Bibliography of Pre-1950 Detective/Mystery Fiction

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  • 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.