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The Muniment Room


"It's hard to believe now that I ever thought a locked room could be a place of safety, what with the snakes, the daggers made of ice, the invisible ethers, or unseen electrical currents. A sealed room with four walls, a ceiling and a floor could be the place you meet your end..."
- Miles Jupp


LAST UPDATED: October 4, 2024
 
BOOK REVIEWS:

AAFJES, BERTUS
De vertrapte pioenroos (The Trampled Peony, 1973)
Een lampion voor een blinde (A Lantern for the Blind, 1973)

ABBOT, ANTHONY
The Murder of Geraldine Foster (1930)
About the Murder of the Night Club Lady (1931)
About the Murder of a Circus Queen (1932)
About the Murder of a Startled Lady (1935)

ABIKO, TAKEMARU
Shinsoban 8 no satsujin (The 8 Mansion Murders, 1989)

ABMA, K.
De hond was executeur (The Dog Was Executor, 1973)

ADAMS, HERBERT

 AFFORD, MAX
Blood On His Hands (1936)
The Dead Are Blind (1937)
AIRD, CATHERINE

AKERS, R.L.
 
ALEXANDER, DAVID

 ALLAN, LUKE
Beyond the Locked Door (1938)

ALLINGHAM, MARGERY
The Case of the Late Pig (1936)

ALNER, JAMES Z.
The Capital Murder (1932)

AMAGI, SEIMARU
Operazakan - aratanaru satsujin (The New Kindaichi Files, 1994)
Denno sanso satsujin jiken (Murder On-Line, 1996)
Shanhai gyojin densetsu satsujin jiken (The Shanghai River Demon's Curse, 1997)
Ikazuchi matsuri satsujin jiken (Deadly Thunder, 1998)

AMES, DELANO
Death of a Fellow Traveller (1950)

ANDERSON, FREDERICK I.
Book of Murder (1930)

 ANDRIACCO, DAN
The English Garden Mystery (2022)
 
ANGELIS, AUGUSTO DE
Il banchiere assassinato (The Murdered Banker, 1935)
L'albergo delle tre rose (The Hotel of the Three Roses, 1936)

APOSTOLOU, ANNA (see Paul Doherty)
A Murder in Thebes (1998)

ARCHER, ROBERT
Death on the Waterfront (1941)

ARDEN, WILLIAM
The Mystery of the Moaning Cave (1968)
The Mystery of the Laughing Shadow (1969)
The Secret of the Crooked Cat (1970)
The Mystery of the Shrinking House (1972)
The Secret of Phantom Lake (1973)
The Mystery of the Dead Man's Riddle (1974)
The Mystery of the Headless Horse (1977)
The Secret of Shark Reef (1979) 

ARISUGAWA, ALICE
Koto pazuru (The Moai Island Puzzle, 1989) 
 
ARMSTRONG, CHARLOTTE
The Case of the Weird Sisters (1943)
The Dream Walker (1955)  

ARMSTRONG, MARGARET
Murder in Stained Glass (1939)
 
ARTHUR, ROBERT
The Secret of Terror Castle (1964)
The Mystery of the Whispering Mummy (1965)
The Mystery of the Vanishing Treasure (1966) 
The Secret of Skeleton Island (1966) 
Mystery and More Mystery (1966)

ASHBROOK, HARRIETTE (see Susannah Shane)
The Murder of Cecily Thane (1930)
The Murder of Steven Kester (1931)
The Murder of Sigurd Sharon (1933)
A Most Immoral Murder (1935) 
Murder Makes Murder (1937)
Murder Comes Back (1940)
The Purple Onion Mystery (1941)

ASHBY, R.C. 
He Arrived at Dusk (1933)

ASHE, DOUGLAS
The Longstreet Legacy (1951)

ASHIBE, TAKU
Koromu no satsujin (Murder in the Red Chamber, 2004)

ASIMOV, ISAAC
The Caves of Steel (1953/54)
Lucky Starr and the Big Sun of Mercury (1956)
Murder at the ABA (1976)
Banquets of the Black Widowers (1984)

AYATSUJI, YUKITO
Jukkakukan no satsujin (The Decogan House Murders, 1987)
Suishakan no satsujin (The Mill House Murders, 1988)
  
AYUKAWA, TETSUYA
The Red Locked Room (2020)

BAANTJER, A.C.
DeKok en een dodelijke dreiging (DeKok and a Deadly Threat, 1988)
DeKok en het lijk op drift (DeKok and the Corpse Adrift, 1998)
DeKok en de onsterfelijke dood (DeKok and the Immortal Death, 1998)

BAGBY, GEORGE
The Real Gone Goose (1959)
 
BAILEY, H.C.
The Bishop's Crime (1940)

BALLINGER, BILL S.
The Body Beautiful (1949)
 
BARKER, ELSA
The Cobra Candlestick (1928) 

BARR, NEVADA
Firestorm (1996)

BECK, K.K.
Death in a Deck Chair (1984)
 
BEEDING, FRANCIS
Death Walks in Eastrepps (1931)

BELLAIRS, GEORGE
The Cursing Stones Murder (1954)

BENNETT, MARGOT
Away Went the Little Fish (1946)

BERKHOF, ASTER
Moord in Mandalay (Murder in Mandalay, 1961)
Een onmogelijke moord voor Markus (An Impossible Murder for Markus, 1969)
 
BERGMAN, P.J.
The Locked Room (proof-read of the first three stories)

BERKELEY, ANTHONY
The Footprints of Satan (1950)

BISHOP, STACEY
Death in the Dark (1930)

BJERKE, ANDRÉ
De dødes tjern (The Lake of the Dead, 1942)
 
BLACK, LIONEL
The Penny Murders (1979)

BLACK, THOMAS B.
The 3-13 Murders (1946)

BLACKHURST, J.L.
 
BLACKMON, ANITA
Murder à la Richelieu (1937)
There is No Return (1938)
 
BLAKE, NICHOLAS
The Dreadful Hollow (1953)

BLOCK, LAWRENCE
 
BLOW, LYNTON
The "Moth" Murder (1931)

BLYTON, ENID
The Mystery of the Burnt Cottage (1943)
The Mystery of the Disappearing Cat (1944)
The Mystery of the Invisible Thief (1950)
The Rilloby Fair Mystery (1950)
The Rat-a-Tat Mystery (1956)

BOCA, GASTON
Les invités de minuit (The Seventh Guest, 1935)

BOOKS, M.P.O.
De laatste kans (The Last Chance, 2011)
De dood van Callista de Vries (The Death of Callista de Vries, 2012)
Dodelijke hobby (Deadly Hobby, 2012)
Een afgesloten huis (A Sealed House, 2013)
Cruise control (Cruise Control, 2014)
In diepe rust (In Deep Peace, 2022)
De stille service (The Silent Service, 2024)
 
BOSCO, MARÍA ANGÉLICA
La muerte baja en al ascencor (Death Going Down, 1954)

BOSWORTH, ALLAN R.
Full Crash Dive (1942)

BOUCHER, ANTHONY
The Case of the Seven of Cavalry (1937)
The Case of the Crumpled Knave (1939)
The Case of the Solid Key (1941)

BOWEN, JOSEPH

 BOWEN, MICHAEL
Washington Deceased (1990)
Worst Case Scenario (1996)

BOYD, EUNICE MAYS
 
BRADY, NICHOLAS
The House of Strange Guests (1932)
The Fair Murder (1933)
Week-end Murder (1934)
Ebenezer Investigates (1934)

BRAHMS, CARYL & SIMONS, J.S.

BRANCH, PAMELA

BRAND, CHRISTIANNA
Death in High Heels (1941)
Green for Danger (1944)
Shadowed Sunlight (1945)
Suddenly at His Residence (1946)
Death of Jezebel (1948) 
What Dread Hand? (1968)

BREAN, HERBERT
Hardly a Man is Now Alive (1950)
The Clock Strikes Thirteen (1954)
The Traces of Merrilee (1966)

BRENNAN, ROBERT
The Toledo Dagger (1927)
 
BRENT, A.R.
Voorzichtig behandelen (Handle with Care, 1948)
 
BRISTOW, GWEN & MANNING, BRUCE
The Gutenberg Murders (1931)
Two and Two Make Twenty-Two (1932)
 
BROWN, ERIC
Murder at the Chase (2014)

BROWN, FREDRIC
The Dead Ringer (1948)
The Bloody Moonlight (1949)
Death Has Many Doors (1951)

 BROWNING, MICKI
Adrift (2017)
Beached (2018)
 
BRUCE, LEO
Vrijwel op slag (Almost Instantly, 1953)
 
BURTON, MILES (see John Rhode)
The Milk-Churn Murder (1935)
Death in the Tunnel (1936)
Death Leaves No Card (1940)

 BUSH, CHRISTOPHER
The Perfect Murder Case (1929)
Dead Man Twice (1930)
Dancing Death (1931)
Cut Throat (1932)
The Case of the Unfortunate Village (1932)
The Case of the April Fools (1933)
The Case of the 100% Alibis (1934)
The Case of the Dead Shepherd (1934)
The Case of the Chinese Gong (1935)
The Case of the Monday Murders (1936)
The Case of the Bonfire Body (1936)
The Case of the Missing Minutes (1936)
The Case of the Hanging Rope (1937)
The Case of the Tudor Queen (1938)
The Case of the Green Felt Hat (1939)
The Case of the Flying Donkey (1939)
The Case of the Climbing Rat (1940)
The Case of the Murdered Major (1941)
The Case of the Kidnapped Colonel (1942)
The Case of the Fighting Soldier (1942)
The Case of the Magic Mirror (1943)
The Case of the Platinum Blonde (1944)
The Case of the Corporal's Leave (1945)
The Case of the Missing Men (1946)
The Case of the Curious Client (1947)
The Case of the Haven Hotel (1948)
The Case of the Housekeeper's Hair (1948)
The Case of the Seven Bells (1949)
The Case of the Fourth Detective (1951)
The Case of the Counterfeit Colonel (1952)
The Case of the Burnt Bohemian (1953)
The Case of the Three Lost Letters (1954)
The Case of the Amateur Actor (1955)
The Case of the Flowery Corpse (1956)
The Case of the Russian Cross (1957)
The Case of the Treble Twist (1958)
The Case of the Extra Grave (1961)
The Case of the Dead Man Gone (1961)

BYRNSIDE, JAMES SCOTT
Goodnight Irene (2018)
The Opening Night Murders (2019)
The Strange Case of the Barrington Hills Vampire (2020)
The 5 False Suicides (2021)
Monkey See, Monkey Murder (2023)

CAMERON, DON
White for a Shroud (1947)

CAMERON, LOU 
Behind the Scarlet Door (1971) 

CAMP, WADSWORTH
House of Fear (1916)
The Abandoned Room (1917)

CAMPBELL, BRUCE
The Clue of the Phantom Car (1953)
The Mystery of the Vanishing Magician (1956)
The Mystery of the Invisible Enemy (1959)

CAMPBELL, HARRIETTE R.
The Moor Fires Mystery (1938)
Magic Makes Murder (1943)
 
CAMPBELL, R.T.
Unholy Dying (1945)
Death for Madame (1946)
Swing Low, Swing Death (1946)

CANNAN, JOANNA
Death at the Dog (1940)

CAREY, M.V.
The Mystery of the Invisible Dog (1975)
The Mystery of Death Trap Mine (1976)

CARGILL, DAVID
The Statue of Three Lies (2011)
Gauntlet of Fear (2012)

CARLSON, P.M.
Murder in the Dog Days (1991)

CARMACK, JESSE
The Tell-Tale Clock Mystery (1937)

CARR, JOHN DICKSON (see Carter Dickson)
The Three Coffins (1935)
The Crooked Hinge (1938)
The Problem of the Green Capsule (1939)
The Case of the Constant Suicides (1941)
The Emperor's Snuff-Box (1942)
Till Death Do Us Part (1944)
He Who Whispers (1946)
The Bride of Newgate (1950)
The Third Bullet and Other Stories of Detection (1954)
Captain Cut-Throat (1955)
Fire, Burn! (1957)
The Ghosts' High Noon (1969)
The Dead Sleep Lightly (1983)
13 to the Gallows (2008)
The Island of Coffins and Other Mysteries from the Casebook of B-13 (2021)  

CARR, JOSEPH BAKER
The Man With Bated Breath (1934)

CARVER, A.
The Author is Dead (2022)
The Christmas Miracle Crimes (2023)
 
CAUVIN, HENRY
L'Auguille qui tue (The Killing Needle, 1871)
 
CHAMBERS, DANA
Death Against Venus (1946)
 
CHAMPION, D.L.
The Complete Cases of Inspector Allhoff, vol. 1 (2014)

CHARLES, PAUL
The Ballad of Sean and Wilko (2000)

CHASE, KIP
Where There's a Will (1961)
Murder Most Ingenious (1962)

CHRISTIE, AGATHA
The Mysterious Affair at Styles (1916/20)
Murder at the Vicarage (1930)
Peril at End House (1932)
Murder on the Orient Express (1934)
Murder in Mesopotamia (1936)
Death in the Clouds (1935)
Death on the Nile (1937)
Hercule Poirot's Christmas (1938)
Evil Under the Sun (1941)
Curtain (c. 1940s/75)
Spider's Web (2000)

CLARK, DOUGLAS
Death After Evensong (1969)
Premedicated Murder (1975)
The Libertines (1978)
Golden Rain (1980)
The Longest Pleasure (1981)
Plain Sailing (1987)

CLASON, CLYDE B.
The Death Angel (1936)
Blind Drifts (1937)
The Purple Parrot (1937)

CLYNES, MICHAEL (see Paul Doherty) 
The White Rose Murders (1991)

COHEN, OCTAVUS ROY
Midnight (1922)

COLBY, ROBERT
In a Vanishing Room (1961)

COLLINS, MAX ALLAN
The Titanic Murders (1999)
The Hindenburg Murders (2000)
The Pearl Harbor Murders (2001) 
The Lusitania Murders (2002)

COLLINS, ROBERT J. 
Murder at the Tokyo American Club (1991)

COLT, MARTIN (see Bruce Campbell) 
Stranger at the Inlet (1946)

CONNINGTON, J.J.
Murder in the Maze (1927)
The Case with Nine Solutions (1928)
Jack-in-the-Box (1944)

CORES, LUCY
Painted for the Kill (1943)

CORNIER, VINCENT
The Duel of Shadows: The Extraordinary Cases of Barnabas Hildreth (2011)

CORSARI, WILLY
De onbekende medespeler (The Unknown Co-Player, 1931)
Voetstappen op de trap (Footsteps on the Stairs, 1937)

COURTIER, S.H.
The Glass Spear (1950)
Death in Dream-Time (1959)
 
COUSINS, E.G.
Death by Marriage (1959)
 
COWDROY, JOAN A.
Death Has No Tongue (1938)

COXE, GEORGE HARMON
The Camera Clue (1937)
Murder for Two (1943)

CRANE, FRANCES
The Golden Box (1942)
The Pink Umbrella (1943)
The Applegreen Cat (1943) 

CRISPIN, EDMUND
Fen Country: Twenty-Six Stories (1979)

CROFTS, FREEMAN WILLS
The Cask (1920)
The Sea Mystery (1928)
Mystery in the Channel (1931)
Sudden Death (1932)
The Hog's Back Mystery (1933)
The End of Andrew Harrison (1938) 

CUNNINGHAM, A.B. 
The Strange Death of Manny Square (1941)
Death Haunts the Dark Lane (1948)

 DAHL, MICHAEL
The Worm Tunnel (1999)
The Viking Claw (2001)
 
DALMAN, MAX
Poison Unknown (1939)

DALTON, MORAY
The Night of Fear (1931)
Death in the Cup (1932)
The Strange Case of Harriet Hall (1936)
The Case of Alan Copeland (1937)
The Art School Murders (1943)

DALY, ELIZABETH
Deadly Nightshade (1940)

DAVIS, DOROTHY SALISBURY
The Judas Cat (1949)

DAVIS, NORBERT
The Mouse in the Mountain (1943)
Oh, Murderer Mine (1943)

DeANDREA, WILLIAM
Killed in the Ratings (1978)
Killed in the Act (1981)
Killed with a Passion (1983)
Killed on the Rocks (1990)
The Manx Murders (1994)
Killed in Fringe Time (1995)
Murder – All Kinds (2003)

DETECTION CLUB, THE
Six Against the Yard (1936)
The Anatomy of Murder (1936)
The Scoop & Behind the Screen (1983)

DICKINSON, PETER
The Poison Oracle (1974)

DICKSON, CARTER (see John Dickson Carr)
The Department of Queer Complaints (1940)
And So to Murder (1940)
She Died a Lady (1943)
The Cavalier's Cup (1953)
Fear is the Same (1956)

DIEUDONNÉ, P.
Rechercheur De Klerck en het doodvonnis (Inspector De Klerck and the Death Sentence, 2019)
Rechercheur De Klerck en het duivelse spel (Inspector De Klerck and the Diabolical Game, 2020)
Rechercheur De Klerck en de ongrijpbare dood (Inspector De Klerck and the Elusive Death, 2020)
Rechercheur De Klerck en het lijk in transito (Inspector De Klerck and the Corpse in Transit, 2021)
Rechercheur De Klerck en moord in scène (Inspector De Klerck and Murder on the Scene, 2021)
Rechercheur De Klerck en het duistere web (Inspector De Klerck and the Dark Web, 2022)
Rechercheur De Klerck en een dodelijk pact (Inspector De Klerck and a Deadly Pact, 2022)
Rechercheur De Klerck en een fataal compromis (Inspector De Klerck and a Fatal Compromise, 2023)
Rechercheur De Klerck en de ongewenste dood (Inspector De Klerck and the Unwanted Death, 2023)
Rechercheur De Klerck en de sluier van de dood (Inspector De Klerck and the Veil of Death, 2024)

DILLARD, R.H.W.
The Book of Changes (1974)
 
DINE, S.S. VAN
The Scarab Murder Case (1930)
 
DISNEY, DOROTHY CAMERON
Death in the Back Seat (1936)
The Strawstack Murders (1939)
The Balcony (1940)

DIX, MAURICE B. 
Murder at Grassmere Abbey (1934)

DIX, TJALLING
Een kogel voor Oedipus (A Bullet for Oedipus, 1954)
Moord op het eindexamen (Murder During the Final Exams, 1957)

 DOCTER, COR
Droeve poedel in Delfshaven (Melancholic Poodle in Delfshaven, 1970)
Koude vrouw in Kralingen (Cold Woman in Kralingen, 1970)
Rein geheim op rijksweg 13 (Pure Secrecy on Highway 13, 1971)

DOHERTY, PAUL (see Paul Harding and Anna Apostolou)
The Song of a Dark Angel (1994)
The Assassin in the Greenwood (1993)
The Devil's Hunt (1996)
The Mask of Ra (1998) - co-reviewed with Patrick
The Demon Archer (1999)
The Horus Killings (1999)
The Anubis Slayings (2000) 
The Slayers of Seth (2001) 
Corpse Candle (2001)
The House of Death (2001)
The Godless Man (2002) 
The Plague Lord (2002)
The Gates of Hell (2003)
The Magician's Death (2004)
The Assassins of Isis (2004)
The Queen of the Night (2006) 
Hymn to Murder (2020) 

DONAVAN, JOHN
The Case of the Rusted Room (1937)

DOORN, ANNE VAN
De geliefde die in het veen verdween en andere mysteries (The Lover Who Disappeared in the Bog and Other Mysteries, 2017)
De bergen die geen vergetelheid kennen en andere mysteries (The Mountains That Do Not Forget and Other Mysteries, 2018)
De student die zou trouwen (The Student Who Was to Get Married, 2018)
De man die zijn geweten ontlastte (The Man Who Relieved His Conscience, 2019)
Meer mysteries voor Robbie Corbijn (More Mysteries for Robbie Corbijn, 2021)
Het Delfts blauw mysterie (The Delft Blue Mystery, 2023)

DOWD, VICTORIA
Murder Most Cold (2023)
 
DOWNING, TODD
The Cat Screams (1934) 
Vultures in the Sky (1935)
Murder on the Tropic (1935)
The Last Trumpet (1937) 

DRAX, PETER
High Seas Murder (1939)

DUDLEY, ERNEST
Dr. Morelle Investigates (2009)
 
DUNCAN, DAVID
The Shade of Time (1946)

DUNCAN, FRANCIS
Murder Has a Motive (1947)
Murder for Christmas (1949)
So Pretty a Problem (1950)
In at the Death (1952)
Behold a Fair Woman (1954)

DURLING, ULF
Gammal ost (Hard Cheese, 1971)

EAST, ROGER
Twenty-Five Sanitary Inspectors (1935)
 
ECKMAR, F.R.
Een linkerbeen gezocht (Wanted: A Left Leg, 1935)
 
EDWARDS, MARTIN
Gallows Court (2018)
Mortmain Hall (2020)
Blackstone Fell (2022)

EEMLANDT, W.H. VAN
Kogels bij het dessert (Dessert with Bullets, 1954)
Dood in schemer (Death in Half-Light, 1954)
 
EKSTRÖM, JAN
Ättestupan (Deadly Reunion, 1975) 

ELIOT, HENRY WARE
The Rumble Murders (1932)
 
ELLIOTT, BRUCE
You'll Die Laughing (1945)

ELLINGTON, RICHARD
Exit for a Dame (1951)
 
ENDRÉBE, MAURICE
Elvire a la tour monte (Elvire Climbs the Tower, 1956)
 
ENIGMA, K.O.
Bunraku Noir (2023)

ESTEVEN, JOHN
Voodoo (1930)
 
ETHAN, JOHN B.
The Black Gold Murders (1959)
 
EYSSELSTEIJN, BEN VAN
Romance in F-Dur (19??) 

FAIR, A.A. (see Erle Stanley Gardner)
The Count of Nine (1958)

FAIRLEIGH, RUNA
An Old-Fashioned Mystery (1983)

FARJEON, J. JEFFERSON
Holiday Express (1935) 
Mystery in White (1937)
Seven Dead (1939)
The Third Victim (1941)
 
FAUST, H.M.
Gospel of V (2023)

FEARN, JOHN RUSSELL
Black Maria, M.A. (1944)
The Murdered Schoolgirl (1945)
One Remained Seated (1946)
Within That Room! (1946)
Thy Arm Alone (1947)
The Crimson Rambler (1947)
Except for One Thing (1947)
Framed in Guilt (1947)
The Fourth Door (1948)
The Five Matchboxes (1948)
The Tattoo Murders (1949)
Account Settled (1949) 
Death in Silhouette (1950) 
Ghost Canyon (1950)
Flashpoint (1950)
What Happened to Hammond? (1951)
The Master Must Die (1953)  
The Lonely Astronomer (1954)
Vision Sinister (1954)
Lonely Road Murder (1954)
The Rattenbury Mystery (1955)
The Silvered Cage (1955)
Robbery Without Violence (1957)
The Empty Coffins (1984)
Meredith's Treasure (2005; with Philip Harbottle)
The Man Who Was Not (2005)
Pattern of Murder (2006)
The Haunted Gallery (2011)
One Way Out (2012; with Philip Harbottle) 

FERGUSON, JOHN
The Grouse Moor Murder (1934)
 
FERRARS, ELIZABETH
I, Said the Fly (1945)
Murder Among Friends (1946)

FIELDING, A.E.
The Cluny Problem (1929)
 
FISHER, RUDOLPH
The Conjure-Man Dies (1932)
 
FITZGERALD, NIGEL
Suffer a Witch (1958)
The Student Body (1958)
Affairs of Death (1967)
 
FLEMING, JOAN
Polly Put the Kettle On (1952)

FLYNN, BRIAN
The Billiard-Room Mystery (1927)
The Case of the Black Twenty-Two (1928)
The Mystery of the Peacock's Eye (1928)
The Murders Near Mapleton (1929)
The Five Red Fingers (1929)
Invisible Death (1929)
Murder en Route (1930)
The Orange Axe (1931)
The Triple Bite (1931)
The Padded Door (1932)
The Edge of Terror (1932)
The Spiked Lion (1933)
The League of Matthias (1934)
The Horn (1934)
The Sussex Cuckoo (1935)
The Fortescue Candle (1936)
Fear and Trembling (1936)
Tread Softly (1937)
Cold Evil (1938)
The Ebony Stag (1938)
Black Edged (1939)
The Case of the Faithful Heart (1939)
The Case of the Painted Ladies (1940)
Glittering Prizes (1942)
Reverse the Charges (1943)
The Sharp Quillet (1947)
Exit Sir John (1947)
The Swinging Death (1948) 

FORREST, RICHARD
A Child's Garden of Death (1975)
Death Through the Looking Glass (1978) 
The Death at Yew Corner (1981)
Death at King Arthur's Court (2005)

FORSYTE, CHARLES
Diplomatic Death (1961)
Diving Death (1962) 
Murder with Minarets (1968)

FORSYTHE, ROBIN
The Polo Ground Mystery (1932)
The Pleasure Cruise Mystery (1933)
The Ginger Cat Mystery (1935)
The Spirit Murder Mystery (1936)
Murder on Paradise Island (1937)

FOSTER, R. FRANCIS
Something Wrong at Chillery (1931)

FOWLER, CHRISTOPHER
The Memory of Blood (2011)
London's Glory (2015)

FRANCES, STEPHEN
The Illusionist (1970)
 
FREEMAN, R AUSTIN 
The Stoneware Monkey (1939)

 FROST, KELMAN
Death Registers at the Eagle Arms (1947)

GALLICO, PAUL
Too Many Ghosts (1961)
The Hand of Mary Constable (1964) 

GARDNER, CURTISS T.
Bones Don't Lie (1946)

GARDNER, ERLE STANLEY
The D.A. Draws a Circle (1939)
The Case of the Baited Hook  (1940)
The Case of the Empty Tin (1941)
The Case of the Gold-digger's Purse (1942)
The Case of the Drowning Duck (1942)
The Case of the Drowsy Mosquito (1943)
The Case of the Smoking Chimney (1943)
The Case of the Lonely Heiress (1948)

GELLIBRAND, EDWARD
The Windblow Mystery (1926)

GENSOUL, ALEXIS & GRENIER, CHARLES
La mort vient de nulle part (Death Out of Nowhere, 1945)

GILBERT, ANTHONY
The Tragedy at Freyne (1927)
The Clock in the Hatbox (1939)
Riddle of a Lady (1956)
She Shall Die (1961) 

GILBERT, MICHAEL
The Killing of Katie Steelstock (1980)

GILL, ELIZABETH
The Crime Coast (1931)
Crime de Luxe (1933) 

GILLMORE, RUFUS
 
GLASBY, JOHN
 
GODFREY, ELLEN
Murder Behind Locked Doors (1988)

GOLDBERG, LEE
Mr. Monk is Miserable (2008)

GOLLOMB, JOSEPH
 
GORE, WILLIAM
There's Death in the Churchyard (1934)

GORES, JOE
Dead Skip (1972)

 GOULD, RUPERT T. 
Oddities: A Book of Unexplained Facts (1929)

GREELEY, ANDREW M.
Happy Are Those Who Mourn (1995)

GREENWALD, KEN
The Lost Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (1989)

GREIG, IAN
The King's Club Murder (1930)
 
VAN GULIK, ROBERT
The Chinese Maze Murders (1956)
The Chinese Gold Murders (1959)
The Red Pavilion (1961)
Judge Dee at Work (1967)

HALLIDAY, BRETT
Murder and the Married Virgin (1944)
This is It, Michael Shayne (1950)
The Corpse That Never Was (1963)
 
HALTER, PAUL
La quatrième porte (The Fourth Door, 1987)
Le brouillard rouge (The Crimson Fog, 1988)
La mort vous invite (Death Invites You, 1988)
La chambre du fou (The Madman's Room, 1990)  
La tête du tigre (The Tiger's Head, 1991)
La septième hypothèse (The Seventh Hypothesis, 1991)
Le diable de Dartmoor (The Demon of Dartmoor, 1993)
L'image trouble (The Picture from the Past, 1995)
L'arbe aux doigts tordus (The Vampire Tree, 1996)
Le cercle invisible (The Invisible Circle, 1996)
Les sept merveilles du crime (The Seven Wonders of Crime, 1997)
Le cri de la siréne (The Siren's Call, 1998)
L'homme qui aimait les nuages (The Man Who Loved Clouds, 1999)
La toile de Pénélope (Penelope's Web, 2001)
La ruelle fantôme (The Phantom Passage, 2005)
Le masque du vampire (The Mask of the Vampire, 2014)
La montre en or (The Gold Watch, 2019)
Le casque d'Hadès (The Helm of Hades, 2019)
Le mystére de la Dame Blanche (The White Lady, 2020) 

HAMILTON, HENRIETTA
The Two Hundred Ghost (1956)
 
HAMILTON, LYN
The Moai Murders (2005)
 
HANSHEW, THOMAS W. & HANSHEW, MARY E.
The Riddle of the Frozen Flame (1920)

HARDING, ERIC
Pray for the Dawn (1946)
 
HARDING, PAUL (see Paul Doherty)
The Nightingale Gallery (1991)
The House of the Red Slayer (1992)
The Anger of God (1993)
Bloodstone (2011)
The Straw Men (2013)
The Herald of Hell (2015)
The Great Revolt (2016) 

HARE, CYRIL
Tenant for Death (1937)
When the Wind Blows (1949)

HARRINGTON, WILLIAM
The Grassy Knoll (1993)
 
HART, FRANCES NOYES
Hide in the Dark (1929)

HARVEY, MARION
The Mystery of the Hidden Room (1922)

HAY, MAVIS DORIEL
The Santa Klaus Murder (1936)

HAYNES, ANNIE
The Witness on the Roof (1925)
The House in Charlton Crescent (1926)
The Crow's Inn Tragedy (1927)
The Crime at Tattenham Corner (1929) 
Who Killed Charmian Karslake? (1929)
The Crystal Beads Murder (1930)

HEAD, MATTHEW
The Devil in the Bush (1945)
The Cabinda Affair (1949)
Murder at the Flea Club (1955) 

HEIJERMANS, HERMAN
De moord in de trein (The Murder on the Train, 1925)

HELLINGA Sr.
Moord in het vierkant (Murder in the Square, 1981) 

HERBERT, MICHEL & WYL, EUGÈNE
La maison interdite (The Forbidden House, 1932)
 
HEYER, GEORGETTE
Envious Casca (1941)

HIGASHIGAWA, TOKUYA
Misshitsu no kagi kashimasu (Lending the Key to the Locked Room, 2002)
 
HIGASHINO, KEIGO
Akui (Malice, 1996)
Yogisha X no kenshin (The Devotion of Suspect X, 2005)
Seijo no Kyusai (Salvation of a Saint, 2008)
Chinmoku no paredo (Silent Parade, 2018)

HILTON, JAMES
Was it Murder? (1931)

HIROSHI, MORI
Subete ga F ni naru (Everything Turns to F: The Perfect Insider, 1996)
Tsumetai misshitsu to hakase tachi (Doctors in the Isolated Room, 1996)
Seven Stories (2016)
 
HITCHENS, DOLORES
The Cat Saw Murder (1939)
 
HOBART, DONALD BAYNE
The Clue of the Leather Noose (1929)
The Cell Murder Mystery (1931)

HOCH, EDWARD D.
City of Brass and Other Simon Ark Stories (1971)
The Thefts of Nick Velvet (1978) 
The Ripper of Storyville and Other Ben Snow Tales (1997)
The Iron Angel and Other Tales of the Gypsy Sleuth (2003)
Nothing is Impossible: Further Problems of Dr. Sam Hawthorne (2014)
All But Impossible: The Impossible Files of Dr. Sam Hawthorne (2017)
Challenge the Impossible: The Final Problems of Dr. Sam Hawthorne (2018)
Hoch's Ladies (2020)
Funeral in the Fog (2020)

HOGAN, JAMES P.
Inherit the Stars (1977)

HOLDING, JAMES
The Zanzibar Shirt Mystery and Other Stories (2018)

HOLMAN, HUGH
Up This Crooked Way (1946)
 
HOUJOU, KIE
Jikuu ryokousha no sunadokei (The Time Traveler's Hourglass, 2019)

HUGGINS, ROY
77 Sunset Strip (1959)
 
HUGHES, BABETTE
Murder in the Zoo (1932)

HULL, RICHARD
The Murder of My Aunt (1934)
Murder Isn't Easy (1936)
The Ghost It Was (1936)

HUNT, PETER
Murders at Scandal House (1933)

HUNT, RICHARD
Deadlocked (1994) 

HUNSBURGEN, H. EDWARD
Death Signs (1987)

HUXLEY, ELSPETH
Murder at Government House (1937)
The Merry Hippo (1963)
 
HYLAND, STANLEY
Who Goes Hang? (1958)

HYMERS, JOHN
Utter Death (1952)
 
IAMS, JACK
Death Draws the Line (1949)

IMAMURA, MASAHIRO
Shijinso no satsujin (Death Among the Undead, 2017)
Magan no hako no satsujin (Death Within the Evil Eye, 2019)
 
INNES, MICHAEL
Ripples (2017)
Flatline (2018)

IRWIN, WALLACE
 
IVANS
De bosgeest (The Forest Spirit, 1926)

JACOBS, T.C.H.
Appointment with the Hangman (1935) 

 JACQUEMARD-SÉNÉCAL
Le crime de la maison Grün (The Body Vanishes, 1976)
 
JENKINS, CECIL
Message from Sirius (1961)

JERROLD, IANTHE
The Studio Crime (1929)
Dead Man's Quarry (1930)
Let Him Lie (1940)
There May Be Danger (1948) 

JOEKES, THEO
Klavertje moord (Four-Leaf Murder, 1987)

 JOHNSON, MAURICE C.
Damning Trifles (1932)
 
JOHNSON, ZOË
At the Sign of the Clove and Hoof (1937) 

KANTOR, MacKINLAY
It's About Crime (1960)

 KAYE, M.M.
Death in Kenya (1958)

KEATING, H.R.F. 
Zen There Was Murder (1960)
Inspector Ghote Plays a Joker (1969)
Filmi, Filmi Inspector Ghote (1976)
Inspector Ghote Draws a Line (1979)
Under a Monsoon Cloud (1986)

 KEITH, ERIC
Nine Man's Murder (2011)

KELLEY, PATRICK A.
Sleightly Lethal (1986)
Sleightly Invisible (1986)

KENDRICK, BAYNARD
Blood on Lake Louisa (1934)
The Whistling Hangman (1937)
The Last Express (1937)
Blind Man's Bluff (1943) 
Death Knell (1945)
Hot Red Money (1959)

KENRICK, TONY
A Tough One to Lose (1972)
 
KERR, PHILIP 
Prague Fatale (2011)
 
KERSH, GERALD
Karmesin: The World's Greatest Criminal--Or Most Outrageous Liar (2003)
 
KING, RUFUS
Murder by Latitude (1930)
The Case of the Constant God (1938)
A Variety of Weapons (1943)

KITAYAMA, TAKEKUNI
Rurijou satsujin jiken (The "Lapis Lazuli Castle" Murders, 2002)
 
KITCHIN, C.H.B.
Death of My Aunt (1929)
Crime at Christmas (1934)

KLEYMENS, B.J.
In de greep van de kreeft (In the Grip of the Lobster, 1965)
 
KNIGHT, CLIFFORD
The Affair of the Scarlet Crab (1937)

KNOX, RONALD
The Three Taps (1927)
 
KOCH, EDWARD I.
Murder at City Hall (1995; with Herb Resnicow)

 KUMMER,  FREDERIC ARNOLD
The Green God (1911)
 
KURACHI, JUN
Hoshifuri sansou no satsujin (Murders in the Mountain Lodges Beneath the Shooting Stars, 1996)
 
KYOGOKU, NATSUHIKO
Ubume no natsu (The Summer of the Ubume, 1994)

LAING, ALEXANDER
The Cadaver of Gideon Wyck (1934)

LANDON, HERMAN
The Back-Seat Murder (1931)

LANDRUM, GRAHAM
The Rotary Club Murder Mystery (1993)

LANE, GRET
The Guest with the Scythe (1943)

LANG, MARIA
Kung liljekonvalie av dungen (A Wreath for the Bride, 1957)
 
LANTEAUME, MARCEL
La 13e balle (The Thirteenth Bullet, 1948)
 
LATHEN, EMMA
Ashes to Ashes (1971)

LATIMER, JONATHAN
Murder in the Madhouse (1935)
Headed for a Hearse (1935)
The Dead Don't Care (1938)
 
LATIMER, RUPERT
Murder After Christmas (1944)

LEATHER, STEPHEN
The Eight Curious Cases of Inspector Zhang (2014)

LEE, GYPSY ROSE
Mother Finds a Body (1942) 

 LEJEUNE, ANTHONY
Mr. Diabolo (1960)
Key Without a Door (1988)
 
LEMARCHAND, ELIZABETH
Suddenly While Gardening (1978)

LENEHAN, J.C. 
The Mansfield Mystery (1932)

LEVERAGE, HENRY
Whispering Wires (1918)

LEVERAGE, INTL
The Con Job (2012; Matt Forbeck)
The Zoo Job (2013; Keith R.A. DeCandido)

LEVINREW, WILL
Death Points a Finger (1933)
 
LEWIS, LANGE
Meat for Murder (1942)

 LIMNELIUS, GEORGE
The Medbury Fort Murder (1929)

LIN, SZU-YEN
Death in the House of Rain (2006)

LINGO, ADA E.
Murder in Texas (1935)

LIPSKY, ELEAZAR
Murder One (1948) 

LITTLE, CONSTANCE & GWENYTH
The Black-Headed Pins (1938)

LIVINGSTON, ARMSTRONG
The Monk of Hambleton (1928)

LIVINGSTON, JACK
Die Again, Macready (1984)

LLOYD, HUGH
The Clue at Skeleton Rocks (1932)

LOCKE, G.E.
The Red Cavalier (1922)
The Scarlet Macaw (1923)

LOCKRIDGE, FRANCES & RICHARD
Death of a Tall Man (1946)
Dead As a Dinosaur (1952)
Voyage into Violence (1956)

LODER, VERNON (see John Haslette Vahey)
The Mystery at Stowe (1928)
 
LOMBARD, NAT
Murder's a Swine (1943)
 
LORAC, E.C.R.
Death of an Author (1935)
These Names Make Clues (1937)
Bats in the Belfry (1937)
Rope's End, Rogue's End (1942)
Death Came Softly (1943)
Checkmate to Murder (1944)
Fire in the Thatch (1946)

LORE, PHILLIPS
Murder Behind Closed Doors (1980)
 
LOVESEY, PETER
Wobble to Death (1970)
A Case of Spirits (1975)

LUPOFF, RICHARD A.
The Comic Book Killer (1989) 

MAARTENS, MAARTEN
The Black-Box Murder (1898; guest review by M.P.O. Books)

MARKHAM, VIRGIL
Death in the Dusk (1928)
The Devil Drives (1932) 
 
MARSHALL, D.L.
Anthrax Island (2021)
Black Run (2021)
77 North (2023)

MASAYA, YAMAGUCHI
Ikeru shikabane no shi (Death of the Living Dead, 1989)
 
MASON, A.E.W. 
At the Villa Rose (1910)

MASON, VAN WYCK
Seeds of Murder (1930)
The Fort Terror Murders (1931)
The Sulu Sea Murders (1933)

MASTERMAN, J.C.
The Case of the Four Friends (1957)
 
MASTERMAN, WALTER S.
The Wrong Letter (1926)

MATHEWS, NIEVES
She Died Without Light (1956)

MATSUMOTO, SEICHI
De Amsterdamse koffermoord (The Amsterdam Suitcase Murder, 1979)

MAVITY, NANCY BARR
The Other Bullet (1930)
The Case of the Missing Sandals (1930)

MAY, ANDREW
The Case of the Invisible College and Other Mysteries (2012)

MACCLURE, VICTOR
Death Behind the Door (1933)

MACDONALD, PHILIP 
The Maze (1932)

MACLEOD, ADAM GORDON
The Marloe Mansions Murder (1928)
 
McBAIN, ED
Death of a Nurse (1955)
Killer's Wedge (1959)
Give the Boys a Great Big Hand (1960)
Tricks (1987)

McCLOY, HELEN
The Man in the Moonlight (1940)
Cue for Murder (1942)
Alias Basil Willing (1951)
The Further Side of Fear (1967)
Mr. Splitfoot (1968)
The Pleasant Assassin and Other Cases of Dr. Basil Willing (2003) 

McCRUMB, SHARYN 
Bimbos of the Death Sun (1987)
Missing Susan (1991)
Zombies of the Gene Pool (1992)

McDEVITT, JACK
A Talent for War (1989)
Polaris (2004)
Seeker (2005)
Echo (2010)
Firebird (2011)
 
McDOUGALD, ROMAN
The Whistling Legs (1945)
The Blushing Monkey (1953)

 McGERR, PAT
Pick Your Victim (1946)
The Seven Deadly Sisters (1948)
Follow As the Night (1951)

McGIBNEY, DONALD
32 Caliber (1920)

 MEAD, TOM
 
MECHEM, KIRKE
The Strawstack Murder Case (1936)

MELVILLE, ALAN
Quick Curtain (1934)
Death of Anton (1936)

MEREDITH, ANNE (see Anthony Gilbert)
Portrait of a Murderer (1933)

MÉROY, MARTIN
Du plomb pour la famille (Lead for the Family, 1959)
Meurtre sans filet (Murder Withou a Net, 1962)
Meartre en chambre noir (Murder in a Darkened Room, 1965)

MERTZ, STEPHEN
Some Die Hard (1979)

MEYERS, ALFRED
Murder Ends the Song (1941)

MINAGAWA, HIROKO
Hirakasete itadaki kōei desu (The Resurrection Fireplace, 2011)
 
MITCHELL, GLADYS
The Longer Bodies (1930)
The Devil at Saxon Wall (1935)
Dead Men's Morris (1936)
St. Peter's Finger (1938)
Laurels Are Poison (1942)
Groaning Spinney (1950)
The Echoing Strangers (1952)
Merlin's Furlong (1953)
Late, Late in the Evening (1976)

MONS, MARTIN
Het huis met de poppen (The House with the Dolls, 1955)
 
MORICE, ANNE
 
MORRAH, DERMOT
 
MUIR, D. ERSKINE
Five to Five (1934)
 
MULLER, MARCIA
Edwin of the Iron Shoes (1977)
The Tree of Death (1983)
The Paradise Affair (2021)

MULTON, EDWARD
De onzichtbare doder (The Invisible Slayer, 1963)
 
MURPHY, WARREN B.
Leonardo's Law (1978)

 MURRAY, MAX
The Voice of the Corpse (1948)
The Sunshine Corpse (1954)

MYERS, ISABEL BRIGGS
 
NAKAYAMA, SHICHIRI
Tsuioku no nocturn (Nocturne of Remembrance, 2013)

NATSUKI, SHIZUKO
W no higeki (Murder at Mt. Fuji, 1982)

NEUMAN, FREDRIC
Come One, Come All (2011)

NICHOLS, BEVERLEY
The Moonflower (1955)

 NISHIMARU, KYOTARO
Misuteri ressha ga kieta (The Mystery Train Disappears, 1982)

NISIOISIN
Zaregoto series: kubikiri saikuru (Zaregoto: The Kubikiri Cycle, 2002)
Zaregoto series: kubishime romanchisuto (Zaregoto: The Kubishime Romanticist, 2002)
 
NOY, JIM

OFFORD, LENORE GLEN
Skeleton Key (1943)
My True Love Lies (1947)

OLIVER, ANTHONY
 
ORENDUFF, MICHAEL J.
The Pot Thief Who Studied D.H. Lawrence (2012)

ORMEROD, ROGER
Face Value (1983)
And Hope to Die (1995)

ORR, CLIFFORD
The Dartmouth Murders (1929)
The Wailing Rock Murders (1932)

OSAKA, KEIKICHI
The Ginza Ghost (2017)

OSTRANDER, ISABEL
 
OVERVOORDE, F. VAN
Moorden in Maastricht (Murders in Maastricht, 1937)

OYEN, BOB VAN
Na afloop moord (Afterwards, Murder, 1953)
 
Under Lock & Skeleton Key (2022)

PECK, WINIFRED
The Warrielaw Jewel (1933)
Arrest the Bishop? (1949)

PELL, FRANKLYN
Hangman's Hill (1946)

 PENNY, LOUISE
Dead Cold (2007)

 PENNY, RUPERT
Policeman in Armour (1937)
She Had to Have Gas (1939)

PERRY, TYLINE
The Owner Lies Dead (1930)

PLEASANTS, W. SHEPARD
The Stingaree Murders (1932) 

 POPKIN, ZELDA
Murder in the Mist (1940)
Dead Man's Gift (1941)

PORGES, ARTHUR
The Curious Cases of Cyriack Skinner Grey (2009)
No Killer Has Wings: The Casebook of Dr. Joel Hoffman (2017)
These Daisies Told: The Casebook of Ulysses Price Middlebie (2018)

PORLOCK, MARTIN
Mystery at Friar's Pardon (1931)
 
POSTGATE, RAYMOND
Verdict of Twelve (1940)

POWELL, JAMES
A Pocketful of Noses: Stories of One Ganelon or Another (2009)

PRONZINI, BILL
Twospot (1978; with Collin Wilcox)
Hoodwink (1981)
Scattershot (1982)
Dragonfire (1982)
Casefile (1983)
Quicksilver (1984)
Double (1984; with Marcia Muller)
Bones (1985)
Shackles (1988)
Breakdown (1991)
Carpenter and Quincannon (1998) - an addendum
Nightcrawlers (2005)
Savages (2006) - co-reviewed with Patrick 
Schemers (2009)

PULVER, MARY MONICA
Original Sin (1991)

PUNSHON, E.R.
Crossword Mystery (1934) 
Death of a Beauty Queen (1935)
Death Comes to Cambers (1935)
The Bath Mysteries (1936)
Comes a Stranger (1938)
Murder Abroad (1939)
Suspects--Nine (1939)
Four Strange Women (1940) 
Ten Star Clues (1941)
The Dark Garden (1941)
Diabolic Candelabra (1942)
The Conqueror Inn (1943)
There's a Reason for Everything (1945)
It Might Lead Anywhere (1946)
Music Tells All (1948) 
Everybody Always Tells (1950)
The Golden Dagger (1951)
Brought to Light (1954)
Six Were Present (1956) 

PURTILL, RICHARD
Murdercon (1982)

QUAK, EUGENIUS
Gruwelijk is het huwelijk (Marriage is Gruesome, 2017)
Hoteldebotel in een hotel (Pell-Mell in a Hotel, 2021)

QUEEN, ELLERY
The Glass Village (1954)
Inspector Queen's Own Case (1956)
The Finishing Stroke (1958)
The Case of His Headless Highness (1973) 
Tragedy of Errors (1999)
The Adventures of the Puzzle Club (2022)

QUEEN Jr., ELLERY
The Blue Herring Mystery (1954)
The Mystery of the Merry Magician (1961)

QUENTIN, PATRICK
Murder at Cambridge (1933)
Puzzle for Players (1938)
Puzzle for Puppets (1944)
Death and the Maiden (1939)
Black Widow (1952)
Suspicious Circumstances (1957)

QUINCE, JAMES
 
ROBINSON, LEWIS GEORGE
 
Kaijin nijuu mensou (The Fiend with Twenty Faces, 1936)

RAWSON, CLAYTON

REED, DAVID V. 
Murder in Space (1944)

REES, ARTHUR J.
The Shrieking Pit (1919)
The Moon Rock (1922) 

REILLY, HELEN
The Gold Solution (1983)
The Gold Deadline (1984)
The Gold Frame (1986) 
The Gold Curse (1986)
The Dead Room (1987)
The Gold Gamble (1989)
The Hot Place (1990)

REUBEN, SHELLEY
Spent Matches (1996)
 
REYNOLDS, MACK
The Case of the Little Green Men (1951)
 
RHODE, JOHN (see Miles Burton)
The Murders in Praed Street (1928)
Death on the Board (1937)
Invisible Weapons (1938)
The Bloody Tower (1938)
The Fourth Bomb (1942)
Vegetable Duck (1944)
Death in Harley Street (1946)

RICE, CRAIG
The Corpse Steps Out (1940)
The Wrong Murder (1940)
The Right Murder (1941)
The Big Midget Murders (1942)
The Name is Malone (1958)

RICHARDS, KEL
The Floating Body (2015)
The Sinister Student (2016) 

RINEHART, MARY ROBERTS
The After House (1914)

 RIPLEY, H.A.
How Good a Detective Are You? (1934)

RITTENBERG, MAX
The Invisible Bullet and Other Strange Cases of Magnum, Scientific Consultant (2016)

RIVERTON, STEIN
Gjennem de tre værelser (Through Three Rooms, 1907)
Jernvognen (The Iron Chariot, 1909)

ROBERTSON, COLIN
Demons' Moon (1951)

ROBINS, RAYMOND
Murder at Bayside (1933)

ROCKLYNNE, ROSS & COX, ARTHUR JEAN
The Asteroid Murder Case (1970/2011)
 
ROE, C.F.
Death by Fire (1990)
 
ROLLS, ANTHONY 
Family Matters (1933)

RONALD, JAMES
Six Were to Die (1932)
Murder in the Family (1936)
They Can't Hang Me (1938)
Stories of Crime & Detection, vol. 1: The Dr. Britling Stories (2023)
 
ROOS, KELLEY
The Frightened Stiff (1942)
Ghost of a Chance (1947)
The Blonde Died Dancing (1956)
Scent of Mystery (1959)
One False Move (1966)

ROOSEVELT, ELLIOTT
 
ROOTHAERT, A.
Onrust op Raubrakken (Unrest at Raubrakken, 1935)

ROSCOE, THEODORE

ROSENKRANTZ, PALLE
Hvad skovsøen gemte (The Forest Lake Mystery, 1903)

ROWE, ANNE
Too Much Poison (1944)

ROWE, JENNIFER
 
ROWLAND, JOHN
Calamity in Kent (1950)

RULER, DICK A. VAN
Moord op een negatief (Murder of a Negative, 1963)
 
RUTLAND, HARRIET
Knock, Murderer, Knock (1938)
Bleeding Hooks (1940) 
Blue Murder (1942)

SANDERS, BRUCE
 
SANDERS, DAPHE (see Craig Rice)
SANDERS, GEORGE
Crime on My Hands (1944; ghosted by Craig Rice and Cleve Cartmill)

SANGER, JOAN
The Case of the Missing Corpse (1936)

SARSFIELD, MAUREEN
Murder at Beechlands (1948)

SATTERTHWAIT, WALTER
Escapade (1995)

SAUNDERS, HILARY ST. GEORGE

SAVAGE, J.S.
The Mystery of Treefall Manor (2023)
Sun, Sea and Murder (2024)
 
SCARLETT, ROGER
The Beacon Hill Murders (1930)
The Back Bay Murders (1930)
Cat's Paw (1931)
Murder Among the Angells (1932)
In the First Degree (1933)

SCHIER, NORMA
The Anagram Detectives (1979)

SEELEY, MABEL
The Listening House (1938)
 
SHAFFER, PETER
The Woman in the Wardrobe (1951)
 
SHANE, SUSANNAH (see H. Ashbrook)
Lady in Lilac (1941)

SHARP, WILLOUGHBY
Murder of the Honest Broker (1934)

SHELDON, LEE
Impossible Bliss (2001)

SHIMADA, SOJI
Senseijutsu satsujinjiken (The Tokyo Zodiac Murders, 1981)
Naname yashiki no hanzai (Murder in the Crooked House, 1982)

SHUNSHIN, CHIN
Pekin yuyukan (Murder in a Pekin Studio, 1976)
 
SICKENS, TED O.
De man die 'n paar maal vermoord was (The Man Who Had Been Murdered a Few Times, 1942)

SIMENON, GEORGES
Mon ami Maigret (My Friend Maigret, 1949)

SIMON, ROBERT A.
The Week-End Mystery (1926)
 
SIMONS, ADDISON
Dead Weight (1946) 
 
SINIAC, PIERRE
UnAssassin, ça va, ça vient  (Death on Bastille Day, 1981)

SKVORECKY, JOSEF
Smutek porucika Boruvky (The Mournful Demeanour of Lieutenant Boruvka, 1966)
Hrichy pro patera Knoxe (Sins for Father Knox, 1973)

 SLADE, MICHAEL
Ripper (1994)
Crucified (2008)

SLADEK, JOHN
Black Aura (1974)
Invisible Green (1977)
Maps: The Uncollected John Sladek (2002)

SMITH, DEREK
Model for Murder (1952)
Whistle Up the Devil (1954)
Come to Paddington Fair (1997)
 
SMITH, SHELLEY
This is the House (1945)

SPRIGG, CHRISTOPHER ST. JOHN
Crime in Kensington (1933)
Fatality in Fleet Street (1933)
The Perfect Alibi (1934)
Death of a Queen (1935)
Death of an Airman (1935)
The Corpse with the Sunburned Face (1935)
The Six Queer Things (1937) 

STAGGE, JONATHAN
The Scarlet Circle (1943)
 
STASHOWER, DANIEL
The Floating Lady Murder (2000)
 
STEENMEIJER, FRANS & TINEKE
Moord in het provinciehuis (Murder at Provincial House, 1999)

STEEMAN, S.A.
Six hommes morts (Six Dead Men, 1930/31)
La nuit du 12 au 13 (The Night of the 12th-13th, 1931)
 
STEEVES, HARRISON. R.
Good Night, Sheriff (1941)

STONE, HAMPTON
The Girl with the Hole in Her Head (1949)
The Corpse Who Had Too Many Friends (1953)

STOUT, REX
Where There's a Will (1940)
Not Quite Dead Enough (1944)
And Four to Go (1958)
Plot It Yourself (1959)
Gambit (1962)

STRAHAN, KAY CLEAVER
Footprints (1929)
Death Traps (1930)

STURROCK, JEREMY
A Wicked Way to Die (1973)

SYKES, STANLEY S.
The Missing Moneylender (1931)

TAKAGI, AKIMITSU
Shisei satsujin jiken (The Tattoo Murder Case, 1948)
Nomen satsujin jiken (The Noh Mask Murder, 1949)

TAKAHASHI, KATSUHIKO
Sharaka satsujin jiken (The Case of the Sharaka Murders, 1983)

TALBOT, HAKE
The Hangman's Handyman (1942)
Rim of the Pit (1944)
 
TAYLOR, PHOEBE ATWOOD
Octagon House (1937)

TAYLOR, WALKER

TEILHET, DARWIN L.
L'enigme du Monte Verita (The Riddle of Monte Verita, 2007)

 TUCKER, WILSON
 
TURNER, J.V. (see Nicholas Brady)
Death Must Have Laughed (1932)

TRAINOR, ROBERT
 
TREVOR, RALPH
The Ace of Clubs Murder (1939)
 
TRIMBLE, LOUIS
VAHEY, JOHN HASLETTE (see Vernon Loder)
Death by the Gaff (1932)

VAILATI, FRANCO
Ill mistero dell'idrovolante (The Flying Boat Mystery, 1935)

VANCE, JOHN HOLBROOK
The Fox Valley Murders (1966)
The Pleasant Grove Murders (1967)
The Genesee Slough Murders (1994; written in 1966)

VANDERCOOK, JOHN
Murder in Fiji (1936)

VANNO
De moord op het sloependek (The Murder on the Boat Deck, 1941)
 
VERNER, GERALD
Terror Tower (1935)
The Clue of the Green Candle (1939)
They Walk in Darkness (1947)
The Royal Flush Murders (1948)
Noose for a Lady (1952)
Sorcerer's House (1956)
The Last Warning (1962)

VERVOORT, TON
Moord onder studenten (Murder Among Students, 1962)
Moord onder astrologen (Murder Among Astrologists, 1963)
Moord onder toneelspelers (Murder Among Actors, 1963)
Moord onder de mantel der liefde (Murder Under the Mantle of Love, 1964)
Moord onder maagden (Murder Among Virgins, 1965)
Moord op toernee (Murder on Tour, 1965)

VÉRY, PIERRE
L'Assassinat du Père Noël (The Murder of Father Christmas, 1934)
Les veillées de la Tour Pointue (The Secret of the Pointed Tower, 1937)

VINDRY, NOEL
La maison que tui (The House That Kills, 1932)
La bête hurlante (The Howling Beast, 1934)
Le double alibi (The Double Alibi, 1934)
A travers les murailles (Through the Walls, 1936) 

VIVIAN, FRANCIS
Sable Messenger (1947)
The Threefold Cord (1947)
The Laughing Dog (1949)
The Singing Masons (1950)
The Elusive Bowman (1951)
The Sleeping Island (1951)

WADE, HENRY
No Friendly Drop (1931)
The Hanging Captain (1932)
Constable, Guard Thyself (1934)

WAAL, SIMON DE & A.C. BAANTJER
Een schot in de roos (Hitting the Bulls-Eye, 2011)
Een rat in de val (Caught Like a Rat in a Trap, 2011; co-reviewed with Bulls-Eye)
Een mes in de rug (A Knife in the Back, 2012)
Een licht in de duisternis (A Light in the Darkness, 2012)
Een wolf in schaapskleren (A Wolf in Sheep's Clothing, 2013) 
Een tip van de sluier (A Tip of the Veil, 2013) 
Een tien met een griffel (Number One With a Bullet, 2014; co-reviewed with Veil) 
Een kuil voor een ander (A Hole for Someone Else, 2014) 
Een schim in de nacht (A Shadow in the Night, 2015)

WALLACE, MICHAEL
Wash Her Guilt Away (2014)
 
WALLING, R.A.J.
The Corpse with the Grimy Glove (1938)
 
WALLIS, RUTH SAWTELL
Too Many Bones (1943)
Blood from a Stone (1945)

WALSH, JILL PATON
The Wyndham Case (1993)
 
WALTARI, MIKA
Kuka murhasi rouva Skrofin? (Who Murdered Mrs. Kroll?, 1939)
 
WAYE, CECIL
Murder at Monk's Barn (1931)
 
WEBB, ANTHONY
Murder in Reverse (1945)

WELLMAN, MANLY
Devil's Planet (1942)
Find My Killer (1947)
The Sleuth Patrol (1947)

WENTWORTH, PATRICIA
Weekend with Death (1941)
Silence in Court (1945)
The Benevent Treasure (1956) 

WESTLAKE, DONALD E.
Murder Among Children (1967)

WHITE, FRED M.
The Cardinal Moth (1905)

WHITE, T.H.
Darkness at Pemberley (1932)

WILDE, NICHOLAS
Death Knell (1990)

WILHELM, KATE
Smart House (1989)

WILLIAMS, ALEXANDER
The Hex Murder (1935)

WINSLOW, HORATIO & QUIRK, LESLIE
Into Thin Air (1928/29)
 
WITTING, CLIFFORD
Murder in Blue (1937)
Midsummer Murder (1937)
Catt Out of the Bag (1939)
Subject--Murder (1945)
Let X Be the Murderer (1947)
 
WOOD, ERIC
Death of An Oddfellow (1938)

WRIGHT, JUNE
Duck Season Death (c. 1955)

WRIGHT, MASON
The Army Post Murders (1931)

WYCKOFF, CAPWELL
The Mercer Boys in the Ghost Patrol (1929)

WYLIE, PHILIP
Five Fatal Words (1932; with Edwin Balmer) 
Corpses at Indian Stones (1943)

WYNNE, ANTHONY
The Red Scar (1928)
The Silver Scale Mystery (1931)
Emergency Exit (1941)

YAFFE, JAMES
 
YAMADA, FUTARO
Meiji dantodai (The Meiji Guillotine Murders, 1979) 
 
YOKOMIZO, SEISHI
Honjin satsujin jiken (The Honjin Murders, 1946)
Gokumontou (Death on Gokumon Island, 1947/48)
Yatsuhakamura (The Village of Eight Graves, 1949/50)
Inugamike no ichizoku (The Inugami Clan, 1951)
Akuma ga kitarite fue o fuku (The Devil's Flute Murders, 1951/53)
Akuma no temari uta (The Little Sparrow Murders, 1957/59) 

ANTHOLOGIES:

ANDREWS, DALE C. & PACHTER, JOSH
The Misadventures of Ellery Queen (2018)
 
COMICS/MANGA:

AMAGI, SEIMURA
The File of Young Kindaichi Returns: The Legendary Vampire Murders
The File of Young Kindaichi Returns: The Murder in the Phantom School Building
The File of Young Kindaichi Returns: The Antlion Murder Case
The File of Young Kindaichi Returns: The Bloodthirsty Cherry Blossom Murder Case
The File of Young Kindaichi Returns: Doll Island Murder Case
The File of Young Kindaichi Returns: The Seiren Island Murder Case

AOYAMA, GOSHO
Case Closed (a.k.a. Detective Conan), vol. 38
Case Closed (a.k.a. Detective Conan), vol. 39
Case Closed (a.k.a. Detective Conan), vol. 40
Case Closed (a.k.a. Detective Conan), vol. 41 
Case Closed (a.k.a. Detective Conan), vol. 42
Case Closed (a.k.a. Detective Conan), vol. 44
Case Closed (a.k.a. Detective Conan), vol. 45
Case Closed (a.k.a. Detective Conan), vol. 46
Case Closed (a.k.a. Detective Conan), vol. 47
Case Closed (a.k.a. Detective Conan), vol. 48
Case Closed (a.k.a. Detective Conan), vol. 49
Case Closed (a.k.a. Detective Conan), vol. 50
Case Closed (a.k.a. Detective Conan), vol. 51
Case Closed (a.k.a. Detective Conan), vol. 52
Case Closed (a.k.a. Detective Conan), vol. 53
Case Closed (a.k.a. Detective Conan), vol. 54
Case Closed (a.k.a. Detective Conan), vol. 55
Case Closed (a.k.a. Detective Conan), vol. 56
Case Closed (a.k.a. Detective Conan), vol. 57
Case Closed (a.k.a. Detective Conan), vol. 58
Case Closed (a.k.a. Detective Conan), vol. 59
Case Closed (a.k.a. Detective Conan), vol. 60
Case Closed (a.k.a. Detective Conan), vol. 61
Case Closed (a.k.a. Detective Conan), vol. 62
Case Closed (a.k.a. Detective Conan), vol. 63
Case Closed (a.k.a. Detective Conan), vol. 64
Case Closed (a.k.a. Detective Conan), vol. 65 
 

KATOU, MOTOHIRO
 
Q.E.D. XMAS/NEW YEAR SPECIAL: "Christmas Eve Eve"  (vol. 24) & "The Drama Murder Case" (One Shot Special)
 
SHIGA, JASON
Bookhunter (2007)

TANIGAWA, NAGARU
Amnesia Labyrinth, vol. 1

GUEST POSTS:

Booked for Murder (guest review by M.P.O. Books)
The Detective Fiction of John Russell Fearn (guest post by Philip Harbottle) 
Polish Plots (guest post by Patrick Ohl of At the Scene of the Crime)
What Mysteries Lie Under the Rising Sun? (guest blog by Ho-Ling Wong)
 
MOVIE/TELEVISION: 

Blacke's Magic: Vigil of the Shepherds (a review of Ten Tons of Trouble)
Blacke's Magic: Fade Away Lane (a review of Address Unknown)
Blacke's Magic: Revenge of the Esperanza 
Bloody Murder (a review of the movie, Theatre of Blood)
Clue Club: The Real Gone Gondola
Colonel March of Scotland Yard: Miraculous Shades of Black and White (reviewing several episodes) 
Columbo: Miracles for Sale (a review of Columbo Goes to the Guillotine)
Columbo: Final Questions (a review of Columbo Likes the Nightlife)
The Con is On! (a short overview of the TV series, Hustle)
Detective Academy Q: The Kamikakushi Village Murder Case (a co-review with "JJ" on The Invisible Event)
Detective Conan: The Black Wings of Icarus 
Detective Conan: The Case of the Séance Double Locked Room
Detective Conan: The Cursed Mask Laughs Coldy
Detective Conan: The Villa Dracula Murder Case
The Kindaichi Case Files: The Ghost Fire Island Murder Case  
The Files of Young Kindaichi Return: The Hong Kong Kowloon Treasure Murder Case (a review)
The File of Young Kindaichi Return: Heavy Metal (a review of The Alchemy Murder Case)
The File of Young Kindaichi Return: Hell's Gate (a review of The Prison Prep School Murder Case)
The File of Young Kindaichi Return: Killer Kindaichi (a review of The Death March of Young Kindaichi)
The File of Young Kindaichi Return: End Game (a review of The Blood Pool Hall Murder)
The File of Young Kindaichi Return: Unseen Thorns (a review of The Rosenkreuz Mansion Murders)
The File of Young Kindaichi Return: Snowy Death (a review of The Legendary Snow Demon Murders)
The File of Young Kindaichi Return: Deadly Reunion (a review of The Foxfire-Floating Murders) 
For Whom the Bell Tolls: Murder on the Campus (review of a 1933 locked room movie)
Jonathan Creek: The Man Who Leaped Through Time (review of Time Waits for Norman)
Jonathan Creek: The Clue of the Savant's Thumb
Jonathan Creek: The Letters of Septimus Noone
Jonathan Creek: The Sinner and the Sandman
Jonathan Creek: The Curse of the Bronze Lamp
Jonathan Creek: Daemons' Roost  
Jonathan Creek: Lifting a Tip of the Veil (fifth season update and best-of list) 
Leverage: First Impressions (a short overview/review of the first episodes of Leverage) 
Leverage: Let's Go Steal a Show! (an overview of the third season)
Leverage: Five Little Grifters (an overview of the fourth season)
Leverage: The Long Con Before Saying Goodbye (an overview of the fifth season) 
A Night at the Monastery (a review of Judge Dee and the Monastery Murders)
Secret of the Blue Room (a review of a locked-room movie from 1933)
MISCELLANEOUS: 

Bits and Pieces (non-important blog updates)  
A Character Assessment of Characterization (like the title says...) 
Clipped Wings (adressing the current state of the genre)
Curiosity is Killing the Cat: Detective Novels That Need to Be Reprinted
Detective Conan: Who's the Boss? (a fan theory)
Detective Stories - Both Foreign and Domestic (a failed idea)
"Dreams are illustrations... from the book your soul is writing about you" 
Dutch Detectives: An Observation 
From the Crime-Does-Pay Files (Best blog of 2012)
Fatal Flaws: A Short Overview of Ruined Detective Stories (as the title says)
Geniuses at Work (snapshot of the Mystery Writers of America)
Hooray for Homicide: One Year Anniversary (Detection by Moonlight is one year old)
Prelude to Revival: The Locked Room Mystery & Impossible Crime Novel in the 1980s (a historic overview)
The Locked Room Mystery & Impossible Crime Story in the 21st Century (A historic overview)
The Man from Taured (an urban legend with a locked room element)
The Melody of Logic Must Be Played Truthfully (a short overview of the manga Spiral)
The Naughty List: A Selection of Lesser-Known Holiday Mysteries (like the title says)
Oh, Sweet Child O' Mine (review of a curiosity) 
The One-Man Book-Club (short reviews) 
The Problem of the Ivory Tower (a rant)
A Query for Mystery Buffs: Come Into Our Parlor (a fun inquary)
The Renaissance Era of Detective Fiction (status update on traditional mysteries)
The Renaissance Era: Returns from the Bowels of Obscurity (a rundown) 
The Sealed Room: A Literal Stronghold (on the longevity of the locked room)
The Skeletons in My Clock (a short piece on Carr's my obsession with time)
The Spoils of Conquest (showing off some new acquisitions)
Time Served: Two Years in the Blogosphere (second anniversary)  
Where the Truth Lies (filler-post about Columbo, Dr. Watson and parallel universes)
Why Nero Wolfe Never Ages (poking fun at Nero Wolfe) 
Yet Another Locked Room Lecture (like the title says)
The Zombie Factory (an angry rant)

OLD-TIME RADIO / AUDIO-DRAMA:

An Air of Suspense (a review of three radio-plays from Cabin B-13 show)
The Return to Terror Castle (a review of an audio-tape play of Robert Arthur's The Secret of Terror Caste, 1964)
A Twisted Fairy Tale: "The Too-Perfect Alibi" (a review of 1949 episode of Suspense) 

SHORT STORIES (Singles):
 
ABBOT, ANTHONY
"About the Disappearance of Agatha King" (1932)
 
ANDREWS, DALE C.
"The Mad Hatter's Riddle" (2009)
"Literally Dead" (2013)

ANONYMOUS
"The Grosvenor Square Mystery" (1909)

ARDEN, WILLIAM
"The Bizarre Case Expert" (1970)

ARTHUR, ROBERT
"Death Dives Deep" (1959)
 
ASIMOV, ISAAC
"The Recipe" (1990)
 
BANKIER, WILLIAM
"The Locked Roomette" (1990)

BLAKE, NICHOLAS
"A Problem in White" (1949) 
 
BLANCHE, AUGUST
"Lars Blom" ("Lars Blom and His Disappearing Gun," 1857/63)
 
BLOCK, LAWRENCE
"The Burglar Who Dropped In On Elvis" (1990)
 
BRAND, CHRISTIANNA
"The Scapegoat" (1970)
 
BREEN, JON L.
"The Lithuanian Eraser Mystery" (1969)
"The House of the Shrill Whispers" (1972)
"The Problem of the Vanishing Town" (1979)

BREUER, MILES J.
"The Puzzle Duel" (1928)

BRUCE, LEO
"Beef for Christmas" (1957)
   
CARR, JOHN DICKSON
"The Other Hangman" (1935)
"Who Killed Matthew Corbin?" (1939/40)
 
CHADWICK, PAUL
"Tarantula Bait" (1932)

CHAMPION, D.L. 
"The Day Nobody Died" (1944)

CHARLES, PAUL
"The Riddle of the Humming Bee" (2017)

CHILD, CHARLES B.
"Death in the Fourth Dimension" (1952)
 
CHRISTIE, AGATHA
"Triangle at Rhodes" (1936)
"Greenshaw's Folly" (1956)
 
CLARK, SIMON
"The Climbing Man" (2015)
 
CLARKE, LAURANCE
"Flashlights" (1918)

COCHRAN, ROBERT W.
"Mystery At the Dog Pound" (1942)

COMMINGS, JOSEPH
"Serenade to a Killer" (1957)
 
CRISPIN, EDMUND
"The Name on the Window" (1951)

CROSSEN, KENDALL FOSTER
"The Closed Door" (1953)

CURTISS, GARDNER T.
"Sorcery in the Death House" (1943)

DEMING, RICHARD
"The Juarez Knife" (1948)
 
DICKSON, CARTER
"Blind Man's Hood" (1937)
"Persons or Things Unknown" (1938)
"The Silver Curtain" (1939)

DOORN, ANNE VAN
"De brieven die onheil spelden" ("The Letters That Spelled Doom," 2018)
"Het huis dat ongeluk bracht" ("The House That Brought Bad Luck," 2018)
"De bus die de mist inging" ("The Bus That Went Into the Fog," 2018)

EDWARDS, MARTIN
"The House of the Red Candle" (2004)
 
ERGANG, BARRY
"The Audiophile Murder Case" (1982)
 
FEARN, JOHN RUSSELL
"Chamber of Centuries" (1940)

FIELDHOUSE, W.L.
"Murder Under the Christmas Tree" (1980)
 
FLANAGAN, THOMAS
"The Cold Winds of Adesta" (1952)
 
FROST, KELMAN
"The Late Edition" (1928)
 
GARRETT, RANDALL
"A Stretch of the Imagination" (1973)

HEWITT, LEWEN
"The Twisted Bullet" (1921)

HIROSHI, MORI
"Sekito no yane kazan" ("The Rooftop Ornaments of Stone Ratha," 1999)
 
HOCH, EDWARD D.
"The Case of the Modern Medusa" (1973)
"The Case of the Musical Bullet" (1974)
"The Spy and the Snowman" (1980)
"The Bad Samaritan" (1981)
"The Sweating Statue" (1985)
"The Touch of Kolyada" (1989)
"Circus in the Sky" (2000)

INGWALSON, MATT
"The Single Staircase" (2012)

KERSH, GERALD
"Karmesin and the Meter" (1937)
 
KNIGHT, CLIFFORD
"The Affair at the Circle T" (1946)

KONRATH, J.A.
"With a Twist" (2005)

L'AMOUR, LOUIS
"The Hills of Homicide" (1949)

LIPMAN, CLAYRE & MICHEL
"The Walking Corpse" (1950)
 
MAMBRETTI, CATHERINE
"Dead of Winter" (2007)

MATHIESON, THEODORE
"Leonardo da Vinci, Detective" (1959)
"Omar Khayyam, Detective" (1960)

NORIZUKI, RINTARO
"Toshi densetsu pazuru" ("An Urban Legend Puzzle," 2001)
 
PALMER, STUART
"The Riddle of the Brass Band" (1934)
"The Riddle of the Whirling Lights" (1935)
 
PEMBERTON, MAX & CHESTERTON, G.K.
"The Donnington Affair" (1914)

PORGES, ARTHUR
"Coffee Break" (1964)

PRONZINI, BILL & WALLMANN, JEFFREY
"The Half-Invisible Man" (1974)
"The Pawns of Death" (1974)
 
QUEEN, ELLERY
"The Adventure of the Dauphin's Doll" (1948)
 
RAFFERTY, S.S.
"Murder by Scalping" (1973)

RAMPO, EDOGAWA
"D zaka no satsujin-jiken" ("The Case of the Murder on D. Hill," 1925)
"Yaneura no sanposha" ("The Stalker in the Attic," 1925)

REID, DESMOND
"Caribbean Crisis" (1962)
 
RESNICOW, HERBERT
"The Christmas Bear" (1990)

ROCKLYNNE, ROSS
"Time Wants a Skeleton" (1941)

SAWYER, LYNWOOD
"The Shredded Rose" (1978)
 
SEIICHRIO, OOYAMA
"Kanojo ga Patience wo korosu hazu ga nai" ("She Wouldn't Kill Patience," 2002)

 SHIMADA, SOJI
"P no misshitsu" ("The Locked House of Pythagoras," 2011)

SLADEK, JOHN
"The Locked Room" (1972)
"Scenes from the Country of the Blind" (1977)

TALBOT, HAKE
"The Other Side" (c. 1940s)
"The High House" (1948)

TOMLINSON, GERALD
"The K-Bar-D Murders" (1976)

VERVOORT, TON
"De juwelen van een weduwe" ("The Jewelry of a Widow," c. 1960s)

VÉRY, PIERRE
"Le mystére de la chambre verte" ("The Mystery of the Green Room," 1936)
 
WELLEN, EDWARD
"Murder in the Urth Degree" (1989)
 
WIECEK, MIKE
"The End of the Train" (2007)

WYNNE, ANTHONY
"The Cyprian Bees" (1926)
"Footsteps" (1926)

YATES, DONALD A.
"The Wounded Tyrolean" (c. 1955)

YOKOYAMA, HIDEO
"Doki" ("Motive," 2000)
 
YUKO, AOSAKI
"Tokuma shoten" ("Knockin' on Locked Door," 2014)

SHORT STORIES (Misc.):

Cherchez la femme:
- Alexander Dumas' "House Call"
- Bill Pronzini's "Gunpowder Alley"

Cops & Robbers:
- Edward D. Hoch's "The Theft of Cinderella's Slipper"
- Edward D. Hoch's "The Murder in Room 1010"
- Edward D. Hoch's "The Theft of Leopold's Badge"  
 
Devil's Soil: Halter, Hoch and Hoodwinks:
- Paul Halter's "The Robber's Grave"
- Edward D. Hoch's "The Problem of the Devil's Orchard"

Double Dutch:
- Anne van Doorn's "De dichter die zichzelf opsloot" ("The Poet Who Locked Himself In")
- Havank's "De gegrendelde kamer" ("The Bolted Room") 

Earth is An Armchair: The Wendell Urth Stories:
- "The Singing Bell"
- "The Talking Stone"
- "The Dying Night"
- "The Key"
 
Edward D. Hoch: The Bullet from Beyond and Other Ben Snow Tales:
- "The Victorian Hangman"
- "The Headless Horseman of Buffalo Creek"
- "The Granite God"
- "The Bullet from Beyond"
- "The Daughters of Crooked River"
- "The San Augustin Miracle"

Everything is Possible:
- Jacques Futrelle's "The Mystery of the Flaming Phantom"
- Jacques Futrelle's "The Problem of the Crystal Gazer"
- Jacques Futrelle's "Kidnapped Baby Blake, Millionaire"
- Jacques Futrelle's "The Last Radium"
- Jacques Futrelle's "The Problem of the Missing Necklace"
- Jacques Futrelle's "The Roswell Tiara"
- Jacques Futrelle's "The Problem of the Perfect Alibi" 
- Jacques Futrelle's "The Mystery of the Scarlet Thread"
- Jacques Futrelle's "The Vanishing Man"
- Jacques Futrelle's "The Haunted Bell"
- Jacques Futrelle's "The Phantom Motor"

Fiendish Flattery: A Review of Three Detective Pastiches:
- Thomas Narcejac's "L'orchideé rouge" ("The Red Orchid")
- Edward D. Hoch's "The Wrightsville Carnival"
- Arthur Porges' "In Compartment 813"

Homicide with Homework:
- Leonard Thompson's "Squeeze Play"
- Leonard Thompson's "Close Shave" 
 
In Plain Sight:
- Arthur Porges' "The Invisible Tomb"
- Edward D. Hoch's "The Flying Fiend"
 
Journey to the West: Four Detective Stories from the West:
- Szu-Yen Lin's "The Ghost of the Badminton Court"
- Soji Shimada's "Hakkyo-suru juyaku" ("The Executive Who Lost His Mind")
- Soji Shimada's "Shissou suru shisha" ("The Running Dead")
- Saburo Koga "Kumo" ("The Spider")
 
Judicium dei:
- Paul Doherty's "The Peacock's Cry"
- Paul Doherty's "The King's Writ"     

Learning from the Best: C. Auguste Dupin & Sherlock Holmes: 
- Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's "The Adventure of the Black Peter"
- Edgar Allan Poe's "The Murders in the Rue Morgue"

Locked and Loaded: A Selection of Short Impossible Crime/Locked Room Mysteries:
- H.C. Kincaid's "Murder on a Bet"
- Francis Bonnamy's "The Loaded House"
- Charles B. Child's "The Thumbless Man"
- Charles B. Child's "The Man Who Wasn't There"
- Patrick Meadow's "Murder in a Locked Box"
- John Ball's "Virgil Tibbs and the Fallen Body"
- David Braly's "The Gallowglass"
 
Locked and Loaded, Part 2:
- Edgar D. Smith "Killer in Khaki"
- James Yaffe's "Cul de Sac"
- Bruce D. Pelletier's "The Hedgehog and the Fox"
- Don Knowlton's "The Room at the End of the Hall"
- Edward D. Hoch's "The Weapon Out of the Past"
- John Hudson Tiner's "The Preacher and the Locked Shed"
 
Locked and Loaded, Part 3:
- Charles G. Booth's "One Shot"
- Margery Allingham's "The Unseen Door"
- Margery Allingham's "Tall Story"
- Morton Wolson's "The Glass Room"
- Joseph Commings' "Nobody Loves a Fat Man"
- L.A. Taylor's "Silly Putty"
 
Locked and Loaded, Part 4:
- Lawrence G. Blochman's "Murder Behind Schedule"
- Edward D. Hoch's "The Locked Room Cipher"
- Anne van Doorn's "De schilder die de waarheid liefhad" ("The Painter Who Loved the Truth")
- Tom Mead's "Jack Magg's Jaw"
- James Scott Byrnside's "The Silent Steps of Murder"     
 
The Logic of Lunacy:
- Ronald A. Knox's "The Motive"
- Isaac Asimov's "The Obvious Factor"
 
A Melee of Miraculous Mysteries:
- Eric Ambler's "The Case of the Overheated Service Flat"
- Ed Bryant's "The Lurker in the Locked Bedroom"
- Charles Larson's "Mail Me My Tombstone" 
- E.C.R. Lorac's "Remember to Ring Twice"
- Craig Rice's "...And Be Merry"

Miracle Wave:
- Joseph Commings' "Assassination--Middle East"
- Joseph Commings' "Murder of a Mermaid"
- Joseph Commings' "The Grand Guignol Caper"

Miss Madelyn Mack, Detective:
- "The Man With Nine Lives"
- "The Bullet from Nowhere"

Murder Around the World: A Review of Five Short Detective Stories:
- John Gregory Betancourt's "The Jamaican Ice Mystery"
- Takemaru Abiko's "Ningyou wa tent de suiri suru" ("A Smart Dummy in the Tent")
- Paul Halter's "Le loup de Fenrir" ("The Wolf of Fenrir")
- Paul Halter's "Le livre jaune" ("The Yellow Book")
- Anne van Doorn's "Het lijk dat aan de wandel ging" ("The Corpse That Went for a Walk")

Not As It Seems:
- Peter Anthony's "Before and After"
- Peter Shaffer's "Suffer a Witch"

Owl & Raccoon:
- Matt Ingwalson's "WDYG"
- Matt Ingwalson's "Not With a Bang"
 
Pellets from a Buckshot: 
- Isaac Asimov's "Mirror, Mirror"
- Norbert Davis' "Holocaust House"
- G.D.H. and M. Cole's "The Owl at the Window"
- Kelley Roos' "Two Over Par"

 A Penny for Your Thoughts:
- P.G. Wodehouse "Death at the Excelsior"
- Timothy Zahn's "Red Thoughts at Morning"

Phantom Pests:
- Tom Mead's "Invisible Death"
- Tom Mead's "The Walnut Creek Vampire
 
Scattershot: Hoch, Line and Sinker:
- Richard Curtis' "Odd Bodkins and the Locked Room Caper"
- Edward D. Hoch's "Murder Offstage"
- Edward D. Hoch's "Every Fifth Man"
- Edward D. Hoch's "The Nile Cat"

Sealed Rooms and Ghoulish Laughter: Tributes to John Dickson Carr:
- Alex Atkinson's "Chapter the Last: Merriman Explains"
- William Brittain's "The Man Who Read John Dickson Carr"
- Barry Ergang's "Dr. Gideon Fell, Hardboiled Sawbones"
- William Krohn's "The Impossible Murder of Dr. Satanus"
- Norma Schier's "Hocus-Pocus at Drumis Tree"

A Smattering of Crime: 
- Paul Halter's "The Man With the Clay Face"
- Richard Macker's "The Intell Club"
- Keith McCarthy's "The Invisible Gunman"
- Ellery Queen's "The Uncle from Australia"
 
Talking to the Dead:
- John Dickson Carr's "The Dead Sleep Lightly" 
- Agatha Christie's "Wireless"

The Theft and the Prophecy:
- Barry Ergang's "The Play of Light and Shadow"
- Gerald Verner's "The Beard of the Prophet"   

There's No Such Animal:
- Fredric Brown's "Miracle on Vine Street"
- Fredric Brown's "The Sematic Crocodile" 

The Thieving 'Tec:
- Edward D. Hoch's "The Theft of the Venetian Window"
- Edward D. Hoch's "The Theft of the White Queen's Menu" 

Tied Together: Two Impossible Crime Stories:
- H. Edward Hunsburgen's "Eternally Yours"
- John Basye Price's "Death and the Rope Trick"
 
Worlds Apart:
- Joseph B. Commings' "The Scarecrow Murders"
- Jack McDevitt's "In the Tower" 
 
TRUE CRIME:

The Ghost and the Canary: Two Real-Life Impossible Crimes (a fake ghost and a dead stool pigeon)
Just About as Strange as Fiction: Day to Day Miracles (a run-down of six-real impossible mysteries)
A Kind of Magic: More Impossibilities Outside of Fiction (locked rooms and impossible crimes)
Out of the Tidy, Clipped Maze of Fiction (examples of real-life locked room mysteries)
A Strain on Reality: More Examples of Everyday Impossible Problems (more locked room stuff)
True Crime: A Journey Back in Time (an overview of the unsolved murder of Mr. Wijsman)
When Oddities of Fiction Encroach on Fiction (More examples of real-life locked room mysteries)

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  1. AnonymousOctober 26, 2024 at 7:21 AM

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