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Aird, Catherine, The Religious Body
Allingham, Margery
Dancers in Mourning
Mystery Mile
Sweet Danger
Asimov, Isaac, Tales of the Black Widowers
Baxt, George, The William Powell and Myrna Loy Murder Case
Beaton, M.C., Death of a Gossip
Beck, K.K., Death in a Deck Chair
Behm, Marc, The Eye of the Beholder
Black, Veronica, A Vow of Silence
Bland, Eleanor Taylor, Dead Time (and other titles)
Block, Lawrence, Burglars Can’t Be Choosers
Bruno, Anthony, Bad Apple (and other titles)
Buchan, John, The Thirty-Nine Steps
Candy, Edward, Words for Murder Perhaps
Cannell, Dorothy, The Thin Woman
Capote, Truman, In Cold Blood
Carr, Caleb
The Alienist
The Angel of Darkness
Carr, John Dickson, The Crooked Hinge
Carr, Martha Randolph, Wired
Chandler, Raymond, The Long Goodbye
Chesterton, G.K., The Innocence of Father Brown
Christie, Agatha
And Then There Were None
Murder on the Orient Express
Poirot Investigates
Sleeping Murder
Ten Little Indians
The ABC Murders
The Body in the Library
Churchill, Jill, Grime and Punishment
Clark, Mary Higgins
All Around the Town
Loves Music, Loves to Dance
Crichton, Michael, Rising Sun
Crispin, Edmund
Swan Song
The Moving Toyshop
Cross, Amanda, The James Joyce Murder
Dentinger, Jane
Death Mask
The Queen Is Dead
Doyle, Adrian Conan and John Dickson Carr, The Exploits of Sherlock Holmes
Doyle, Sir Arthur Conan
A Study in Scarlet
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes
The Sign of Four
Durrenmatt, Friedrich, The Judge and His Hangman
Fiske, Dorsey, Academic Murder
Francis, Dick, Whip Hand
Frazer, Margaret, The Novice’s Tale
Gilman, Dorothy
Mrs. Pollifax series (The Amazing Mrs. Pollifax, etc.)
The Tightrope Walker
Goddard, Kenneth, The Alchemist
Godfrey, Thomas (ed.), The English Country House Murders
Goodrum, Charles A., Dewey Decimated
Grady, James (ed.), Unusual Suspects: An Anthology of Crime Stories from Black Lizard
Grafton, Sue, "A" Is for Alibi
Greenwood, L.B., Sherlock Holmes and the Case of the Raleigh Legacy
Gregory, Susanna, A Bone of Contention
Hammett, Dashiell, The Thin Man
Hart, Carolyn G., White Elephant Dead: A Death on Demand Mystery
Hoag, Tami, Night Sins
Hudson, Jeffery, A Case of Need
James, P.D., Devices and Desires
Kaminsky, Stuart, You Bet Your Life
Kellerman, Faye, The Ritual Bath
King, Laurie R.
A Monstrous Regiment of Women
The Beekeeper’s Apprentice
Kornilova, Natalia, Pantera
Krentz, Jayne Ann, Midnight Jewels (and other titles)
Langton, Jane, The Minuteman Murder
Larmoth, Jeanine, Murder on the Menu
Larsen, Gaylord, Dorothy and Agatha
Leon, Donna
A Venetian Reckoning
Anonymous Venetian
Death and Judgment
Death at La Fenice
Death in a Strange Country
Littlepage, Layne, Murder-by-the-Sea
Lovesey, Peter, Waxwork
Macdonald, Ross, Black Money
MacLeod, Charlotte, The Family Vault
Marsh, Ngaio
Killer Dolphin
Night at the Vulcan
McCrumb, Sharyn
Bimbos of the Death Sun
The Ballad of Frankie Silver
McKay, Gardner, Toyer: A Novel
Meyer, Nicholas, The Seven-Per-Cent Solution
Mortimer, John, Rumpole of the Bailey
Palliser, Charles, The Quincunx
Parker, Robert B.
Night Passage (and other titles)
Spenser series (Ceremony, etc.)
Paton Walsh, Jill, A Piece of Justice
Patterson, James
Along Came a Spider
Cat & Mouse
Jack and Jill
Kiss the Girls
When the Wind Blows
Patterson, Richard North, Dark Lady (and other titles)
Pentecost, Hugh, The Cannibal Who Overate
Perry, Anne, The Cater Street Hangman
Peters, Elizabeth, Amelia Peabody series (The Deeds of the Disturber, etc.)
Peters, Ellis
A Morbid Taste for Bones
Brother Cadfael’s Penance
Poe, Edgar Allan
Tales of Mystery and Imagination
"The Cask of Amontillado"
"The Murders in the Rue Morgue"
"The Pit and the Pendulum"
"The Tell-Tale Heart"
Riley, Dick, Bedside, Bathtub, and Armchair Companion to Agatha Christie
Roberts, Gillian, Caught Dead in Philadelphia
Sayers, Dorothy L.
Gaudy Night
Hangman’s Holiday
Murder Must Advertise
The Nine Tailors
Skom, Edith, The Mark Twain Murders
Smith, Evelyn E., Miss Melville Regrets
Spillane, Mickey, I, the Jury
Taylor, Phoebe Atwood, Proof of the Pudding
Tey, Josephine
Brat Farrar
The Daughter of Time
The Franchise Affair
Three by Tey
Thrasher, L.L., Cat’s Paw, Inc.
Van Dine, S.S., The Benson Murder Case: A Philo Vance Story
Wambaugh, Joseph, Floaters
Winn, Dilys, Murder Ink: The Mystery Reader’s Companion
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