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This list was compiled by Howard Haycraft and published in 1941 in Murder for Pleasure: The Life and Times of the Detective Story. The list was prepared for “unpretentious detective story fans who may care to assemble for their own pleasure ‘cornerstone’ libraries of the best and most influential writing in the medium.” The titles were published 1841-1938. See also the Haycraft-Queen Cornerstones.
| Margery Allingham | Death of a Ghost. 1934 |
| Eric Ambler | A Coffin for Demetrios. 1939 |
| Frederick Irving Anderson | The Book of Murder. 1930 |
| H.C. Bailey | Call Mr. Fortune. 1920 |
| H.C. Bailey | The Red Castle. 1932 |
| Robert Barr | The Triumphs of Eugene Valmont. 1906 |
| G.R. Benson (Lord Chanwood) | Tracks in the Snow. 1906 |
| E.C. Bentley | Trent's Last Case (or The Woman in Black) 1913 |
| Anthony Berkeley | The Poisoned Chocolates Case. 1929 |
| Earl Derr Biggers | The House Without a Key. 1925 |
| Nicholas Blake | The Beast Must Die. 1938 |
| Ernest Bramah | Max Carrados. 1914 |
| John Dickson Carr | The Arabian Nights Murder. 1936 |
| G.K. Chesterton | The Innocence of Father Brown. 1911 |
| Agatha Christie | The Murder of Roger Ackroyd. 1926 |
| G.D.H. Cole | The Brooklyn Murders. 1923 |
| Wilkie Collins | The Moonstone. 1868 |
| Freeman Wills Crofts | The Cask. 1920 |
| Freeman Wills Crofts | Inspector French's Greatest Case. 1924 |
| Clemence Dane, Helen Simpson | Re-enter Sir John. 1932 |
| Charles Dickens | Bleak House. 1853 |
| Charles Dickens | The History of Edwin Drood. 1870 |
| Carter Dickson | The Plague Court Murders. 1934 |
| Arthur Conan Doyle | The Sign of the Four. 1890 |
| Arthur Conan Doyle | The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes. 1894 |
| Arthur Conan Doyle | The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes. 1894 |
| Arthur Conan Doyle | The Hound of Baskervilles. 1902 |
| Arthur Conan Doyle | The Return of Sherlock Holmes. 1905 |
| Arthur Conan Doyle | The Valley of Fear. 1915 |
| Arthur Conan Doyle | His Last Bow. 1917 |
| Arthur Conan Doyle | The Case-Book of Sherlock Holmes. 1927 |
| Mignon G. Eberhart | The Patient in Room 18. 1929 |
| J.S. Fletcher | The Middle Temple Murder. 1918 |
| R. Austin Freeman | The Red Thumb Mark, 1907 |
| R. Austin Freeman | The Singing Bone. 1912 |
| David Frome | The Hammersmith Murders. 1930 |
| Jacques Futrelle | The Thinking Machine (or The Problem of Cell 13). 1907 |
| Emile Gaboriau | L'Affaire Lerouge. 1866 |
| Emile Gaboriau | Monsieur Lecoq. 1869 |
| Erle Stanley Gardner | The Case of the Sulky Girl. 1933 |
| Anna Katherine Green | The Leavenworth Case. 1878 |
| Dashiell Hammett | The Maltese Falcon. 1930 |
| Frances Noyes Hart | The Bellamy trial. 1927 |
| Richard Hull | The Murder of My Aunt. 1935 |
| Francis Iles (Anthony Berkeley) | Before the Fact. 1932 |
| Michael Innes | Lament for a Maker. 1938 |
| Ronald A. Knox | The Viaduct Murder. 1925 |
| Maurice Leblanc | The Eight Strokes of the Clock. 1922 |
| Gaston Leroux | The Mystery of the Yellow Room. 1908 |
| Mrs. Belloc Lowndes | The Lodger. 1913 |
| Philip MacDonald | The Rasp. 1924 |
| A.E.W. Mason | At the Villa Rose. 1910 |
| Ngaio Marsh | Overture to Death. 1922 |
| A.A. Milne | The Red House Mystery. 1922 |
| Arthur Morrison | Martin Hewitt: Investigator. 1894 |
| Emmuska Orczy | The Old Man in the Corner. 1909 |
| Eden Phillpotts | The Grey Room. 1921 |
| Edgar Allan Poe | Tales. 1845 |
| Melville Davisson Post | Uncle Abner: Master of Mysteries. 1918 |
| Ellery Queen | The Roman Hat Murder. 1929 |
| Ellery Queen (as Barnaby Ross) | The Tragedy of X. 1932 |
| Arthur B. Reeve | The Silent Bullet. 1912 |
| John Rhode | The Paddington Mystery. 1925 |
| Mary Roberts Rinehart | The Circular Staircase. 1908 |
| Dorothy Sayers | The Nine Tailors. 1934 |
| Dorothy Sayers, Robert Eustace | The Documents in the Case. 1930 |
| Mabel Seeley | The Listening House. 1938 |
| Georges Simenon | The Patience of Maigret. 1940 |
| Rex Stout | Fer de Lance. 1934 |
| Phoebe Atwood Taylor | The Cape Cod Mystery. 1931 |
| S.S. Van Dine | The Benson Murder Case (or The Canary Murder Case). 1927 |
| Edgar Wallace | The Mind of J.G. Reeder (or The Murder Book
of J.G. Reeder). 1926 |
| R.A.J. Walling | The Fatal Five Minutes. 1932 |
| Carolyn Wells | The Clue. 1909 |
| Israel Zangwill | The Big Bow Mystery. 1891 |
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