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Penguin Green Tribands
The 400 vintage Penguin crime books in their ionic green triband covers make up my favorite book collection.Back in the darkest days of the pandemic lockdown, when bored out of my socks, I did a little bookish retail therapy. Thanks to eBay and Royal Mail, I found myself the new owner of a job lot of over 400 vintage Penguin mystery books. After arranging and rearranging them all over my living room floor for a few weeks, culling duplicates, and generally playing with them for a while, they had to sit in boxes until I could get shelves built for them. Now they are shelved in the little home office I call my growlery, where I go and growl at the world. The next step is to read them!
Early Penguin paperbacks were issued without illustrations on the cover, just a band of color at the top, the title on an off-white band in the middle, then another band of the same color at the bottom. Hence, "triband" editions. They were color coded. Green was for crime fiction – mysteries, thrillers, and, less commonly, true crime. These early Penguins were not sold in the United States (for copyright reasons I don't understand). You can now find them here used, but not often. Also, Penguin has more recently reissued some books with triband covers, along with triband coffee mugs that match the books. Those are cool in themselves, but not what I collect. I go for the vintage editions.
I don’t have nearly all the original green tribands, but I have about 415 of them, including duplicates. A few are first Penguin editions, most are Penguin reprints, all are pretty tattered. There are plenty of my favorites in the collection, like Agatha Christie, Ngaio Marsh, Raymond Chandler, etc. There are others I know of and haven’t read much of, or at all, like Margery Allingham and Simenon. And there are plenty that are brand new to me.
To inspire me to read all of my green tribands, and to keep track as I go, I decided to list them all here. Repeating author names every time seems crazy, so I only listed the name for the first book by the author and put that one in bold. I also tried to list them in publication order for each author, although some authors were so prolific they published more than one book in the same year. I haven't dived deep enough to know the exact date of publication, so if you see more than one book in the same year, I don't know which came first.
The Case of the Second Chance (1938) by Christopher Bush
The Postman Always Rings Twice (1934) by James M. Cain FINISHED
Spider Web (1938) by Alice Campbell
Murder Included (1950) by Joanna Cannan
It Walks by Night (1930) by John Dickson Carr
The Waxworks Murder (1932)
Poison in Jest (1932)
Hag's Nook (1933)
The Mad Hatter Mystery (1933)
The Blind Barber (1934)
Death Watch (1935)
The Hollow Man (1935)
The Case of the Constant Suicides (1941)
The Emperor's Snuff-Box (1942)
Till Death do Us Part (1944)
He Who Whispers (1946)
Below Suspicion (1946)
Captain Cut-Throat (1955)
Patrick Butler for the Defense (1956)
Murder by Burial (1938) by Stanley Casson
The Big Sleep (1939) by Raymond Chandler FINISHED
Trouble is My Business (1939)
Farewell, My Lovely (1940) FINISHED
The High Window (1942) FINISHED
The Lady in the Lake (1943) FINISHED
The Little Sister (1949)
The Long Good-Bye (1953) FINISHED
Playback (1958)
The Innocence of Father Brown (1911) by G.K. Chesterton FINISHED
The Incredulity of Father Brown (1926) FINISHED
Poison Ivy (1937) by Peter Chaney
Can Ladies Kill? (1938)
The Urgent Hangman (1938)
Dark Duet (1942)
The Riddle in the Sands (1903) by Erskine Childers ON LIBBY
The Mysterious Affair at Styles (1920) by Agatha Christie FINISHED
The Murder of Roger Ackroyd (1926) FINISHED
The Big Four (1927) FINISHED
The Mystery of the Blue Train (1928) FINISHED
Miss Marple and The Thirteen Problems (1928) FINISHED
The Seven Dials Mystery (1929) FINISHED
The Murder at the Vicarage (1930) FINISHED
Peril at End House (1931) FINISHED
The Sittaford Mystery (1931) FINISHED
Murder on the Orient Express (1933) FINISHED
Lord Edgware Dies (1933)
The Mysterious Mr. Quin (1933)
Parker Pyne Investigates (1934)
Murder in Mesopotamia (1935)
The ABC Murders (1936) FINISHED
Death on the Nile (1937)
Murder in the Mews (1937)
Ten Little N_______ (1939)
Murder Is Easy (1939)
The Labours of Hercules (1939)
The Body in the Library (1942) FINISHED
The Moving Finger (1942)
Death Comes as the End (1945)
Crooked House (1949) FINISHED
The Deadly Reaper (1956) by Clark Smith
Appointment in New Orleans (1950) by Tod Claymore
Reunion in Florida (1952)
Public Enemy (1953) by Hugh Clevely
The Death of a Millionaire (1925) by G.D.H. Cole and Margaret Cole
The Moonstone (1868) by Wilkie Collins FINISHED
The Dangerfield Talisman (1926) by J.J. Connington
Death at Swaythling Court (1926)
The Case with Nine Solutions (1928)
The Golden Box (1942) by Frances Crane
The Moving Toyshop (1946) by Edmund Crispin
Swan Song (1947)
Buried for Pleasure (1948)
Love Lies Bleeding (1948)
The Long Divorce (1951)
The Cask (1920) by Freeman Wills Crofts
The Pit-Prop Syndicate (1922)
The Groote Park Murder (1923)
Inspector French’s Greatest Case (1924)
The Cheyne Mystery (1926)
Inspector French and the Starvel Tragedy (1927)
The Sea Mystery (1928)
Sir John Magill’s Last Journey (1930)
Mystery in the Channel (1931)
The 12.30 from Croydon (1934)
Crime at Guildford (1935)
The Loss of the Jane Vosper (1936)
Fatal Venture (1939)
Golden Ashes (1940)
Post Mortem (1953) by Guy Cullingford
Conjurer’s Coffin (1954)
Framed for Hanging (1956)
Dead March in Three Keys (1940) by Peter Curtis (Norah Lofts)
The House without a Door (1942) by Elizabeth Daly
Evidence of Things Seen (1943)
The White Priory Murders (1934) by Carter Dickson (John Dickson Carr)
The Plague Court Murders (1934)
The Red Widow Murders (1935)
The Ten Teacups (1937)
The Judas Window (1938)
The Reader is Warned (1939)
And So to Murder (1940)
She Died a Lady (1943)
He Wouldn't Kill Patience (1944)
Shear the Black Sheep (1942) by David Dodge
Bullets for the Bridegroom (1944)
The Long Escape (1948)
The Lights of Skaro (1954)
To Catch A Thief (1952)
The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes (1894) by Arthur Conan Doyle FINISHED
The Hound of the Baskervilles (1902) FINISHED
The Case-Book of Sherlock Holmes (1921) FINISHED
The White Cockatoo (1933) by M.G. Eberhart
The Cases of Susan Dare (1934)
Speak No Evil (1941)
Darling Clementine (1955) by Dorothy Eden
The Horizontal Man (1946) by Helen Eustis
The Missing Link (1952) by Katharine Farrer
The Cretan Counterfeit (1954)
The Big Clock (1946) by Kenneth Fearing
Stealthy Terror (1918) by John Ferguson
The Man in the Dark (1928)
Death Comes to Perigord (1931)
Night in Glengyle (1933)
Remove the Bodies (1941) by Elizabeth Ferrars
Don't Monkey with Murder (1942)
Murder in Time (1953)
The Bandaged Nude (1950) by Robert Finnegan
Death and Mary Dazill (1941) by Mary Fitt
Requiem for Robert (1942)
Death and the Pleasant Voices (1946)
Payment Deferred (1926) by C.S. Forester
Plain Murder (1930)
Rex v. Anne Bickerton (1930) by Sydney Fowler
Reunion with Murder (1941) by Tomothy Fuller
The Widow LeRouge (1866) by Emile Gaboriau
The Mystery of Orcival (1867)
Murder on Leave (1946) by G.V. Galwey
The Lift and the Drop (1951)
The Case of the Howling Dog (1934) by Erle Stanley Gardner
Early Penguin paperbacks were issued without illustrations on the cover, just a band of color at the top, the title on an off-white band in the middle, then another band of the same color at the bottom. Hence, "triband" editions. They were color coded. Green was for crime fiction – mysteries, thrillers, and, less commonly, true crime. These early Penguins were not sold in the United States (for copyright reasons I don't understand). You can now find them here used, but not often. Also, Penguin has more recently reissued some books with triband covers, along with triband coffee mugs that match the books. Those are cool in themselves, but not what I collect. I go for the vintage editions.
I don’t have nearly all the original green tribands, but I have about 415 of them, including duplicates. A few are first Penguin editions, most are Penguin reprints, all are pretty tattered. There are plenty of my favorites in the collection, like Agatha Christie, Ngaio Marsh, Raymond Chandler, etc. There are others I know of and haven’t read much of, or at all, like Margery Allingham and Simenon. And there are plenty that are brand new to me.
To inspire me to read all of my green tribands, and to keep track as I go, I decided to list them all here. Repeating author names every time seems crazy, so I only listed the name for the first book by the author and put that one in bold. I also tried to list them in publication order for each author, although some authors were so prolific they published more than one book in the same year. I haven't dived deep enough to know the exact date of publication, so if you see more than one book in the same year, I don't know which came first.
All these are on my shelves and most are still TBR for me. I've noted if I've read a book, even if I read it in a different edition. I also noted if the audiobook is available. If so, I may read it with my ears and save the triband further tattering.
When possible, I've linked to the title (not usually the same Penguin edition) so you can read more about the book. A surprising number are available in a new edition or vintage copy, but several are out of print and hard to find. Some are available online but with no description of the story. I left out those links. Sometimes I had to link to the book under an alternate title.
The Crime at Black Dudley (1929) by Margery Allingham
Mystery Mile (1930) ON LIBBY
Look to the Lady (1931)
Police at the Funeral (1931)
Sweet Danger (1933)
Death of a Ghost (1934)
Flowers for the Judge (1936)
The Case of the Late Pig (1937)
Dancers in Mourning (1937)
The Fashion in Shrouds (1938) ON LIBBY
Mr. Campion & Others (short stories) (1939)
Traitor's Purse (1940)
Black Plumes (1940) ON LIBBY
Coroner's Pidgin (1945)
More Work for the Undertaker (1948)
Take Two at Bedtime (1949)
The Tiger in the Smoke (1952)
The Crime at Black Dudley (1929) by Margery Allingham
Mystery Mile (1930) ON LIBBY
Look to the Lady (1931)
Police at the Funeral (1931)
Sweet Danger (1933)
Death of a Ghost (1934)
Flowers for the Judge (1936)
The Case of the Late Pig (1937)
Dancers in Mourning (1937)
The Fashion in Shrouds (1938) ON LIBBY
Mr. Campion & Others (short stories) (1939)
Traitor's Purse (1940)
Black Plumes (1940) ON LIBBY
Coroner's Pidgin (1945)
More Work for the Undertaker (1948)
Take Two at Bedtime (1949)
The Tiger in the Smoke (1952)
No Love Lost (short stories) (1954)
The Beckoning Lady (1955)
Hide My Eyes (1958)
Uncommon Danger (1937) by Eric Ambler
Cause for Alarm (1938)
Aphrodite Means Death (1951) by John Appleby
Ten Minute Alibi (1934) by Anthony Armstrong and Herbert Shaw
Mischief (1950) by Charlotte Armstrong
The Suva Harbour Mystery (Who Killed Netta Maul?) (1948) by Frank Arthur
Red is for Killing (1941) by George Bagby
Mr. Fortune, Please (1927) by H.C. Bailey
The Best We Can Do (1958) by Sybille Bedford
The Port of London Murders (1938) by Josephine Bell
Trent's Last Case (1913) by E.C. Bentley ON LIBBY
Trent's Own Case (1936)
Trent Intervenes (1938)
The Tongue-Tied Canary (1948) by Nicolas Bentley
The Floating Dutchman (1950)
Mr. Priestley's Problem (1927) by Anthony Berkeley
The Piccadilly Murder (1929)
Jumping Jenny (1933)
Trial and Error (1937)
Not to be Taken (1938)
My Name is Michael Sibley (1952) by John Bingham
Five Roundabouts to Heaven (1953)
A Scent of New-Mown Hay (1958) by John Blackburn
A Question of Proof (1935) by Nicholas Blake
The Case of the Abominable Snowman (1941)
See You at the Morgue (1941) by Lawrence Goldtree Blochman
Dead Lion (1949) by John Bonett
Dead Reckoning (1943) by Francis Bonnamy
A Rope of Sand (1944)
The King is Dead on Queen Street (1945)
A Bullet in the Ballet (1937) by Caryl Brahms
The Wooden Overcoat (1951) by Pamela Branch
Heads You Lose (1941) by Christianna Brand
Suddenly at His Residence (1946)
London Particular (1952)
Tour de Force (1955)
Case for Sergeant Beef (1947) by Leo Bruce
Three Bad Nights (1956) by Bruce Buckingham
The Beckoning Lady (1955)
Hide My Eyes (1958)
Uncommon Danger (1937) by Eric Ambler
Cause for Alarm (1938)
Aphrodite Means Death (1951) by John Appleby
Ten Minute Alibi (1934) by Anthony Armstrong and Herbert Shaw
Mischief (1950) by Charlotte Armstrong
The Suva Harbour Mystery (Who Killed Netta Maul?) (1948) by Frank Arthur
Red is for Killing (1941) by George Bagby
Mr. Fortune, Please (1927) by H.C. Bailey
The Best We Can Do (1958) by Sybille Bedford
The Port of London Murders (1938) by Josephine Bell
Trent's Last Case (1913) by E.C. Bentley ON LIBBY
Trent's Own Case (1936)
Trent Intervenes (1938)
The Tongue-Tied Canary (1948) by Nicolas Bentley
The Floating Dutchman (1950)
Mr. Priestley's Problem (1927) by Anthony Berkeley
The Piccadilly Murder (1929)
Jumping Jenny (1933)
Trial and Error (1937)
Not to be Taken (1938)
My Name is Michael Sibley (1952) by John Bingham
Five Roundabouts to Heaven (1953)
A Scent of New-Mown Hay (1958) by John Blackburn
A Question of Proof (1935) by Nicholas Blake
The Case of the Abominable Snowman (1941)
See You at the Morgue (1941) by Lawrence Goldtree Blochman
Dead Lion (1949) by John Bonett
Dead Reckoning (1943) by Francis Bonnamy
A Rope of Sand (1944)
The King is Dead on Queen Street (1945)
A Bullet in the Ballet (1937) by Caryl Brahms
The Wooden Overcoat (1951) by Pamela Branch
Heads You Lose (1941) by Christianna Brand
Suddenly at His Residence (1946)
London Particular (1952)
Tour de Force (1955)
Case for Sergeant Beef (1947) by Leo Bruce
Three Bad Nights (1956) by Bruce Buckingham
The Case of the Second Chance (1938) by Christopher Bush
The Postman Always Rings Twice (1934) by James M. Cain FINISHED
Spider Web (1938) by Alice Campbell
Murder Included (1950) by Joanna Cannan
It Walks by Night (1930) by John Dickson Carr
The Waxworks Murder (1932)
Poison in Jest (1932)
Hag's Nook (1933)
The Mad Hatter Mystery (1933)
The Blind Barber (1934)
Death Watch (1935)
The Hollow Man (1935)
The Case of the Constant Suicides (1941)
The Emperor's Snuff-Box (1942)
Till Death do Us Part (1944)
He Who Whispers (1946)
Below Suspicion (1946)
Captain Cut-Throat (1955)
Patrick Butler for the Defense (1956)
Murder by Burial (1938) by Stanley Casson
The Big Sleep (1939) by Raymond Chandler FINISHED
Trouble is My Business (1939)
Farewell, My Lovely (1940) FINISHED
The High Window (1942) FINISHED
The Lady in the Lake (1943) FINISHED
The Little Sister (1949)
The Long Good-Bye (1953) FINISHED
Playback (1958)
The Innocence of Father Brown (1911) by G.K. Chesterton FINISHED
The Incredulity of Father Brown (1926) FINISHED
Poison Ivy (1937) by Peter Chaney
Can Ladies Kill? (1938)
The Urgent Hangman (1938)
Dark Duet (1942)
The Riddle in the Sands (1903) by Erskine Childers ON LIBBY
The Mysterious Affair at Styles (1920) by Agatha Christie FINISHED
The Murder of Roger Ackroyd (1926) FINISHED
The Big Four (1927) FINISHED
The Mystery of the Blue Train (1928) FINISHED
Miss Marple and The Thirteen Problems (1928) FINISHED
The Seven Dials Mystery (1929) FINISHED
The Murder at the Vicarage (1930) FINISHED
Peril at End House (1931) FINISHED
The Sittaford Mystery (1931) FINISHED
Murder on the Orient Express (1933) FINISHED
Lord Edgware Dies (1933)
The Mysterious Mr. Quin (1933)
Parker Pyne Investigates (1934)
Murder in Mesopotamia (1935)
The ABC Murders (1936) FINISHED
Death on the Nile (1937)
Murder in the Mews (1937)
Ten Little N_______ (1939)
Murder Is Easy (1939)
The Labours of Hercules (1939)
The Body in the Library (1942) FINISHED
The Moving Finger (1942)
Death Comes as the End (1945)
Crooked House (1949) FINISHED
The Deadly Reaper (1956) by Clark Smith
Appointment in New Orleans (1950) by Tod Claymore
Reunion in Florida (1952)
Public Enemy (1953) by Hugh Clevely
The Death of a Millionaire (1925) by G.D.H. Cole and Margaret Cole
The Moonstone (1868) by Wilkie Collins FINISHED
The Dangerfield Talisman (1926) by J.J. Connington
Death at Swaythling Court (1926)
The Case with Nine Solutions (1928)
The Golden Box (1942) by Frances Crane
The Moving Toyshop (1946) by Edmund Crispin
Swan Song (1947)
Buried for Pleasure (1948)
Love Lies Bleeding (1948)
The Long Divorce (1951)
The Cask (1920) by Freeman Wills Crofts
The Groote Park Murder (1923)
Inspector French’s Greatest Case (1924)
The Cheyne Mystery (1926)
Inspector French and the Starvel Tragedy (1927)
The Sea Mystery (1928)
Sir John Magill’s Last Journey (1930)
Mystery in the Channel (1931)
The 12.30 from Croydon (1934)
Crime at Guildford (1935)
The Loss of the Jane Vosper (1936)
Fatal Venture (1939)
Golden Ashes (1940)
Post Mortem (1953) by Guy Cullingford
Conjurer’s Coffin (1954)
Framed for Hanging (1956)
Dead March in Three Keys (1940) by Peter Curtis (Norah Lofts)
The House without a Door (1942) by Elizabeth Daly
Evidence of Things Seen (1943)
The White Priory Murders (1934) by Carter Dickson (John Dickson Carr)
The Plague Court Murders (1934)
The Red Widow Murders (1935)
The Ten Teacups (1937)
The Judas Window (1938)
The Reader is Warned (1939)
And So to Murder (1940)
She Died a Lady (1943)
He Wouldn't Kill Patience (1944)
Shear the Black Sheep (1942) by David Dodge
Bullets for the Bridegroom (1944)
The Long Escape (1948)
The Lights of Skaro (1954)
To Catch A Thief (1952)
The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes (1894) by Arthur Conan Doyle FINISHED
The Hound of the Baskervilles (1902) FINISHED
The Case-Book of Sherlock Holmes (1921) FINISHED
The White Cockatoo (1933) by M.G. Eberhart
The Cases of Susan Dare (1934)
Speak No Evil (1941)
Darling Clementine (1955) by Dorothy Eden
The Horizontal Man (1946) by Helen Eustis
The Missing Link (1952) by Katharine Farrer
The Cretan Counterfeit (1954)
The Big Clock (1946) by Kenneth Fearing
Stealthy Terror (1918) by John Ferguson
The Man in the Dark (1928)
Death Comes to Perigord (1931)
Night in Glengyle (1933)
Remove the Bodies (1941) by Elizabeth Ferrars
Don't Monkey with Murder (1942)
Murder in Time (1953)
The Bandaged Nude (1950) by Robert Finnegan
Death and Mary Dazill (1941) by Mary Fitt
Requiem for Robert (1942)
Death and the Pleasant Voices (1946)
Payment Deferred (1926) by C.S. Forester
Plain Murder (1930)
Rex v. Anne Bickerton (1930) by Sydney Fowler
Reunion with Murder (1941) by Tomothy Fuller
The Widow LeRouge (1866) by Emile Gaboriau
The Mystery of Orcival (1867)
Murder on Leave (1946) by G.V. Galwey
The Lift and the Drop (1951)
The Case of the Howling Dog (1934) by Erle Stanley Gardner
The Case of the Sleepwalkers Niece (1936)
The Case of the Stuttering Bishop (1936)
The Case of the Lame Canary (1937)
The Case of the Shoplifter's Shoe (1938)
The D.A. Holds a Candle (1938)
The Case of the Substitute Face (1938)
The Case of the Rolling Bones (1939)
The Case of The Perjured Parrot (1939)
The D.A. Draws a Circle (1939)
The Case of the Baited Hook (1940)
The Case of the Haunted Husband (1941)
The Case of the Careless Kitten (1942)
The Case of The Drowsy Mosquito (1943)
The Case of the Buried Clock (1943)
The Case of the Crooked Candle (1944)
The DA Calls A Turn (1944)
The Case of the Golddigger's Purse (1945)
The Case of the Half-Wakened Wife (1945)
The Case of the Borrowed Brunette (1946)
The Velvet Well (1946) by John Gearon
The Black Stage (1945) by Anthony Gilbert
Documents Marked "Secret" (1945) by John Gloag
The Leavenworth Case (1878) by Anna Katharine Green ON LIBBY
Reputation for a Song (1952) by Edward Grierson
The Thin Man (1934) by Dashiell Hammett FINISHED
Lady Killer (1957) by William Hardy
Tenant for Death (1937) by Cyril Hare
Death is No Sportsman (1938)
Suicide Excepted (1939)
Tragedy at Law (1942)
With a Bare Bodkin (1946)
An English Murder (1951)
That Yew Tree's Shade (1954)
He Should Have Died Hereafter (1957)
Cork on the Water (1951) by MacDonald Hastings
Cork in Bottle (1953)
Cork and the Serpent (1955)
Cork in the Doghouse (1957)
A Taste For Honey (1941) by Gerald Heard (H.F. Heard)
Fugitive from Murder (1940) by M.V. Heberden
Death in the Stocks (1935) by Georgette Heyer
Famous Trials III (1950) by James H. Hodge, Ed.
Famous Trials 4 (1954)
Night Has a Thousand Eyes (1945) by George Hopley
The Case of the Stuttering Bishop (1936)
The Case of the Lame Canary (1937)
The Case of the Shoplifter's Shoe (1938)
The D.A. Holds a Candle (1938)
The Case of the Substitute Face (1938)
The Case of the Rolling Bones (1939)
The Case of The Perjured Parrot (1939)
The D.A. Draws a Circle (1939)
The Case of the Baited Hook (1940)
The Case of the Haunted Husband (1941)
The Case of the Careless Kitten (1942)
The Case of The Drowsy Mosquito (1943)
The Case of the Buried Clock (1943)
The Case of the Crooked Candle (1944)
The DA Calls A Turn (1944)
The Case of the Golddigger's Purse (1945)
The Case of the Half-Wakened Wife (1945)
The Case of the Borrowed Brunette (1946)
The Velvet Well (1946) by John Gearon
The Black Stage (1945) by Anthony Gilbert
Documents Marked "Secret" (1945) by John Gloag
The Leavenworth Case (1878) by Anna Katharine Green ON LIBBY
Reputation for a Song (1952) by Edward Grierson
The Thin Man (1934) by Dashiell Hammett FINISHED
Lady Killer (1957) by William Hardy
Tenant for Death (1937) by Cyril Hare
Death is No Sportsman (1938)
Suicide Excepted (1939)
Tragedy at Law (1942)
With a Bare Bodkin (1946)
An English Murder (1951)
That Yew Tree's Shade (1954)
He Should Have Died Hereafter (1957)
Cork on the Water (1951) by MacDonald Hastings
Cork in Bottle (1953)
Cork and the Serpent (1955)
Cork in the Doghouse (1957)
A Taste For Honey (1941) by Gerald Heard (H.F. Heard)
Fugitive from Murder (1940) by M.V. Heberden
Death in the Stocks (1935) by Georgette Heyer
Famous Trials III (1950) by James H. Hodge, Ed.
Famous Trials 4 (1954)
Night Has a Thousand Eyes (1945) by George Hopley
Raffles (1899) by E.W. Hornung ON LIBBY
Mr. Justice Raffles (1909)
Rogue Male (1939) by Geoffrey Household
The Murder of My Aunt (1936) by Richard Hull
The Ghost It Was (1936)
Excellent Intentions (1938)
Murder on Safari (1938) by Elspeth Huxley
Death at the President’s Lodging (1936) by Michael Innes
Hamlet, Revenge! (1937)
Stop Press (1939)
There Came Both Mist and Snow (1940)
The Secret Vanguard (1941)
Appleby on Ararat (1941)
The Weight of the Evidence (1943)
The Journeying Boy (1949)
A Private View (1952)
Man From the Sea (1955)
Old Hall, New Hall (1956)
Appleby Plays Chicken (1956)
A Pin to See the Peepshow (1934) by F. Tennyson Jesse
Death Takes Small Bites (1948) by George H. Johnston
Prelude to a Certain Midnight (1947) by Gerald Kersh
Carteret's Cure (1926) by Richard Keverne
William Cook Antique Dealer (1928)
The Sanfield Scandal (1929)
The Fleet Hall Inheritance (1931)
Missing From His Home (1932)
At the Blue Gates (1932)
He Laughed at Murder (1935)
The Three Taps (1927) by Ronald Knox
Murder on My Street (1958) by Edwin Lanham
Blood upon the Snow (1944) by Hilda Lawrence
Death of a Doll (1947)
Duet of Death (1949)
Uncle Silas (1864) by Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu
A Kiss Before Dying (1953) by Ira Levin ON LIBBY
The Kiss of Death (1947) by Eleazar Lipsky
The Rasp (1924) by Philip MacDonald
X v. Rex (1933)
The Bad Seed (1954) by William March ON LIBBY
Famous Trials of Marshall Hall (1950) by Edward Marjoribanks, Ed.
A Man Lay Dead (1934) by Ngaio Marsh FINISHED
Enter a Murderer (1935)
The Nursing Home Murder (1935)
Death in Ecstasy (1936)
Vintage Murder (1937)
Death in a White Tie (1938) FINISHED
Artists in Crime (1938) FINISHED
Overture to Death (1939) FINISHED
Surfeit of Lampreys (1940)
Death at the Bar (1940) FINISHED
Death and the Dancing Footman (1941)
The House of the Arrow (1924) by A.E.W. Mason
An Oxford Tragedy (1933) by J.C. Masterman
The Case of the Four Friends (1956)
He Never Came Back (1954) by Helen McCloy
Deadly Weapon (1946) by Wade Miller
The Red House Mystery (1922) by A.A. Milne ON LIBBY
The Mystery of a Butcher's Shop (1929) by Gladys Mitchell
The Longer Bodies (1930)
Death at the Opera (1934)
Come Away, Death (1937)
Laurels are Poison (1942)
Tom Brown's Body (1949)
Faintley Speaking (1954)
Watson's Choice (1955)
Twelve Horses and the Hangman's Noose (1956)
The Twenty-Third Man (1957)
Spotted Hemlock (1958)
The King and the Corpse (1948) by Max Murray
The Right Honourable Corpse (1952)
The Doctor and the Corpse (1953)
Royal Bed for a Corpse (1955)
The Rod of Anger (1953) by Derrick Nabarro
The Nightwalkers (1947) by James Norman
The Mysterious Mickey Finn (1939) by Elliot Paul
Verdict of Twelve (1940) by Raymond Postgate
The Ledger is Kept (1953)
The Diehard (1956) by Jean Potts
Information Received (1933) by E.R. Punshon
Crossword Mystery (1934)
Mystery Villa (1934)
The Roman Hat Mystery (1929) by Ellery Queen ON LIBBY
The French Powder Mystery (1930) ON LIBBY
The Dutch Shoe Mystery (1931) ON LIBBY
The Greek Coffin Mystery (1932) ON LIBBY
The Siamese Twin Mystery (1933) ON LIBBY
The American Gun Mystery (1933) ON LIBBY
The Chinese Orange Mystery (1934) ON LIBBY
The Spanish Cape Mystery (1935) ON LIBBY
The Door Between (1937) ON LIBBY
The Four of Hearts (1938) ON LIBBY
The King is Dead (1952) ON LIBBY
Puzzle for Fiends (1946) by Patrick Quentin
The Follower (1950)
The Man in the Net (1956)
The Cambridge Murders (1945) by Dilwyn Rees (Glyn Daniel)
The House on Tollard Ridge (1929) by John Rhode
Trial by Fury (1941) by Craig Rice
The Circular Staircase (1908) by Mary Roberts Rinehart
The Yellow Room (1945)
The Mystery of Dr. Fu-Manchu (1913) by Sax Rohmer
The Content Assignment (1954) by Holly Roth
The Sleeper (1955)
The Mask of Glass (1955)
Shadow of a Lady (1957)
Telling of Murder (1952) by Douglas Rutherford
Comes the Blind Fury (1953)
Night of the Horns (1961) by Douglas Sanderson
The Unpleasantness at the Bellona Club (1928) by Dorothy L. Sayers FINISHED
Documents in the Case (1930)
A Crime in Holland and A Face for a Clue (1931) by Simenon
A Battle of Nerves and At the 'Gai-Moulin' (1931)
The Man from Everywhere and Newhaven-Dieppe (1931/1934)
In Two Latitudes (1932)
Maigret and the Burglar's Wife (1934)
The Murderer (1937)
Poisoned Relations (1938)
Havoc by Accident (1943)
Escape in Vain (1943)
To Any Lengths (1944)
On the Danger Line (1944)
Lost Moorings (1946)
The Hatter's Ghosts (1947)
Maigret's First Case (1949)
My Friend Maigret (1949)
Maigret in Montmartre (1951)
Maigret's Revolver (1952)
Maigret Sits it Out (1952)
Maigret's Mistake (1953)
The Speaking Eye (1955) by Clark Smith
Not Wanted on Voyage (1951)
The Evil of the Day (1955) by Thomas Sterling
Fer-de-Lance (1934) by Rex Stout FINISHED
The League of Frightened Men (1935) FINISHED
Red Threads (1939)
The Short Weekend (1953) by T.S. Strachan
The Missing Moneylender (1931) by W. Stanley Sykes
The Immaterial Murder Case (1945) by Julian Symons
The Man With My Face (1948) by Samuel W. Taylor
The Franchise Affair (1948) by Josephine Tey ON LIBBY
The Daughter of Time (1951) FINISHED
Docken Dead (1953) by John Trench
Dishonoured Bones (1954)
Man of Two Tribes (1956) by Arthur W. Upfield
The Battling Prophet (1956)
Department of Dead Ends (1949) by Roy Vickers
Murdering Mr. Velfrage (1950)
Don Among the Dead Men (1952) by C.E. Vulliamy
The Verdict of You All (1926) by Henry Wade
Policeman's Lot (1933)
Here Comes the Copper (1938)
Diamonds For Moscow (1953) by David Walker
The Four Just Men (1905) by Edgar Wallace
The Doors of Sleep (1955) by Thurman Warriner
The Invisible Man (1897) by H.G. Wells ON LIBBY
The Watersplash (1953) by Patricia Wentworth
The Wheel Spins (1933) by Ethel Lina White
Many Dimensions (1930) by Charles Williams
Mr. Justice Raffles (1909)
Rogue Male (1939) by Geoffrey Household
The Murder of My Aunt (1936) by Richard Hull
The Ghost It Was (1936)
Excellent Intentions (1938)
Murder on Safari (1938) by Elspeth Huxley
Death at the President’s Lodging (1936) by Michael Innes
Hamlet, Revenge! (1937)
Stop Press (1939)
There Came Both Mist and Snow (1940)
The Secret Vanguard (1941)
Appleby on Ararat (1941)
The Weight of the Evidence (1943)
The Journeying Boy (1949)
A Private View (1952)
Man From the Sea (1955)
Old Hall, New Hall (1956)
Appleby Plays Chicken (1956)
A Pin to See the Peepshow (1934) by F. Tennyson Jesse
Death Takes Small Bites (1948) by George H. Johnston
Prelude to a Certain Midnight (1947) by Gerald Kersh
Carteret's Cure (1926) by Richard Keverne
William Cook Antique Dealer (1928)
The Sanfield Scandal (1929)
The Fleet Hall Inheritance (1931)
Missing From His Home (1932)
At the Blue Gates (1932)
He Laughed at Murder (1935)
The Three Taps (1927) by Ronald Knox
Murder on My Street (1958) by Edwin Lanham
Blood upon the Snow (1944) by Hilda Lawrence
Death of a Doll (1947)
Duet of Death (1949)
Uncle Silas (1864) by Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu
A Kiss Before Dying (1953) by Ira Levin ON LIBBY
The Kiss of Death (1947) by Eleazar Lipsky
The Rasp (1924) by Philip MacDonald
X v. Rex (1933)
The Bad Seed (1954) by William March ON LIBBY
Famous Trials of Marshall Hall (1950) by Edward Marjoribanks, Ed.
A Man Lay Dead (1934) by Ngaio Marsh FINISHED
Enter a Murderer (1935)
The Nursing Home Murder (1935)
Death in Ecstasy (1936)
Vintage Murder (1937)
Death in a White Tie (1938) FINISHED
Artists in Crime (1938) FINISHED
Overture to Death (1939) FINISHED
Surfeit of Lampreys (1940)
Death at the Bar (1940) FINISHED
Death and the Dancing Footman (1941)
The House of the Arrow (1924) by A.E.W. Mason
An Oxford Tragedy (1933) by J.C. Masterman
The Case of the Four Friends (1956)
He Never Came Back (1954) by Helen McCloy
Deadly Weapon (1946) by Wade Miller
The Red House Mystery (1922) by A.A. Milne ON LIBBY
The Mystery of a Butcher's Shop (1929) by Gladys Mitchell
The Longer Bodies (1930)
Death at the Opera (1934)
Come Away, Death (1937)
Laurels are Poison (1942)
Tom Brown's Body (1949)
Faintley Speaking (1954)
Watson's Choice (1955)
Twelve Horses and the Hangman's Noose (1956)
The Twenty-Third Man (1957)
Spotted Hemlock (1958)
The King and the Corpse (1948) by Max Murray
The Right Honourable Corpse (1952)
The Doctor and the Corpse (1953)
Royal Bed for a Corpse (1955)
The Rod of Anger (1953) by Derrick Nabarro
The Nightwalkers (1947) by James Norman
The Mysterious Mickey Finn (1939) by Elliot Paul
Verdict of Twelve (1940) by Raymond Postgate
The Ledger is Kept (1953)
The Diehard (1956) by Jean Potts
Information Received (1933) by E.R. Punshon
Crossword Mystery (1934)
Mystery Villa (1934)
The Roman Hat Mystery (1929) by Ellery Queen ON LIBBY
The French Powder Mystery (1930) ON LIBBY
The Dutch Shoe Mystery (1931) ON LIBBY
The Greek Coffin Mystery (1932) ON LIBBY
The Siamese Twin Mystery (1933) ON LIBBY
The American Gun Mystery (1933) ON LIBBY
The Chinese Orange Mystery (1934) ON LIBBY
The Spanish Cape Mystery (1935) ON LIBBY
The Door Between (1937) ON LIBBY
The Four of Hearts (1938) ON LIBBY
The King is Dead (1952) ON LIBBY
Puzzle for Fiends (1946) by Patrick Quentin
The Follower (1950)
The Man in the Net (1956)
The Cambridge Murders (1945) by Dilwyn Rees (Glyn Daniel)
The House on Tollard Ridge (1929) by John Rhode
Trial by Fury (1941) by Craig Rice
The Circular Staircase (1908) by Mary Roberts Rinehart
The Yellow Room (1945)
The Mystery of Dr. Fu-Manchu (1913) by Sax Rohmer
The Content Assignment (1954) by Holly Roth
The Sleeper (1955)
The Mask of Glass (1955)
Shadow of a Lady (1957)
Telling of Murder (1952) by Douglas Rutherford
Comes the Blind Fury (1953)
Night of the Horns (1961) by Douglas Sanderson
The Unpleasantness at the Bellona Club (1928) by Dorothy L. Sayers FINISHED
Documents in the Case (1930)
A Crime in Holland and A Face for a Clue (1931) by Simenon
A Battle of Nerves and At the 'Gai-Moulin' (1931)
The Man from Everywhere and Newhaven-Dieppe (1931/1934)
In Two Latitudes (1932)
Maigret and the Burglar's Wife (1934)
The Murderer (1937)
Poisoned Relations (1938)
Havoc by Accident (1943)
Escape in Vain (1943)
To Any Lengths (1944)
On the Danger Line (1944)
Lost Moorings (1946)
The Hatter's Ghosts (1947)
Maigret's First Case (1949)
My Friend Maigret (1949)
Maigret in Montmartre (1951)
Maigret's Revolver (1952)
Maigret Sits it Out (1952)
Maigret's Mistake (1953)
The Speaking Eye (1955) by Clark Smith
Not Wanted on Voyage (1951)
The Evil of the Day (1955) by Thomas Sterling
Fer-de-Lance (1934) by Rex Stout FINISHED
The League of Frightened Men (1935) FINISHED
Red Threads (1939)
The Short Weekend (1953) by T.S. Strachan
The Missing Moneylender (1931) by W. Stanley Sykes
The Immaterial Murder Case (1945) by Julian Symons
The Man With My Face (1948) by Samuel W. Taylor
The Franchise Affair (1948) by Josephine Tey ON LIBBY
The Daughter of Time (1951) FINISHED
Docken Dead (1953) by John Trench
Dishonoured Bones (1954)
Man of Two Tribes (1956) by Arthur W. Upfield
The Battling Prophet (1956)
Department of Dead Ends (1949) by Roy Vickers
Murdering Mr. Velfrage (1950)
Don Among the Dead Men (1952) by C.E. Vulliamy
The Verdict of You All (1926) by Henry Wade
Policeman's Lot (1933)
Here Comes the Copper (1938)
Diamonds For Moscow (1953) by David Walker
The Four Just Men (1905) by Edgar Wallace
The Doors of Sleep (1955) by Thurman Warriner
The Invisible Man (1897) by H.G. Wells ON LIBBY
The Watersplash (1953) by Patricia Wentworth
The Wheel Spins (1933) by Ethel Lina White
Many Dimensions (1930) by Charles Williams
