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Thomas Bailey ALDRICH (1836-1907)
Grant ALLEN (1848-1899)
Clifford ASHDOWN [See R Austin FREEMAN] A Maynard BARBOUR Robert BARR (1850-1912)
E C BENTLEY (1875-1956)
Earl Derr BIGGERS (1884-1933) The "Charlie Chan" Novels
Marjorie BOWEN (a.k.a. George R Preedy, Joseph Shearing, John Winch, Robert Paye)
Mary Elizabeth BRADDON
John BUCHAN (1875-1940) Richard Hannay stories:
Other Works:
Edward BULWER-LYTTON (1803-1873)
Ellis Parker BUTLER (1869-1937) Philo Gubb Stories: G K CHESTERTON (1874-1936)
Father Brown Stories:
Erskine CHILDERS (1870-1922)
Caroline CLIVE Wilkie COLLINS (1824-1889)
Catherine CROWE (1800-1876)
Richard Harding DAVIS (1864-1916)
Thomas DE QUINCEY (1785-1859)
Dick DONOVAN (Mr Joyce R Preston Muddock) (1842-1934)
Sir Arthur Conan DOYLE (1859-1930)
Professor Challenger:
Charles FELIX (pseudonym)
J S (Joseph Smith) FLETCHER (1863-1935)
Hulbert FOOTNER (1862-1943)
Andrew FORRESTER Jnr. Mary FORTUNE (c.1833-c.1910) Dr. Thorndyke
Other Works As Clifford ASHDOWN [Pseudonym of R Austin FREEMAN and John James PITCAIRN (1860-1936)]
Jacques FUTRELLE (1875-1912)
Arthur GASK (1869-1951)
Emile GABORIAU (1836-1873)
William GODWIN (1756-1836)
Anna Katharine GREEN (1846-1935)
Augusta GRONER (1850-1929) (Translated by Grace Isabel Colbron) Joe Muller stories:
William Hope HODGSON (1877-1918) E W HORNUNG (1866-1921) Raffles stories:
Fergus HUME (1859-1932)
Herbert JENKINS (1876-1923)
Maurice LE BLANC (1864-1941)
Sheridan LE FANU (1814-1873) Gaston LEROUX (1868-1927) LOCK AND KEY LIBRARY Classic Mystery and Detective Stories: Modern English--TEXT
Classic Mystery and Detective Stories: Old Time English--TEXT
Marie Adelaide Belloc LOWNDES (1868-1947)
Charles MARTEL (pseudonym of Thomas DELPH)
A E W MASON (1865-1948)
Arthur MORRISON (1863-1945)
Baroness ORCZY (1865-1947)
Allan PINKERTON
Frank PINKERTON
Catherine Louisa PIRKIS (1841-1910)
Edgar Allan POE (1809-1849) Chevalier C Auguste Dupin stories:
Other Works:
Melville Davison POST (1869-1930)
Arthur J Rees
Arthur B REEVE (1880-1936)
William RUSSELL
SAPPER (Herman Cyril McNEILE) (1888-1937) Bulldog Drummond Books:
Melvin Linwood SEVERY (b.1863)
M P SHIEL (1865-1947)
George SIMS
Chester K STEELE Frank R STOCKTON (1834-1902)
Josephine TEY (a.k.a. Gordon DAVIOT) (1896-1952) (both are pseudonyms of Elizabeth MACKINTOSH)
Louis TRACY (1863-1928)
Mr J G Reeder stories - The complete set:
"Just Men" stories
"Sanders" stories:
Other works:
Samuel WARREN
Victor L WHITECHURCH (1862-1942)
Israel ZANGWILL (1864-1926)
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1773 | The Newgate Calendar: first major collection of crime without detectives |
1794 | William Godwin, Caleb Williams. |
1798 | Charles Brockden Brown, Wieland. |
1827 | Thomas Gaspey(?), Richmond: Scenes from the Life of a Bow Street Runner. |
1827-8 | Eugene Francois Vidocq, Memoires. |
1828 | Edward Bulwer, Pelham. |
1830 | Samuel Warren, Passages from the Diary of a Late Physician. |
1838 | Charles Dickens, Oliver Twist. |
1841 | Edgar Allan Poe, .Murders in the Rue Morgue. |
1842-3 | Edgar Allan Poe, The Mystery of Marie-Roge |
1844 | Edgar Allan Poe, The Purloined Letter. |
1849 | William Russell, Recollections of a Police Officer. |
1852 | William Russell, Recollections of a Policeman. |
1853 | Charles Dickens, Bleak House. |
1856 | William Russell, The Recollections of a Detective Police Officer. |
1860 | Wilkie Collins, The Woman in White. |
1861 | Ellen Wood, East Lynne. |
1862 | Mary Elizabeth Braddon, Lady Audley's Secret. |
1864 | Andrew Forrester Jun., The Female Detective. |
1864 | W. S. Hayward(?), Revelations of a Lady Detective. |
1865 | Charles Felix, The Notting Hill Murder. |
1865 | John B. Williams' (ed.), Leaves from the Note-Book of a New York Detective. |
1866 | Emile Gaboriau, L'Affaire Lerouge. |
1866 | Mary Fortune, as 'W.W.' in The Australian Journal, may be the first woman writing self-conciously detective fiction |
1867 | Seeley Regester (Metta Fuller), The Dead Letter. |
1868 | Emile Gaboriau, M. Lecoq. |
1868 | Wilkie Collins, The Moonstone. |
1870 | Charles Dickens, The Mystery of Edwin Drood: Dickens's last and unfinished novel was to involve mystery, disguise and--it seems--some detection. |
1874 | Allan Pinkerton, The Expressman and the Detective. |
1878 | Anna Katherine Green, The Leavenworth Case. |
1881 | Emile Gaboriau novels translated into English and published in London. |
1886 | Fergus Hume, The Mystery of a Hansom Cab. |
1887 | Arthur Conan Doyle, A Study in Scarlet. |
1891 | Arthur Conan Doyle, A Scandal in Bohemia |
1892 | Arthur Conan Doyle, The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes. |
1892 | Israel Zangwill, The Big Bow Mystery. |
1894 | Arthur Morrison, Martin Hewitt, Investigator. |
1894 | Arthur Conan Doyle, The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.: more stories, but Holmes dies in the last, 'The Final Problem' |
1901-2 | Arthur Conan Doyle, The Hound of the Baskervilles: Doyle resumes Holmes in The Strand, but sets story back before his death |
1902 | Arthur Conan Doyle, The Empty House: Doyle revives Holmes in Strand Magazine. |
1907 | Maurice Leblanc, The Exploits of Arsene Lupin. |
1907 | Gaston Leroux, The Mystery of the Yellow Room. |
1907 | Jacques Futrelle, The Thinking Machine. |
1907 | R. Austin Freeman, The Red Thumb Mark. |
1908 | Mary Roberts Rinehart, The Circular Staircase. |
1911 | G. K. Chesterton, The Innocence of Father Brown. |
1913 | E. C. Bentley, Trent's Last Case. |
1913 | Carolyn Wells, The Technique of the Mystery Story: first extended discussion of the genre |
1920 | Agatha Christie, The Mysterious Affair at Styles. |
1920 | Freeman Wills Crofts, The Cask. |
1923 | Dorothy Sayers: Whose Body? |
1923 | Dashiell Hammett starts publishing tough detective stories in The Black Mask |
1925 | Earl Derr Biggers, The House without a Key. |
1926 | Agatha Christie, The Murder of Roger Ackroyd. |
1926 | S. S. Van Dine, The Benson Murder Case |
1928 | Arthur Upfield, The House of Cain.: first novel starring the Australian aboriginal detective 'Boney' |
1928 | Patricia Wentworth, Grey Mask. |
1929 | Dashiell Hammett, Red Harvest. |
1929 | Gladys Mitchell, Speedy Death. |
1929 | Ellery Queen, The Roman Hat Mystery |
1929 | W. R. Burnett, Little Caesar |
1929 | Mignon Eberhart, The Patient in Room 18. |
1930 | Margery Allingham, Mystery Mile. |
1930 | Dorothy Sayers, Strong Poison. |
1930 | Agatha Christie, Murder at the Vicarage. |
1931 | Francis Iles, Malice Aforethought. |
1932 | Raymond Chandler publishes his first private-eye story in Black Mask |
1932 | Rudolph Fisher, The Conjure-man Dies. |
1933 | John Dickson Carr, Hag's Nook. |
1933 | Erie Stanley Gardner, The Case of the Velvet Claws. |
1934 | James M. Cain, The Postman Always Rings Twice. |
1934 | Ngaio Marsh, A Man Lay Dead. |
1934 | Rex Stout, Fer de Lance. |
1939 | Raymond Chandler, The Big Sleep. |
1939 | James Hadley Chase, No Orchids for Miss Blandish. |
1940 | Cornell Woolrich, The Bride Wore Black. |
1943 | Margaret Millar, Wall of Eyes. |
1945 | Lawrence Treat, V as in Victim. |
1947 | Mickey Spillane, I, The Jury. |
1949 | Ross Macdonald (as John Macdonald), The Moving Target. |
1950 | Julian Symons, The Thirty-First of February. |