Barbara D’Amato

Hard Tack (1991)

William L. De Andrea

Killed on the Rocks (1990)

Oscar de Muriel

The Darker Arts (2019)

Carter Dickson
(q.v. John Dickson Carr)

The Plague Court Murders (1934)
The White Priory Murders (1934)
The Red Widow Murders (1935)
The Unicorn Murders (1935)
The Punch and Judy Murders, a.k.a. The Magic Lantern Murders (1936)
The Ten Teacups, a.k.a. The Peacock Feather Murders (1937)
Death in Five Boxes (1938)
The Judas Window, a.k.a. The Crossbow Murder (1938)
The Reader is Warned (1939)
Fatal Descent, a.k.a. Drop to His Death [w’ John Rhode] (1939)
The Department of Queer Complaints [ss] (1940)
And So to Murder (1940)
Nine–and Death Makes Ten, a.k.a. Murder in the Atlantic (1940)
Seeing is Believing, a.k.a. Cross of Murder (1941)
The Gilded Man, a.k.a. Death and the Gilded Man (1942)
She Died a Lady (1943)
He Wouldn’t Kill Patience (1944)
The Curse of the Bronze Lamp, a.k.a. Lord of the Sorcerers (1945)
My Late Wives (1946)
The Skeleton in the Clock (1948)
A Graveyard to Let (1949)
Night at the Mocking Widow (1950)

Eilis Dillon

Death at Crane’s Court (1953)

Paul Doherty

A Murder in Thebes (1998)

Todd Downing

Vultures in the Sky (1935)

Arthur Conan Doyle

A Study in Scarlet (1887)
The Sign of Four, a.k.a. The Sign of the Four (1890)
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes [ss] (1892)
The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes [ss] (1894)
The Hound of the Baskervilles (1902)

Ernest Dudley

Menace for Doctor Morelle (1947)

Francis Duncan

So Pretty a Problem (1950)

Lord Dunsany

Two Bottles of Relish, a.k.a. The Little Tales of Smethers [ss] (1952)

Ulf Durling

Hard Cheese (1971)

Karsten Dusse

Murder Mindfully (2019)

M.G. Eberhart

The White Cockatoo (1934)

Martin Edwards

All the Lonely People (1991)
The Golden Age of Murder (2015)
The New Mysteries of Sherlock Holmes [ss] (2014)
Life of Crime (2022)
Hemlock Bay (2024)
Miss Winter in the Library with a Knife (2025)

Martin Edwards (ed.)

Capital Crimes: London Mysteries [ss] (2015)
Silent Nights: Christmas Mysteries [ss] (2015)
Crimson Snow [ss] (2016)
The Long Arm of the Law [ss] (2017)
Foreign Bodies [ss] (2017)
Final Acts: Theatrical Mysteries [ss] (2022)
Crimes of Cymru [ss] (2023)
Who Killed Father Christmas? and Other Seasonal Mysteries [ss] (2023)

Jan Ekstrom

Deadly Reunion (1975)

Evelyn Elder

Murder in Black and White (1931)

Henry Ware Eliot, Jr.

The Rumble Murders (1932)

Bruce Elliott

You’ll Die Laughing (1945)

A.A. Fair
(q.v. Erle Stanley Gardner)

The Bigger They Come, a.k.a. Lam to the Slaughter (1939)
Turn on the Heat (1940)
Gold Comes in Bricks (1940)
Spill the Jackpot (1941)
Double or Quits (1941)
Owls Don’t Blink (1942)
Bats Fly at Dusk (1942)
Cats Prowl at Night (1943)
Give ‘Em the Ax, a.k.a. An Axe to Grind (1944)
Crows Can’t Count (1946)
Fools Die on Friday (1947)
Bedrooms Have Windows (1949)
Top of the Heap (1952)
The Knife Slipped (2016)

Sebastian Farr

Death on the Down Beat (1941)

Lyndsay Faye

Dust and Shadow (2009)

John Russell Fearn

Thy Arm Alone (1947)
Death in Silhouette (1950)

Rudolph Fisher

The Conjure-Man Dies (1932)

Stanton Forbes

Grieve for the Past (1963)

C.S. Forester

Payment Deferred (1926)

R. Austin Freeman

The Red Thumb Mark (1907)
John Thorndyke’s Cases, a.k.a. Dr. Thorndyke’s Cases [ss] (1909)
The Eye of Osiris, a.k.a. The Vanishing Man (1911)
The Mystery of 31 New Inn (1912)
The Singing Bone, a.k.a. The Adventures of Dr. Thorndyke [ss] (1912)
A Silent Witness (1914)
The Great Portrait Mystery [ss] (1918)
Helen Vardon’s Confession (1922)
The Cat’s Eye (1923)
Dr. Thorndyke’s Casebook, a.k.a. The Blue Scarab [ss] (1923)
The Mystery of Angelina Frood (1924)
The Shadow of the Wolf (1925)
The Puzzle Lock [ss] (1925)
The D’Arblay Mystery (1926)
The Magic Casket [ss] (1927)
A Certain Dr. Thorndyke (1927)
As a Thief in the Night (1928)
Mr. Pottermack’s Oversight (1930)
Pontifex, Son and Thorndyke (1931)
When Rogues Fall Out (1932)

Celia Fremlin

The Hours Before Dawn (1958)
The Jealous One (1965)

Erle Stanley Gardner
(q.v. A.A. Fair)

The D.A. Calls it Murder (1937)
The Case of the Lame Canary (1937)
The D.A. Holds a Candle (1938)
The Case of the Substitute Face (1938)
The Case of the Shoplifter’s Shoe (1938)
The D.A. Draws a Circle (1939)
The Case of the Rolling Bones (1939)
The D.A. Goes to Trial (1940)
The D.A. Cooks a Goose (1942)
The Case of the Smoking Chimney (1943)
The D.A. Calls a Turn (1944)
The D.A. Breaks a Seal (1946)
The Case of the Borrowed Brunette (1946)
The D.A. Takes a Chance (1948)
The Case of the Crimson Kiss [n] (1948)
The D.A. Breaks an Egg (1949)
The Amazing Adventures of Lester Leith [ss] (1980)

Randall Garrett

The Lord Darcy Stories (1964-79)

Alexis Gensoul & Charles Grenier

Death Out of Nowhere (1945)

Stuart Gibbs

Belly Up (2010)
Poached (2014)
Space Case (2014)
Big Game (2015)
Spaced Out (2016)
Panda-Monium (2017)
Waste of Space (2018)
Lion Down (2019)
Tyrannosaurus Wrecks (2020)
Bear Bottom (2021)
Whale Done (2023)

Anthony Gilbert

Death Knocks Three Times (1949)

Lee Goldberg

Mr. Monk is Cleaned Out (2010)

Dolores Gordon-Smith

A Fete Worse than Death (2007)
As If by Magic (2009)
A Hundred Thousand Dragons (2010)
Off the Record (2011)

Bruce Graeme

The Undetective (1962)

R.L. Graham

Death on the Lusitania (2024)

Alan Green

What a Body! (1949)

Simon R. Green

Hawk and Fisher (1990)

Ravena Guron

This Book Kills (2023)
Catch Your Death (2023)

Janice Hallett

The Appeal (2021)
The Twyford Code (2022)
The Mysterious Case of the Alperton Angels (2023)
The Christmas Appeal [n] (2023)
The Examiner (2024)
A Box Full of Murders (2025)
The Killer Question (2025)

Paul Halter

The Fourth Door (1987)
The Crimson Fog (1988)
Death Invites You (1988)
The Madman’s Room (1990)
The Seventh Hypothesis (1991)
The Tiger’s Head (1991)
The Demon of Dartmoor (1993)
The Lord of Misrule (1994)
The Picture from the Past (1995)
The Vampire Tree (1996)
The Invisible Circle (1996)
The Siren’s Call (1998)
The Man Who Loved Clouds (1999)
The Night of the Wolf [ss] (2000)
Penelope’s Web (2001)
The Phantom Passage (2005)
The Mask of the Vampire (2014)
The Gold Watch (2019)

Karo Hamalainen

Cruel is the Night (2013)

Peter F. Hamilton

A Quantum Murder (1994)

Dashiell Hammett

Red Harvest (1929)
The Dain Curse (1929)

Cyril Hare

Best Detective Stories, a.k.a. Death Among Friends [ss] (1959)

Robert J. Harris

A Study in Crimson: Sherlock Holmes 1942 (2020)
The Devil’s Blaze: Sherlock Holmes 1943 (2022)

W.F. Harvey

The Mysterious Mr. Badman (1934)

H.F. Heard

A Taste for Honey (1941)

Michel Herbert & Eugene Wyl

The Forbidden House (1932)

Tokuya Higashigawa

Lending the Key to the Locked Room (2002)

Reginald Hill

A Killing Kindness (1980)

Dolores Hitchens

The Cat Saw Murder (1939)
The Alarm of the Black Cat (1942)

Edward D. Hoch

Diagnosis: Impossible [ss] (2000)
All But Impossible [ss] (2017)

Steve Hockensmith

Dear Mr. Holmes [ss] (2011)

William Hope Hodgson

The Casebook of Carnacki the Ghost-Finder [ss] (1947)

Roy Horniman

Kind Hearts and Coronets, a.k.a. Israel Rank (1907)

E.W. Hornung

Raffles, a.k.a. The Amateur Cracksman [ss] (1899)

Anthony Horowitz

The House of Silk (2011)
Moriarty (2014)
Magpie Murders (2016)
The Word is Murder (2017)
The Sentence is Death (2018)
A Line to Kill (2021)
The Twist of a Knife (2022)
Close to Death (2024)
Marble Hall Murders (2025)

Billie Houston

Twice Round the Clock (1935)

Elspeth Huxley

Murder on Safari (1938)
The African Poison Murders, a.k.a. Death of an Aryan (1939)

Masahiro Imamura

Death Among the Undead (2017)
Death Within the Evil Eye (2019)

Wallace Irwin

The Julius Caesar Murder Case (1935)

Holly Jackson

A Good Girl’s Guide to Murder (2019)

Sharna Jackson

High-Rise Mystery (2019)
Mic Drop (2020)
Peak Peril (2022)
The Good Turn (2022)
The Nine Night Mystery (2024)

T.C.H. Jacobs

The Curse of Khatra (1947)

Jacquemard-Senecal

L’onzieme Petit Negre (1977)

Lis Jardine

The Detention Detectives (2023)

F. Tennyson Jesse (ed.)

The Baffle Book [ss] (1930)

Marthe Jocelyn

The Body Under the Piano (2020)
Peril at Owl Park (2020)
The Dead Man in the Garden (2021)
The Seaside Corpse (2022)

Maureen Johnson

Truly Devious (2018)
Your Guide to Not Getting Murdered in a Quaint English Village (2021)

Maureen Johnson & Jay Cooper

The Creeping Hand Murder (2025)

W. Bolingbroke Johnson

The Widening Stain (1942)

Antony Johnston

The Dog Sitter Detective Plays Dead (2025)
Can You Solve the Murder? (2025)

Paul Johnston

Impolitic Corpses (2019)

Lena Jones

Agatha Oddly: The Secret Key (2018)

Henry Kane

Too French and Too Deadly, a.k.a. The Narrowing Lust (1955)
Death on the Double (1957)

Paul Kane & Charles Prepolec (eds.)

Beyond Rue Morgue [ss] (2013)

MacKinlay Kantor

It’s About Crime [ss] (1960)

M.R.C Kasasian

The Secrets of Gaslight Lane (2016)

Erich Kastner

Emil and the Detectives (1929)

Harry Stephen Keeler

The Sharkskin Book (1941)
The Affair of the Bottled Deuce (1958)

Carolyn Keene

The Secret of the Old Clock (1930)

Harry Kemelman

The Nine Mile Walk and Other Stories [ss] (1968)

Baynard Kendrick

The Whistling Hangman (1937)
The Odor of Violets, a.k.a. Eyes in the Night (1941)
Blind Man’s Bluff (1943)

Philip Kerr

Dead Meat (1993)

C. Daly King

Obelists Fly High (1935)

Rufus King

Murder by the Clock (1929)

Hans Olav Lahlum

The Human Flies (2010)

Tanya Landman

Mondays are Murder (2009)
Dead Funny (2009)
Dying to be Famous (2009)
The Head is Dead (2009)
The Scent of Blood (2010)
Certain Death (2010)

Vincent Lardo

McNally’s Folly (2000)

Jonathan Latimer

The Search for My Great-Uncle’s Head (1937)

Dennis Lehane

A Drink Before the War (1994)

Anthony Lejeune

Mr. Diabolo (1960)

M.G. Leonard & Sam Sedgman

The Highland Falcon Thief (2020)
Kidnap on the California Comet (2020)
Murder on the Safari Star (2021)
Danger at Dead Man’s Pass (2021)
Sabotage on the Solar Express (2022)
The Arctic Railway Assassin (2022)

Gaston Leroux

The Mystery of the Yellow Room (1907)

Ira Levin

A Kiss Before Dying (1953)

Lange Lewis

The Birthday Murder (1945)

Szu-Yen Lin

Death in the House of Rain (2006)

Beth Lincoln

The Swifts (2023)

William Link & Richard Levinson

Shooting Script and Other Stories [ss] (2021)

Constance & Gwenyth Little

The Black Shrouds (1941)
The Black Rustle (1943)
The Black Honeymoon (1944)

Vernon Loder

The Shop Window Murders (1930)

E.C.R. Lorac
(q.v. Carol Carnac)

Death of an Author (1935)
Bats in the Belfry (1937)
The Devil and the C.I.D. (1938)
Slippery Staircase (1938)
Black Beadle (1939)
Case in the Clinic (1941)
Fell Murder (1944)
Checkmate to Murder (1944)
Murder by Matchlight (1945)
Crook o’ Lune (1953)