WHY THIS INDEX EXISTS AND HOW IT WORKS:
Each analysis on this blog focuses on a specific work or group of works. Those works are identified at the top of each analysis. However, additionally, I sometimes connect a clue or structure in one mystery to that of another supplementary work that the post is not primarily about. All spoilers for these additional works are in ROT13 and identify the supplementary work using one of the index numbers I have provided below.
I use these index numbers because if I write a post on Novel A and tell you that it connects to Novel B, even if the actual details are encrypted, you are now aware of some connection to Novel B, which has the potential to spoil Novel B. These index numbers are also not in strict numerical order. If they were, and you knew that John Doe’s first novel is numbered n and saw an encrypted comment in one of the blog posts about a book number n+1, you would know that n+1 is John Doe’s second novel, and that would be spoiled for you.
The way I recommend you use this index is by copying the entire thing into a document and deleting all of the books you have not read (or do not mind being spoiled for you). This will leave you with a personal index. When you see an index number in a post, you can check if it’s in your personal index. If it isn’t, you know that it spoils something you haven’t read. If it does, you can then decrypt the spoiler.
Please note that I have not read all of these works and do not intend to write about all of them. (Please do not contact me spoiling one of these works under the assumption that I must have read it!) Rather than restricting myself to the works that I plan to talk about, I have deliberately included every major work by any author/creator that I expect to talk about at some point. This list will be updated as needed as I consider further authors to add.
INDEX NUMBERS (VERSION 09/14/2025):
BOOKS:
ANTHONY ABBOT
About the Murder of Geraldine Foster (1930): 10886
About the Murder of the Clergyman’s Mistress / The Crime of the Century (1931): 11063
About the Murder of the Night Club Lady (1931): 12433
About the Murder of the Circus Queen (1932): 10945
About the Murder of a Startled Lady (1935): 11595
About the Murder of a Man Afraid of Women (1937): 12481
The Creeps / Murder at Buzzards Bay (1939): 10393
The Shudders (1943): 11654
MARGERY ALLINGHAM
The White Cottage Mystery (1928): 14389
The Crime at Black Dudley (1929): 10247
Mystery Mile (1930): 12315
Look to the Lady / The Gyrth Chalice Mystery (1931): 14348
Police at the Funeral (1931): 12301
Sweet Danger / Kingdom of Danger (1933): 14890
Death of a Ghost (1934): 14355
Flowers for the Judge / Legacy in Blood (1936): 10259
Dancers in Mourning / Who Killed Chloe? (1937): 12311
The Case of the Late Pig (1937): 10249
Mr. Campion: Criminologist (1937): 10273
The Fashion in Shrouds (1938): 14371
Mr. Campion and Others (1939): 12323
Black Plumes (1940): 10276
Traitor’s Purse / The Sabotage Murder Mystery (1941): 10572
Coroner’s Pidgin / Pearls Before Swine (1945): 12337
Wanted: Someone Innocent (1946): 10912
The Case Book of Mr. Campion (1947): 12353
More Work for the Undertaker (1948): 12293
Take Two at Bedtime / Deadly Duo (1950): 14391
The Tiger in the Smoke (1952): 10720
No Love Lost (1954; short stories): 10339
The Beckoning Lady / The Estate of the Beckoning Lady (1955): 12039
Hide My Eyes / Tether’s End / Ten Were Missing (1958): 12340
The China Governess (1962): 14402
The Mysterious Mr. Campion (1963): 13147
The Mind Readers (1965): 10304
Mr. Campion’s Lady (1965): 12357
The Allingham Casebook (1969): 10789
The Allingham Minibus (1973): 10317
The Return of Mr. Campion (1989): 12339
J.L. BLACKHURST
Three-Card Murder (2023): 10085
Smoke and Mirrors (2024): 11023
NICHOLAS BLAKE
A Question of Proof (1935): 12490
Thou Shell of Death / Shell of Death (1936): 11035
There’s Trouble Brewing (1937): 10152
The Beast Must Die (1938): 12118
The Smiler with the Knife (1939): 11473
Malice in Wonderland / The Summer Camp Mystery (1940): 10415
The Case of the Abominable Snowman / The Corpse in the Snowman (1941): 12406
Minute for Murder (1947): 11986
Head of a Traveller (1949): 10083
The Dreadful Hollow (1953): 12439
The Whisper in the Gloom (1954): 11818
A Tangled Web / Death and Daisy Bland (1956): 10807
End of Chapter (1957): 12159
A Penknife in My Heart (1958): 11754
The Widow’s Cruise (1959): 10986
The Worm of Death (1961): 12239
The Deadly Joker (1963): 11450
The Sad Variety (1964): 12498
The Morning After Death (1966): 11544
The Private Wound (1968): 10977
ANTHONY BOUCHER / H.H. HOLMES
The Case of the Seven of Calvary (1937): 12440
The Case of the Crumpled Knave (1939): 11710
The Case of the Baker Street Irregulars / Blood on Baker Street (1940): 12401
Nine Times Nine (1940): 10849
The Case of the Solid Key (1941): 11028
The Case of the Seven Sneezes (1942): 12438
Rocket to the Morgue (1942): 10485
The Marble Forest / The Big Fear (1951): 11605
Far and Away (1955): 10845
The Compleat Werewolf (1969): 12127
Exeunt Murderers (1983): 10205
The Compleat Boucher (1999): 11838
CHRISTIANNA BRAND
Death in High Heels (1941): 10034
Heads You Lose (1941): 10330
Green for Danger (1944): 12381
Suddenly at His Residence (1946): 14430
Death of Jezebel (1948): 10333
Cat and Mouse (1950): 12130
London Particular (1952): 11657
Tour de Force (1955): 12352
What Dread Hand (1968): 11841
CHRISTOPHER BUSH
The Plumley Inheritance (1926): 11171
The Perfect Murder Case (1929): 10725
Dead Man Twice (1930): 11163
Murder at Fenwold / The Death of Cosmo Revere (1930): 11800
Dancing Death (1931): 10376
Dead Man’s Music (1931): 10921
Cut Throat (1932): 11737
The Case of the Unfortunate Village (1932): 11680
The Case of the April Fools (1933): 10576
The Case of the Three Strange Faces / The Crank in the Corner (1933): 10974
The Case of the 100% Alibis / The Kitchen Cake Murder (1934): 11405
The Case of the Dead Shepherd / The Tea-tray Murders (1934): 12486
The Case of the Chinese Gong (1935): 11553
The Case of the Monday Murders / Murder on Monday (1936): 10201
The Case of the Bonfire Body / The Body in the Bonfire (1936): 12219
The Case of the Missing Minutes / Eight O’clock Alibi (1937): 11724
The Case of the Hanging Rope / The Wedding Night Murder (1937): 10592
The Case of the Tudor Queen (1938): 12429
The Case of the Leaning Man (1938): 11969
The Case of the Green Felt Hat (1939): 10695
The Case of the Flying Ass (1939): 12136
The Case of the Climbing Rat (1940): 10306
The Case of the Murdered Major (1941): 10461
The Case of the Kidnapped Colonel (1942): 10087
The Case of the Fighting Soldier (1942): 12248
The Case of the Magic Mirror (1943): 11080
The Case of the Running Mouse (1944): 10145
The Case of the Platinum Blonde (1944): 12259
The Case of the Corporal’s Leave (1945): 10073
The Case of the Missing Men (1946): 10344
The Case of the Second Chance (1946): 12479
The Case of the Curious Client (1947): 11125
The Case of the Haven Hotel (1948): 11777
The Case of the Housekeeper’s Hair (1948): 10878
The Case of the Seven Bells (1949): 11083
The Case of the Purloined Picture (1949): 12205
The Case of the Happy Warrior / The Case of the Frightened Mannequin (1950): 10447
The Case of the Corner Cottage (1951): 10839
The Case of the Fourth Detective (1951): 11459
The Case of the Happy Medium (1952): 12191
The Case of the Counterfeit Colonel (1952): 11725
The Case of the Burnt Bohemian (1953): 11879
The Case of the Silken Petticoat (1953): 12149
The Case of the Red Brunette (1954): 11395
The Case of the Three Lost Letters (1954): 11215
The Case of the Benevolent Bookie (1955): 12452
The Case of the Amateur Actor (1955): 10036
The Case of the Extra Man (1956): 10286
The Case of the Flowery Corpse (1956): 11887
The Case of the Russian Cross (1957): 11174
The Case of the Treble Twist / The Case of the Triple Twist (1958): 11970
The Case of the Running Man (1958): 12218
The Case of the Careless Thief (1959): 11017
The Case of the Sapphire Brooch (1960): 10057
The Case of the Extra Grave (1961): 11430
The Case of the Dead Man Gone (1961): 10462
The Case of the Three-Ring Puzzle (1962): 12253
The Case of the Heavenly Twin (1963): 10706
The Case of the Grand Alliance (1964): 12480
The Case of the Jumbo Sandwich (1965): 11325
The Case of the Good Employer (1966): 11104
The Case of the Deadly Diamonds (1967): 11077
The Case of the Prodigal Daughter (1968): 12211
JAMES SCOTT BYRNSIDE
Goodnight Irene (2018): 12158
The Opening Night Murders (2019): 10764
The Strange Case of the Barrington Hills Vampire (2020): 14531
The 5 False Suicides (2021): 13692
Monkey See, Monkey Murder (2023): 10083
CAROL CARNAC
Triple Death (1936): 10357
Murder at Mornington (1937): 11585
The Missing Rope (1937): 12137
The Case of the First-Class Carriage (1939): 10146
When the Devil Was Sick (1939): 11418
Death in the Diving Pool (1940): 12420
A Double for Detection (1945): 10925
The Striped Suit-case (1946): 11312
Clue Sinister (1947): 12113
Over the Garden Wall (1948): 10199
Upstairs, Downstairs / Upstairs and Downstairs (1950): 11410
Copy for Crime (1950): 12430
It’s Her Own Funeral (1951): 10413
Crossed Skis (1952): 11948
Murder as a Fine Art (1953): 12476
A Policeman at the Door (1953): 10243
Impact of Evidence (1954): 11340
Murder Among Members (1955): 12460
Rigging the Evidence (1955): 10019
The Double Turn / The Late Miss Trimming (1956): 11351
The Burning Question (1957): 12216
Long Shadows / Affair at Helen’s Court (1958): 10144
Death of a Lady Killer (1959): 11518
JOHN DICKSON CARR / CARTER DICKSON
It Walks by Night (1930): 14432
The Lost Gallows (1931): 12391
Castle Skull (1931): 11667
The Corpse in the Waxworks (1932): 10365
Poison in Jest (1932): 10386
Hag’s Nook (1933): 12300
The Mad Hatter Mystery (1933): 12405
The Eight of Swords (1934): 10359
The Blind Barber (1934): 12355
Death-Watch (1935): 12410
The Three Coffins (1935): 11502
The Burning Court (1937): 14444
The Four False Weapons (1937): 12414
To Wake the Dead (1937): 14587
The Crooked Hinge (1938): 14466
The Problem of the Green Capsule (1939): 10375
The Problem of the Wire Cage (1939): 11797
The Man Who Could Not Shudder (1940): 13329
The Case of the Constant Suicides (1941): 10382
Death Turns the Tables (1941): 14481
The Emperor’s Snuff-box (1942): 11266
Till Death Do Us Part (1944): 10856
He Who Whispers (1946): 12469
The Sleeping Sphinx (1947): 10387
Below Suspicion (1949): 14492
The Bride of Newgate (1950): 12454
The Devil in Velvet (1951): 14503
The Nine Wrong Answers (1952): 12458
The Third Bullet (1954): 10410
The Exploits of Sherlock Holmes (1954) (with Adrian Conan Doyle): 11781
Captain Cut-Throat (1955): 12467
Patrick Butler for the Defence (1956): 14484
Fire, Burn! (1957): 10168
The Dead Man’s Knock (1958): 12474
Scandal at High Chimneys (1959): 14527
In Spite of Thunder (1960): 12502
The Witch of the Low Tide (1961): 10435
The Demoniacs (1962): 12489
The Men Who Explained Miracles (1963): 10450
Most Secret (1964): 12386
The House at Satan’s Elbow (1965): 10585
Panic in Box C (1966): 14550
Dark of the Moon (1967): 11155
Papa Là-bas (1968): 10727
The Ghosts’ High Noon (1969): 10456
Deadly Hall (1971): 14552
The Hungry Goblin (1972): 10110
The Door to Doom and Other Detections (1981): 14558
The Dead Sleep Lightly (1983): 10463
Fell and Foul Play (1991): 10496
Merrivale, March, and Murder (1991): 10570
Speak of the Devil (1994): 12514
Thirteen to the Gallows (2008): 10360
G.K. CHESTERTON
The Innocence of Father Brown (1911): 10012
The Wisdom of Father Brown (1914): 14580
The Incredulity of Father Brown (1926): 14581
The Secret of Father Brown (1927): 10156
The Scandal of Father Brown (1935): 10488
AGATHA CHRISTIE
The Mysterious Affair at Styles (1920): 12541
The Secret Adversary (1922): 10494
The Murder on the Links (1923): 10367
Poirot Investigates (1924): 14559
The Man in the Brown Suit (1924): 14593
The Secret of Chimneys (1925): 12363
The Murder of Roger Ackroyd (1926): 10914
The Big Four (1927): 12549
The Mystery of the Blue Train (1928): 10014
The Seven Dials Mystery (1929): 12554
Partners in Crime (1929): 10989
The Mysterious Mr. Quin (1930): 14640
The Murder at the Vicarage (1930): 12412
The Sittaford Mystery (1931): 12565
Peril at End House (1932): 11466
The Thirteen Problems (1932): 10521
Lord Edgware Dies (1933): 11110
The Hound of Death (1933): 14622
Murder on the Orient Express (1934): 10267
The Listerdale Mystery (1934): 12579
Why Didn’t They Ask Evans? (1934): 10533
Parker Pyne Investigates (1934): 10246
Three-Act Tragedy (1935): 14632
Death in the Clouds (1935): 14448
The A. B. C. Murders (1936): 11615
Murder in Mesopotamia (1936): 10873
Cards on the Table (1936): 12557
Murder in the Mews (1937): 10625
Dumb Witness (1937): 11379
Death on the Nile (1937): 12603
Appointment with Death (1938): 12415
Hercule Poirot’s Christmas (1938): 10978
Murder is Easy (1939): 10554
And Then There Were None (1939): 14473
The Regatta Mystery (1939): 11826
Sad Cypress (1940): 12594
One, Two, Buckle My Shoe (1940): 10569
Evil Under the Sun (1941): 10558
N or M? (1941): 12607
The Body in the Library (1942): 10103
Five Little Pigs (1942): 14671
The Moving Finger (1943): 10561
Towards Zero (1944): 14483
Death Comes as the End (1945): 10192
Sparkling Cyanide (1945): 14656
The Hollow (1946): 11668
The Labours of Hercules (1947): 12618
Taken at the Flood (1948): 10164
Crooked House (1949): 14667
The Witness for the Prosecution and Other Stories (1949): 10560
A Murder is Announced (1950): 10578
Three Blind Mice and Other Stories (1950): 14610
They Came to Baghdad (1951): 14677
The Underdog and Other Stories (1951): 12632
Mrs. McGinty’s Dead (1952): 11480
They Do It With Mirrors (1952): 12517
After the Funeral (1953): 14682
A Pocket Full of Rye (1953): 10045
Destination Unknown (1954): 11111
Hickory Dickory Dock (1955): 10586
Dead Man’s Folly (1956): 12638
4.50 from Paddington (1957): 14595
Ordeal by Innocence (1958): 10616
Cat Among the Pigeons (1959): 14693
The Adventure of the Christmas Pudding and Other Stories (1960): 10600
The Pale Horse (1961): 11521
Double Sin and Other Stories (1961): 10255
The Mirror Crack’d from Side to Side (1962): 12656
The Clocks (1963): 10608
A Caribbean Mystery (1964): 12661
At Bertram’s Hotel (1965): 10840
Third Girl (1966): 14711
Endless Night (1967): 12642
By the Pricking of My Thumbs (1968): 10617
Hallowe’en Party (1969): 10455
Passenger to Frankfurt (1970): 10620
Nemesis (1971): 14718
The Golden Ball and Other Stories (1971): 10438
Elephants Can Remember (1972): 14753
Postern of Fate (1973): 10624
Poirot’s Early Cases (1974): 12681
Curtain: Poirot’s Last Case (1975): 10753
Sleeping Murder (1976): 10637
The Mousetrap and Other Plays (1978): 14737
Miss Marple’s Final Cases (1979): 10541
Problem at Pollensa Bay (1991): 11776
While the Light Lasts (1997): 12501
ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE
A Study in Scarlet (1887): 10349
The Sign of Four (1890): 10653
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (1891): 10699
The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes (1893): 14719
The Hound of the Baskervilles (1902): 12710
The Return of Sherlock Holmes (1903): 10068
The Valley of Fear (1914): 12713
His Last Bow (1917): 10706
The Case-Book of Sherlock Holmes (1921): 14792
JOSEPH COMMINGS
Banner Deadlines: The Impossible Files of Senator Brooks U. Banner (2004): 11823
J.J. CONNINGTON
Death at Swaythling Court (1926): 14773
The Dangerfield Talisman (1926): 10679
Murder in the Maze (1927): 10197
Tragedy at Ravensthorpe (1927): 14335
Mystery at Lynden Sands (1928): 12732
The Case with Nine Solutions (1928): 12597
Nemesis at Raynham Parva (1929): 10332
The Eye in the Museum (1929): 14784
The Two Tickets Puzzle (1930): 10693
The Boat-house Riddle (1931): 10074
The Sweepstake Murders (1931): 12716
The Castleford Conundrum (1932): 14798
Tom Tiddler’s Island (1933): 14633
The Ha-ha Case (1934): 14800
In Whose Dim Shadow (1935): 10307
A Minor Operation (1937): 10702
Truth Comes Limping (1938): 12715
For Murder Will Speak (1938): 10970
The Counsellor (1939): 10712
The Four Defences (1940): 14809
The Twenty-one Clues (1941): 10126
No Past is Dead (1942): 11169
Jack-in-the-Box (1944): 14848
Common Sense Is All You Need (1947): 10486
EDMUND CRISPIN
The Case of the Gilded Fly / Obsequies at Oxford (1944): 14825
Holy Disorders (1945): 12794
The Moving Toyshop (1946): 10011
Swan Song (1947): 14843
Love Lies Bleeding (1948): 10717
Buried for Pleasure (1948): 12801
Frequent Hearses (1950): 10749
The Long Divorce (1951): 14860
Beware of the Trains (1953): 10771
The Glimpses of the Moon (1977): 10920
Fen Country (1979): 12820
FREEMAN WILLS CROFTS
The Cask (1920): 12825
The Ponson Case (1921): 14876
The Pit-Prop Syndicate (1922): 10520
The Groote Park Murder (1923): 10782
Inspector French’s Greatest Case (1924): 14881
Inspector French and the Cheyne Mystery (1926): 10787
Inspector French and the Starvel Tragedy (1927): 10808
The Box Office Murders (1929): 10555
Sir John Magill’s Last Journey (1930): 12836
Mystery in the Channel (1931): 12866
Sudden Death (1932): 10173
Death on the Way (1932): 12839
The Hog’s Back Mystery (1933): 14888
The 12.30 from Croydon (1934): 10796
Mystery on Southampton Water (1934): 12851
Crime at Guildford (1936): 10562
The Loss of the “Jane Vosper”: 10500
Man Overboard! (1936): 12862
Found Floating (1937): 10814
The End of Andrew Harrison (1938): 14912
Antidote to Venom (1938): 10630
Fatal Venture (1939): 12838
Golden Ashes (1940): 11196
James Tarrant, Adventurer (1941): 10822
The Losing Game (1941): 10484
Fear Comes to Chalfont (1942): 10143
The Affair at Little Wokeham (1943): 12879
Enemy Unseen (1945): 14935
Death of a Train (1946): 12888
Murderers Make Mistakes (1947): 10568
Silence for the Murderer (1949): 10824
French Strikes Oil (1951): 10845
Many a Slip (1955): 14941
The Mystery of the Sleeping Car Express and Other Stories (1956): 10848
Anything to Declare? (1957): 11371
The 9.50 Up Express (2020): 10030
CARTER DICKSON
The Bowstring Murders (1933): 10856
The Plague Court Murders (1934): 14952
The White Priory Murders (1934): 10274
The Red Widow Murders (1935): 12906
The Unicorn Murders (1935): 10672
The Punch and Judy Murders (1936): 11796
The Peacock Feather Murders (1937): 12916
The Judas Window (1938): 14965
Death in Five Boxes (1938): 12634
Fatal Descent (1939) (with John Rhode): 10864
The Reader is Warned (1939): 12921
And So to Murder (1940): 11097
Nine – and Death Makes Ten (1940): 10514
The Department of Queer Complaints (1940): 12923
Seeing is Believing (1941): 10876
The Gilded Man (1942): 10888
She Died a Lady (1943): 14973
He Wouldn’t Kill Patience (1944): 10878
The Curse of the Bronze Lamp (1945): 11414
My Late Wives (1947): 10716
The Skeleton in the Clock (1948): 12937
A Graveyard to Let (1949): 12639
Night at the Mocking Widow (1950): 11184
Behind the Crimson Blind (1952): 10895
The Cavalier’s Cup (1953): 14992
Fear is the Same (1956): 10904
MARTIN EDWARDS
Gallows Court (2018): 10188
Mortmain Hall (2020): 14123
Blackstone Fell / The Puzzle of Blackstone Lodge (2022): 13784
Sepulchre Street / The House on Graveyard Lane (2023): 11429
BRIAN FLYNN
The Billiard-Room Mystery (1927): 10398
The Case of the Black Twenty-Two (1928): 12955
The Mystery of the Peacock’s Eye (1928): 10934
The Murders Near Mapleton (1929): 10911
The Five Red Fingers (1929): 10833
Invisible Death (1929): 12965
The Creeping Jenny Mystery (1930): 10919
Murder En Route (1930): 10646
The Orange Axe (1931): 13008
The Triple Bite (1931): 10206
The Padded Door (1932): 10926
The Edge of Terror (1932): 12978
The Spiked Lion (1933): 10847
The League of Matthias (1934): 12980
The Horn (1934): 10732
The Case of the Purple Calf (1934): 12956
Tragedy at Trinket (1934): 12992
The Sussex Cuckoo (1935): 10470
The Fortescue Candle (1936): 12146
Fear and Trembling (1936): 13002
Tread Softly (1937): 10957
Cold Evil (1938): 10417
The Ebony Stag (1938): 12971
Black Edged (1939): 13015
The Case of the Faithful Heart (1939): 12736
The Case of the Painted Ladies (1940): 10973
They Never Came Back (1940): 10300
Such Bright Disguises (1941): 13039
Glittering Prizes (1942): 13041
Reverse the Charges (1943): 11037
The Grim Maiden (1944): 10999
The Case of Elmyas, the Sorcrerer (1945): 13061
Conspiracy at Angel (1947): 10287
The Sharp Quillet (1947): 12471
Exit Sir John (1947): 14799
The Swinging Death (1948): 11022
Men for Pieces (1949): 13071
Black Agent (1950): 14884
Where There Was Smoke (1951): 10976
And Cauldron Bubble (1951): 11025
The Ring of Innocent (1952): 13076
The Seventh Sign (1952): 12854
The Running Nun (1952): 12168
Out of the Dusk (1953): 11033
The Feet of Death (1954): 10383
The Doll’s Done Dancing (1954): 13043
The Shaking Spear (1955): 11047
The Mirador Collection (1955): 13114
The Toy Lamb (1956): 13099
The Dice Are Dark (1956): 12891
The Hands of Justice (1957): 11059
The Wife Who Disappeared (1957): 13108
The Nine Cuts (1958): 12272
The Saints Are Sinister (1958): 11061
DOLORES GORDON-SMITH
A Fête Worse than Death (2007): 12397
Mad About the Boy? (2008): 10921
As if by Magic (2009): 13245
A Hundred Thousand Dragons (2010): 11983
Off the Record (2011): 13092
Trouble Brewing (2012): 10657
Blood From a Stone (2013): 14829
After the Exhibition (2014): 12567
The Chessman (2015): 11145
Forgotten Murder (2018): 14076
The Chapel in the Woods (2021): 10388
PAUL HALTER
The Fourth Door (1987): 11066
The Crimson Fog (1988): 10269
Death Invites You (1988): 11051
The Madman’s Room (1990): 13119
The Tiger’s Head (1991): 10713
The Seventh Hypothesis (1991): 11080
The Demon of Dartmoor (1993): 11105
The Lord of Misrule (1994): 14684
The Picture from the Past (1995): 12919
The Invisible Circle (1996): 10467
The Vampire Tree (1996): 10321
The Seven Wonders of Crime (1997): 13148
The Man Who Loved Clouds (1999): 12940
The Night of the Wolf (2000): 11102
Penelope’s Web (2001): 10104
The Phantom Passage (2005): 12608
The Gold Watch (2019): 13151
The Helm of Hades (2019): 10371
The White Lady (2020): 11082
EDWARD D. HOCH
City of Brass and Other Simon Ark Stories (1971): 13144
The Judges of Hades (1971): 11237
Ellery Queen Presents the Spy and the Thief (1961): 12468
The Thefts of Nick Velvet (1978): 10945
The Quests of Simon Ark (1984): 12047
Leopold’s Way (1985): 10673
The Spy Who Read Latin and Other Stories (1990): 11504
The Night, My Friend (1992): 11028
Diagnosis: Impossible (1996): 11675
The Ripper of Storyville and Other Ben Snow Tales (1997): 10831
The Velvet Touch (2000): 10458
The Old Spies Club and Other Intrigues of Rand (2001): 11902
The Night People (2001): 11389
The Iron Angel and Other Tales of the Gypsy Sleuth (2003): 10792
More Things Impossible (2006): 12504
The Sherlock Holmes Stories of Edward D. Hoch, (2008): 11076
Nothing Is Impossible (2014): 10397
All but Impossible (2017): 14452
Challenge the Impossible (2018): 11867
Hoch’s Ladies (2019): 12791
Funeral in the Fog (2020): 13205
Constant Hearses and Other Revolutionary Mysteries (2022): 14038
The Killer Everyone Knew and Other Captain Leopold Stories (2023): 10129
The Will o’ the Wisp (2024): 11342
ANTHONY HOROWITZ
Magpie Murders (2016): 13162
The Word Is Murder (2017): 11115
The Sentence Is Death (2019): 12161
Moonflower Murders (2020): 10280
A Line to Kill (2021): 11136
The Twist of a Knife (2022): 10850
Close to Death (2024): 11143
DANRO KAMOSAKI
The House of Snow and the Six Tricks (2022): 10816
The Solitary Island in the Distant Sea and the Seven Tricks (2022): 12281
J.A. LANG
Chef Maurice and a Spot of Truffle (2015): 10868
Chef Maurice and the Wrath of Grapes (2015): 11154
Chef Maurice and the Bunny-Boiler Bake Off (2015): 13209
E.C.R. LORAC
The Murder on the Burrows (1931): 10112
The Affair on Thor’s Head (1932): 11694
The Greenwell Mystery (1932): 12179
Death on the Oxford Road (1933): 10549
The Case of Colonel Marchand (1933): 11447
Murder in St. John’s Wood (1934): 12255
Murder in Chelsea (1934): 10770
The Organ Speaks (1935): 11374
Death of an Author (1935): 12142
Crime Counter Crime (1936): 10540
Post After Post-Mortem (1936): 11449
A Pall for a Painter (1936): 12455
Bats in the Belfry (1937): 10763
These Names Make Clues (1937): 11582
The Devil and the C.I.D. (1938): 11357
Slippery Staircase (1938): 12282
John Brown’s Body (1938): 10598
Black Beadle (1939): 11288
Death at Dyke’s Corner (1940): 10007
Tryst for a Tragedy (1940): 11071
Case in the Clinic (1941): 12140
Rope’s End, Rogue’s End (1942): 10275
The Sixteenth Stair (1942):
Death Came Softly (1943): 12124
Checkmate to Murder (1944): 10180
Fell Murder (1944): 11165
Murder by Matchlight (1945): 12279
Fire in the Thatch (1946): 10673
The Theft of the Iron Dogs / Murderer’s Mistake (1946): 11647
Relative to Poison (1947): 11499
Death Before Dinner / A Screen for Murder (1948): 12453
Part for a Poisoner / Place for a Poisoner (1948): 10321
Still Waters (1949): 11593
Policemen in the Precinct / And Then Put Out the Light (1949): 12235
Accident by Design (1950): 10979
Murder of a Martinet / I Could Murder Her (1951): 11534
The Dog It Was That Died (1952): 12197
Murder in the Mill-Race / Speak Justly of the Dead (1952): 11912
Crook o’ Lune / Shepherd’s Crook (1953): 10643
Shroud of Darkness (1954): 11399
Let Well Alone (1954): 12105
Ask a Policeman (1955): 10533
Murder in Vienna (1956): 11739
Picture of Death (1957): 12227
Dangerous Domicile (1957): 10676
Death in Triplicate / People Will Talk (1958): 10114
Murder on a Monument (1958): 11554
Dishonour Among Thieves / The Last Escape (1959): 12495
Two-Way Murder (2021): 10738
TOM MEAD
Death and the Conjuror (2022): 10982
The Murder Wheel (2023): 13217
Cabaret Macabre (2024): 10515
NGAIO MARSH
A Man Lay Dead (1934): 13229
Enter a Murderer (1935): 10311
The Nursing-home Murder (1935) (with Henry Jellett): 13232
Death in Ecstasy (1936): 11187
Vintage Murder (1937): 12967
Artists in Crime (1938): 13241
Death in a White Tie (1938): 13252
Overture to Death (1939): 11210
Death at the Bar (1940): 12198
Surfeit of Lampreys (1941): 13258
Death and the Dancing Footman (1941): 13320
Colour Scheme (1943): 11219
Died in the Wool (1945): 12280
Final Curtain (1947): 10785
Swing, Brother, Swing / A Wreath for Rivera (1949): 11225
Opening Night / Night at the Vulcan (1951): 13019
Spinsters in Jeopardy (1953): 13065
Scales of Justice (1955): 10774
Off With His Head / Death of a Fool (1957): 13280
Singing in the Shrouds (1958): 13335
False Scent (1959): 10835
Hand in Glove (1962): 13291
Dead Water (1963): 11244
Death at the Dolphin / Killer Dolphin (1967): 11257
Clutch of Constables (1968): 13318
When in Rome (1970): 10167
Tied Up in Tinsel (1972): 10077
Black as He’s Painted (1974): 13262
Last Ditch (1977): 13321
Grave Mistake (1978): 13343
Photo-Finish (1980): 10271
Light Thickens (1982): 13167
HELEN MCCLOY
Dance of Death (1938): 11286
The Man in the Moonlight (1940): 13289
The Deadly Truth (1941): 13336
Who’s Calling? (1942): 10254
Cue for Murder (1942): 11294
Do Not Disturb (1943): 13323
The Goblin Market (1943): 10944
Panic (1944): 11295
The One That Got Away (1945): 11300
She Walks Alone (1948): 13349
Through a Glass, Darkly (1950): 10281
Alias Basil Willing (1951): 11302
Better Off Dead (1951): 12366
Unfinished Crime (1954): 10680
The Long Body (1955): 10719
Two-Thirds of a Ghost (1956): 13364
The Slayer and the Slain (1957): 11318
Before I Die (1963): 12347
The Singing Diamonds (1965): 11327
The Further Side of Fear (1967): 10917
Mr. Splitfoot (1968): 11331
A Question of Time (1971): 11339
A Change of Heart (1973): 13407
The Sleepwalker (1974): 13073
Minotaur Country (1975): 12266
The Changeling Conspiracy (1976): 13357
The Imposter (1977): 13441
The Smoking Mirror (1979): 13424
Burn This (1980): 11377
The Pleasant Assassin and Other Cases of Dr. Basil Willing (2003): 11229
JIM NOY
The Red Death Murders (2022): 13876
RUPERT PENNY
The Talkative Policeman (1936): 10841
Policeman’s Holiday (1937): 11392
Policeman in Armour (1937): 13422
The Lucky Policeman (1938): 11398
Policeman’s Evidence (1938): 10627
She Had to Have Gas (1939): 13450
Sweet Poison (1940): 11403
Sealed-Room Murder (1941): 13353
E.R. PUNSHON
The Unexpected Legacy (1929): 12451
Proof, Counter Proof (1931): 11408
The Cottage Murder (1931): 10578
Genius in Murder (1932): 12269
Truth Came Out (1932): 11230
Information Received (1933): 10419
Death Among the Sunbathers (1934): 12173
The Cross-Word Mystery (1934): 11285
Mystery Villa (1934): 10155
Death of a Beauty Queen (1935): 12252
Death Comes to Cambers (1935): 11974
The Bath Mysteries (1936): 10602
Mystery of Mr. Jessop (1937): 12143
The Dusky Hour (1937): 10493
Dictator’s Way / Death of a Tyrant (1938): 12286
Comes a Stranger (1938): 11332
Suspects – Nine (1939): 10412
Murder Abroad (1939): 12167
Four Strange Women (1940): 11832
Ten Star Clues (1941): 10626
The Dark Garden (1941): 12247
Diabolic Candelabra (1942): 11939
The Conqueror Inn (1943): 10809
Night’s Cloak (1944): 12234
Secrets Can’t Be Kept (1944): 11816
There’s a Reason for Everything (1945): 10290
It Might Lead Anywhere (1946): 12292
Helen Passes By (1947): 11106
Music Tells All (1948): 10644
The House of Godwinsson (1948): 12432
So Many Doors (1949): 11932
Everybody Always Tells (1950): 10489
The Secret Search (1951): 12449
The Golden Dagger (1951): 11318
The Attending Truth (1952): 10378
Strange Ending (1953): 12477
Brought to Light (1954): 11731
Dark is the Clue (1955): 10552
Triple Quest (1955): 12152
Six Were Present (1956): 11066
ELLERY QUEEN
The Roman Hat Mystery (1929): 10033
The French Powder Mystery (1930): 11408
The Dutch Shoe Mystery (1931): 13460
The Greek Coffin Mystery (1932): 13104
The Egyptian Cross Mystery (1932): 11029
The Tragedy of X (1932): 11413
The Tragedy of Y (1932): 14443
The American Gun Mystery (1933): 13477
The Siamese Twin Mystery (1933): 11092
The Tragedy of Z (1933): 10619
Drury Lane’s Last Case (1933): 11404
The Chinese Orange Mystery (1934): 12552
The Adventures of Ellery Queen (1934): 13493
The Spanish Cape Mystery (1935): 11485
Halfway House (1936): 13499
The Door Between (1937): 10142
The Devil to Pay (1938): 11453
The Four of Hearts (1938): 13149
The Dragon’s Teeth (1939): 11510
The New Adventures of Ellery Queen (1940): 11466
Calamity Town (1942): 13518
There Was an Old Woman (1943): 14703
The Murderer is a Fox (1945): 13524
The Case Book of Ellery Queen (1945): 10401
Ten Days’ Wonder (1948): 11480
Cat of Many Tails (1949): 13497
Double, Double (1950): 13536
The Origin of Evil (1951): 11490
Calendar of Crime (1952): 13109
The King is Dead (1952): 11429
The Scarlet Letters (1953): 11378
The Glass Village (1954): 13462
Q.B.I.: Queen’s Bureau of Investigation (1955): 10700
Inspector Queen’s Own Case (1956): 13551
The Finishing Stroke (1958): 11506
The Player on the Other Side (1963): 11459
And on the Eighth Day (1964): 10336
The Fourth Side of the Triangle (1965): 11568
Queens Full (1965): 11529
A Study in Terror: Sherlock Holmes vs. Jack the Ripper (1966): 13577
Face to Face (1967): 13237
The House of Brass (1968): 12593
Q.E.D.: Queen’s Experiments in Deduction (1968): 11536
Cop Out (1969): 13586
The Last Woman in His Life (1970): 10270
A Fine and Private Place (1971): 11545
The Best of Ellery Queen (1985): 13410
The Tragedy of Errors (1999): 13603
The Adventure of the Murdered Moths and Other Radio Mysteries (2005): 11559
CLAYTON RAWSON
Death from a Top Hat (1938): 11522
The Footprints on the Ceiling (1939): 10008
The Headless Lady (1940): 11570
No Coffin for the Corpse (1942): 13621
The Great Merlini (1979): 13544
DOROTHY SAYERS
Whose Body? (1923): 13634
Clouds of Witness (1926): 11588
Unnatural Death (1927): 10027
The Unpleasantness at the Bellona Club (1928): 11605
Lord Peter Views the Body (1928): 13657
The Documents in the Case (1930) (with Robert Eustace): 13580
Strong Poison (1930): 11713
The Five Red Herrings (1931): 11684
Have His Carcase (1932): 13672
Murder Must Advertise (1933): 10852
Hangman’s Holiday (1933): 11630
The Nine Tailors (1934): 11653
Gaudy Night (1935): 14978
Busman’s Honeymoon (1937): 13710
In the Teeth of the Evidence (1939): 11230
Striding Folly (1972): 11727
JOHN SLADEK
Black Aura (1974): 11683
Invisible Green (1977): 13668
DEREK SMITH
Whistle Up the Devil (1953): 13751
Come to Paddington Fair (2015): 11705
DONALD J. SOBOL
Encyclopedia Brown, Boy Detective (1963): 13758
Encyclopedia Brown Strikes Again / The Case of the Secret Pitch (1965): 13664
Encyclopedia Brown Finds the Clues (1966): 11715
Encyclopedia Brown Gets His Man (1967): 11779
Encyclopedia Brown Solves Them All (1968): 13461
Encyclopedia Brown Keeps the Peace (1969): 11458
Encyclopedia Brown Saves the Day (1970): 13719
Encyclopedia Brown Tracks Them Down (1971): 11729
Encyclopedia Brown Shows the Way (1972): 13778
Encyclopedia Brown Takes the Case (1973): 11733
Encyclopedia Brown Lends a Hand (1974): 11934
Encyclopedia Brown and the Case of the Dead Eagles (1975): 11736
Encyclopedia Brown and the Case of the Midnight Visitor (1977): 13542
Encyclopedia Brown Carries On (1980): 11744
Encyclopedia Brown Sets the Pace (1981): 11872
Encyclopedia Brown Takes the Cake (1982): 13801
Encyclopedia Brown and the Case of the Mysterious Handprints (1985): 11551
Encyclopedia Brown and the Case of the Treasure Hunt (1988): 13856
Encyclopedia Brown and the Case of the Disgusting Sneakers (1990): 11756
Encyclopedia Brown and the Case of the Two Spies (1995): 13624
Encyclopedia Brown and the Case of Pablo’s Nose (1996): 11070
Encyclopedia Brown and the Case of the Sleeping Dog (1998): 11827
Encyclopedia Brown and the Case of the Slippery Salamander (2000): 11776
Encyclopedia Brown and the Case of the Jumping Frogs (2003): 13824
Encyclopedia Brown Cracks the Case (2007): 13543
Encyclopedia Brown, Super Sleuth (2009): 13829
Encyclopedia Brown and the Case of the Secret UFOs (2010): 11839
Encyclopedia Brown and the Case of the Carnival Crime (2011): 13836
Encyclopedia Brown and the Case of the Soccer Scheme (2012): 11797
REX STOUT
Fer-de-Lance (1934): 13659
The League of Frightened Men (1935): 13803
The Rubber Band (1936): 13857
The Red Box (1937): 11816
Too Many Cooks (1938): 11471
Some Buried Caesar (1939): 13865
Over My Dead Body (1940): 11826
Where There’s a Will (1940): 11771
Black Orchids (1942): 12907
Cordially Invited to Meet Death (1942): 13830
Not Quite Dead Enough (1942): 11842
Booby Trap (1944): 11258
The Silent Speaker (1946): 13899
Too Many Women (1947): 11852
And Be a Villain / More Deaths Than One (1948): 12381
Trouble in Triplicate (1949): 11858
The Second Confession (1949): 13910
Three Doors to Death (1950): 11959
In the Best Families / Even in the Best Families (1950): 11869
Curtains for Three (1951): 13919
Murder by the Book (1951): 13715
Triple Jeopardy (1952): 11251
Prisoner’s Base / Out Goes She (1952): 11214
The Golden Spiders (1953): 11877
Three Men Out (1954): 13925
The Black Mountain (1954): 11881
Before Midnight (1955): 11424
Three Witnesses (1956): 13765
Might as Well Be Dead (1956): 13913
Three for the Chair (1957): 11886
If Death Ever Slept (1957): 11717
And Four to Go / Crime and Again (1958): 11894
Champagne for One (1958): 12377
Plot It Yourself / Murder in Style (1959): 11802
Three at Wolfe’s Door (1960): 13789
Too Many Clients (1960): 11905
The Final Deduction (1961): 14530
Homicide Trinity (1962): 13970
Gambit (1962): 11925
The Mother Hunt (1963): 13802
Trio for Blunt Instruments (1964): 11874
A Right to Die (1964): 11929
The Doorbell Rang (1965): 13977
Death of a Doxy (1966): 11901
The Father Hunt (1968): 11337
Death of a Dude (1969): 13982
Please Pass the Guilt (1973): 11936
A Family Affair (1973): 10418
Death Times Three (1985): 11686
ROBERT THOROGOOD
The Marlow Murder Club (2021): 13989
Death Comes to Marlow (2022): 11945
The Queen of Poisons (2024): 11765
Murder on the Marlow Belle (2025): 11808
STUART TOWNE
Death out of Thin Air (1941): 11965
Death from Nowhere (1943): 11182
The Magical Mysteries of Don Diavolo (2005): 13986
S.S. VAN DINE
The Benson Murder Case (1926): 11151
The “Canary” Murder Case (1927): 12123
The Greene Murder Case (1928): 10953
The Bishop Murder Case (1929): 11455
The Scarab Murder Case (1930): 12434
The Kennel Murder Case (1933): 10818
The Dragon Murder Case (1933): 11256
The Casino Murder Case (1934): 12132
The Garden Murder Case (1935): 10524
The Kidnap Murder Case (1936): 11166
The Gracie Allen Murder Case (1938): 12186
The Winter Murder Case (1939): 10646
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MOVIES:
ANTHONY PERKINS AND STEPHEN SONDHEIM (screenwriters)
The Last of Sheila (1973): 10698
RIAN JOHNSON (screenwriter)
Knives Out (2019): 13522
Glass Onion (2021): 12183
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TV SHOWS:
COLUMBO
Pilots (1968–71): 10890
Season 1 (1971–72): 14576
Season 2 (1972–73): 13572
Season 3 (1973–74): 11984
Season 4 (1974–75): 11053
Season 5 (1975–76): 14092
Season 6 (1976–77): 12631
Season 7 (1977–78): 10325
Season 8 (1989): 11487
Season 9 (1989–90): 14806
Season 10 (1990–2003): 10731
DEATH IN PARADISE
Series 1 (2011): 12341
Series 2 (2013): 14321
Series 3 (2014): 13298
Series 4 (2015): 12975
Series 5 (2016): 10844
Series 6 (2017): 14523
Series 7 (2018): 13760
Series 8 (2019): 10092
Series 9 (2020): 12015
Series 10 (2021): 11308
Christmas in Paradise (2021): 12754
Series 11 (2022): 14269
The Death Ghost (2022): 11592
Series 12 (2023): 14987
It’s Behind You (2023): 10567
Series 13 (2024): 13845
Christmas 2024 (2024): 10234
Series 14 (2025): 13358
JONATHAN CREEK
Series 1 (1997): 12701
Series 2 (1998): 10977
Black Canary (1998): 14652
Series 3 (1999–2000): 12437
Satan’s Chimney (2001): 11893
Series 4 (2003–04): 13908
The Grinning Man (2009): 11274
The Judas Tree (2010): 14599
The Clue of the Savant’s Thumb (2013): 13048
Series 5 (2014): 10421
Daemons’ Roost (2016): 14367
MONK
Season 1 (2002): 13629
Season 2 (2003–4): 10872
Season 3 (2004–5): 14783
Season 4 (2005–6): 12215
Season 5 (2006–7): 10056
Season 6 (2007–8): 12098
Season 7 (2008–9): 11541
Season 8 (2009): 14932
POKER FACE
Season 1 (2023): 13475
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VIDEO GAMES:
ACE ATTORNEY
Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney (2001): 13751
Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney – Justice for All (2002): 12104
Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney – Trials and Tribulations (2004): 14438
Apollo Justice: Ace Attorney (2007): 11093
Ace Attorney Investigations: Miles Edgeworth (2009): 13821
Ace Attorney Investigations 2: Prosecutor’s Gambit (2011): 10169
Professor Layton vs. Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney (2012): 12654
Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney – Dual Destinies (2013): 11783
The Great Ace Attorney: Adventures (2015): 14208
Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney – Spirit of Justice (2016): 13569
The Great Ace Attorney 2: Resolve (2017): 10476
The Encluesiast 