Wilkie Collins Novels
- The Woman In White (1859)
- The Moonstone (1868)
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s Sherlock Holmes Series
- A Study in Scarlet (1887, Novel)
- The Sign of the Four (1890, Novel)
- The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (1892, Short Story Collection)
- The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes (1894, Short Story Collection)
- The Hound of the Baskervilles (1901–1902, Novel)
- The Return of Sherlock Holmes (1905, Short Story Collection)
- The Valley of Fear (1914–1915, Novel)
- His Last Bow (1917, Short Story Collection)
- The Case-Book of Sherlock Holmes (1927, Short Story Collection)
Agatha Christie’s Hercule Poirot Series
- The Mysterious Affair at Styles (1920)
- The Murder on the Links (1923)
- Poirot Investigates (1924, short story)
- The Murder of Roger Ackroyd (1926)
- The Big Four (1927)
- The Mystery of the Blue Train (1928)
- Black Coffee (1930 play)
- Peril at End House (1932)
- Lord Edgware Dies (1933) also published as Thirteen at Dinner
- Murder on the Orient Express (1934) also published as Murder in the Calais Coach
- Three Act Tragedy (1935) also published as Murder in Three Acts
- Death in the Clouds (1935) also published as Death in the Air
- The A.B.C. Murders (1936) also published as The Alphabet Murders
- Murder in Mesopotamia (1936)
- Cards on the Table (1936)
- Murder in the Mews (1937, short story) also published as Dead Man’s Mirror
- Dumb Witness (1937) also published as Poirot Loses a Client
- Death on the Nile (1937) also published as Murder on the Nile and as Hidden Horizon
- Appointment with Death (1938)
- Hercule Poirot’s Christmas (1938) also published as Murder for Christmas and as A Holiday for
- Murder
- The Regatta Mystery and Other Stories (1939, short story)
- Sad Cypress (1940)
- One, Two, Buckle My Shoe (1940) also published as An Overdose of Death and as The Patriotic
- Murders
- Evil Under the Sun (1941)
- Five Little Pigs (1942) also published as Murder in Retrospect
- The Hollow (1946) also published as Murder after Hours
- The Labours of Hercules (1947, short story)
- The Witness for the Prosecution and Other Stories (1948, short story)
- Taken at the Flood (1948) also published as There Is a Tide
- Three Blind Mice and Other Stories (1950, short story)
- The Under Dog and Other Stories (1951, short story)
- Mrs McGinty’s Dead (1952) also published as Blood Will Tell
- After the Funeral (1953) also published as Funerals are Fatal
- Hickory Dickory Dock (1955) also published as Hickory Dickory Death
- Dead Man’s Folly (1956)
- Cat Among the Pigeons (1959)
- The Adventure of the Christmas Pudding (1960, short story)
- Double Sin and Other Stories (1961, short story)
- The Clocks (1963)
- Third Girl (1966)
- Hallowe’en Party (1969)
- Elephants Can Remember (1972)
- Poirot’s Early Cases (1974, ss)
- Curtain (written about 1940, published 1975) also published as Curtain: Poirot’s Last Case
- Problem at Pollensa Bay and Other Stories (1991, short story)
- The Harlequin Tea Set (1997, short story)
- While the Light Lasts and Other Stories (1997, short story)
Agatha Christie’s Miss Marple Series
- The Murder at the Vicarage (1930)
- The Body in the Library (1942)
- The Moving Finger (1943)
- A Murder Is Announced (1950)
- They Do It with Mirrors (1952)
- A Pocket Full of Rye (1953)
- 4.50 from Paddington (1957)
- The Mirror Crack’d from Side to Side (1962)
- A Caribbean Mystery (1964)
- At Bertram’s Hotel (1965)
- Nemesis (1971)
- Sleeping Murder (1976)
Other Agatha Christie Novels
- Giant’s Bread (1930)
- The Floating Admiral (1931)
- The Sittaford Mystery (1931)
- Unfinished Portrait (1934)
- Why Didn’t They Ask Evans? (1934)
- And Then There Were None (1939)
- Absent in the Spring (1944)
- Death Comes as the End (1945)
- The Rose and the Yew Tree (1948)
- Crooked House (1949)
- They Came to Baghdad (1951)
- A Daughter’s a Daughter (1952)
- Destination Unknown (1954)
- The Burden (1956)
- Ordeal by Innocence (1958)
- The Pale Horse (1961)
- Endless Night (1967)
- Passenger to Frankfurt (1970)
Anthony Berkeley Novels
- The Poisoned Chocolates Case (1929)
- The Piccadilly Murder (1929)
Dashiell Hammett Novels
- Red Harvest (1929)
- The Dain Curse (1929)
- The Maltese Falcon (1930)
- The Glass Key (1931)
- The Thin Man (1934)
Raymond Chandler Novels
- The Big Sleep (1939)
- Farewell, My Lovely (1940)
- The Little Sister (1949)
- The Long Goodbye (1953)