| 1794 |
William Godwin |
Caleb Williams |
| 1845 |
Edgar Allan Poe |
Tales of Mystery and Imagination |
| 1860 |
Wilkie Collins |
The Woman in White |
| 1864 |
Sheridan Le Fanu |
Uncle Silas |
| 1868 |
Wilkie Collins |
The Moonstone |
| 1870 |
Charles Dickens |
The Mystery of Edwin Drood |
| 1882 |
Robert Louis Stevenson |
The New Arabian Nights |
| 1886 |
Fyodor Dostoevsky |
Crime and Punishment |
| 1887 |
Emile Gaboriau |
The Mystery of Orcival |
| 1887 |
Fergus Hume |
The Mystery of a Hansom Cab |
| 1894 |
Arthur Conan Doyle |
The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes |
| 1895 |
Arthur Machen |
The Three Impostors |
| 1899 |
E. W. Hornung |
Raffles |
| 1902 |
Arthur Conan Doyle |
The Hound of the Baskervilles |
| 1907 |
Jacques Futrelle |
The Thinking Machine |
| 1907 |
Maurice Leblanc |
The Seven of Hearts |
| 1909 |
Gaston Leroux |
The Mystery of the Yellow Room |
| 1909 |
Baroness Orczy |
The Old Man in the Corner |
| 1910 |
A. E. W. Mason |
At the Villa Rose |
| 1911 |
G. K. Chesterton |
The Innocence of Father Brown |
| 1912 |
R. Austin Freeman |
The Singing Bone |
| 1913 |
E. C. Bentley |
Trent’s Last Case |
| 1914 |
Ernest Bramah |
Max Carrados |
| 1915 |
John Buchan |
The Thirty-Nine Steps |
| 1920 |
Sapper |
Bull-Dog Drummond |
| 1922 |
Edgar Wallace |
The Crimson Circle |
| 1922 |
A. A. Milne |
The Red House Mystery |
| 1922 |
Freeman Wills Crofts |
The Pit-Prop Syndicate |
| 1924 |
A. E. W. Mason |
The House of the Arrow |
| 1926 |
Agatha Christie |
The Murder of Roger Ackroyd |
| 1926 |
C. S. Forester |
Payment Deferred |
| 1928 |
S. S. Van Dine |
The Greene Murder Case |
| 1928 |
Frances Noyes Hart |
The Bellamy Trial |
| 1928 |
W. Somerset Maugham |
Ashenden |
| 1929 |
Anthony Berkeley |
The Poisoned Chocolates Case |
| 1929 |
H. C. Bailey |
Mr. Fortune Speaking |
| 1931 |
Thomas Burke |
The Pleasantries of Old Quong |
| 1931 |
Dashiell Hammett |
The Glass Key |
| 1931 |
William Faulkner |
Sanctuary |
| 1931 |
Francis Iles |
Malice Aforethought |
| 1931 |
Hugh Walpole |
Above the Dark Circus |
| 1932 |
Ellery Queen |
The Greek Coffin Mystery |
| 1933 |
Dorothy L. Sayers |
Murder Must Advertise |
| 1933 |
Ethel Lina White |
The Wheel Spins |
| 1934 |
Margery Allingham |
Death of a Ghost |
| 1934 |
James M. Cain |
The Postman Always Rings Twice |
| 1934 |
F. Tennyson Jesse |
A Pin to See the Peep-Show |
| 1934 |
Rex Stout |
Fer-de-Lance |
| 1935 |
Ellery Queen |
The Adventures of Ellery Queen |
| 1935 |
Ernest Raymond |
We, the Accused |
| 1935 |
Dorothy L. Sayers |
Gaudy Night |
| 1935 |
John Dickson Carr |
The Hollow Man |
| 1936 |
Erle Stanley Gardner |
The Case of the Sleepwalker’s Niece |
| 1936 |
Graham Greene |
A Gun For Sale |
| 1937 |
Michael Innes |
Hamlet, Revenged! |
| 1937 |
Jonathan Latimer |
The Lady in the Morgue |
| 1938 |
Daphne du Maurier |
Rebecca |
| 1938 |
Philip Mac Donald |
The Nursemaid Who Disappeared (Warrant for X) |
| 1939 |
Eric Ambler |
The Mask of Demetrios |
| 1939 |
Geoffrey Household |
Rogue Male |
| 1939 |
Ngaio Marsh |
Overture to Death |
| 1940 |
Raymonmd Postgate |
Verdict of Twelve |
| 1941 |
Patrick Hamilton |
Hangover Square |
| 1941 |
John Mair |
Never Come Back |
| 1942 |
Cyril Hare |
Tragedy at Law |
| 1943 |
Raymond Chandler |
The High Window |
| 1943 |
Georges Simenon |
The Lodger |
| 1944 |
Vera Caspary |
Laura |
| 1945 |
Agatha Christie |
Death Comes as the End |
| 1945 |
William Irish |
Phantom Lady |
| 1946 |
Edmund Crispin |
The Moving Toyshop |
| 1946 |
Helen Eustis |
The Horizontal Man |
| 1947 |
Kenneth Fearing |
The Big Clock |
| 1947 |
Edgar Lustgarten |
A Case to Answer or One More Unfortunate |
| 1948 |
John Franklin Bardin |
Devil Take the Blue-Tail Fly |
| 1948 |
Roy Fuller |
With My Little Eye |
| 1949 |
Roy Vickers |
The Department of Dead Ends |
| 1950 |
Charlotte Armstrong |
Mischief |
| 1950 |
Christianna Brand |
Cat and Mouse |
| 1950 |
W. R. Burnett |
The Asphalt Jungle |
| 1950 |
Michael Gilbert |
Smallbone Deceased |
| 1951 |
Victor Canning |
Venetian Bird |
| 1951 |
Georges Simenon |
Maigret in Montmartre |
| 1951 |
Josephine Tey |
The Daughter of Time |
| 1952 |
John Bingham |
My Name is Michael Sibley |
| 1952 |
Edward Grierson |
Reputation for a Song |
| 1953 |
Raymond Chandler |
The Long Goodbye |
| 1953 |
John Ross Macdonald |
The Ivory Grin |
| 1953 |
Hillary Waugh |
Last Seen Wearing… |
| 1954 |
Ira Levin |
A Kiss Before Dying |
| 1955 |
Margot Bennett |
The Man Who Didn’t Fly |
| 1955 |
Michael Innes |
The Man From the Sea |
| 1955 |
Margaret Millar |
A Beast in View |
| 1955 |
Patrick Quentin |
The Man With Two Wives |
| 1956 |
Nicholas Blake |
A Tangled Web |
| 1956 |
Patricia Highsmith |
The Blunderer |
| 1956 |
Shelley Smith |
The Lord Have Mercy |
| 1957 |
Stanley Ellin |
Mystery Stories |
| 1957 |
Ian Fleming |
From Russia With Love |
| 1957 |
Meyer Levin |
Compulsion |
