Crime Fiction

 

Golden Age Crime Fiction (1920-1940s)

Berkeley, Anthony
The Wintringham Mystery, aka Cicely Disappears (1927)

Brand, Christianna
Heads You Lose (1941) - Inspector Cockrill #1

The Crooked Wreath (1946) - Inspector Cockrill #3 (aka Suddenly at His Residence)

Chesterton, G.K.
The Innocence of Father Brown (1911) - Father Brown #1

Christie, Agatha
The dedicated page containing ALL of Agatha Christie's detective novels, short stories, as well as novels written under Mary Westmacott.

Dalton, Moray

One by One They Disappeared (1929) - Inspector Hugh Collier #1
The Belgrave Manor Crime (1935) - Inspector Hugh Colier #5

Forsythe, Robin
The Pleasure Cruise Mystery (1933) - Algernon Vereker  #3
The Spirit Murder Mystery (1936) - Algernon Vereker #5

Heyer, Georgette

The Unfinished Clue (1934)

Lorac, E.C.R.

Fire in the Thatch (1946) - Inspector Robert MacDonald #27 
Murder in the Mill-Race (1952) - Inspector Robert MacDonald #37

Sayers, Dorothy L.
Whose Body? (1923) - Lord Peter Wimsey #1

Tey, Josephine
The Franchise Affair (1948) - Inspector Alan Grant #3

Wentworth, Patricia
Fool Errant (1929) - Benbow Smith #1

Wills Croft, Freeman
The 12.30 from Croydon (1934) - Inspector French #11

Vintage Mystery (1920-1989)

Hitchens, Dolores
The Cat Saw Murder (1939) - Rachel Murdoch Mystery #1

James, P.D.
Cover Her Face (1962) - Adam Dalgliesh #1

Palmer, Stuart
The Penguin Pool Murder (1931) - Hildegarde Withers Mystery #1

Modern Cozy Mystery (1990-now)

Allingham, Merryn
The Bookshop Murder (Flora Steele #1)

Murder in a French Village (Flora Steele #7)
The Library Murders (Flora Steele #8)

Barron, Stephanie
Jane and the Twelve Days of Christmas (Being a Jane Austen Mystery #12)

Becket-King, Alasdair
Murder at the Museum (Montgomery Bonbon #1)

Black, Benjamin (John Banville)
The Secret Guests (St. John Strafford #1)

Booth, Bailey
Art Heists and Hairballs (Spy Kitty in the City #1)

Brokes, Dawn
Death of a Blogger (A Lady Marjorie Snellthorpe Mystery #1)

Chien, Vivien
Death by Dumpling (A Noodle Shop Mystery #1)

Dobrinska, Leah

Mayhem in Circulation (A Larkspur Library Mystery #2)

Greenwood, Kerry

Murder in Williamstown (Phryne Fisher #22)

King, Laurie R.
The Beekeeper's Apprentice (Mary Russell-Sherlock Holmes #1)
A Monstrous Regiment of Women (Mary Russell-Sherlock Holmes #2)
A Letter of Mary (Mary Russell-Sherlock Holmes #3)

Kinsey, T.E.
A Quiet Life in the Country (A Lady Hardcastle Mystery #1)

Lang, J.A.
Chef Maurice and a Spot of Truffle (Chef Maurice Mystery #1)

Osman, Richard
The Thursday Murder Club (A Thursday Murder Club Mystery #1)
The Man Who Died Twice (A Thursday Murder Club Mystery #2)

Schott, Philipp
Fifty-Four Pigs (Dr. Bannerman Vet Mystery #1)
Eleven Huskies (Dr. Bannerman Vet Mystery #3)

Stevens, Robin
Mistletoe and Murder (A Murder Most Unladylike Mystery #5)

Sutanto, Jesse Q.
Vera Wong's Unsolicited Advice for Murderers

Victorian Crime Fiction (19th century - 1919)

Collins, Wilkie
The Moonstone

Dickens, Charles
The Mystery of Edwin Drood

Doyle, Arthur Conan
The Hound of the Baskervilles
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes
A Study in Scarlet

Leroux, Gaston
The Mystery of the Yellow Room (1907)

Poe, Edgar Alan
The Tales of Terror and Detection