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.

Bude, John
The Cornish Coast Murder (1935)

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.

Bats in the Belfry (1937) - Inspector Robert MacDonald #13
Fire in the Thatch (1946) - Inspector Robert MacDonald #27 
Murder in the Mill-Race (1952) - Inspector Robert MacDonald #37

Marsh, Ngaio
Vintage Murder (1937) - Roderick Alleyn #5

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
Danger Calling (1931) - Benbow Smith #2

White, Ethel Lina
The Wheel Spins (1936)

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

Vintage Mystery (1920-1989)

Braun, Lilian Jackson
The Cat Who Could Read Backwards (1966) - The Cat Who... #1

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)

Davis, Allison A.
But Not for Me (Kay Schiffner Mysteries #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)
In the Market for Murder (A Lady Hardcastle Mystery #2)

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

Morton, Mandy
The No. 2 Feline Detective Agency (The No. 2 Feline Detective Agency #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
Murder Most Unladylike (A Murder Most Unladylike Mystery #1)
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