Bibliography of Pre-1950 Detective/Mystery Fiction
Submitted by froggler on Tue, 06/19/2007 - 10:23
Tags:
- Dorothy B. Hughes
- The BlackBirder - Dell, 1943.
- Dread Journey - Pocket Books, 1947.
- The So Blue Marble - Dell, 1940.
- Alice Tilton
- The Left Leg – 1940.
- Helen McCloy
- Panic - Dell, 1944.
- Through a Glass, Darkly - Dell, 1950.
- Anna Katherine Green
- The Leavenworth Case - 1878.
- That Affair Next Door - 1897.
- Lost Man's Lane - 1898.
- The Circular Study - 1900.
- The Golden Slipper and Other Problems for Violet Strange - 1915.
- Baroness Orczy
- The Case of Miss Elliot - 1898.
- Lady Molly of Scotland Yard - 1910.
- Margery Allingham
- The White Cottage Mystery - 1928.
- The Crime At Black Dudley - 1929.
- Mystery Mile - 1930.
- Look to the Lady - 1931.
- Police at the Funeral - 1931.
- Sweet Danger - 1933.
- Other Man's Danger (as Maxwell March) - 1933.
- Death of a Ghost - 1934.
- Rogues Holiday (as Maxwell Marsh) - 1935.
- Flowers for the Judge - 1936.
- The Shadow in The House (as Maxwell March) - 1936.
- The Case of the Late Pig - 1937
- Dancers in Mourning - 1937
- The Fashion in Shrouds - 1938
- Black Plumes - 1940
- Traitor's Purse - 1941
- Coroner's Pidgin - 1945
- Wanted: Someone Innocent - 1946
- Take Two at Bedtime – 1950
- Gladys Mitchell
- Speedy Death – 1929
- The Mystery of a Butcher’s Shop – 1929
- The Longer Bodies – 1930
- The Saltmarsh Murders – 1932
- Death at the Opera – 1934
- The Devil at Saxon Wall – 1935
- Dead Men’s Morris – 1936
- Come Away Death – 1937
- St. Peter’s Finger – 1938
- Printer’s Error – 1939
- Brazen Tongue – 1940
- Hangman’s Curfew – 1941
- When Last I Died – 1941
- Laurels are Poison – 1942
- The Worsted Viper – 1943
- Sunset Over Soho – 1943
- My Father Sleeps – 1944
- The Rising of the Moon – 1945
- Here Comes a Chopper – 1946
- Death and the Maiden – 1947
- The Dancing Druids – 1948
- Tom Brown’s Body – 1949
- Groaning Spinney – 1950
- The Detection Club
- The Scoop – 1930
- The Floating Admiral – 1931
- Ask a Policeman – 1933
- The Anatomy of Murder – 1936
- Six Against the Yard – 1948
- Agatha Christie
- The Mysterious Affair at Styles - 1920
- The Secret Adversary - 1922
- The Murder on the Links - 1923
- Poirot Investigates - 1924
- The Man in the Brown Suit - 1924
- The Secret of Chimneys - 1925
- The Murder of Roger Ackroyd - 1926
- The Big Four - 1927
- The Mystery of the Blue Train - 1928
- The Under Dog - 1929
- Partners in Crime - 1929
- The Seven Dials Mystery - 1929
- The Mysterious Mr. Quin - 1930
- The Murder at the Vicarage - 1930
- The Sittaford Mystery - 1931
- The Floating Admiral - 1931
- The Thirteen Problems - 1932
- Peril at End House - 1932
- The Hound of Death and Other Stories - 1933
- Lord Edgware Dies - 1933
- The Listerdale Mystery and Other Stories - 1934
- Parker Pyne Investigates - 1934
- Why Didn't They Ask Evans? - 1934
- Murder on the Orient Express - 1934
- Three Act Tragedy - 1935
- Death in the Clouds - 1935
- The A.B.C. Murders - 1936
- Murder in Mesopotamia - 1936
- Cards on the Table - 1936
- Murder in the Mews and Three Other Poirot Cases - 1937
- Dumb Witness - 1937
- Death on the Nile - 1937
- Hercule Poirot's Christmas - 1938
- Appointment with Death - 1938
- Ten Little Indians - 1939
- Murder Is Easy - 1939
- Sad Cypress - 1940
- One, Two, Buckle My Shoe - 1940
- N or M? - 1941
- Evil under the Sun - 1941
- The Body in the Library - 1942
- Five Little Pigs - 1942
- Problem at Pollensa Bay and Christmas Adventure - 1943
- Poirot on Holiday - 1943
- The Moving Finger - 1943
- The Veiled Lady and The Mystery of the Baghdad Chest - 1944
- Sparkling Cyanide - 1945
- Death Comes as the End - 1945
- Poirot Lends a Hand - 1946
- Poirot Knows the Murderer - 1946
- The Hollow - 1946
- The Labours of Hercules - 1947
- Taken at the Flood - 1948
- Crooked House - 1949
- A Murder Is Announced – 1950
- Clemence Dane
- The Regiment of Women – 1917
- Legend – 1919
- The Babylons – 1927
- The Arrogant History of White Ben – 1939
- Peter Curtis (real name: Norah Robinson Lofts)
- Dead March in Three Keys – 1940








Do short stories count?
Edgar Allan Poe with his detective Auguste Dupin?
The Murders in the Rue Morgue - 1841
The Mystery of Marie Roget - 1842
The Purloined Letter - 1844
Arsène Lupin's novels by Maurice Leblanc?
Any novels/short stories including Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle.