| Author |
Title |
Date |
| Edgar Allan Poe |
Tales |
1854 |
| Waters |
Recollections of a Detective Police |
1856 |
| Wilkie Collins |
The Queen of Hearts |
1859 |
| Charles Dickens |
Hunted Down |
1860 |
| Anonyma |
The Experiences of a Lady Detective |
1861 |
| Thomas Bailey Aldrich |
Out of his Head |
1862 |
| Mark Twain |
Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County |
1867 |
| Emile Gaboriau |
The Little Old Man of Batignolles |
1876 |
| James M Govan |
Brought to Bay |
1878 |
| By a New York Detective |
Detective Sketches |
1881 |
| Robert Louis Stevenson |
New Arabian Nights |
1882 |
| Frank R Stockton |
The Lady or the Tiger |
1884 |
| Eden Phillpotts |
My Adventure in the Flying Scotsman |
1888 |
| Dick Donovan |
The Man Hunter |
1888 |
| Israel Zangwill |
The Big Bow Mystery |
1892 |
| A Conan Doyle |
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes |
1892 |
| Meade & Halifax |
Stories from the Diary of a Doctor |
1894 |
| Arthur Morrison |
Martin Hewitt Investigator |
1894 |
| MP Shiel |
MPrince Zaleski |
1895 |
| Melville Davisson Post |
The Strange Schemes of Randolph Mason |
1896 |
| Grant Allen |
An African Millionaire |
1897 |
| George R Sims |
Dorcas Dene Detective |
1897 |
| M McDonnell Bodkin |
Paul Beck, the Rule of Thumb Detective |
1898 |
| Rodrigues Ottolengui |
Final Proof |
1898 |
| Nicholas Carter |
The Detective's Pretty Neighbor |
1899 |
| EW Hornung |
The Amateur Cracksman |
1899 |
| LT Meades - Robert Eustace |
The Brotherhood of Seven Kings |
1899 |
| Herbert Cadett |
The Adventures of a Journalist |
1900 |
| Richard Harding Davis |
In the Fog |
1901 |
| Clifford Ashdown |
The Adventures of Romney Pringle |
1902 |
| Bret Harte |
Condensed Novels |
1902 |
| Percival Pollard |
Lingo Dan |
1903 |
| B Fletcher Robinson |
The Chronicles of Addington Peace |
1905 |
| Arnold Bennett |
The Loot of Cities |
1905 |
| Robert Barr |
The Triumphs of Eugene Valmont |
1906 |
| Alfred Henry Lewis |
Confessions of a Detective |
1906 |
| Maurice Leblanc |
The Exploits of Arsene Lupin |
1907 |
| Jacques Futrelle |
The Thinking Machine |
1907 |
| George Randolph Chester |
Get-Rich-Quick Wallingford |
1908 |
| O Henry |
The Gentle Grafter |
1908 |
| Baroness Orczy |
The Old Man in the Corner |
1909 |
| R Austin Freeman |
John Thorndyke's Cases |
1909 |
| JS Fletcher |
The Adventures of Archer Dawe |
1909 |
| Balduin Groller |
Detective Dagobert's Deeds and Adventures |
1910 |
| TW Hanshew |
The Man of the Forty Faces |
1910 |
| MacHarg & Balmer |
The Achievements of Luther Trant |
1910 |
| GK Chesterton |
The Innocence of Father Brown |
1911 |
| Samuel Hopkins Adams |
Average Jones |
1911 |
| Arthur B Reeve |
The Silent Bullet |
1912 |
| Gelett Burgess |
The Master of Mysteries |
1912 |
| Victor L Whitechurch |
Thrilling Stories of the Railway |
1912 |
| R Austin Freeman |
The Singing Bone |
1912 |
| William Hope Hodgson |
Carnacki the Ghost-Finder |
1913 |
| Anna Katharine Green |
Masterpieces of Mystery |
1913 |
| Hesketh Pritchard |
November Joe |
1913 |
| Ernest Bramah |
Max Carrados |
1914 |
| Arthur Sherburne Hardy |
Diane and her Friends |
1914 |
| Thomas Burke |
Limehouse Nights |
1916 |
| AEW Mason |
The Four Corners of the World |
1917 |
| Melville Davisson Post |
Uncle Abner |
1918 |
| Ellis Parker Butler |
Philo Grubb |
1918 |
| John Russell |
The Red Mark |
1919 |
| William Le Quex |
Mysteries of a Great City |
1920 |
| Sax Rohmer |
The Dream Detective |
1920 |
| J Storer Clouston |
Carrington's Cases |
1920 |
| Vincent Starrett |
The Unique Hamlet |
1920 |
| Arthur Train |
Tutt and Mr Tutt |
1920 |
| HC Bailey |
Call Mr. Fortune |
1920 |
| Maurice Leblanc |
The Eight Strokes of the Clock |
1922 |
| Octavus Roy Cohen |
Jim Hanvey Detective |
1923 |
| Agatha Christie |
Poirot Investigates |
1924 |
| Edgar Wallace |
The Mind of Mr. JG Reeder |
1925 |
| Louis Golding |
Luigi of Catanzaro |
1926 |
| Anthony Wynne |
Sinner Go Secretly |
1927 |
| Susan Glaspell |
A Jury of Her Peers |
1927 |
| Dorothy L Sayers |
Lord Peter Views the Body |
1928 |
| GDH & M Cole |
Superintendent Wilson's Holiday |
1928 |
| W Somerset Maugham |
Ashenden |
1928 |
| Percival Wilde |
Rogues in Clover |
1929 |
| TS Stribling |
Clues of the Caribees |
1929 |
| Harvey O'Higgins |
Detective Duff Unravels it |
1929 |
| Frederick Irving Anderson |
Book of murder |
1930 |
| F Tennyson Jesse |
The Solange Stories |
1931 |
| Damon Runyon |
Guys and Dolls |
1931 |
| Georges Simenon |
The Thirteen Culprits |
1932 |
| Leslie Charteris |
The Brighter Buccaneer |
1933 |
| Henry Wade |
Policeman's lot |
1933 |
| MG Eberhart |
The Cases of Susan Dare |
1934 |
| Irvin S Cobb |
Faith, Hope and Charity |
1934 |
| C Daly King |
The Curious Mr Tarrant |
1935 |
| Margery Allingham |
Mr Campion and Others |
1939 |
| EC Bentley |
Trent Intervenes |
1938 |
| Carter Dickson |
The Department of Queer Complaints |
1940 |
| Willaim MacHarg |
The Affairs of O'Malley |
1940 |
| H Bustos Domecq |
Six Problems for Don Isidro Parodi |
1942 |
| William Irish |
After Dinner Story |
1944 |
| Dashiell Hammett |
The Adventures of Sam Spade |
1944 |
| Raymond Chandler |
Five Murderers |
1944 |
| Lillian de la Torre |
Dr Sam Johnson, Detector |
1946 |
| Rafael Sabatini |
Turbulent Tales |
1946 |
| Antonio Helu |
The Compulsion to Murder |
1946 |
| Stuart Palmer |
The Riddles of Hildegarde Withers |
1947 |
| Roy Vickers |
The Department of Dead Ends |
1947 |
| William Faulkner |
Knight's Gambit |
1949 |
| Lawrence G Blochman |
Homicide |
1950 |
| John Collier |
Fancies and Goodnights |
1951 |
| Philip Macdonald |
Something to Hide |
1952 |
| Lord Dunsany |
The Little Tales of Smethers |
1952 |
| Edmund Crispin |
Beware of the Trains |
1953 |
| Roald Dahl |
Someone Like You |
1953 |
| Michael Innes |
Appleby Talking |
1954 |
| Stanley Ellin |
Mystery Stories |
1956 |
| Evan Hunter |
The Jungle Kids |
1956 |
| Charlotte Armstrong |
The Albatross |
1957 |
| Craig Rice |
The Name is Malone |
1958 |
| Rufus King |
Malice in Wonderland |
1958 |
| Georges Simenon |
The Short Cases of Inspector Maigret |
1959 |
| Patrick Quentin |
The Ordeal of Mrs Snow |
1961 |
| Stuart Palmer & Craig Rice |
People Vs Withers & Malone |
1963 |
| Helen McCloy |
Surprise, Surprise ! |
1965 |
| Robert L Fish |
The Incredible Schlock Homes |
1966 |
| Miriam Allen de Ford |
The Theme is Murder |
1967 |
| Michael Gilbert |
Game Without Rules |
1967 |
| Harry Kemelman |
The Nine Mile Walk |
1967 |
