Softly (1937)

Robin FORSYTHE

• Missing or Murdered (1929)
• The Ginger Cat Mystery (1935)
• The Spirit Murder Mystery (1936)

Christopher FOWLER

• The Water Room (2004)
• Ten Second Staircase (2006)
• White Corridor (2007)
• Bryant & May On the Loose (2009)
• Bryant & May Off the Rails (2010)
• Bryant & May and the Memory of Blood (2011)
• Bryant & May: Hall of Mirrors (2018)

R. Austin FREEMAN

• John Thorndyke’s Cases (1909)
• The Eye of Osiris (1911)
• A Silent Witness (1914)
• The Uttermost Farthing (1914)
• Helen Vardon’s Confession (1922)
• Dr. Thorndyke’s Case-book (1923)
• The Cat’s Eye (1923)
• The Puzzle Lock (1925)
• The D’Arblay Mystery (1926)
• The Surprising Experiences of Mr. Shuttlebury Cobb (1927)
• A Certain Dr. Thorndyke (1927)
• As a Thief in the Night (1928)
• Dr. Thorndyke Intervenes (1933)
• For the Defence: Dr. Thorndyke (1934)
• The Penrose Mystery (1936)
• The Jacob Street Mystery (1942)

David FROME

• Arsenic in Richmond / Mr. Pinkerton Goes to Scotland Yard (1934)

Andrew GARVE

• No Tears for Hilda (1950)

GENSOUL & GRENIER

• La mort vient de nulle part (1945)

Val GIELGUD

• The Goggle-Box Affair (1963)

Anthony GILBERT

• The Tragedy at Freyne (1927)
• The Murder of Mrs. Davenport (1928)
• Death at Four Corners (1929)
• The Case Against Andrew Fane (1931)
• The Body on the Beam (1932)
• Death in Fancy Dress (1933)
• The Musical Comedy Crime (1933)
• An Old Lady Dies (1934)
• The Man in Button Boots (1934)
• The Man Who Was Too Clever (1935)
• Courtier to Death (1936)
• Murder by Experts (1936)
• The Man Who Wasn’t There (1937)
• Murder Has No Tongue (1937)
• Treason in My Breast (1938)
• The Clock in the Hat-Box (1939)
• The Bell of Death (1939)
• Dear Dead Woman (1940)
• The Vanishing Corpse (1941)
• The Woman in Red (1941)
• Something Nasty in the Woodshed (1942)
• The Case of the Tea-Cosy’s Aunt (1942)
• A Spy for Mr. Crook (1944)
• The Scarlet Button (1944)
• Snake in the Grass (1954)
• And Death Came Too (1956)
• Riddle of a Lady (1956)
• Third Crime Lucky (1959)
• She Shall Die (1961)
• Ring for a Noose (1963)
• The Visitor (1967)

Michael GILBERT

• Smallbone Deceased (1950)
• Death Has Deep Roots (1951)
• Death in Captivity (1952)
• Sky High (1955)
• Be Shot for Sixpence (1956)
• The Dust and the Heat (1967)
• The Night of the Twelfth (1976)
• The Final Throw (1982)
• The Long Journey Home (1985)
• Trouble (1987)
• The Man Who Hated Banks (1997)
• The Mathematics of Murder (2000)

Elizabeth GILL

• Crime de Luxe (1933)

William GORE

• There’s Death in the Churchyard (1934)
• Death in the Wheelbarrow (1935)

Paul HALTER

• La Malédiction de Barberousse (1986)
• La Quatrième porte (1987; translated into English as The Fourth Door)
• Le Brouillard rouge (1988; translated into English as The Crimson Fog)
• La Mort vous invite (1988; translated into English as Death Invites You)
• La Mort derrière les rideaux (1989)
• La Chambre du fou (1990; translated into English as The Madman’s Room)
• La Tête du tigre (1991; translated into English as The Tiger’s Head)
• Le Diable de Dartmoor (1993; translated into English as The Demon of Dartmoor)
• À 139 pas de la mort (1994)
• Le Cercle invisible (1996; translated into English as The Invisible Circle)
• L’Arbre aux doigts tordus (1996; translated into English as The Vampire Tree)
• Le Crime de Dédale (1997)
• Le Cri de la sirène (1998; Dr. Twist)
• L’Homme qui aimait les nuages (1999; translated into English as The Man Who Loved Clouds)
• La Toile de Pénélope (2001; translated into English as Penelope’s Web)
• La Ruelle fantôme (2005; translated into English as The Phantom Passage)
• The White Lady (2020)

Bruce HAMILTON

• Too Much of Water (1958)

Lord Ernest HAMILTON

• The Four Tragedies of Memworth (1928)

Dashiell HAMMETT

• Red Harvest (1929)
• The Dain Curse (1929)
• The Maltese Falcon (1930)

Cyril HARE

• Suicide Excepted (1939)
• Tragedy at Law (1942)
• With a Bare Bodkin (1946)
• When the Wind Blows (1949)
• An English Murder (1951)
• He Should Have Died Hereafter (1958)
• Best Detective Stories of Cyril Hare (1959)

HERBERT & WYL

• The Forbidden House (1932)

Georgette HEYER

• Footsteps in the Dark (1932)
• The Unfinished Clue (1934)
• Death in the Stocks (1935)
• They Found Him Dead (1937)
• No Wind of Blame (1939)
• Envious Casca (1941)
• Penhallow (1942)
• Duplicate Death (1951)
• Detection Unlimited (1953)

Reginald HILL

• A Clubbable Woman (1970)
• An Advancement of Learning (1971)
• An April Shroud (1975)
• A Pinch of Snuff (1978)
• A Killing Kindness (1980)
• Exit Lines (1984)
• Bones and Silence (1990)
• Recalled to Life (1992)
• Pictures of Perfection (1994)
• The Wood Beyond (1996)
• Arms and the Women (2000)
• Dialogues of the Dead (2001)
• Death’s Jest-Book (2002)
• Good Morning, Midnight (2004)

James HILTON

• Murder at School (1931)

Henry HOLT

• The Mystery of the Smiling Doll (1939)

Anthony HOROWITZ

• Moriarty (2014)

Richard HULL

• Keep It Quiet (1935)
• The Ghost It Was (1936)
• Excellent Intentions (1938)

Elspeth HUXLEY

• Murder on Safari (1938)
• Death of an Aryan (1939)
• The Merry Hippo (1963)

Francis ILES (see Anthony BERKELEY)

• Malice Aforethought (1931)

Michael INNES

• Death at the President’s Lodging (1936)
• Hamlet, Revenge! (1937)
• Lament for a Maker (1938)
• Stop Press (1939)
• The Secret Vanguard (1940)
• Appleby on Ararat (1941)
• The Daffodil Affair (1942)
• The Weight of the Evidence (1944)
• Appleby’s End (1945)
• From London Far (1946)
• What Happened at Hazelwood (1946)
• The Journeying Boy (1949)
• Operation Pax (1951)
• A Private View (1952)
• Christmas at Candleshoe (1953)
• The Man from the Sea (1955)
• Appleby Plays Chicken (1957)
• The Long Farewell (1958)
• Hare Sitting Up (1959)
• The New Sonia Wayward (1960)
• Silence Observed (1961)
• A Connoisseur’s Case (1962)
• Appleby at Allington (1968)
• Death at the Chase (1970)
• The Open House (1972)
• Appleby’s Other Story (1974)
• The Gay Phoenix (1976)
• The Ampersand Papers (1978)
• Sheiks and Adders (1982)

P. D. JAMES

• Cover Her Face (1962)
• Unnatural Causes (1967)
• The Black Tower (1975)
• A Taste for Death (1986)
• Original Sin (1994)
• Death in Holy Orders (2001)

Ianthe JERROLD

• The Studio Crime (1929)
• Dead Man’s Quarry (1930)
• Let Him Lie (1940)
• There May Be Danger (1948)

M. M. KAYE

• Death in Cyprus (1956)
• Death in Kenya (1958)
• Death in Zanzibar (1959)

H. R. F. KEATING

• Zen There Was Murder (1960)
• Death of a Fat God (1963)
• The Perfect Murder (1964)
• Inspector Ghote Breaks an Egg (1970)
• A Remarkable Case of Burglary (1975)
• Inspector Ghote Draws a Line (1979)
• The Murder of the Maharajah (1980)
• Under a Monsoon Cloud (1986)
• The Body in the Billiard Room (1987)
• The Soft Detective (1997)
• Bribery, Corruption Also (1999)
• The Hard Detective (2000)

Milward KENNEDY

• The Murderer of Sleep (1932)

C. Daly KING

• The Curious Mr. Tarrant (1935; revised 2003)

Rufus KING

• Murder by the Clock (1929)
• Murder by Latitude (1930)
• Murder on the Yacht (1932)

Ronald A. KNOX

• Double Cross Purposes (1937)

Marcel LANTEAUME

• The Thirteenth Bullet (1948)

George LIMNELIUS / Lewis ROBINSON

• The Medbury Fort Murder (1929)
• Tell No Tales (1931)
• The Manuscript Murder (1933)
• The General Goes Too Far (1935)

Szu-Yen LIN

• Death in the House of Rain (2006)

Vernon LODER (pseudonym of John Haslette Vahey; see Henrietta CLANDON)

• The Mystery at Stowe (1928)
• The Shop Window Murders (1930)
• Choose Your Weapon (1937)

E. C. R. LORAC (see CAROL CARNAC)

• Bats in the Belfry (1937)
• Death Came Softly (1943)
• Checkmate to Murder (1944)
• Policemen in the Precinct (1949)
• Accident by Design (1950)
• Murder in the Mill-Race (1952)
• Shroud of Darkness (1954)
• Murder in Vienna (1956)
• Two-Way Murder (2021)

Philip MACDONALD

• The Rasp (1924)
• The White Crow (1928)
• The Noose (1930)
• The Link (1930)
• Murder Gone Mad (1931)
• The Choice (1931)
• The Wraith (1931)
• The Crime Conductor (1932)
• Mystery in Kensington Gore (1932)
• X v. Rex (1933)
• The Nursemaid Who Disappeared (1938)
• Guest in the House (1956)

A. G. MACDONELL

• The Silent Murders (1929; as Neil Gordon)
• Body Found Stabbed (1932)

Ngaio MARSH

• A Man Lay Dead (1934)
• Enter a Murderer (1935)
• The Nursing-home Murder (1935)
• Vintage Murder (1937)
• Death in a White Tie (1938)
• Overture to Death (1939)
• Death at the Bar (1940)
• Final Curtain (1947)
• Swing, Brother, Swing (1949)
• Hand in Glove (1962)
• Clutch of Constables (1968)
• When in Rome (1970)

A. E. W. MASON

• At the Villa Rose (1910)
• The House of the Arrow (1924)
• No Other Tiger (1927)
• The House in Lordship Lane (1946)

Helen McCLOY

• Dance of Death (1938)
• The Man in the Moonlight (1940)
• The Deadly Truth (1941)
• Cue for Murder (1942)
• The Goblin Market (1943)
• Alias Basil Willing (1951)
• Two-Thirds of a Ghost (1956)
• The Slayer and the Slain (1957)
• Mr. Splitfoot (1968)
• The Changeling Conspiracy (1976)
• Burn This (1980)

Gladys MITCHELL (see Malcolm TORRIE)

• Speedy Death (1929)
• The Mystery of a Butcher’s Shop (1929)
• The Longer Bodies (1930)
• The Saltmarsh Murders (1932)
• The Devil at Saxon Wall (1935)
• Dead Men’s Morris (1936)
• Come Away, Death (1937)
• St. Peter’s Finger (1938)
• When Last I Died (1941)
• Laurels are Poison (1942)
• Sunset over Soho (1943)
• My Father Sleeps (1944)
• Here Comes a Chopper (1946)
• Death and the Maiden (1947)
• The Dancing Druids (1948)
• Tom Brown’s Body (1949)
• Groaning Spinney (1950)
• The Devil’s Elbow (1951)
• The Echoing Strangers (1952)
• Merlin’s Furlong (1953)
• Faintley Speaking (1954)
• Twelve Horses and the Hangman’s Noose (1956)
• The Twenty-third Man (1957)
• The Man Who Grew Tomatoes (1959)
• Say it with Flowers (1960)
• My Bones Will Keep (1962)
• Adders on the Heath (1963)
• Pageant of Murder (1965)
• The Croaking Raven (1966)
• Skeleton Island (1967)
• Three Quick and Five Dead (1968)
• Dance to Your Daddy (1969)
• Gory Dew (1970)
• Lament for Leto (1971)
• The Murder of Busy Lizzie (1973)
• Winking at the Brim (1974)
• Late, Late in the Evening (1976)
• Noonday and Night (1977)
• Fault in the Structure (1977)
• Mingled with Venom (1978)
• Nest of Vipers (1979)
• The Mudflats of the Dead (1979)
• The Whispering Knights (1980)
• The Greenstone Griffins (1983)
• Cold, Lone and Still (1983)
• The Crozier Pharaohs (1984)

Cleveland MOFFETT

• Through the Wall (1909)

Max MURRAY

• The King and the Corpse (1949)

Baroness ORCZY

• The Case of Miss Elliott (1905)
• Skin o’ My Tooth (1928)

Isabel OSTRANDER

• The Twenty-six Clues (1919)

Stuart PALMER

• The Puzzle of the Pepper Tree (1933)
• Omit Flowers (1937)
• The Puzzle of the Happy Hooligan (1941)
• Miss Withers Regrets (1947)
• The Green Ace (1950)
• Nipped in the Bud (1951)
• Cold Poison (1954)

Q. PATRICK (see Patrick QUENTIN and Jonathan STAGGE)

• The Grindle Nightmare (1935)

Winifred PECK

• The Warrielaw Jewel (1933)
• Arrest the Bishop? (1949)

Rupert PENNY

• Sealed-Room Murder (1941)

Eden PHILLPOTTS

• Bred in the Bone (1932)

Robert PLAYER

• Let’s Talk of Graves, of Worms, and Epitaphs (1975)

Zelda POPKIN

• Death Wears a White Gardenia (1938)

Milton M. PROPPER

• The Ticker Tape Murder (1930)

E. R. PUNSHON

• Proof, Counter Proof (1931)
• The Cottage Murder (1931)
• Genius in Murder (1932)
• Information Received (1933)
• Death Among the Sunbathers (1934)
• The Cross-Word Mystery (1934)
• Mystery Villa (1934)
• Death of a Beauty Queen (1935)
• Death Comes to Cambers (1935)
• The Bath Mysteries (1936)
• The Dusky Hour (1937)
• Dictator’s Way (1938)
• Suspects – Nine (1939)
• Four Strange Women (1940)
• Ten Star Clues (1941)
• The Dark Garden (1941)
• Diabolic Candelabra (1942)
• The Conqueror Inn (1943)
• Secrets Can’t Be Kept (1944)
• It Might Lead Anywhere (1946)
• Helen Passes By (1947)
• Music Tells All (1948)
• The House of Godwinsson (1948)
• The Secret Search (1951)
• The Golden Dagger (1951)
• The Attending Truth (1952)
• Strange Ending (1953)
• Brought to Light (1954)
• Six Were Present (1956)

Ellery QUEEN

• The Roman Hat Mystery (1929)
• The French Powder Mystery (1930)
• The Dutch Shoe Mystery (1931)
• The Greek Coffin Mystery (1932)
• Halfway House (1936)
• The Four of Hearts (1938)
• Calamity Town (1942)
• The Murderer is a Fox (1945)
• Ten Days’ Wonder (1948)
• Cat of Many Tails (1949)
• Double, Double (1950)
• And on the Eighth Day (1964)
• A Fine and Private Place (1971)

Patrick QUENTIN (see Q. PATRICK and Jonathan STAGGE)

• Puzzle for Pilgrims (1947)

James QUINCE

• The Tin Tree (1930)
• Casual Slaughters (1935)

E. and M. A. RADFORD

• Murder Jigsaw (1944)

Clayton RAWSON (see Stuart TOWNE)

• The Great Merlini (1979)

Ruth RENDELL (see Barbara VINE)

• From Doon with Death (1964)
• To Fear a Painted Devil (1965)
• The Best Man to Die (1969)
• The Face of Trespass (1974)
• Shake Hands for Ever (1975)
• A Demon in My View (1976)
• Make Death Love Me (1979)
• The Killing Doll (1984)
• An Unkindness of Ravens (1985)
• Live Flesh (1986)
• Talking to Strange Men (1987)
• The Bridesmaid (1989)
• The Keys to the Street (1996)
• A Sight for Sore Eyes (1998)
• The Babes in the Wood (2002)
• The Water’s Lovely (2006)
• The Vault (2011)
• A Spot of Folly (2017)

John RHODE (pseudonym of Major C. J. Street; see Miles BURTON and Cecil WAYE)

• The Paddington Mystery (1925)
• Dr. Priestley’s Quest (1926)
• The Ellerby Case (1927)
• The Murders in Praed Street (1928)
• Tragedy at the Unicorn (1928)
• The House on Tollard Ridge (1929)
• The Davidson Case (1929)
• Tragedy on the Line (1931)
• The Hanging Woman (1931)
• Mystery at Greycombe Farm (1932)
• The Motor Rally Mystery (1933)
• The Claverton Mystery (1933)
• The Venner Crime (1933)
• The Robthorne Mystery (1934)
• Poison for One (1934)
• Shot at Dawn (1934)
• The Corpse in the Car (1935)
• Hendon’s First Case (1935)
• Mystery at Olympia (1935)
• Death at Breakfast (1936)
• In Face of the Verdict (1936)
• Death in the Hopfields (1937)
• Death on the Board (1937)
• Proceed with Caution (1937)
• Invisible Weapons (1938)
• The Bloody Tower (1938)
• Death on the Boat-Train (1940)
• Murder at Lilac Cottage (1940)
• The Fourth Bomb (1942)
• Death Invades the Meeting (1944)
• Vegetable Duck (1944)
• The Lake House (1946)
• Death in Harley Street (1946)
• Nothing But the Truth (1947)
• Death of an Author (1947)
• The Telephone Call (1948)
• Up the Garden Path (1949)
• The Two Graphs (1950)
• Family Affairs (1950)
• Dr. Goodwood’s Locum (1951)
• The Secret Meeting (1951)
• Death in Wellington Road (1952)
• Death at the Dance (1952)
• By Registered Post (1952)
• Death at the Inn (1953)
• Open Verdict (1956)
• Murder at Derivale (1958)
• Licenced for Murder (1958)

Sax ROHMER

• The Sins of Séverac Bablon (1914)
• Brood of the Witch-Queen (1918)

Anthony ROLLS

• Family Matters (1934)

Harriet RUTLAND

• Blue Murder (1942)

Dorothy L. SAYERS

• Whose Body? (1923)
• Clouds of Witness (1926)
• Unnatural Death (1927)
• The Unpleasantness at the Bellona Club (1928)
• Lord Peter Views the Body (1928)
• The Documents in the Case (1930)
• Strong Poison (1930)
• The Five Red Herrings (1931)
• Have His Carcase (1932)
• Murder Must Advertise (1933)
• The Nine Tailors (1934)
• Gaudy Night (1935)
• Busman’s Honeymoon (1937)

Jean SCHOLEY

• The Dead Past (1961)

M. P. SHIEL

• Prince Zaleski (1895)

Soji SHIMADA

• Murder in the Crooked House (1982)

SIMENON

• Monsieur Gallet, décedé (1931)
• Le pendu de Saint-Pholien (1931)
• Le charretier de La Providence (1931)
• Pietr le Letton (1931)

Fiona SINCLAIR

• Dead of a Physician (1961)

C. St. John SPRIGG

• Crime in Kensington (1933)
• Fatality in Fleet Street (1933)
• The Perfect Alibi (1934)
• Death of an Airman (1934)
• The Corpse with the Sunburnt Face (1935)
• Six Queer Things (1937)

H. H. STANNERS

• The Crowning Murder (1938)

STEEMAN

• Le doigt volé (1930)

Rex STOUT

• Too Many Cooks (1938)
• Red Threads (1939)
• The Silent Speaker (1946)
• Trouble in Triplicate (1949)

Julian SYMONS

• The Immaterial Murder Case (1945)
• The 31st of February (1950)
• The Paper Chase (1956)
• The Man Whose Dreams Came True (1968)
• The Plot Against Roger Rider (1973)
• A Three Pipe Problem (1975)
• The Blackheath Poisonings (1978)
• Death’s Darkest Face (1990)
• Something Like a Love Affair (1992)

Malcolm TORRIE (see Gladys MITCHELL)

• Heavy as Lead (1966)

Stuart TOWNE (see Clayton RAWSON)

• Death out of Thin Air (1941)
• Death from Nowhere (1943)

Franco VAILATI

• The Flying Boat Mystery (1935)

S. S. VAN DINE

• The Dragon Murder Case (1933)
• The Casino Murder Case (1934)

Noël VINDRY

• La bête hurlante (1934; translated into English as The Howling Beast) **
• Le double alibi (1934; translated into English as The Double Alibi) **
• À travers les murailles (1937; translated into English as Through the Walls) **

Barbara VINE (see Ruth RENDELL)

• A Dark-Adapted Eye (1986)
• The House of Stairs (1988)

Francis VIVIAN

• The Death of Mr. Lomas (1941)
• Dead Opposite the Church (1959)

Henry WADE

• The Verdict of You All (1926)
• The Missing Partners (1928)
• The Duke of York’s Steps (1929)
• No Friendly Drop (1931)
• The Hanging Captain (1932)
• Policeman’s Lot (1933)
• Mist on the Saltings (1933)
• Constable, Guard Thyself! (1934)
• Heir Presumptive (1935)
• Bury Him Darkly (1936)
• The High Sheriff (1937)
• Here Comes the Copper (1938)
• Released for Death (1938)
• Lonely Magdalen (1940)
• Diplomat’s Folly (1951)
• Be Kind to the Killer (1952)
• Too Soon to Die (1953)
• The Litmore Snatch (1957)

R. A. J. WALLING

• The Stroke of One (1931)
• The Fatal Five Minutes (1932)
• The Tolliver Case (1934)
• Eight to Nine (1934)
• The Cat and the Corpse (1935)
• The Corpse in the Crimson Slippers (1936)
• The Mystery of Mr. Mock (1937)
• Bury Him Deeper (1937)

Cecil WAYE (pseudonym of Major C. J. Street; see Miles BURTON and John RHODE)

• Murder at Monk’s Barn (1931)
• The Prime Minister’s Pencil (1933)

Carolyn WELLS

• The Clue (1909)
• The Gold Bag (1911)
• Faulkner’s Folly (1917)
• The Room with the Tassels (1918)
• The Furthest Fury (1924)
• The Doorstep Murders (1930)
• Murder Will In (1942)

Patricia WENTWORTH

• The Chinese Shawl (1943)
• Pilgrim’s Rest (UK 1948; US 1946)
• The Brading Collection (UK 1952; US 1950)

F. J. WHALEY

• Trouble in College (1936)

Ellen WILKINSON

• The Division Bell Mystery (1932)

Clifford WITTING

• Midsummer Murder (1937)
• The Case of the Michaelmas Goose (1938)
• Catt Out of the Bag (1939)
• Dead on Time (1948)
• Driven to Kill (1961)

R. C. WOODTHORPE

• Death in a Little Town (1935)

Masaya YAMAGUCHI

• Death of the Living Dead (1989)

Seishi YOKOMIZO

• The Honjin Murders (1946)
• The Inugami Curse (1951)