HAYCRAFT-QUEEN
CORNERSTONES,
A DEFINITIVE
LIBRARY OF
DETECTIVE, CRIME
AND MYSTERY FICTION
1748-1952
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In 1941, Howard Haycraft compiled
a list of detective stories for a book entitled 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.” Ellery
Queen (the writing team of Frederic Dannay and Manfred B. Lee) revised
the Haycraft list several times expanding it to include a broader range
of crime and mystery fiction. The final list, often referred to as the
“Haycraft-Queen Cornerstones” is as follows. The books listed were published
1748-1952. |
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Allingham, Margery
Death of a Ghost. 1934
Ambler, Eric
A Coffin for Demetrios. 1939
Anderson, Frederick Irving
The Book of Murder. 1930
Armstrong, Charlotte
Mischief. 1950
Armstrong, Charlotte
The Unsuspected. 1946
Bailey, H. C.
Call Mr. Fortune. 1920
Bailey, H. C.
The Red Castle. 1932
Barr, Robert
The Triumphs of Eugene Valmont. 1906
Beeding, Francis
Death Walks in Eastrepps. 1931
Benson, G. R. (Lord Chanwood) Tracks in the Snow. 1906
Bentley, E. C.
Trent’s Last Case (or The Woman in Black) 1913
Berkeley, Anthony
The Poisoned Chocolates Case. 1929
Berkeley, Anthony
Trial and Error. 1937
Boucher, Anthony
Rocket to the Morgue. 1942
Biggers, Earl Derr
The House Without a Key. 1925
Blake, Nicholas
The Beast Must Die. 1938
Bramah, Ernest
Max Carrados. 1914
Buchan, John
The Thirty-Nine Steps. 1915
Burke, Thomas
Limehouse Nights. 1916
Burnett, W. R.
Little Caesar. 1929
Cain, James M.
The Postman Always Rings Twice. 1934
Carr, John Dickson
The Crooked Hinge. 1938
Carr, John Dickson
The Judas Window. 1938
Caspary, Vera
Laura. 1943
Chandler, Raymond
The Big Sleep. 1939
Chandler, Raymond
Farewell, My Lovely. 1940
Chandler, Raymond
The Simple Art of Murder. 1950
Charteris, Leslie
Meet the Tiger. 1928
Chesterton, G. K.
The Innocence of Father Brown. 1911
Chesterton, G. K.
The Man Who Was Thursday. 1908
Childers, Erskine
The Riddle of the Sands. 1903
Christie, Agatha
The Murder of Roger Ackroyd. 1926
Christie, Agatha
The Mysterious Affair at Styles. 1920
Coates, Robert M.
Wisteria Cottage. 1948
Cole, G. D. H.
The Brooklyn Murders. 1923
Coles, Manning
Drink to Yesterday. 1940
Coles, Manning
A Toast to Tomorrow or
Pray Silence 1941
Collins, Wilkie
The Moonstone. 1868
Collins, Wilkie
The Woman in White. 1860
Conrad, Joseph
The Secret Agent. 1907
Cozzens, James Gould
The Just and the Unjust. 1942
Crispin, Edmund
The Moving Toyshop. 1946
Crispin, Edmund
Love Lies Bleeding. 1948
Crofts, Freeman Wills
The Cask. 1920
Crofts, Freeman Wills
Inspector French’s Greatest Case. 1924
Dane, Clemence, Helen Simpson Re-enter Sir John. 1932
Davis, Dorothy Salisbury
A Gentle Murderer. 1951
De la Torre, Lilian
Dr. Sam Johnson, Detector. 1946
Dickens, Charles
Bleak House. 1853
Dickens, Charles
The History of Edwin Drood. 1870
Dickson, Carter
The Curse of the Bronze Lamp or Lord of the Sorcerers. 1945
Dostoevsky, Fyodor
Crime and Punishment. 1866
Doyle, Arthur Conan
The Sign of the Four. 1890
Doyle, Arthur Conan
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes. 1894
Doyle, Arthur Conan
The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes. 1894
Doyle, Arthur Conan
The Hound of the Baskervilles. 1902
Doyle, Arthur Conan
The Return of Sherlock Holmes. 1905
Doyle, Arthur Conan
The Valley of Fear. 1915
Doyle, Arthur Conan
His Last Bow. 1917
Doyle, Arthur Conan
The Case-Book of Sherlock Holmes. 1927
Dreiser, Theodore
An American Tragedy. 1925
Du Maurier, Daphne
Rebecca. 1938
Dunsany, Lord
The Little Tales of Smethers. 1952
Eberhart, Mignon G.
The Patient in Room 18. 1929
Ellin, Stanley
Dreadful Summit. 1948
Eustis, Helen
The Horizontal Man. 1946
Faulkner, William
Intruder in the Dust. 1948
Fletcher, J. S.
The Middle Temple Murder. 1918
Forester, C. S.
Payment Deferred. 1926
Freeman, R. Austin
The Eye of Osiris. 1911
Freeman, R. Austin
John Thorndyke’s Cases. 1909
Freeman, R. Austin
The Red Thumb Mark. 1907
Freeman, R. Austin
The Singing Bone. 1912
Frome, David
The Hammersmith Murders. 1930
Futrelle, Jacques
The Thinking Machine (or The
Problem of Cell 13). 1907
Gaboriau, Emile
L’Affaire Lerouge or The Widow
Lerouge. 1866
Gaboriau, Emile
Le Crime d’Orcival or The Mystery
Of Orcival. 1868
Gaboriau, Emile
Le Dossier No. 113 or File No. 13. 1867
Gaboriau, Emile
Monsieur Lecoq. 1869
Gardner, Erle Stanley
The Case of the Sulky Girl. 1933
Gardner, Erle Stanley
The Case of the Velvet Claws. 1933 *
Godwin, William
Things As They Are, Or, The
Adventures of Caleb Williams. 1794
Green, Anna Katharine
The Leavenworth Case. 1878
Greene, Graham
Brighton Rock. 1938
Halsey, Harlan Page
Old Sleuth, the Detective. 1872
Hammett, Dashiell
The Adventures of Sam Spade. 1944
Hammett, Dashiell
The Glass Key. 1931
Hammett, Dashiell
The Maltese Falcon. 1930
Hart, Frances Noyes
The Bellamy Trial. 1927
Heard, H. F.
A Taste for Honey. 1941
Henry, O.
The Gentle Grafter. 1908
Hornung, E. W.
The Amateur Cracksman. 1899
Hughes, Dorothy B.
The So Blue Marble or In a Lonely
Place. 1947
Hugo, Victor
Les Miserables. 1862
Hull, Richard
The Murder of My Aunt. 1935
Hume, Fergus W.
The Mystery of a Hansom Cab. 1887
Iles, Francis (Anthony Berkeley)
Before the Fact. 1932
Innes, Michael
Lament for a Maker. 1938
King, Rufus
Murder by the Clock. 1929
Knox, Ronald A.
The Viaduct Murder. 1925
Lawrence, Hilda
Blood Upon the Snow. 1944
Leblanc, Maurice
The Eight Strokes of the Clock. 1922
Leblanc, Maurice
Arsene Lupin, Gentleman-Cabrioleur. 1907
Leblanc, Maurice
“813” 1910
Leroux, Gaston
The Mystery of the Yellow Room. 1908
Leroux, Gaston
The Perfume of the Woman in Black.
1909
Lipsky, Eleazar
The People Against O’Hara. 1950
Lockridge, Frances and Richard
The Norths Meet Murder. 1940
Lowndes, Mrs. Belloc
The Lodger. 1913
Lustgarten, Edgar
One More Unfortunate or A Case to Answer. 1947
MacDonald, Philip
The Rasp. 1924
MacDonald, Philip
Warrant for X. or The Nursemaid
Who Disappeared. 1938
Macdonald, Ross
The Moving Target. 1949
MacHarg, William & Edwin Balmer The Achievements
of Luther Trant. 1910
Marquand, John P.
No Hero. 1935
Marsh, Ngaio
Overture to Death. 1939
Mason, A. E. W.
At the Villa Rose. 1910
Mason, A. E. W.
The House of the Arrow. 1924
Maugham, W. Somerset
Ashenden. 1928
McCloy, Helen
Through a Glass, Darkly. 1950
Milne, A. A.
The Red House Mystery. 1922
Moffett, Cleveland
Through the Wall. 1909
Morrison, Arthur
Martin Hewitt: Investigator. 1894
O’Flaherty, Liam
The Informer. 1925
O’Higgins, Harvey J.
Detective Duff Unravels It. 1929
Oppenheim, E. Phillips
The Great Impersonation. 1920
Orczy, Emmuska
The Old Man in the Corner. 1909
Orczy, Emmuska
The Scarlet Pimpernel. 1905
Palmer, Stuart
The Penguin Pool Murder. 1931
Paul, Elliot
The Mysterious Mickey Finn. 1939
Phillpotts, Eden
The Grey Room. 1921
Pinkerton, Allan
The Expressman and the Detective.
1874
Piper, Evelyn
The Motive. 1950
Poe, Edgar Allan
Tales. 1845
Post, Melville Davisson
Uncle Abner: Master of Mysteries.
1918
Postgate, Raymond
Verdict of Twelve. 1940
Queen, Ellery
Calamity Town. 1942
Queen, Ellery
The Roman Hat Murder. 1929
Queen, Ellery (as Barnaby Ross)
The Tragedy of X. 1932
Queen, Ellery (as Barnaby Ross)
The Tragedy of Y. 1932
Rawson, Clayton
Death from a Top Hat. 1938
Reeve, Arthur B.
The Silent Bullet. 1912
Regester, Seeley (Mrs. M.V. Victor) The Dead
Letter. 1866
Rhode, John
The Murders in Praed Street. 1928
Rhode, John
The Paddington Mystery. 1925
Rice, Craig
Trial by Fury. 1941
Rice, Craig
Home Sweet Homicide. 1944
Rinehart, Mary Roberts
The Circular Staircase. 1908
Rohmer, Sax
The Mystery of Dr. Fu-Manchu.
1908
Runyon, Damon
Guys and Dolls. 1931
Sapper (Cyrile McNeile)
Bull-Dog Drummond. 1920
Sayers, Dorothy
The Nine Tailors. 1934
Sayers, Dorothy
Whose Body? 1923
Sayers, Dorothy, Robert Eustace
The Documents in the Case. 1930
Seeley, Mabel
The Listening House. 1938
Shiel, M. P.
Prince Zaleski. 1895
Simenon, Georges
The Patience of Maigret. 1940
Spicer, Bart
Blues for the Prince. 1950
Stevenson, Robert Louis
New Arabian Nights. 1882
Stevenson, Robert Louis
The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and
Mr. Hyde. 1886
Stoker, Bram
Dracula. 1897
Stout, Rex
Fer de Lance. 1934
Stout, Rex
The League of Frightened Men.
1935
Stribling, T. S.
Clues of the Caribbees. 1929
Taylor, Phoebe Atwood
The Cape Cod Mystery. 1931
Tey, Josephine
The Franchise Affair. 1948
Train, Arthur
Tutt and Mr. Tutt. 1920
Trevor, Glen (James Hilton)
Murder at School or Was It
Murder. 1935
Twain, Mark
The Tragedy of Pudd’nhead Wilson.
1894
Van Dine, S. S.
The Benson Murder Case 1926
Van Dine, S. S.
The Canary Murder Case. 1927
Vance, Louis Joseph
The Lone Wolf. 1914
Vickers, Roy
The Department of Dead Ends.
1946
Voltaire
Zadig. 1748
Wallace, Edgar
The Mind of J. G. Reeder (or The
Murder Book of J. G. Reeder).
1926
Walling, R. A. J.
The Fatal Five Minutes. 1932
Walsh, Thomas
Nightmare in Manhattan. 1950
Waters (William Russell)
Recollections of a Detective
Police Officer. 1856
Wells, Carolyn
The Clue. 1909
Woolrich, Cornell (William Irish)
The Bride Wore Black. 1942
Zangwill, Israel
The Big Bow Mystery. 1891