1001 Midnights
by Pronzini & Muller
"1001 Midnights: The Afcionado's Guide to Mystery and Detective Fiction "
Bill Pronzini & Marcia Muller eds. (Arbor House '86)
1868-1984
* Titles that are especially good or interesting, or that represent a particularly notable series or body of work 
** Cornerstone work in the field

1868-1900
1868 ** The Moonstone Wilkie Collins 
1868 * Monsieur Lecoq Emile Gaboriau 
1870 ** The Mystery of Edwin Drood Charles Dickens 
1878 ** The Leavenworth Case Anna Katharine Green 
1890 ** A Study in Scarlet Arthur Conan Doyle 
1892 ** The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes Arthur Conan Doyle 
1894 * The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes Arthur Conan Doyle 
1894 Martin Hewitt, Investigator Arthur Morrison 
1895 ** The Big Bow Mystery Israel Zangwill 
1896 * The Strange Schemes of Randolph Mason Melville Davisson Post

1901-1910
1902 ** The Hound of the Baskervilles Arthur Conan Doyle 
1908 The Man Who Was Thursday G. K. Chesterton 
1908 * The Gentle Grafter O. Henry 
1908 ** The Mystery of the Yellow Room Gaston Leroux 
1908 * The Circular Staircase Mary Roberts Rinehart 
1909 ** The Old Man in the Corner Baroness Orczy 
1910 * At the Villa Rose A. E. W. Mason

1911-1920
1911 * Average Jones Samuel Hopkins Adams 
1911 ** The Innocence of Father Brown G. K. Chesterton 
1912 * The Silent Bullet Arthur Reeve 
1912 Thrilling Stories of Railway Victor L. Whitechurch 
1913 ** Trent's Last Case E. C. Bentley 
1913 * The Lodger Marie Belloc Lowndes 
1914 * Max Carrados Ernest Bramah 
1915 * The 39 Steps John Buchan 
1915 The Mystery of the Green Ray William Le Queux 
1918 ** Uncle Abner, Master of Mysteries Melville Davisson Post 
1919 The Middle Temple Murder J. S. Fletcher 
1919 The Haunted Bookshop Chrisopher Moreley 
1919 The Red Mark and Other Stories (as Where the Pavement End) John Russell 
1920 The Great Impersonation E. Phillips Oppenheim 
1920 The Four Just Men Edger Wallace

1921-1930
1921 Bat Wing Sax Rohmer
1922 The Red House Mystery A. A. Milne 
1923 The Singing Bone Austin R. Freeman 
1924 * The Cask Freeman Wills Crofts 
1925 The House Without a Key Earl Derr Biggers 
1925 The Rasp Philip MacDonald 
1925 * The Dream Detective Rohmer Sax 
1926 * The Incredulity of Father Brown G. K. Chesterton 
1926 ** The Murder of Roger Ackroyd Agatha Christie 
1926 The Florentine Dagger Ben Hecht 
1927 The Snarl of the Beast Carroll John Daly 
1927 * The Bellamy Frances Noyes Hart 
1927 * Clouds of Witness Dorothy L. Sayers 
1927 Blind Corner Dornford Yates 
1928 * The Dain Curse Dashiell Hammett 
1928 The Footsteps at the Lock Ronald Knox 
1928 Ashenden: or The British Agent W. Somerset Maugham 
1929 The Poisoned Chocolate Case Anthony Berkeley 
1929 * The Black Camel Earl Derr Biggers 
1929 Little Caesar W. R. Burnett 
1929 ** The Maltese Falcon Dashiell Hammett 
1929 Thieves' Nights Harry Stephen Keeler 
1929 Speedy Death Gladys Mitchell 
1929 * Clues of the Caribees: Being Certain Criminal Investigations of Henry Poggioli, ph. D T. S. Stribling 
1929 * The Bishop Murder Case S.S. Van Dine 
1929 * The Murder Book of J.G. Reeder Edger Wallace 
1930 * The Mysterious Mr. Quin Agatha Christie 
1930 * Mr. Pottermack's Oversight Austin R. Freeman 
1930 The Curse of Doone Sydney Horler 
1930 Murder by Latitude Rufus King 
1930 Green Ice Raoul Whitfield

1931-1940
1931 About the Murder of the Clergyman's Mistress Anthony Abbot 
1931 Death Walks in Eastrepps Francis Beeding 
1931 Castle Skull John Dickson Carr 
1931 * The Glass Key Dashiell Hammett 
1931 Malice Aforethought Francis Iles 
1931 The Penguin Pool Murder Stuart Palmer 
1931 * The Strange Case of Peter the Lett (as Maigret and the Enigmatic Lett) Georges Simenon 
1931 * The Cape Cod Mystery Phoebe Atwood Taylor 
1931 The Sands of Windee Arthur W. Upfield 
1931 The Murderer Invisible Philip Wylie 
1932 Keeper of the Keys Earl Derr Biggers 
1932 The Devil Drivers Virgil Markham 
1932 * The Greek Coffin Mystery Ellery Queen 
1932 * The Tragedy of X Barnaby Ross 
1932 Have His Carcase Dorothy L. Sayers 
1933 Fast One Paul Cain 
1933 * The Brighter Buccaneer Leslie Charteris 
1933 The Claverton Affair John Rhode 
1933 * Murder Must Advertise Dorothy L. Sayers 
1934 * Death of a Ghost Margery Allingham 
1934 ** The Postman Always Rings Twice James M. Cain 
1934 * Murder on the Orient Express Agatha Christie 
1934 * The Plague Court Murders Carter Dickson 
1934 The Cases of Susan Dare Mignon Eberhart 
1934 The Thin Man Dashiell Hammett 
1934 * The Murder of My Aunt Richard Hull 
1934 The Family Burial Murders Milton Propper 
1934 * The Trail of Fu Manchu Rohmer Sax 
1934 * The Nine Tailors Dorothy L. Sayers 
1934 * Fer-de-Lance Rex Stout 
1934 The Case of the Gold Coins Anthony Wynne 
1935 Mr. Fortune Objects H. C. Bailey 
1935 * The Three Coffins John Dickson Carr 
1935 The Saint in New York Leslie Charteris 
1935 * The ABC Murder Agatha Christie 
1935 Murder with Pictures George Harmon Coxe 
1935 Vultures in the Sky Todd Downing 
1935 * The Curious Mr. Tarrant C. Daly King 
1935 * They Shoot Horses, Don't They? Horace McCoy 
1935 The Wooden Indian Carolyn Wells 
1936 Dark Is the Tunnel Miles Burton 
1936 * The Arabian Nights Murder John Dickson Carr 
1936 The Loss of the "Jane Vosper" Freeman Wills Crofts 
1936 Anything but Saintly Richard Deming 
1936 Mr. Pinkerton Has the Clue David Frome 
1936 The Case of the Sleepwalker's Niece Erle Stanley Gardner 
1936 The Iron Spiders Baynard Kendrick 
1936 The Lady in the Morgue Jonathan Latimer 
1936 A Puzzle for Fools Patrick Quentin 
1936 The Crimson Hair Murders Darwin Telhet 
1936 * Mr. Tutt's Case Book Arthur Train 
1937 Case for Three Detective Leo Bruce 
1937 * Serenade James M. Cain 
1937 Blind Drifts Clyde Clason 
1937 Full Fare for a Corpse Tech Davis 
1937 A Tenant for Death Cyril Hare 
1937 The Unfinished Clue Georgette Heyer 
1937 Seven Suspects Michael Innes 
1937 The Dogs Do Bark Jonathan Stagge 
1937 Octagon House Phoebe Atwood Taylor 
1937 Marooned with Murder R.A.J. Walling 
1938 The Beast Must Die Nicholas Blake 
1938 This Man Is Dangerous Peter Cheyney 
1938 * Rebecca Daphne Du Maurier 
1938 Ill Met by Moonlight Leslie Ford 
1938 Madmen Die Alone Josiah E. Greene 
1938 The Black-Headed Pins Constance and Gwenyth Little 
1938 * Warrant for X Philip MacDonald 
1938 Mr. Moto John P. Marquand 
1938 Fast Company Marco Page 
1938 * Death from a Top Hat Clayton Rawson 
1938 The Listening House Mabel Seeley 
1938 * Too Many Cooks Rex Stout 
1939 Mr. Campion and Others Margery Allingham 
1939 * A Coffin for Dimitrios Eric Ambler 
1939 * The Big Sleep Raymond Chandler 
1939 * And Then There Were None Agatha Christie 
1939 Sentence Deferred August Derleth 
1939 * Rouge Male Geoffrey Household 
1939 The African Poison Murders Elspeth Huxley 
1939 * Overture to Death Ngaio Marsh 
1939 * Fatal Descent John Rhode and Carter Dickson 
1939 * Some Buried Caesar Rex Stout 
1940 The Case of the Baker Street Irregulars Anthony Boucher 
1940 * High Sierra W. R. Burnett 
1940 ** Farewell, My Lovely Raymond Chandler 
1940 * The Department of Queer Complaints Carter Dickson 
1940 The Czar of Harfaday Creek James B. Hendryx 
1940 The Norths Meet Murder Frances and Richard Lockridge 
1940 The Corpse at the Quill Club Amelia Reynolds Long 
1940 The Affairs of O'Malley (as Smart Guy '51) William MacHarg 
1940 Murder in Miniatures Sam Jr. Merwin 
1940 Mayhem in B-Flat Elliot Paul 
1940 * The New Adventures of Ellery Queen Ellery Queen 
1940 Murder in Shinbone Alley Helen Reilly 
1940 * In the Teeth of the Evidence Dorothy L. Sayers 
1940 * The Wedding Guest Satona Stone Richard Shattuck 
1940 * The Left Leg Alice Tilton 
1940 * The Bride Wore Black Cornell Woolrich

1941-1950
1941 Traitor's Purse Margery Allingham 
1941 A Homicide for Hannah Dwight Babcock 
1941 Hell on Friday William G. Bogart 
1941 A Toast to Tomorrow Manning Coles 
1941 Murders in Volume 2 Elizabeth Daly 
1941 Three Thirds of a Ghost Timothy Fuller 
1941 The Buffalo Box Frank Gruber 
1941 A Taste for Honey H. F. Heard 
1941 * Forty Whacks Geoffrey Homes 
1941 * Oder of Violets Baynard Kendrick 
1941 * Solomon's Vineyard Jonathan Latimer 
1941 A Pinch of Poison Frances and Richard Lockridge 
1941 Murder at Horsethief James O'Hanlon 
1941 Death Out of Thin Air Stuart Towne 
1941 * The Black Curtain Cornell Woolrich 
1942 Say Yes to Murder W. T. Ballard 
1942 The Pricking Thumb H. C. Branson 
1942 No Orchids for Miss Blandish James Hadley Chase 
1942 and Knife in the Dark G. D. H. and Margaret Cole 
1942 Deep Lay the Dead Frederick C. Davis 
1942 Owls Don't Blink A. A. Fair 
1942 * Payment Deferred C. S. Forester 
1942 Rockt to the Morgue H. H. Holmes(Abthony Boucher) 
1942 * Phantom Lady William Irish 
1942 The Affair of the Limping Sailor Clifford Knight 
1942 The Stolen Squadron Charles Leonard 
1942 * Cue for Murder Helen McCloy 
1942 Laurels Are Poison Gladys Mitchell 
1942 * Calamity Town Ellery Queen 
1942 Passing Strange Richard Sale 
1943 * The Lady in the Lake Raymond Chandler 
1943 The Stars Are Dark Peter Cheyney 
1943 * The Mouse in the Mountain Norbert Davis 
1943 The Butler Died in Brooklyn Ruth Fenisong 
1943 Siren in the Night Leslie Ford 
1943 The Rat Began to Gnaw the Rope C. W. Grafton 
1943 * The Ministry of Fear Graham Greene 
1943 * I Wouldn't Be in Your Shoes William Irish 
1943 Old Bones Herman Petersen 
1943 Cellini Smith: Detective Robert Reeves 
1943 * The Thursday Turkey Murders Craig Rice 
1943 Look Your Last John Stephen Strange 
1943 Gunmen, Gallants, and Ghosts Dennis Wheatley 
1943 * The Black Angel Cornell Woolrich 
1944 No Good from a Corpse Leigh Brackett 
1944 Green for Danger Christianna Brand 
1944 Laura Vera Caspary 
1944 The Dark Page Samuel Fuller 
1944 * Deadline at Dawn William Irish 
1944 Blood Upon the Snow Hilda Lawrence 
1944 The Dark Tunnel Kenneth Millar 
1944 The Glass Mask Lenore Glen Offord 
1944 The Cat Wears a Noose D. B. Olsen 
1944 Don't Look Behind You! Samuel Rogers 
1944 Sailor, Take Warning! Kelley Roos 
1944 The Case Book of Jimmie Lavender Vincent Starrett 
1944 * Rim of the Pit Hake Talbot 
1944 * No Footprints in the Bush Arthur W. Upfield 
1945 The King Is Dead on Queen Street Francis Bonnamy 
1945 * Double Indemnity James M. Cain 
1945 "In Re: Sherlock Holmes":The Adventures of Solar Pons August Derleth 
1945 * The Curse of the Bronze Lamp Carter Dickson 
1945 Net of Cobwebs Elizabeth Sanxay Holding 
1945 * Night Has a Thousand Eyes George Hopely(Cornell Woolrich) 
1945 The Rising of the Moon Gladys Mitchell 
1945 * The Red Right Hand Joel Townsley Rogers 
1945 Proof of the Pudding Phoebe Atwood Taylor 
1945 V as in Victim Lawrence Treat 
1946 The Deadly Percheron John Franklin Bardin 
1946 Don't Ever Love Me Octavus Roy Cohen 
1946 * The Moving Toyshop Edmund Crispin 
1946 Dead at the Take-Off Lester Dent 
1946 Who Rides the Tiger Doris Miles Disney 
1946 The White Dress Mignon Eberhart 
1946 * The Big Clock Kenneth Fearing 
1946 * Nightmare Alley William Lindsay Gresham 
1946 * Muild My Gallows High Geoffrey Homes 
1946 * Ride the Pink Horse Dorothy B. Hughes 
1946 The Murder of the U. S.A. Will F. Jenkins 
1946 * Pick Your Vistim Patricia McGerr 
1946 * Death on Harley Street John Rhode 
1946 Make with the Brains, Pirre Dana Wilson 
1947 * The Fabulous Clipjoint Fredric Brown 
1947 * The Case of the Fan Dancer's Horse Erle Stanley Gardner 
1947 Counterfeit Wife Brett Halliday 
1947 * In a Lonely Place Dorothy B. Hughes 
1947 Bury Me Deep Harold Q. Masur 
1947 Guilty Bystander Wade Miller 
1947 * Knock on Any Door Willard Motley 
1947 * I, the Jury Mickey Spillane 
1947 * The Bone Is Pointed Arthur W. Upfield 
1947 * The Department of Dead Ends Roy Vickers 
1947 Moran, Operative Percival Wilde 
1948 Wilders Walk Away Robert Brean 
1948 * I Married a Dead Man William Irish 
1948 * Kiss Tomorrow Goodbye Horace McCoy 
1948 * The Fourth Postman Craig Rice 
1948 * And Be a Villain Rex Stout 
1948 Night Cry William L. Stuart 
1948 * The Man with My Face Samuel Taylor 
1948 Miss Pym Disposes Josephine Tey 
1948 Out, Brief Candle! Lee Thayer 
1949 Dead Lion John and Emery Bonett 
1949 Give Up the Ghost Mrgaret Erskine 
1949 * Knight's Gambit William Faulkner 
1949 What a Body! Alan Green 
1949 The Cabinda Affair Matthew Head 
1949 The Double Take Roy Huggins 
1949 * Cat of Many Tails Ellery Queen 
1949 The Chinese Chop Juanita Sheridan 
1949 * The Dark Light Bart Spicer 
1949 * Trouble in Triplicate Rex Stout 
1950 Portrait in Smoke Bill S. Ballinger 
1950 The Footprints of Satan Norman Berrow 
1950 Diagnosis Lawrence G. Blochman 
1950 Night of the Jabberwock Fredric Brown 
1950 * The Simple Art of Murder Raymond Chandler 
1950 The Silent Dust Bruno Fischer 
1950 * Samallbone Deceased Michael Gilbert 
1950 The Third Man Graham Greene 
1950 * Strangers on a Train Patricia Highsmith 
1950 The Violent Ones E. Howard Hunt 
1950 * Through a Glass, Darkly Helen McCloy 
1950 * The Brass Cupcake John D. MacDonald 
1950 Six Deadly Dames Frederick Neble 
1950 Nightmare in Manhattan Thomas Walsh

1951-1960
1951 * The Devil in Velvet John Dickson Carr 
1951 The Nooday Davil Ursula Curtiss  
1951 Jewel of the Java Sea Dan Cushman 
1951 The Book of the Crime Elizabeth Daly 
1951 Murder Comes Home Anthony Gilbert 
1951 The Dummy Murder Case Milton K. Ozaaki 
1951 The Long Wait Mickey Spillane 
1951 One Lonely Night Mickey Spillane 
1951 * The Daughter of Time Josephine Tey 
1951 * The New Shoe Arthur W. Upfield 
1952 Death in the Fifth Position Edgar Box 
1952 Hearse of a Different Color Merle Constiner 
1952 * The Key to Nicholas Street Stanley Ellin 
1952 The Case of the Moth-Eaten Mink Erle Stanley Gardner 
1952 * Don't Cry for Me William Campbell Gault 
1952 The Hoods Harry Grey 
1952 The Arm of Mrs. Egan William Fryer Harvey 
1952 * Something to Hide Philip MacDonald 
1952 * The Ivory Grin Ross Macdonald 
1952 Himalayan Assignment F. Van Wyck Mason 
1952 The Season for Murder Hugh Lawrence Nelson 
1952 The Dead Thing in the Pool Aaron Marc Stein 
1952 * The Killer Inside Me Jim Thompson 
1953 * Mostly Murder Fredric Brown 
1953 Black Wings Has My Angel Elliot Chaze 
1953 Someone Like You Roald Dahl 
1953 Kiss Me Again, Stranger Daphne Du Maurier 
1953 * Casino Royale Ian Fleming 
1953 The Sky Block Steve Frazee 
1953 A Private View Michael Innes 
1953 Murder by the Day Veronica Parker Johns 
1953 Death of a Corinthian Edwin Lanham 
1953 * A Kiss Before Dying Ira Levin 
1953 Decoy Michael Morgan 
1953 * Detour Helen Nilsen 
1953 Savage Night Jim Thompson 
1954 Paint the Town Black David Alexander 
1954 A Killer Is Loose Gil Brewer 
1954 * The Third Bullet and Other Stories John Dickson Carr 
1954 * The Long Goodbye Raymond Chandler 
1954 So Wicked My Love Bruno Fischer 
1954 Back Country William Fuller 
1954 Street of No Return David Goodis 
1954 * The Desperate Hours Joseph Hayes 
1954 Notorious Day Keene 
1954 Valse Macabre Kathleen Moore Knight 
1954 Rogue Cop William P. McGivern 
1954 * The Bad Seed William March 
1954 * Cold Poison Stuart Palmer 
1954 Go, Lovely Rose Jean Potts 
1954 * Glass Village Ellery Queen 
1954 * The Black Mountain Rex Stout 
1955 Shady Lady Cleve Adams 
1955 Hell Is a City William Ard 
1955 The Splintered Man M. E. Chaber 
1955 * The Judge and His Hangman Friedrich Durrenmatt 
1955 Death and Mr. Poter Rae Foley 
1955 Trinity in Violence Henry Kane 
1955 Who Has Wilma Lathrop? Day Keene 
1955 * Beast in View Margaret Millar 
1955 * Strip for Murder Richard S. Prather 
1955 Compartment K Helen Reilly 
1955 One Tear for My Grave Mike Roscoe 
1955 A Dying Fall Henry Wade 
1955 Poison in the Pen Patricia Wentworth 
1955 The Big Caper Lionel White 
1955 * Scorpion Reef Charles Williams 
1956 Death in Retirement Josephine Bell 
1956 Dewey Death Charity Blackstock 
1956 Morgue for Venus Jonathan Craig 
1956 The Deadly Dames Malcolm Douglas 
1956 Rebecca's Pride Donald McNutt Douglas 
1956 The House of Numbers Jack Finney 
1956 Down There David Goodis 
1956 The Man from the Boys Ed Lacy 
1956 * Death of a Fool Ngaio Marsh 
1956 The Loner Fan Nichols 
1956 Dig My Grave Deep Peter Rabe 
1956 Kill the Boss Good-By Peter Rabe 
1956 The Lunatic Time John Roeburt 
1956 The Cautious Overshoes Margaret Scherf 
1956 The Gazebo Patricia Wentworth 
1956 * Brute in Brass Harry Whittington 
1957 The Case of the Violent Virgin Michael Avallone 
1957 End of Chapter Nicholas Blake 
1957 The Tiger Among Us Leigh Brackett 
1957 * The Taste of Ashes Howard Browne 
1957 The Fire Trap Owen Cameron 
1957 What Mrs. McGillicuddy Saw! Agatha Christie 
1957 Murder on the Rocks Robert Dietrich 
1957 This Girl for Hire G. G. Fickling 
1957 * End of the Line Bert and Dolores Hichens 
1957 Murder of a Mistress Henrry Kuttner 
1957 * Room to Swing Ed Lacy 1
957 * Odds Against Tomorrow William P. McGivern 
1957 The Guns of Navarone Alistair MacLean 
1957 The Broken Angel Floyd Mahannah 
1957 Troble Is My Name Stephen Marlowe 
1957 The Pub Crawler Maurice Proctor 
1957 Shadow of a Lady Holly Roth 
1958 Assignment-Angelina Edward S. Aarons 
1958 * The Madhouse in Washingtn Square David Alexander 
1958 The Red Scarf Gil Brewer 
1958 * The Caves of Night John Christopher 
1958 Hell to Pay William R. Cox 
1958 Doctor No Ian Fleming 
1958 The Hours Before Dawn Celia Fremlin 
1958 The Seventh Mourner Dorothy Gardiner 
1958 Malice on Wonderland Rufus King 
1958 * Breathe No More. My Lady Ed Lacy 
1958 * The Executioners John D. MacDonald 
1958 Even the Wicked Richard Marsten 
1958 The Hoods Come Calling Nick Quarry 
1958 Web of Murder Harry Whittington 
1958 Talk of the Town Charles Williams 
1959 * Knock Three-One-Two Fredric Brown 
1959 Goldfinger Ian Fleming 
1959 * Killer's Wedge Ed McBain 
1959 * The Hustler Walter Tevis 
1959 An Eye for an Eye John B. West 
1960 Lament for a Lousy Lover Carter Brown 
1960 One Way Out George Harmon Coxe 
1960 Death-Wish Green Frances Crane 
1960 The Detections of Dr. Sam :Johnson Lillian de la Torre 
1960 Ghost Blonde Mark Derby 
1960 A Body for McHugh Jay Flynn 
1960 * Death of a Citizen Donald Hamilton 
1960 * All Shot Up Chester Himes 
1960 * Sleep with Slander Dolores Hichens 
1960 * The Mistress of Mellyn Victoria Holt 
1960 * Watcher in the Shadows Geoffrey Household 
1960 * Night Without End Alistair MacLean 
1960 To Have and to Kill Robert Martin 
1960 * Sing Me a Murder Helen Nilsen 
1960 * Whisper Town Judson Philips 
1960 The Girl's Number Doesn't Answer Talmage Powell 
1960 The Unspeakable Stephen Ransome 
1960 * Aground Charles Williams

1961-1970
1961 * Hangman's Dozen David Alexander 
1961 The Green Stone Suzanne Blanc 
1961 A Bone and a Hank of Hair Leo Bruce 
1961 A Case for Appeal Lesley Egan 
1961 The Hundrer-Dollar Girl William Campbell Gault 
1961 Operation Terror The Gordons 
1961 Footsteps in the Night Dolores Hichens 
1961 Stacked Deck Frank Kane 
1961 Mark of Treachery Clarence Kelland 
1961 Banking on Death Emma Lathen 
1961 The Wrong Side of the Sky Gavin Lyall 
1961 * The Wycherly Woman Ross Macdonald 
1961 Gideon's Fire J. J. Marric 
1961 * The Ordeal of Mrs and Other Stories Patrick Quentin 
1961 Requiem for a Schoolgirl Ivan T. Ross 
1961 One for My Dame Jack Webb 
1961 Blue Fire Phyllis A. Whitney 
1962 Murder Bound Poul Andrson 
1962 * The Rose of Tibet Lionel Davidson 
1962 * The Night of the Genera ls Hans Hellmut Kirst 
1962 To See a Stranger Margaret Lynn 
1962 * The Zebra-Striped Hearse Ross Macdonald 
1962 Seance Mark McShane 
1962 The Name of the Game Is Death Dan J. Marlowe 
1962 * The Cannibal Who Overate Hugh Pentecost 
1962 * The Hunter Richard Stark 
1962 Naked She Died Don Tracy 
1963 * The Light of Day Eric Ambler 
1963 The Green Wound Philip Atlee 
1963 Shake Him Till He Rattles Malccolm Braly 
1963 * A Sad Song Singing Thomas B. Dewey 
1963 How Awful about Allan Henry Farrell 
1963 Florentine Finsh Cornelius Hirschberg 
1963 Johnny Havoc and the Doll Who Had "It" John Jakes 
1963 * People vs. Withers and Malone Stuart Palmer and Craig Rice 
1963 Waiting for Oliver Simon Troy 
1963 How to Succeed at Murder without Really Trying Don Von Elsner 
1963 The Money Trap Lionel White 
1964 In the Last Analysis Amanda Cross 
1964 Only on Tuesdays Thomas B. Dewey 
1964 * Seconds David Ely 
1964 A Hank of Hair Charlotte Jay 
1964 * Friday the Rabbi Slept Late Harry Kemelman 
1964 * Ben Gates Is Hot Robert Kyle 
1964 Accounting for Murder Emma Lathen 
1964 ** The Spy Who Came in from the Cold John Le Carre 
1964 The Laughter Trap Judson Philips 
1964 The Cockeyed Corpse Richard S. Prather 
1964 * The Blue Room and The Accomplices Georges Simenon 
1964 Day of the Guns Mickey Spillane 
1964 Pop. 1280 Jim Thompson 
1964 And Some Were Evil Ennis Willie 
1965 * In the Heat of the Night John Ball 
1965 The Chinese Mask Bill S. Ballinger 
1965 Curtain Call for a Corpse Josephine Bell 
1965 * A Caribbean Mystery Agatha Christie 
1965 Deadfall Desmond Cory 
1965 The King of the Rainy Country Nicholas Freeling 
1965 The Ashes of Loda Andrew Garve 
1965 * The Quiller Memorandum Adam Hall 
1965 The Midnight Man Henry Kane 
1965 The Singing Diamons and Other Stories Helen McCloy 
1965 The Affair of the Blue Pig Patrick O'Malley 
1965 The Big Cat Christopher Short 
1965 Though I Know She Lies Sara Woods 
1966 House on Greenapple Road Harold R. Daniels 
1966 The Billion Dollar Brain Len Deighton 
1966 * Dedline Thomas B. Dewey 
1966 The Incredible Schlock Homes Robert L. Fish 
1966 * Odds Against Dick Francis 
1966 Brass Knuckles Frank Gruber 
1966 Nice Fillies Finish Last Brett Halliday 
1966 ** The Big Knockover Dashiell Hammett 
1966 * Darker than Amber John D. MacDonald 
1966 * Black Money Ross Macdonald 
1966 * The Crimson Madness of Little Doom Mark McShane 
1966 ** Complete Stories and Poems of Edgar Allan Poe Edgar Allan Poe 
1966 * The Cold War Swap Ross Thomas 
1966 The Fox Valley Murders John Holbrook Vance 
1967 A Most Contagious Game Catharine Aird 
1967 The Gift Shop Charlotte Armstrong 
1967 Murder Las Vegas Style W. T. Ballard 
1967 * Act of Fear Michael Collins 
1967 Samantha E. V. Cunningham 
1967 The Theme Is Murder Miriam Allen deFord 
1967 Skuldoggery Fletcher Flora 
1967 Too Many Magicians Randall Garrett 
1967 Dragon Hunt Dave J. Gerrity 
1967 Game Without Rules Michael Gilbert 
1967 A Horse's Head Evan Hunter 
1967 * The Nine Mile Walk Harry Kemelman 
1967 The Chinks in the Curta in Joyce Porter 
1967 Gat Heat Richard S. Prather 
1967 Roseanna Maj Sjowall and Per Wahloo 
1967 * God Save the Mark Donald E. Westlake 
1968 * A Dark Power William Arden 
1968 * The Balloon Man Charlotte Armstrong 
1968 Time Running Out Kage Booton 
1968 Slit My Throat, Gently Michael Brett 
1968 The Toff at the Fair John Creasey 
1968 The Walls Came Tumbling Down Babs H. Deal 
1968 * Blood Sport Dick Francis 
1968 None of Us Cared for Kate John Haythorne 
1968 A Case of Need Jeffrey Hudson 
1968 * Silver Street E. Richard Johnson 
1968 * Inspector Ghote Caught in Meshes H. R. F. Keating 
1968 Easy Go John Lange 
1968 * A Small Town in Germany John Le Carre 
1968 * Fuzz Ed McBain 
1968 * Dover Goes to Pott Joyce Porter 
1968 The Looters (as Charley Varrick) John Reese 
1968 The Man on the Balcony Maj Sjowall and Per Wahloo 
1968 * The Bait Dorothy Uhnak 
1968 The Con Game Hillary Waugh 
1969 The Midnight Lady and the Mourning Man David Aanthony 
1969 The Brass Go-Between Oliver Bleeck 
1969 After the First Death Lawrence Block 
1969 Mile High Richard Condon 
1969 * The Devil Finds Work Michael Delving 
1969 The Old English Peep Show Peter Dickinson 
1969 Saxon's Ghost Steve Fisher 
1969 * Forfeit Dick Francis 
1969 You'll Like My Mother Naomi Hintze 
1969 The Shattered Raven Edward D. Hock 
1969 The Phantom Cottage Velda Johnston 
1969 Such Men Are Dangerous Paul Kavanagh 
1969 If the Shroud Fits Paul Kruger 
1969 When in Greece Emma Lathen 
1969 The Executioner Don Pendleton 
1969 * The Singapore Wink Ross Thomas 
1969 * Just What the Doctor Ordered Colin Watson 
1969 The Siege of Trencher's Farm Gordon M. Williams 
1970 A Nest of Traitors Gordon Ashe 
1970 If Laurel Shot Hardy the World Would End Stanton Forbes 
1970 Mr. Crook Lifts the Mask Anthony Gilbert 
1970 * Fadeout Joseph Hansen 
1970 * Ripley Underground Patricia Highsmith 
1970 * The Snail-Watcher and Other Stories Patricia Highsmith 
1970 Pick Up Sticks Emma Lathen 
1970 Mrs. Munck Ella Leffland 
1970 The Summit Stephen Marlowe 
1970 * Beyond This Point Are Monsters Margaret Millar 
1970 The Walter Syndrome Richard Neely 
1970 The XYY Man Kenneth Royce 
1970 * The Falling Man Mark Sadler 
1970 Maigret's Boyhood Friend Georges Simenon 
1970 The Parrallax Loren Singer 
1970 * The Laughing Policeman Maj Sjowall and Per Wahloo 
1970 * The Hot Rock Donald E. Westlake

1971-1980
1971 Manhattan North Martha Albrand 
1971 The Tamarind Seed Evelyn Anthony 
1971 The Affair at Royalities George Baxt 
1971 A Time for Pitrtes Gavin Black 
1971 * Finding Maubee A. H. Z. Carr 
1971 Fenner George Harmon Coxe 
1971 There is No Justice R. B. Dominic 
1971 The Green Hell Treasure Robert L. Fish 
1971 * The Day of the Jackal Frederick Forsyth 
1971 Knight Sinister Adam Hall 
1971 Murder on the Wild Side Jeff Jacks 
1971 Shroud for a Nightingale P. D. James 
1971 Photographs Have Been Sent to Your Wife Phillip Loraine 
1971 * For Murder I Charge More Frank McAuliffe 
1971 Farragan's Retreat Tom McHale 
1971 The Gravy Train (as The Great Train Hijack) Whit Masterson 
1971 * A New Leaf and Other Stories Jack Ritchie 
1971 Twice So Fair Nedre Tyre 
1972 11 Harrowhouse Gerald Browne 
1972 * Don't Lie to Me Tucker Coe 
1972 The Odessa File Frederick Forsyth 
1972 Death Wish Brian Garfield 
1972 * Relentless Brian Garfield 
1972 * Dead Skip Joe Gores 
1972 The Lingala Code Warren Kiefer 
1972 * First Blood David Morrell 
1972 Pieces of Modesty Peter O'Donnell 
1972 Squaw Point R. S. Shimer 
1972 Canto for a Gypsy Martin Smith 
1972 The Eiger Sanction Trevanian 
1972 * The Blue Knight Joseph Wambaugh 
1972 Poor, Poor Ophelia Carolyn Weston 
1972 Listen for the Whisperer Phyllis A. Whitney 
1972 The Invader Richard Wormser 
1973 * Amigo, Amigo Francis Clifford 
1973 * The Man Who Liked to Look at Himseif K. C. Constantine 
1973 The Insulators John Creasey 
1973 The Little Brothers Dorothy Salisbury Davis 
1973 He Who Digs a Grave David Delman 
1973 Blackstone's Fancy Richard Falkirk 
1973 * Best "Thinking Machine" Detective Stories Jacques Futrelle 
1973 The Taking of Pelham One Two Three John Godey 
1973 * The Secret Life of Algernon Pendleton Russell H. Geenan 
1973 * The Ross Forgery William H. Hallahan 
1973 * Dance Hall of the Dead Tony Hillerman 
1973 An Unsuitable Job for a Woman P. D. James 
1973 A Wicked Way to Die J. G. Jeffreys 
1973 Crime by Chance Elizabeth Linington 
1973 The Matlock Paper Robert Ludlum 
1973 Undercurrent Bill Pronzini 
1973 * The First Deadlly Sin Lawrence Sanders 
1973 No Holiday for Crime Dell Shannon 
1973 Judge Dee at Work Robert van Gulik 
1974 Doctor Frigo Eric Ambler 
1974 Tales of the Black Widowers Isaac Asimov 
1974 Mark One: The Dummy John Ball 
1974 Location Shots J. F. Burke 
1974 Peter's Pence Jon Cleary 
1974 Surrounded Brian Coffey 
1974 Bloodwater John Crowe 
1974 Atlanta Deathwatch Ralph Dennis 
1974 Conversations with a Corpse Robert C. Dennis 
1974 The Player Warwick Downing 
1974 Tombs of Blue Ice Ron Faust 
1974 The Lester Affair Andrew Garve 
1974 Marathon Man William Goldman 
1974 * Six Days of the Condor James Grady 
1974 The Grand Ole Opry Murder Marvin Kaye 
1974 Tuesday the Rabbi Saw Red Harry Kemelman 
1974 * Matthew's Hand Charles Larson 
1974 Death on the Hour Richard Lockridge 
1974 Coach North Philip McCutchan 
1974 * Fletch Gregory Madonald 
1974 * Somebody's Sister Derek Malowe 
1974 The Seven Percent Solution: Being a Reprint from the Reminiscences of John H. Watson Nicholas Meyer 
1974 The Silver Bullet Gang John Miles 
1974 Good Girls Don't Get Murdered Percy Spurlark Parker 
1974 Bank Job Robert L. Pike 
1974 Didn't Anybody Know My Wife? Willo Davis Roberts 
1974 * The Venice Train Georges Simenon 
1974 Wild Turkey Roger L. Simon 
1974 The Thing at the Door Henry Slesar 
1974 * Butcher's Moon Richard Stark 
1974 Judas Cross Jeffrey M. Wallmann 
1974 Have Mercy on Us Tobias Wells 
1974 The Schoolgirl Murder Case Colin Wilson 
1975 Goodey's Last Stand Charles Alverson 
1975 The Affair of the Blood-Stained Egg Cosy James Anderson 
1975 The Lone Wolf: Philadelph ia Blowup Mike Barry 
1975 * The Chinese Bandit Stephen Becker 
1975 Where Are the Children? Mary Higgins Clark 
1975 Blue Death Michael Collins 
1975 * Yesterday's Spy Len Deighton 
1975 Please Omit Funeral Hildegard Dolson 
1975 Alive and Dead E. X. Ferrars 
1975 A Child's Garden of Death Richard Forrest 
1975 * Hopscoth Brian Garfield 
1975 Hammett Joe Gores 
1975 Troblemaker Joseph Hansen 
1975 Black Sunday Thomas Harris 
1975 * North Star Hammond Innes 
1975 * The Black Tower P. D. James 
1975 Stealing Lillian Tony Kenrick 
1975 Rally to Kill Bill Knox 
1975 * A Case of Spirits Peter Loversey 
1975 Loan Shark J. W. O'Dell 
1975 * Crocodile on the Sandbank Elizabeth Peters 
1975 The Auctioneer Joan Samson 
1975 A Three-Pipe Problem Julian Symons 
1975 * The Choirboys Joseph Wambaugh 
1975 * Aftershock Collin Wilcox 
1976 911 Thomas Chastain 
1976 The Broker Max Collins 
1976 No Darker Crime John Creasey 
1976 A Death in the Life Dorothy Salisbury Davis 
1976 Freebooty Jck Foxx 
1976 Great Cases of the Thinking Machine Jacques Fytrelle 
1976 Freeze Frame R. R. Irvine 
1976 A Killing for Charity Arthur Kaplan 
1976 Staight Steve Knickmeyer 
1976 The Big Payoff Janice Law 
1976 * Swag Elmore Leonard 
1976 Night Cover Michael Z. Lewin 
1976 Dead Run Richard Lockridge 
1976 Buyer Beware John Luts 
1976 Snake James McClure 
1976 The Blue Hammer Ross Macdonald 
1976 Agent in Place Helen MacInnes 
1976 Promised Land Robert B. Parker 
1976 The Day the Children Vanished Hugh Pentecost 
1976 Raffles of the Albany Barry Perowne 
1976 Games Bill Pronzini 
1976 * The Running of Beasts Bill Pronzini and Barry N. Malzberg 
1976 Death Merchant: Hell in Hindu Land Joseph Rosenberger 
1976 The Poor Old Lady's Dead Jack S. Scott 
1976 Street of Death Dell Shannon 
1976 * Dancing Aztecs Donald E. Westlake 
1976 Unholy Writ David Williams 
1976 Ogilvie, Tallant & Moon Chelsea Quinn Yarbro 
1977 Train-Siberian Express Warren Adler 
1977 The King of Terrors Robert Bloch 
1977 Burglars Can't Be Chosers Lawrence Block 
1977 Dreaming of Babylon Richard Brautigan 
1977 * Shadow of a Broken Man Geroge Chesbro 
1977 Quiet as a Nun Antonia Fraser 
1977 Norgil the Magician Walter Gibson 
1977 Dewey Decimated Charles A. Goodrum 
1977 Rotten Apples Edith Pinero Green 
1977 * Catch Me: Kill Me William H. Hallahan 
1977 * Murder on the Yellow Brick Road Stuart Kaminsky 
1977 * Witchrock Bill Knox 
1977 The Vision Dean R. Koontz 
1977 Perchance of Death Elizabeth Linington 
1977 * Bonegrinder John Luts 
1977 * Lew Archer, Private Investigator Ross Macdonald 
1977 * Laidlow William McIlvanney 
1977 Death by Bequest Mary McMullen 
1977 Murder in Mimicry Anne Morice 
1977 An Exchange of Eagles Owen Sela 
1977 A Question of Identity June Thomson 
1977 The Investigation Dorothy Uhnak 
1977 * The Japanese Corpse Janwillem van de Wetering 
1977 * The Haunted Monastery and Chinese Maze Murderds Robert van Gulik 
1977 The Fourth Stage of Gainsborough Brown Clarissa Watson 
1977 Doctor, Lawyer... Collin Wilcox 
1978 Deceit and Deadly Lies Franklin Bandy 
1978 Blood Brotherhood Robert Barnard 
1978 The Glimpses of the Moon Edmund Crispin 
1978 * The Last Good Kiss James Crumley 
1978 * Eye of the Needle Ken Follett 
1978 Dirty Laundry Pete Hamill 
1978 * Listening Woman Tony Hillerman 
1978 Falling Angel William Hjorstberg 
1978 * The Thefts of Nick Velvet Edward D. Hoch 
1978 * Fear in a Handful John Ives 
1978 * The Silent Salesman Michael Z. Lewin 
1978 * Discretion David Linzee 
1978 Corrupt and Ensnare Francis M. Nevins 
1978 The Beaded Banana Margaret Scherf 
1978 The Shipkiller Justin Scott 
1978 Night Walking Kathleen Snow 
1978 The Blond Baboon Janwillem van de Wetering 
1978 Nothing's Certain but Death M. K. Wren 
1978 Cocaine and Blue Eyes Fred Zackel 
1978 A Reason to Kill Eve Zaremba 
1978 Murder in the hellfire Donald Zochert 
1979 Exit Actors, Dying Margot Arnold 
1979 * Flyaway Desmond Bagley 
1979 A Healthy Way to Die Lionel Black 
1979 Boston Blackie Jack Boyle 
1979 A Comedian Dies Simon Brett 
1979 Wycliffe and the Scapegoat W. J. Burley 
1979 Angele of Attack Rex Burns 
1979 The Hog Murders William L. DeAndrea 
1979 * The Specialty of the House and other Stories :The Complete Mystery Tales Stanley Ellin 
1979 Star Light, Star Bright Stanley Ellin 
1979 Good Night and Good-bye Timothy Harris 
1979 Minor Murders Joe L. Hensley 
1979 * The Rosary Murder William Kienzle 
1979 Losers Take All J. J. Lamb 
1979 The Green Ripper John D. MacDonald 
1979 Family Vault Charlotte MacLeaod 
1979 But Nellie Was So Nice Mary McMullen 
1979 * The Rheingold Route Arthur Maling 
1979 To Catch a King Harry Patterson 
1979 * The Great Merlini Clayton Rawson 
1979 * Black Aura John Sladek 
1979 Skeletons Glendon Swarthout 
1979 The Housewife and the Assassin Susan Trott 
1979 Domino Phyllis A. Whitney 
1980 Murder, Murder, Little Star Marian Babson 
1980 Country and Fatal George Bagby 
1980 The Rembrandt Panel Oliver Banks 
1980 Treachery in Type Josephine Bell 
1980 The Dead Side of the Mike Simon Brett 
1980 A Choice of Crimes Lesley Egan 
1980 Frog in the Throat E. X. Ferrars 
1980 The Zero Trap Paula Gosling 
1980 Ghosting Ron Goulart 
1980 Death Bed Stephen Greenleaf 
1980 No Second Wind A. B. Guthrie Jr. 
1980 No One Knows My Name Joyce Harrington 
1980 Kennedy for the Defense George V. Higgins 
1980 * Solo Jack Higgins 
1980 The Murder of the Maharajah H. R. F. Keating 
1980 Change for the Worse Elizabeth Lemarchand 
1980 Castles Burning Arthur Lyons 
1980 The Blood of an English Man James McClure 
1980 Murder and Chips Laurie Mantell 
1980 Wicked Designs Lillian O'Donnell 
1980 * Callander Square Anne Perry 
1980 The Cheating Butcher Aaron Marc Stein 
1980 The Man Who Killed His Brother Reed Stephens 
1980 Sweetheart Scott Swanton

1980-1984
1980 Murder in the White House Margaret Truman 
1981 A Ragged Plot Richard Barth 
1981 Position of Ultimate William Beechcroft 
1981 * Six Problems for Don Is Isidro Parodi Jorge Luis Borges and Adolfo Bioy-Casares 
1981 California Thriller Max Byrd 1981 A Fall from Grace Victor Canning 
1981 Thus Was Adonis Murdered Sarah Caudwell 
1981 Dupe Liza Cody 
1981 Murder Goes Mumming Alisa Craig 
1981 * Divide the Night Wessel Ebersohn 
1981 * The Garden of Weapons John Gardner 
1981 Licens Renewed John Gardner 
1981 A Question of Guilt Richard Gordon 
1981 * The Man with a Load of Mischief Martha Grimes 
1981 * Cholo Robert Houton 
1981 30 for a Harry Richard Hoyt 
1981 Death and the Good Life Richard Hugo 
1981 Stalking Point Duncan Kyle 
1981 A Cracking of Spines Roy Harley Lewis 
1981 Bogmail Patrick McGinley 
1981 Death on the Eno Amanda Mackay 
1981 * Sci Fi William Marshall 
1981 End of the Line Shannon O'Cork 
1981 The Children's Zoo Lillian O'Donnell 
1981 * Snare in the Dark Frank Parrish 
1981 Fool's Mate Ritchie Perry 
1981 Money Men and One-Shot Deal Gerald Petievich 
1981 Murder on Martha's Vineyard Kelley Roos 
1981 * Tattoo the Wicked Cross Floyd Salas 
1981 Gorky Park Martin Cruz Smith 
1981 The Cable Car Murder Elizabeth Atwood Taylor 
1981 * The Mordida Man Ross Thomas 
1981 False Witness Dorothy Uhnak 
1981 Blue Murder Walter Wager 
1981 * Wodehouse on Crime P.G. Wodehouse 
1981 The Long Dark Nighth of Baron John Wyllie 
1982 Shadow of Shadows Ted Allbeury 
1982 Psycho 2 Robert Bloch 
1982 * Eight Million Ways to Die Lawrence Block 
1982 Billingsgate Shoal Rick Boyer 
1982 Angel Face Stanley Cohen 
1982 To Play the Fox M. S. Craig 
1982 The Foretelling Caroline Crane 
1982 The Last Houseparty Peter Dickinson 
1982 Fellowship of Fear Aaron Elkins 
1982 No Comebacks Frederick Forsyth 
1982 "A" Is for Alibi" Sue Grafton 
1982 Who Guards the Prince? Reginald Hill 
1982 A Funeral of Gondolas Timothy Holme 
1982 Night Rituals Michael Jahn 
1982 Death by Gaslight Michael Kurland 
1982 Natural Enemy Jane Langton 
1982 A Piece of the Silence Jack Livingston 
1982 * The Spy with His Head in the Clouds Marc Lovell 
1982 * The False Inspector Dew Peter Loversey 
1982 * The Good Old Stuff John D. MacDonald 
1982 Light Thickens Ngaio Marsh 
1982 * The Chrysanthemum Chain James Melville 
1982 The Big Enchilada L. A. Morse 
1982 A Talent for Destruction Sheila Radley 
1982 The Fever Tree Ruth Rendell 
1982 * Master of the Moor Ruth Rendell 
1982 The Cooking School Murders Virginia Rich 
1982 Death's Clenched Fist James Sherburne 
1982 * An Urge for Justice John Wainwright 
1982 Devil's Work Margaret Yorke 
1983 Alter Ego Mel Arrighi 
1983 The Case of the Missing Bronte Robert Barnard 
1983 Bitter Finish Linda Barnes 
1983 Dan Turner, Hollywood Detective Robert Leslie Bellem 
1983 * Exeunt Murderers: The Best Mystery Stories of Anthony Boucher Anthony Boucher 
1983 * True Detective Max Allan Collins 
1983 The Patient in Cabin C. Mignon Eberhart 
1983 * The Dark Fantastic Stanley Ellin 
1983 * The Back of the North Wind Nicholas Freeling 
1983 Hurricane Season Mickey Fridman 
1983 The Kill Factor Richard Harper 
1983 Death on the Broadlands Alan Hunter 
1983 * Appleby and Honeybath Michael Innes 
1983 Deadly Petard Roderic Jeffries 
1983 When the Dark Man Calls Stuart Kaminsky 
1983 Death in Zanxzibar M. M. Kaye 
1983 A Free-range Wife Michael Kenyon 
1983 * LaBrava Elmore Leonard 
1983 A Gathering of Ghosts Roy Lewis 
1983 A Cold Mind David Lindsey 
1983 * The McBain Brief Ed McMain 
1983 Something the Cat Dragged In Charlotte MacLeaod 
1983 No Man's Island Jessica Mann 
1983 Someon Is Bleding Richard Matheson 
1983 Banshee Margaret Millar 
1983 The Deberman Wore Black Barbara Moore 
1983 * A Six-Letter Word for Death Patricia Moyes 
1983 * The Tree of Death Marcia Muller 
1983 Dai-Sho Marc Olden 
1983 The Hanging Doll Murder Roger Ormerod 
1983 The Widening Gyre Robert B. Parker 
1983 Metzger's Dog Thomas Perry 
1983 The Old Vengeful Anthony Price 
1983 Watching the Detectives Julian Rathbone 
1983 * Speaker of Mandarin Ruth Rendell 
1983 Hunter Eric Sauter 
1983 Red Diamond: Private Eye Mark Schorr 
1983 Reverend Randollph and the Unholy Bible Charles Merrill Smith 
1983 Timbuktu David Smith 
1983 Death Turns a Trick Julie Smith 
1983 * The Detling Secret Julian Symons 
1983 * The Tigers of Subtopia and Other Stories Julian Symons 
1983 * Mrs. White Margaret Tracy 
1983 Natural Causes Jonathan Valin 
1983 The Sole Survivor and The Kynsard Affair Roy Vickers 
1983 Dead Man's Thoughts Carolyn Wheat 
1983 * Dead in the Water Ted Wood 
1984 Slate Nathan Aldyne 1984 The Cruise of a Deathtime Marian Babson 
1984 Striving with Gods Jo Bannister 
1984 Switch William Bayer 
1984 Fall from Grace Miriam Borgenicht 
1984 The Gathering Place Jon L. Breen 
1984 Cloud Nine James M. Cain 
1984 The Thin Woman Dorothy Cannell 
1984 Losing Bet Mikhail Chernyonok 
1984 Angel Without Mercy Anthea Cohen 
1984 The Other David Carolyn Coker 
1984 Kill Your Darlings Max Allan Collins 
1984 * Tale for a Stomy Night Dorothy Salisbury Davis 
1984 Words Can Kill Kenn Davis 
1984 Killed on the Ice William L. DeAndrea 
1984 First Hit of the Season Jane Dentinger 
1984 An Equal Opportunity Death Susan Dunlap 
1984 Dolly and the Bird of Paradise Dorothy Dunnett 
1984 A Creative Kind of Killer Jack Early 
1984 The Suicide Murders Howard Engel 
1984 Kill Zone Loren D. Estleman 
1984 Sugertown Loren D. Estleman 
1984 Asia Rip George Foy 
1984 * The Danger Dick Francis 
1984 Firefly Gadroom Jonathan Gash 
1984 Death in Donegal Bay William Campbell Gault 
1984 The Black Seraphim Michael Gilbert 
1984 * Mrs. Pollifax on the China Station Dorothy Gilman 
1984 Killer's Rights Nan Hamilton 
1984 * Brandstetter and Others Joseph Hansen 
1984 Nightwork Joseph Hansen 
1984 * A Secret Rage Charlaine Harris 
1984 Stately Homicide S. T. Haymon 
1984 Blunt Darts Jeremiah F III Healy 
1984 The Ghostway Tony Hillerman 
1984 The Hobbema Prospect John Buxton Hilton 
1984 A Time to Reap Michael Hinkemeyer 
1984 Foul Shot Doug Hornig 
1984 * The Complete Short Stories of Raffles--the Amateur Cracksman E. W. Hornung 
1984 Murder on Mike H. Paul Jeffers 
1984 Prophet Motive Cleo Jones 
1984 * Mr. Surie O. K. Joshee 
1984 C. B. Greenfield: The Piano Bird Lucille Kallen 
1984 * The Man in the Middle Norman Lewis 
1984 Sausalite Jack Lynch 
1984 * Jack and the Beanstalk Ed McBain 
1984 * Lightning Ed McBain 
1984 Flynn's In Gregory Madonald 
1984 The First Directive Joseph D. McNamara 
1984 The Sheriff and the Panhandle Murders D. R. Meredith 
1984 Leave a Message for Willie Marcia Muller 
1984 * The Ceiling of Hell Warren Murphy 
1984 Trace and 47 Miles of Rope Warren Murphy 
1984 The Man Who Stole the Mona Lisa Martin Page 
1984 Sweet, Savage Death Oriana Papazoglou 
1984 Deadlock Sara Paretsky 
1984 The Price of Silence Hugh Pentecost 
1984 Slow Dancer W. R. Phibrick 
1984 Generous Death Nancy Pickard 
1984 * Quicksilver Bill Pronzini 
1984 Full Contact Robert J. Randisi 
1984 The Gold Deadline Herbert Resnicow 
1984 The Nebraska Quotient William J. Reynolds 
1984 Groomed for Murder Vivian Rhodes 
1984 Strike Three, You're Dead R. D. Rosen 
1984 Madrid Underground David Serafin 
1984 Rites of Murder Walter J. Sheldon 
1984 Death of a Harvard Freshman Victoria Silver 
1984 Free Draw Shelley Singer 
1984 Someone Else's Grave Alison Smith 
1984 The Dutch Blue Error William Tapply 
1984 Waiting for the End of the World Andrew Taylor 
1984 Big Money Peter Turbull 
1984 A Party to Murder Michael Underwood 
1984 Fade Out Robert Upton 
1984 * Levine Donald E. Westlake 
1984 Bleeding Heats Teri White 
1984 Murder in the Collective Barbara Wilson 
1984 The Blody Book of Law Sara Woods