Reviews by Author

Allingham, Margery

• The Crime at Black Dudley (1929)
• Death of a Ghost (1934)
• Mystery Mile (1930)
• Take Two at Bedtime (1949)

Ames, Delano

• Corpse Diplomatique (1950)
• Murder Begins at Home (1949)

Armstrong, Charlotte

• A Dram of Poison (1956)
• The Better to Eat You (1954)
• I See You (1956)
• The Unsuspected (1945)

Armstrong, Margaret

• The Blue Santo Murder Mystery (1941)

Bell, Josephine

• Adventure with Crime (1962)
• The Catalyst (1966)
• The House Above the River (1959)
• The Port of London Murders (1938)
• The Upfold Witch (1964)

Berckman, Evelyn

• A Case in Nullity (1967)

Biggers, Earl Derr

• The House Without a Key (1925)

Blake, Nicholas

• The Deadly Joker (1963)

Bowers, Dorothy

• Fear for Miss Betony (1941)

Brooks, Richard

• The Brick Foxhole (1945)

Burnett, W. R.

• High Sierra (1940)

Burton, Miles (see also John Rhode)

• The Hardway Diamonds Mystery (1930)
• The Secret of High Eldersham (1930)

Cain, James M.

• The Postman Always Rings Twice (1934)

Caldwell, Taylor

• The Late Clara Beame (1963)

Campbell, Alice

• The Cockroach Sings (1946)

Cannan, Joanna

• And Be a Villain (1958)
• Long Shadows (1955)
• Murder Included (1950)
• No Walls of Jasper (1930)

Carey, Bernice

• The Man Who Got Away With It (1950)
• The Three Widows (1952)

Carnac, Carol (see also E. C. R. Lorac)

• Crossed Skis (1952)
• It’s Her Own Funeral (1951)
• The Striped Suitcase (1946)

Carr, John Dickson (see also Carter Dickson)

• The Burning Court (1937)
• The Eight of Swords (1934)
• It Walks By Night (1930)
• The Mad Hatter Mystery (1933)
• Till Death Do Us Part (1944)

Caspary, Vera

• Bedelia (1945)
• Laura (1943)
• The Murder in the Stork Club (2009)

Chandler, Raymond

• The Big Sleep (1939)

Christie, Agatha

Hercule Poirot

• Death on the Nile (1937)
• Evil Under the Sun (1941)
• Hallowe’en Party (1969)
• The Hollow (1946)
• Lord Edgware Dies (1933)
• Murder in the Mews (1937)
• Murder on the Orient Express (1934)
• The Mysterious Affair at Styles (1920)
• Sad Cypress (1940)
• Third Girl (1966)

Miss Marple

• A Caribbean Mystery (1964)

Tommy and Tuppence

• Postern of Fate (1973)

Standalones

• Destination Unknown (1954)
• Murder Is Easy (1939)
• Parker Pyne Investigates (1934)

Coggin, Joan

• The Mystery at Orchard House (1946)

Cole, G. D. H. & M.

• Scandal at School (1935)

Collins, Mary

• The Fog Comes (1941)

Connington, J. J.

• The Ha-Ha Case (1934)

Cornish, Constance

• Dead of Winter (1959)

Crane, Frances

• The Golden Box (1942)
• The Turquoise Shop (1941)

Crispin, Edmund

• The Moving Toyshop (1946)

Crofts, Freeman Wills

• The 12.30 from Croydon (1934)
• The Cask (1920)
• Fatal Venture (1939)

Curtiss, Ursula

• The Birthday Gift (1976)
• The Face of the Tiger (1958)
• The Forbidden Garden (1962)
• In Cold Pursuit (1977)
• The Iron Cobweb (1953)
• Letter of Intent (1971)

Dalton, Moray

• Death in the Cup (1932)
• The Night of Fear (1931)
• The Strange Case of Harriet Hall (1936)

Daly, Elizabeth

• The Book of the Lion (1948)
• Somewhere in the House (1946)

Dick, R. A.

• The Ghost and Mrs. Muir (1945)

Dickson, Carter (see also John Dickson Carr)

• The Plague Court Murders (1934)
• The White Priory Murders (1934)

Disney, Doris Miles

• Straw Man (1951)
• Trick or Treat (1955)

Disney, Dorothy Cameron

• The 17th Letter (1945)
• The Balcony (1940)
• Thirty Days Hath September (1942)

Downing, Todd

• The Cat Screams (1934)
• Murder on Tour (1933)
• Vultures in the Sky (1935)

Du Bois, Theodora

• It’s Raining Violence (1949)

Eberhart, Mignon G.

• Another Woman’s House (1947)
• The Cases of Susan Dare (1934)
• The Glass Slipper (1938)
• Hasty Wedding (1937)
• The House on the Roof (1935)
• The Pattern (1937)
• The White Dress (1946)
• Wings of Fear (1945)

Einstein, Charles

• The Bloody Spur (1953)

Farrell, Henry

• What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? (1960)

Fenisong, Ruth

• Deadlock (1952)
• The Lost Caesar (1945)

Ferguson, Margaret

• The Sign of the Ram (1945)

Ferrars, Elizabeth

• Milk of Human Kindness (1950)
• Murder Among Friends (1946)

Fischer, Bruno

• The Hornets’ Nest (1944)

Fleming, Joan

• He Ought to Be Shot (1955)

Fletcher, Lucille

• Sorry, Wrong Number (1948)

Flynn, Brian

• The Ebony Stag (1938)
• Glittering Prizes (1942)
• The Mystery of the Peacock’s Eye (1928)
• Tread Softly (1937)

Foley, Rae

• The Barclay Place (1975)
• The Hundredth Door (1950)
• No Tears for the Dead (1948)

Ford, Leslie (see also David Frome)

• Murder with Southern Hospitality (1942)
• Road to Folly (1940)

Forsythe, Robin

• The Pleasure Cruise Mystery (1933)

Freeman, R. Austin

• For the Defense: Dr. Thorndyke (1934)

Fremlin, Celia

• The Long Shadow (1975)
• Uncle Paul (1959)

Frome, David (see also Leslie Ford)

• The Eel Pie Murders (1933)
• The Hammersmith Murders (1930)
• Mr. Pinkerton Goes to Scotland Yard (1934)

Gardner, Erle Stanley

Perry Mason

• The Case of the Baited Hook (1940)
• The Case of the Howling Dog (1934)
• The Case of the Lazy Lover (1947)
• The Case of the Lucky Legs (1934)
• The Case of the Moth-Eaten Mink (1952)

Standalones

• This Is Murder (1936)

Gilbert, Anthony

• The Clock in the Hatbox (1939)
• Courtier to Death (1936)
• Death Takes a Wife (1959)
• Die in the Dark (1947)
• Lady-Killer (1951)
• The Man in Button Boots (1934)
• Tenant for the Tomb (1971)

Gill, Elizabeth

• The Crime Coast (1929)

Goodchild, George

• Jack O’Lantern (1930)

The Gordons

• Murder Rides the Campaign Train (1952)

Grafton, C. W.

• The Rat Began to Gnaw the Rope (1943)

Green, Anna Katharine

• That Affair Next Door (1897)

Hammett, Dashiell

• The Thin Man (1934)

Hart, Frances Noyes

• The Bellamy Trial (1927)
• Hide in the Dark (1929)

Highsmith, Patricia

• The Two Faces of January (1964)

Hitchens, Dolores

• The Abductor (1962)
• Beat Back the Tide (1954)
• Nets to Catch the Wind (1952)
• Sleep with Strangers (1955)

Hocking, Anne

• Epitaph for a Nurse (1958)
• Nile Green (1943)
• Prussian Blue (1947)

Holding, Elisabeth Sanxay

• The Death Wish (1934)
• Widows Mite (1952)

Homes, Geoffrey

• Build My Gallows High (1946)

Huggins, Roy

• Too Late for Tears (1947)

Hughes, Dorothy B.

• The Blackbirder (1943)
• In a Lonely Place (1947)
• The So Blue Marble (1940)

Japrisot, Sebastien

• The Sleeping Car Murders (1962)

King, Rufus

• Holiday Homicide (1940)
• The Lesser Antilles Case (1934)
• Secret Beyond the Door (1946)

Lee, Gypsy Rose

• The G String Murders (1941)

Lincoln, Natalie Sumner

• The Moving Finger (1918)

Little, Constance & Gwenyth

• The Black Stocking (1946)

Lorac, E. C. R. (see also Carol Carnac)

• Part for a Poisoner (1948)
• Policemen in the Precinct (1949)

Lowndes, Marie Belloc

• The Story of Ivy (1927)

Macardle, Dorothy

• The Unforeseen (1945)
• The Uninvited (1942)

March, William

• The Bad Seed (1954)

Mason, Sara Elizabeth

• The Crimson Feather (1945)
• The Whip (1948)

McCloy, Helen

• Better Off Dead (1951)
• Do Not Disturb (1943)
• Mr. Splitfoot (1968)
• The Slayer and the Slain (1957)
• Through a Glass, Darkly (1950)

McGerr, Patricia

• Follow, As the Night (1950)

Meadows, Catherine

• Friday Market (1938)

Melville, Alan

• Quick Curtain (1934)
• Weekend at Thrackley (1934)

Millar, Margaret

• Fire Will Freeze (1944)
• Vanish in an Instant (1952)

Nielsen, Helen

• The Fifth Caller (1959)
• The Woman on the Roof (1954)

Ostrander, Isabel

• Ashes to Ashes (1919)

Ottolengui, Rodrigues

• Final Proof (1898)

Palmer, Stuart

• The Puzzle of the Pepper Tree (1933)
• The Puzzle of the Silver Persian (1934)

Patrick, Q. (see also Patrick Quentin)

• Cottage Sinister (1931)
• Death and the Maiden (1939)

Pim, Sheila

• Common or Garden Crime (1945)

Piper, Evelyn

• Bunny Lake Is Missing (1957)
• The Nanny (1964)

Postgate, Raymond

• Somebody at the Door (1943)

Potts, Jean

• The Evil Wish (1962)
• The Footsteps on the Stairs (1966)
• Go, Lovely Rose (1954)
• Home Is the Prisoner (1960)
• The Little Lie (1968) and Reprint of the Year Nomination

Queen, Ellery

Ellery Queen

• The American Gun Mystery (1933)
• Cat of Many Tails (1949)
• The Chinese Orange Mystery (1934)
• The Dutch Shoe Mystery (1931)
• The Egyptian Cross Mystery (1932)
• The French Powder Mystery (1930)
• The Greek Coffin Mystery (1932)
• Halfway House (1936)
• The Roman Hat Mystery (1929)
• The Siamese Twin Mystery (1933)
• The Spanish Cape Mystery (1935)

Drury Lane

• The Tragedy of X (1932)
• The Tragedy of Y (1932)
• The Tragedy of Z (1933)
• Drury Lane’s Last Case (1933)

Quentin, Patrick (see also Q. Patrick)

• A Puzzle for Fools (1936)

Ransome, Stephen

• Alias His Wife (1965)

Reilly, Helen

• Compartment K (1955)
• The Line Up (1934)

Revell, Louisa

• See Rome and Die (1957)

Rhode, John (see also Miles Burton)

• Death at Breakfast (1936)

Rinehart, Mary Roberts

• The Swimming Pool (1952)

Sayers, Dorothy L.

• The Nine Tailors (1934)
• Whose Body? (1923)

Seeley, Mabel

• The Chuckling Fingers (1941)

Shearing, Joseph

• Moss Rose (1934)

Sheridan, Juanita

• The Chinese Chop (1949)

Sherry, Edna

• The Defense Does Not Rest (1959)
• Strictly a Loser (1965)
• Sudden Fear (1948)

Shriber, Ione Sandberg

• Never Say Die (1950)

Siller, Van

• Echo of a Bomb (1942)
• Somber Memory (1945)

Smith, Shelley

• An Afternoon to Kill (1953)

Stout, Rex

• Champagne for One (1958)
• The Doorbell Rang (1965)
• Fer-de-Lance (1934)

Symons, Julian

• The Blackheath Poisonings (1978)

Tracy, Don

• Criss-Cross (1934)

Van Dine, S. S.

• The Casino Murder Case (1934)

Vickers, Roy

• Four Past Four (1925)

Waugh, Hillary

• Last Seen Wearing (1952)
• Sleep Long, My Love (1959)

Wees, Frances Shelley

• The Keys of My Prison (1956)

Wells, Carolyn

• The Come Back (1921)
• The Mystery Girl (1922)
• Vicky Van (1918)

Wentworth, Patricia

Miss Silver 

• The Case Is Closed (1937)
• The Gazebo (1955)
• The Girl in the Cellar (1961)
• The Listening Eye (1955)
• Lonesome Road (1939)

Standalones

• Beggar’s Choice (1930)
• Fear by Night (1934)

White, Ethel Lina

• Fear Stalks the Village (1932)
• Wax (1935)

White, Lionel

• The House Next Door (1956)
• Marilyn K (1960)
• The Snatchers (1953)

Williams, Valentine

• Death Answers the Bell (1932)

Woolrich, Cornell

• The Black Path of Fear (1944)
• The Bride Wore Black (1940)
• Waltz into Darkness (1947)

Wright, June

• The Devil’s Caress (1952)

Yorke, Margaret

• The Small Hours of the Morning (1975)