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| Author | Title | Date | Detective |
| Edgar Allan Poe | Tales | 1845 | Auguste Dupin |
| Charles Dickens | Bleak House | 1853 | Inspector Bucket |
| Charles Dickens | The Mystery of Edwin Drood | 1870 | Datchery |
| Emile Gaboriau | L Affaire Lerouge | 1866 | Pere Taberet |
| Emile Gaboriau | Monsieur Lecoq | 1869 | Monsieur Lecoq |
| Wilkie Collins | The Moonstone | 1868 | Sergeant Cuff |
| Anna Katherine Green | The Leavenworth Case | 1878 | Ebenezer Gryce |
| A Conan Doyle | A Study in Scarlet | 1887 | Sherlock Holmes |
| The Sign of Four | 1890 | ||
| The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes | 1892 | ||
| The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes | 1894 | ||
| The Hound of the Baskervilles | 1902 | ||
| The Return of Sherlock Holmes | 1905 | ||
| The Valley of Fear | 1915 | ||
| His Last Bow | 1917 | ||
| The Case Book of Sherlock Holmes | 1927 | ||
| Israel Zangwill | The Big Bow Mystery | 1891 | George Grodman, Edward Wimp |
| Arthur Morrison | Martin Hewitt Investigator | 1894 | Martin Hewitt |
| Baroness Orczy | The Old Man in the Corner | 1909 | The Old Man in the Corner |
| GR Benson | Tracks in the Snow | 1906 | James Callaghan |
| Robert Barr | The Triumphs of Eugene Valmont | 1906 | Eugene Valmont |
| Jacques Futrelle | The Thinking Machine | 1907 | Professor Augustus SFX Van Dusen |
| Maurice Leblanc | The Eight Strokes of the Clock | 1922 | Arsene Lupin |
| Gaston Leroux | The Mystery of the Yellow Room | 1908 | Joseph Rouletabille |
| R Austin Freeman | The Red Thumb Mark | 1907 | Dr John Thorndyke |
| R Austin Freeman | The Singing Bone | 1912 | Dr John Thorndyke |
| Mary Roberts Rinehart | The Circular Staircase | 1908 | Jamieson |
| Carolyn Wells | The Clue | 1909 | Fleming Stone |
| AEW Mason | At the Villa Rose | 1920 | Hanaud |
| AEW Mason | The House of the Arrow | 1924 | Hanaud |
| Arthur B Reeve | The Silent Bullet | 1912 | Professor Craig Kennedy |
| GK Chesterton | The Innocence of Father Brown | 1911 | Father Brown |
| Melville Davisson Post | Uncle Abner Master of Mysteries | 1918 | Uncle Abner |
| Mrs Belloc Lowndes | The Lodger | 1913 | |
| EC Bentley | Trent's Last Case | 1913 | Philip Trent |
| Ernest Bramah | Max Carrados | 1914 | Max Carrados |
| JS Fletcher | The Middle Temple Murder | 1918 | Frank Spargo |
| Freeman Wills Crofts | The Cask | 1920 | Inspector Burnley. Georges la Touche |
| Freeman Wills Crofts | Inspector French's Greatest Case | 1924 | Inspector French |
| Agatha Christie | The Murder of Roger Ackroyd | 1926 | Hercule Poirot |
| HC Bailey | Call Mr Fortune | 1920 | Dr Reginald Fortune |
| HC Bailey | The Red Dastle | 1923 | Joshua Clunk |
| Eden Phillpotts | The Grey Room | 1921 | Peter Hardcastle |
| Frederick Irving Anderson | The Book of Murder | 1930 | Deputy Parr |
| AA Milne | The Red House Mystery | 1922 | Antony Gillingham |
| GDH Cole | The Brooklyn Murders | 1923 | Superintendent Henry Wilson |
| Dorothy Sayers | The Nine Tailors | 1934 | Lord Peter Wimsey |
| Dorothy L Sayers + Robert Eustace | The Documents in the Case | 1930 | |
| Edgar Wallace | The Mind of Mr JG Reeder | 1926 | JG Reeder |
| Philip Macdonald | The Rasp | 1924 | Colonel Anthony Gethryn |
| John Rhode | The Paddington Mystery | 1925 | Dr Priestley |
| Anthony Berkeley | The Poisoned Chocolates Case | 1929 | Roger Sherringham |
| Francis Iles | Before the Fact | 1932 | aka Anthony Berkeley |
| Earl Derr Biggers | The House Without a Key | 1925 | Charlie Chan |
| Ronald A Knox | The Viaduct Murder | 1925 | Mordaunt Reeves |
| SS Van Dine | The Benson Murder Case | 1926 | Philo Vance |
| SS Van Dine | The Canary Murder Case | 1927 | Philo Vance |
| Frances Noyes Hart | The Bellamy trial | 1927 | |
| RAJ Walling | The Fatal Five Minutes | 1932 | Philip Tolefree |
| Clemence Dane Helen Simpson | Re Enter Sir John | 1932 | Sir John Saumarez |
| Margery Allingham | Death of a Ghost | 1934 | Albert Campion |
| Ellery Queen | The Roman Hat mystery | 1929 | Ellery Queen |
| Barnaby Ross | The Tragedy of X | 1932 | Drury Lane |
| Dashiell Hammett | The Maltese Falcon | 1930 | Sam Spade |
| MG Eberhart | The Patient inn Room 18 | 1929 | Lance O leary |
| David Frome | The Hammersmith Murders | 1930 | Evan Pinkerton |
| John Dickson Carr | The Arabian Nights Murder | 1936 | Dr Gideon Fell |
| Carter Dickson | The Plague Court Murders | 1934 | Sir Henry Merrivale |
| Georges Simenon | The Patience of Maigret | 1940 | Inspector Maigret |
| Phoebe Atwood Taylor | The Cape Cod Mystery | 1931 | Asey Mayo |
| Erle Stanley Gardner | The Case of the Sulky Girl | 1933 | Perry Mason |
| Rex Stout | Fer De Lance | 1934 | Nero Wolfe |
| Ngaio Marsh | Overture to Death | 1939 | Inspector Roderick Alleyn |
| Richard Hull | The Murder of My Aunt | 1935 | |
| Nicholas Blake | The Beast Must Die | 1938 | Nigel Strangeways |
| Michael Innes | Lament for a Maker | 1938 | Inspector John Appleby |
| Eric Ambler | A Coffin for Dimitrios | 1939 | Charles Latimer |
| Mabel Seeley | The Listening House | 1938 | Lieutenant Peter Strom |
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ZADIG. 1794 William Godwin THINGS AS THEY ARE; OR, THE ADVENTURES OF CALEB WILLIAMS. 1829 Francois Eugene Vidocq MEMOIRES DE VlDOCQ. 1845 Edgar Allan Poe TALES 1853 Charles Dickens BLEAK HOUSE 1856 Waters (William Russell) RECOLLECTIONS OF A DETECTIVE POLICE OFFICER. 1860 Wilkie Collins THE WOMAN IN WHITE. 1862 Victor Hugo LES MlSERABLES 1866 Fyodor Dostoyevsky CRIME AND PUNISHMENT (first edition in English, 1886) 1866 Emile Gaboriau L'AFFAIRE LEROUGE (THE WIDOW LEROUGE) 1866 Seeley Regester (Mrs. M. V Victor) THE DEAD LETTER. 1867 Emile Gaboriau LE DOSSIER No. 113, 1867 (FILE No. 113) 1868 Wilkie Collins, THE MOONSTONE 1868 Emile Gaboriau LE CRIME D'ORCI-VAL, 1868 (THE MYSTERY OF ORCIVAL) 1869 Emile Gaboriau MONSIEUR LECOQ 1870 Charles Dickens THE MYSTERY OF EDWIN DROOD 1872 (Harlan Page Halsey) OLD SLEUTH, THE DETECTIVE. 1874 Allan Pinkerton THE EXPRESSMAN AND THE DETECTIVE. 1878 Anna Katharine Green THE LEAVENWORTH CASE. 1882 Robert Louis Stevenson NEW ARABIAN NIGHTS 1886 Robert Louis Stevenson THE STRANGE CASE OF DR. JEKYLL AND MR. HYDE 1887 Fergus W. Hume THE MYSTERY OF A HANSOM CAB 1887 A. Conan Doyle A STUDY IN SCARLET A. Conan Doyle THE SIGN OF FOUR, 1890 A. Conan Doyle THE ADVENTURES OF SHERLOCK HOLMES, 1892 A. Conan Doyle THE MEMOIRS OF SHERLOCK HOLMES, 1894 A. Conan Doyle THE HOUND OF THE BASKERVILLES, 1902 A. Conan Doyle THE RETURN OF SHERLOCK HOLMES, 1905 A. Conan Doyle THE VALLEY OF FEAR, 1915 A. Conan Doyle HIS LAST Bow, 1917 A. Conan Doyle THE CASE-BOOK OF SHERLOCK HOLMES 1927 1892 Israel Zangwill THE BIG Bow MYSTERY 1894 Mark Twain THE TRAGEDY OF PUDD'NHEAD WILSON 1894 Arthur Morrison MARTIN HEWITT, INVESTIGATOR 1895 MP Shiel PRINCE ZALESKI 1897 Bram Stoker DRACUIA. 1899 EW Hornung THE AMATEUR CRACKSMAN. 1903 Erskine Childers THE RIDDLE OF THE SANDS. 1905 Baroness Orczy THE SCARLET PIMPERNEL 1906 Godfrey R. Benson TRACKS IN THE SNOW 1906 Robert Barr THE TRIUMPHS OF EUGENE VALMONT 1907 Jacques Futrelle THE THINKING MACHINE 1907 Maurice Leblanc ARSENE LUPIN, GENTLEMAN-CAMBRI-OLEUR 1907 Gaston Leroux THE MYSTERY OF THE YELLOW ROOM 1908 Gaston Leroux THE PERFUME OF THE WOMAN IN BLACK 1907 R Austin Freeman THE RED THUMB MARK. R Austin Freeman OHN THORNDYKE'S CASES, 1909 R Austin Freeman THE EYE OF OSIRIS, 1911 R Austin Freeman HE SINGING BONE, 1912. 1907 Joseph Conrad THE SECRET AGENT.. 1908 Mary Roberts Rinehart THE CIRCULAR STAIRCASE. 1908 O. Henry THE GENTLE GRAFTER 1908 G. K. Chesterton THE MAN WHO WAS THURSDAY G. K. Chesterton THE INNOCENCE OF FATHER BROWN, 1916 1909 Cleveland Moffett THROUGH THE WALL. 1909 Carolyn Wells THE CLUE.. 1909 Baroness Orczy THE OLD MAN IN THE CORNER 1910 AEW. Mason AT THE VILLA ROSE. AEW. Mason THE HOUSE OF THE ARROW, 1924 1910 William MacHarg and Edwin Balmer THE ACHIEVEMENTS OF LUTHER TRANT. 1912 Arthur B. Reeve THE SILENT BULLET. 1913 Mrs. Belloc Lowndes THE LODGER 1913 Sax Rohmer THE MYSTERY OF DR. FU-MANCHU. 1913 EC Bentley TRENT'S LAST CASE. 1914 Ernest Bramah MAX CARRADOS. 1914 Louis Joseph Vance THE LONE WOLF 1915 John Buchan THE THIRTY-NINE STEPS 1916 Thomas Burke LIMEHOUSE NIGHTS 1918 Melville Davisson Post UNCLE ABNER 1918 JS Fletcher THE MIDDLE TEMPLE MURDER 1920 Agatha Christie THE MYSTERIOUS AFFAIR AT STYLES. Agatha Christie THE MURDER OF ROGER ACKROYD, 1926 1920 Freeman Wills Crofts THE CASK Freeman Wills Crofts INSPECTOR FRENCH'S GREATEST CASE, 1924 1920 HC Bailey CALL MR. FORTUNE HC Bailey HE RED CASTLE, 1932 1920 Sapper (Cyril McNeile) BULL-DOG DRUMMOND 1920 Arthur Train TUTT AND MR. TUTT 1920 E. Phillips Oppenheim THE GREAT IMPERSONATION, 1921 Eden Phillpotts, THE GREY ROOM 1922 A A. Milne THE RED HOUSE MYSTERY 1923 GDH Cole THE BROOKLYN MURDERS 1923 Dorothy L Sayers WHOSE BODY? Dorothy L. Sayers THE NINE TAILORS, 1934 Dorothy L. Sayers with Robert Eustace, THE DOCUMENTS IN THE CASE, 1930 1924 Philip MacDonald THE RASP. Philip MacDonald THE NURSEMAID WHO DISAPPEARED 1938 1925 Edgar Wallace THE MIND OF MR. JG REEDER 1925 John Rhode THE PADDINGTON MYSTERY John Rhode THE MURDERS IN PRAED STREET, 1928 1925 Earl Derr Biggers THE HOUSE WITHOUT A KEY. 1925 Theodore Dreiser AN AMERICAN TRAGEDY 1925 Liam O'Flaherty THE INFORMER 1925 Ronald A Knox THE VIADUCT MURDER 1926 SS Van Dine THE BENSON MURDER CASE. SS Van Dine THE CANARY MURDER CASE, 1927 1926 CS Forester PAYMENT DEFERRED 1927 Frances Noyes Hart THE BELLAMY TRIAL 1928 W Somerset Maugham ASHENDEN 1928 Leslie Charteris MEET THE TlGER 1929 Anthony Berkeley THE POISONED CHOCOLATES CASE Anthony Berkeley TRIAL AND ERROR 1937 Anthony Berkeley BEFORE THE FACT, 1932 (as Frances lies) 1929 Ellery Queen THE ROMAN HAT MYSTERY. Ellery Queen CALAMITY TOWN, 1942 Ellery Queen THE TRAGEDY OF X, 1932 (as Barnaby Ross). Ellery Queen TTHE TRAGEDY OF Y, 1932 (as Barnaby Ross) 1929 Rufus King MURDER BY THE CLOCK. 1929 WR Burnett LITTLE CAESAR 1929 TS Stribling CLUES OF THE CARIBBEES. 1929 Harvey J. O'Higgins DETECTIVE DUFF UNRAVELS IT. 1929 MG Eberhart THE PATIENT IN ROOM 18 1930 Frederick Irving Anderson BOOK OF MURDER 1930 Dashiell Hammett THE MALTESE FALCON. Dashiell Hammett THE GLASS KEY, 1931 Dashiell Hammett HE ADVENTURES OF SAM SPADE, 1944 1930 David Frome THE HAMMERSMITH MURDERS. 1931 Stuart Palmer THE PENGUIN POOL MURDER. . 1931 Francis Beeding DEATH WALKS IN EASTREPPS. 1931 Glen Trevor (James Hilton) MURDER AT SCHOOL 1931 Damon Runyon GUYS AND DOLLS 1940 Cornell Woolrich [William Irish] THE BRIDE WORE BLACK Cornell Woolrich [William Irish] PHANTOM LADY, 1942 1940 Manning Coles DRINK TO YESTERDAY Manning Coles RAY SILENCE, 1940 1941 HF Heard ATASTE FOR HONEY 1941 Craig Rice TRIAL BY FURY (or HOME SWEET HOMICIDE, 1944) 1942 HH Holmes [Anthony Boucher] ROCKET TO THE MORGUE 1942 James Gould Cozzens THE JUST AND THE UNJUST 1943 Vera Caspary LAURA. 1944 Hilda Lawrence BLOOD UPON THE SNOW 1946 Helen Eustis THE HORIZONTAL MAN 1946 Charlotte Armstrong THE UNSUSPECTED 1946 Lillian de la Torre DR, SAM JOHNSON, DETECTOR 1946 Edmund Crispin THE MOVING TOYSHOP 1947 Edgar Lustgarten A CASE TO ANSWER 1947 Roy Vickers THE DEPARTMENT OF DEAD ENDS 1948 Josephine Tey THE FRANCHISE AFFAIR 1948 William Faulkner INTRUDER IN THE DUST 1948 Robert M Coates WISTERIA COTTAGE. 1948 Stanley Ellin DREADFUL SUMMIT 1949 John Ross Macdonald THE MOVING TARGET 1950 Eleazar Lipsky THE PEOPLE AGAINST O'HARA. 1950 Evelyn Piper THE MOTIVE. 1950 Thomas Walsh NIGHTMARE IN MANHATTAN 1950 Helen McCloy THROUGH A GLASS, DARKLY 1950 Bart Spicer BLUES FOR THE PRINCE 1950 Charlotte Armstrong MISCHIEF 1950 Raymond Chandler THE SIMPLE ART OF MURDER. 1951 Dorothy Salisbury Davis A GENTLE MURDERER 1952 Lord Dunsany THE LITTLE TALES OF SMETHERS. |
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