Philip MacDonald

The Noose (1930)
The Rynox Mystery (1930)
Murder Gone Mad (1931)
The Polferry Riddle, a.k.a. The Choice (1931)
The Crime Conductor (1932)
The Maze, a.k.a. Persons Unknown (1932)
X v. Rex, a.k.a. The Mystery of the Dead Police (1933)

Roy MacGregor

Murder at Hockey Camp (1997)
Death Down Under (2001)

Phillip Margolin

Murder at Black Oaks (2022)

Virgil Markham

The Devil Drives (1932)

Faith Martin

Murder by Candlelight (2024)

Emma Mason

Murder Most Haunted (2025)

Simon Mason

Running Girl (2014)

F. Vanwyck Mason

The Sulu Sea Murders (1958)

Walter S. Masterman

The Wrong Letter (1926)
The Curse of the Reckaviles, a.k.a. The Crime of the Reckaviles (1927)
The Mystery of Fifty-Two (1931)
The Nameless Crime (1932)
The Baddington Horror (1934)
The Rose of Death (1934)
The Perjured Alibi (1935)
Death Turns Traitor (1935)
The Bloodhounds Bay (1936)
The Avenger Strikes (1936)
The Border Line (1937)
The Secret of the Downs (1939)
Back from the Grave (1940)

Seichō Matsumoto

Tokyo Express, a.k.a. Points and Lines (1958)

Andrew Mayne

Angel Killer (2014)

Roman McDougald

The Blushing Monkey (1953)

Michael McDowell

Clue (1986)

Patricia McGerr
(a.k.a. Pat McGerr)

Pick Your Victim (1946)
Follow as the Night, a.k.a. Your Loving Victim (1950)
Death in a Million Living Rooms, a.k.a. Die Laughing (1951)

Adrian McKinty

Rain Dogs (2015)

Tom Mead

Death and the Conjuror (2022)
The Murder Wheel (2023)

Tony Medawar (ed.)

Bodies from the Library [ss] (2018)
Bodies from the Library 2 [ss] (2019)
Bodies from the Library 4 [ss] (2021)
Bodies from the Library 5 [ss] (2022)
Ghosts from the Library [ss] (2022)
Bodies from the Library 6 [ss] (2023)
Wicked Spirits [ss] (2024)

Alan Melville

Quick Curtain (1934)
Death of Anton (1936)

Larry Millett

The Magic Bullet (2011)

Guy Morpuss

Black Lake Manor (2022)

Patricia Moyes

Dead Men Don’t Ski (1959)
Down Among the Dead Men, a.k.a. The Sunken Sailor (1961)

Warren B. Murphy

Leonardo’s Law (1978)

Andrew Hunter Murray

A Beginner’s Guide to Breaking and Entering (2024)

Max Murray

The Voice of the Corpse (1948)
The King and the Corpse (1949)

Yasuhiko Nishizawa

The Man Who Died Seven Times (1995)

Larry Niven

The Patchwork Girl (1980)

Nicholas Olde

The Incredible Adventures of Rowland Hern [ss] (1928)

Baroness Orczy

The Case of Miss Elliott [ss] (1905)
The Old Man in the Corner [ss] (1908)
Unravelled Knots [ss] (1925)

Roger Ormerod

Time to Kill (1974)
The Weight of Evidence (1978)
Face Value, a.k.a. The Hanging Doll Murder (1983)

Clifford Orr

The Dartmouth Murders (1929)
The Wailing Rock Murders (1932)

Keikichi Osaka

The Ginza Ghost [ss] (2017)

Richard Osman

The Thursday Murder Club (2020)
The Man Who Died Twice (2021)

Stuart Palmer

Murder on Wheels (1932)
No Flowers by Request, a.k.a. Omit Flowers (1937)
The Puzzle of the Happy Hooligan (1941)

James Patterson & Brian Sitts

Holmes, Margaret and Poe (2024)

Philippa Pearce

The Way to Sattin Shore (1983)

Rupert Penny
(q.v. Martin Tanner)

The Talkative Policeman (1936)
Policeman’s Holiday (1937)
Policeman in Armour (1937)
The Lucky Policeman (1938)
Policeman’s Evidence (1938)
She Had To Have Gas (1939)
Sweet Poison (1940)
Sealed Room Murder (1941)

Tyline Perry

The Owner Lies Dead (1930)

W. Shepard Pleasants

The Stingaree Murders (1932)

Edgar Allan Poe

Tales of Mystery (1841-44)

James Ponti

Framed! (2016)
Vanished! (2017)
Trapped! (2018)

Zelda Popkin

Dead Man’s Gift (1941)

Arthur Porges

No Killer Has Wings [ss] (1959-63)
These Daisies Told [ss] (1962-75)

John Pugmire & Brian Skupin (eds.)

The Realm of the Impossible [ss] (2017)

Ellery Queen
(q.v. Barnaby Ross)

The Roman Hat Mystery (1929)
The French Powder Mystery (1930)
The Tragedy of X (1932)
The Chinese Orange Mystery (1934)
The House of Haunts, a.k.a. The Lamp of God [n] (1935)
Halfway House (1936)
The Door Between (1937)

Patrick Quentin

A Puzzle for Fools (1936)

James Quince

Casual Slaughters (1935)

Seabury Quinn

The Horror on the Links [ss] (2017)

William Rabkin

Psych: Mind Over Magic (2009)

E. & M.A. Radford

The Heel of Achilles (1950)
Death and the Professor [ss] (1961)

Edogawa Rampo

Japanese Tales of Mystery and Imagination [ss] (1956)

Ian Rankin

Black and Blue (1997)

Ellen Raskin

The Mysterious Disappearance of Leon (I Mean Noel) (1971)

Clayton Rawson

Death from a Top Hat (1938)
The Footprints on the Ceiling (1939)
No Coffin for the Corpse (1942)

Arthur B. Reeve

The Silent Bullet [ss] (1912)

Helen Reilly

Dead Man Control (1936)

Herbert Resnicow

The Dead Room (1987)

John Rhode
(q.v. Miles Burton)

The Murders in Praed Street (1928)
Mystery at Olympia, a.k.a. Murder at the Motor Show (1935)
Death at Breakfast (1936)
Invisible Weapons (1938)
Fatal Descent, a.k.a. Drop to His Death [w’ Carter Dickson] (1939)

Craig Rice

Eight Faces at Three (1939)
The Corpse Steps Out (1940)
The Wrong Murder (1940)
The Right Murder (1941)
Trial by Fury (1941)
The Big Midget Murders (1942)
The Man Who Slept All Day (1942)
The Sunday Pigeon Murders (1942)
Yesterday’s Murder, a.k.a. Telefair (1942)
Having Wonderful Crime (1943)
Home Sweet Homicide (1944)

Kel Richards

The Sinister Student (2016)

A.G. Riddle

Lost in Time (2022)

Mary Roberts Rinehart

Miss Pinkerton, a.k.a. The Double Alibi (1932)

Ella Risbridger

The Secret Detectives (2021)

Stein Riverton

The Iron Chariot (1909)

Adam Roberts

Jack Glass (2012)
The Real-Town Murders (2017)
By the Pricking of Her Thumb (2018)

Joel Townsley Rogers

The Red Right Hand (1945)

Anthony Rolls

Family Matters (1933)

James Ronald

The Dark Angel (1930)
Six Were to Die (1932)
Cross Marks the Spot (1933)
Death Croons the Blues (1934)
The Sealed Room Murder (1934)
Murder in the Family, a.k.a. The Murder in Gay Ladies (1936)
They Can’t Hang Me (1938)
Murder for Cash (1938)
This Way Out, a.k.a. The Suspect (1939)
The Dr. Britling Stories [ss] (2023)

Kelley Roos

If the Shroud Fits (1941)
The Frightened Stiff (1942)
Sailor, Take Warning! (1944)

Elliott Roosevelt

Murder in the Oval Office (1989)

Theodore Roscoe

Murder on the Way! (1935)
Z is for Zombie (1937)
Four Corners: Volume 1 [ss] (2015)
Four Corners: Volume 2 [ss] (2019)

Barnaby Ross
(q.v. Ellery Queen)

The Tragedy of X (1930)

John Rowland

Murder in the Museum (1930)

Gareth Rubin

Holmes and Moriarty (2024)
Murder at Christmas (2025) [as by G.B. Rubin]

Sarah Rubin

The Impossible Clue (2016)
The Ghost Light (2017)

Anthony Rud

The Rose Bath Riddle (1933)

Harriet Rutland

Blue Murder (1942)

Robert O. Saber

The Black Dark Murders (1949)

Riley Sager

With a Vengenace (2025)

David Safier

Murder at the Castle (2021)

Dorothy L. Sayers

The Montague Egg Stories (1933-36)

Roger Scarlett

The Beacon Hill Murders (1930)
The Back Bay Murders (1930)
Cat’s Paw (1931)
Murder Among the Angells (1932)
In the First Degree (1933)

Sam Sedgman

The Clockwork Conspiracy (2024)

Peter Shaffer

The Woman in the Wardrobe (1951)

Soji Shimada

The Tokyo Zodiac Murders (1981)

Georges Simenon

The Late Monsieur Gallet, a.k.a. Maigret Stonewalled (1931)

Michael Sims (ed.)

The Penguin Book of Gaslight Crime [ss] (2009)
The Penguin Book of Victorian Women in Crime [ss] (2011)

Pierre Siniac

Death on Bastille Day (1981)

Brian Skupin (ed.)

Locked Room Murders Supplement (2019)

Michael Slade

Red Snow (2010)

John Sladek

Invisible Green (1977)

Kim Slater

Smart (2014)

Alex T. Smith

Murder! By Narwhal! (2024)

Derek Smith

Model for Murder [n] (1952)

Donald J. Sobol

Encyclopedia Brown Strikes Again, a.k.a. The Case of the Secret Pitch [ss] (1965)
Encyclopedia Brown Solves Them All [ss] (1968)
Encyclopedia Brown Keeps the Peace [ss] (1969)
Encyclopedia Brown Carries On [ss] (1980)

Christopher St. John Sprigg

Death of an Airman (1934)
The Perfect Alibi (1934)
The Six Queer Things (1937)

Susan Spann

Ghosts of the Bamboo Road (2019)

Nancy Springer

The Case of the Missing Marquess (2006)

Vincent Starrett

The Great Hotel Murder (1934)

Robin Stevens

Murder Most Unladylike, a.k.a. Murder is Bad Manners (2014)
Arsenic For Tea, a.k.a. Poison is Not Polite (2015)
First Class Murder (2015)
Jolly Foul Play (2016)
Mistletoe and Murder (2016)
The Guggenheim Mystery (2017)

Rex Stout

And Be a Villain (1934)
The Affair of the Twisted Scarf, a.k.a. Disguise for Murder [n] (1950)
Die Like a Dog, a.k.a. A Dog in the Daytime [n] (1954)

John Stephen Strange

The Chinese Jar Mystery, a.k.a. Black Hawthorn (1934)

R.E. Swartwout

The Boat Race Murder (1933)

Julian Symons

The Colour of Murder (1957)

Akimitsu Takagi

The Tattoo Murder Case (1948)
The Noh Mask Murder (1949)

Ashibe Taku

Murder in the Red Chamber (2004)

Hake Talbot

Rim of the Pit (1944)

Martin Tanner
(q.v. Rupert Penny)

Cut and Run (1941)

Josephine Tey

The Franchise Affair (1948)

Alan Thomas

The Death of Laurence Vining (1928)

Jim Thompson

The Nothing Man (1954)

Lisa Thompson

Goldfish Boy (2017)

Nicki Thornton

The Last Chance Hotel (2018)

Torquemada

Cain’s Jawbone: A Novel Problem (1934)

M.J. Trow

The Knight’s Tale (2021)

Stuart Turton

The Seven Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle (2018)
The Devil and the Dark Water (2020)

Diana Urban

Lying in the Deep (2023)

Uketsu

Strange Pictures (2022)

Franco Vailati

The Flying Boat Mystery (1935)

S.S. van Dine

The Benson Murder Case (1926)
The ‘Canary’ Murder Case (1927)
The Greene Murder Case (1928)
The Bishop Murder Case (1929)

Various

Behind the Screen (1930)
The Scoop (1931)
Six Against the Yard [ss] (1936)
No Flowers by Request (1953)
Crime on the Coast (1954)

Michael A. Ventrella & Jonathan Maberry (eds.)

Baker Street Irregulars: The Game is Afoot [ss] (2018)

John Verdon

Think of a Number (2010)

Gerald Verner

They Walk in Darkness (1947)
Noose for a Lady (1952)
Sorcerer’s House (1956)

Charles Spain Verral

The Case of the Missing Message (1959)

Pierre Véry

The Secret of the Pointed Tower [ss] (1937)

Roy Vickers

The Department of Dead Ends [ss] (1949)

Noel Vindry

The House that Kills (1932)
The Howling Beast (1934)
The Double Alibi (1934)
Through the Walls (1937)

E. Charles Vivian

Evidence in Blue (1938)

Henry Wade

The Duke of York’s Steps (1929)
The Hanging Captain (1933)
Constable, Guard Thyself! (1934)
Heir Presumptive (1935)

Edgar Wallace

The Clue of the Twisted Candle (1918)
The Crimson Circle (1922)
The Clue of the New Pin (1923)
The Mind of Mr. J.G. Reeder [ss] (1925)
The Door with Seven Locks (1926)
Four Square Jane (1929)

Joanna Wallace

You’d Look Better as a Ghost (2023)
The Dead Friend Project (2024)

R.A.J. Walling

Corpse Without a Clue (1944)

Jakob Wegelius

The Murderer’s Ape (2014)

Manly Wade Wellman

Devil’s Planet (1951)

Nick West
(q.v. The Three investigators)

The Mystery of the Coughing Dragon (1970)
The Mystery of the Nervous Lion (1971)

Dennis Wheatley & J.G. Links

The Malinsay Massacre (1938)

Ethel Lina White

Fear Stalks the Village (1932)
The Spiral Staircase, a.k.a. Some Must Watch (1933)
The Wheel Spins, a.k.a. The Lady Vanishes (1936)

T.H. White

Darkness at Pemberley (1932)

Nicholas Wilde

Death Knell (1990)

Cecil M. Wills

Midsummer Murder (1956)

Andrew Wilson

A Different Kind of Evil (2018)

Clifford Witting

Murder in Blue (1937)
Catt Out of the Bag (1939)
Let X be the Murderer (1947)
A Bullet for Rhino (1950)
Silence After Dinner (1953)

Cornell Woolrich

Mystery in Room 913, a.k.a. The Room with Something Wrong [n] (1938)
The Bride Wore Black (1940)
The Black Curtain (1941)
Phantom Lady (1942)
The Black Angel (1943)
Deadline at Dawn (1944)
Waltz into Darkness (1947)
Rendezvous in Black (1948)
Nightwebs [ss] (1971)
Darkness at Dawn [ss] (1988)

June Wright

Duck Season Death (c. 1955)

Philip Wylie

The Smiling Corpse (1935)

Anthony Wynne

Murder of a Lady (1931)

James Yaffe

My Mother, the Detective [ss] (2016)

Seishi Yokomizo

The Honjin Murders (1946)
Death on Gokumon Island (1948)
The Inugami Curse (1951)
The Village of Eight Graves (1951)
The Devil’s Flute Murders (1953)