Mystery Literature

Literature that falls into the Mystery Fiction genre. See also Crime Fiction, Historical Detective Fiction and Detective Literature. For a list of related tropes, see Mystery Tropes. For a much larger database of mystery literature, see the Books and Bytes Mystery Index.

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• 87th Precinct series
• A Blunt Instrument
• Absolutely Truly
  • Yours Truly
• Accidental Detectives
• The Adrien English Mysteries
• Adventures on Trains
• The Affinity Bridge
• The Agathas
  • The Night in Question
• Agaton Sax
• Albert Campion
• Alex Delaware
• The Alienist
• All the Sinners Bleed
• Almost Perfect Crimes
• Amelia Peabody
  • Crocodile on the Sandbank
  • Lion in the Valley
  • The Last Camel Died at Noon
  • Children of the Storm
• And Then There Were None
• The Angel's Game
• Angie's First Case
• Anna Pigeon
• Anonymous Rex
• The Apothecary Diaries
• The Appeal
• Argylle
• Arsène Lupin
• A to Z Mysteries
• Azure Rain
• Babylon
• Adam Dalgliesh
• Beautiful Bones: Sakurako's Investigation
• The Beetle
• Behind the Attic Wall
• Benjamin January
• Ben Safford Mysteries
• Ben Snow
• Bernie Rhodenbarr
• Bimbos of the Death Sun
• Black Duck
• Black Widowers
  • Tales of the Black Widowers
  • More Tales Of The Black Widowers
  • Casebook of the Black Widowers
  • Banquets Of The Black Widowers
  • Puzzles Of The Black Widowers
  • The Return of the Black Widowers
  • "The Overheard Conversation" by Edward D. Hoch
• Blood Work
• Bone Song
• Bony
• The Boxcar Children
• Brat Farrar
• Bret King Mysteries
• Brother Cadfael
• Bubbles in Space
• The Bright Falls Mysteries
• The Business Of Dying
• Calendar Mysteries
• Cam Jansen
• Carnacki the Ghost-Finder
• Case File nº221: Kabukicho
• The Case Files of Jeweler Richard
• The Case Files of Yakushiji Ryoko
• A Case of Need
• Cassie Dewell
• The Cat in the Stacks Mysteries
• The Cat Who... Series
• C. Auguste Dupin series
• Charlie Chan
• Charlie Parker Series
• The Charlotte and Thomas Pitt Series
• Chet and Bernie
• Chief Inspector Armand Gamache
• Chronicle of a Death Foretold
• Chocoholic Mysteries
• La città vuota
• The City & the City
• City of Devils
• Claudius Lyon
• The Clairvoyant Countess
• The Cloisters
• The Club of Queer Trades
• Clue
• Colt Regan
• Cop Craft
• Corinna Chapman
• Cormoran Strike Novels
• The Cousins
• The Crowner John Mysteries
• A Cry in the Night
• The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time
• Daniel Hawthorne Novels (The Sentence Is Death and The Word is Murder)
• Damnatio Memoriae
• The Dark Maidens
• Darkness Visible
• The Daughter of Time
• D. D. Warren series:
  • Novels:
    • Alone
    • Hide
    • The Neighbor
    • Live to Tell
    • Love You More
    • Catch Me
    • Fear Nothing
    • Find Her
    • Look for Me
    • Never Tell
    • When You See Me (Crossover with the FBI Profiler Series)
  • Other Stories:
    • "The Guy Who Died Twice"
    • "The Seventh Month"
    • "Three Truths and a Lie"
    • "The Laughing Buddha" (Crossover)
• Dead Is
• Dead Silver
• Death Comes as the End
• The Detective is Already Dead
• Detectives in Togas
• The Devotion of Suspect X
• Diamond Brothers
  • The Falcon's Malteser
  • South by South East
  • Where Seagulls Dare
• Differently Morphous
• The Dinner
• The Documents in the Case
• The Dogs of Babel
• Don't Look Back
• The Dresden Files
• Dr. Gideon Fell
• Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Holmes
• Dublin Murder Squad
  • In the Woods
  • The Likeness
• Dust and Shadow: An Account of the Ripper Killings by Dr. John H. Watson
• Early Riser
• Easytown
• Echo Falls Mysteries
• Eddie LaCrosse
  • The Sword-Edged Blonde
  • Burn Me Deadly
  • Dark Jenny
  • Wake of the Bloody Angel
  • He Drank, and Saw the Spider
• Ellery Queen
  • The King Is Dead
• Emma
• Encyclopedia Brown
• Enola Holmes
• Erast Fandorin series
  • The Winter Queen
  • Murder on the Leviathan
  • The Death of Achilles
  • Special Assignments
  • The Coronation
  • She Lover of Death
  • He Lover of Death
• Everyone In My Family Has Killed Someone
• Extraordinary Adventures Of The Athena Club series
  • The Strange Case of the Alchemist's Daughter
  • European Travel For The Monstrous Gentlewoman
  • The Sinister Mystery of the Mesmerizing Girl
• A Fable of Tonight
• Fair Warning'
• The Face on the Milk Carton
• Family Skeleton Mysteries
• Father Brown
• The Father Luke Wolfe Trilogy
• FBI Profiler Series
  • Novels:
    • The Perfect Husband
    • The Third Victim
    • The Next Accident
    • The Killing Hour
    • Gone
    • Say Goodbye
    • Right Behind You
    • When You See Me (crossover with the D. D. Warren series)
  • Other Works: "The Fourth Man"
• The Fear Index
• Felse Investigates
• Fifty Feet of Trouble
• Finnegan Zwake
• Flavia de Luce
• Four Faultless Felons
• Fun Jungle
• Garrett, P.I.
  • Sweet Silver Blues
  • Bitter Gold Hearts
  • Cold Copper Tears
  • Old Tin Sorrows
  • Dread Brass Shadows
  • Red Iron Nights
• Geist Series
• Get Blank
• Ghosts of the Titanic
• The Glass Books of the Dream Eaters
• Gorky Park
• Gosick
• Goth
• Greenglass House
• Hayley Powell Food and Cocktails Mysteries
• Hamish Macbeth
• Hannah Swensen
• The Hardy Boys
• Harry Bosch
  • Angels Flight
  • The Black Box
  • The Black Echo
  • The Black Ice
  • The Burning Room
  • City of Bones (2002)
  • The Concrete Blonde
  • The Crossing (2015)
  • Dark Sacred Night
  • The Drop
  • The Last Coyote
  • Lost Light
  • The Narrows
  • The Night Fire
  • 9 Dragons
  • The Overlook
  • Trunk Music
  • Two Kinds of Truth
  • The Wrong Side of Goodbye
• Harry Hole
• Haunted (1988)
• Hercule Poirot
  • The ABC Murders
  • After the Funeral
  • Cards on the Table
  • Cat Among the Pigeons
  • The Clocks
  • Curtain
  • Death in the Clouds
  • Death on the Nile
  • Evil Under the Sun
  • Five Little Pigs
  • Hallowe'en Party
  • Hercule Poirot's Christmas
  • Lord Edgware Dies
  • Murder in Mesopotamia
  • The Murder of Roger Ackroyd
  • The Murder on the Links
  • Murder on the Orient Express
  • The Mysterious Affair at Styles
  • The Mystery of the Blue Train
  • One, Two, Buckle My Shoe
  • Peril at End House
  • Poirot Investigates
  • Sad Cypress
  • Dumb Witness
  • The New Hercule Poirot Mysteries
• Her Majesty The Queen Investigates
• Hilary Tamar
• The Historian
• Holmes on the Range
• Hope Stapleford Mysteries
• I Heard That Song Before
• In Death
• In Hero Years, I'm Dead
• In The Snows Of Haz
• The Inheritance Games
• Inspector Imanishi Investigates
• Inspector Lynley
• Inspector Morse
• Inspector Rutledge
• In/Spectre
• An Instance of the Fingerpost
• Intruder in the Dust
• The L.A. Quartet.
  • The Black Dahlia
  • The Big Nowhere
  • L.A. Confidential
  • White Jazz
• Jack Caffery
  • Birdman
  • The Treatment
  • Ritual
  • Skin
  • Gone
  • Poppet
  • Wolf
• Jaine Austen Mysteries
• Jane, Unlimited
• Jesse Stone
• Jo Gar
• Joe Grey
• Joe Pickett
• John Putnam Thatcher
• J.P. Beaumont
• Judge Dee
• Judge Knott
• Julian Kestrel
• Kate Shugak
• Kiki Strike
• Kinky Friedman
• Kinsey Millhone
  • 'A' Is for Alibi (1982)
  • 'B' Is for Burglar (1985)
  • 'C' Is for Corpse (1986)
  • 'D' Is for Deadbeat (1987)
  • 'E' Is for Evidence (1988)
  • 'F' Is for Fugitive (1989)
  • 'G' Is for Gumshoe (1990)
  • 'H' Is for Homicide (1991)
  • 'I' Is for Innocent (1992)
  • 'J' Is for Judgment (1993)
  • 'K' Is for Killer (1994)
  • 'L' Is for Lawless (1995)
  • 'M' Is for Malice (1996)
  • 'N' Is for Noose (1998)
  • 'O' Is for Outlaw (1999)
  • 'P' Is for Peril (2001)
  • 'Q' Is for Quarry (2002)
  • 'R' Is for Ricochet (2004)
  • 'S' Is for Silence (2005)
  • 'T' Is for Trespass (2007)
  • 'U' Is for Undertow (2009)
  • 'V' Is for Vengeance (2011)
  • 'W' Is for Wasted (2013)
  • 'X' (2015)
  • 'Y' Is for Yesterday (2017)
• Kovac & Liska
  • Ashes to Ashes
  • Dust to Dust
  • Prior Bad Acts
  • The 1st Victim
  • The 9th Girl
  • Cold, Cold Heart
  • The Bitter Season
• Labyrinth
• The Labyrinth of Spirits
• Lady Audley's Secret
• The Lady Grace Mysteries
• The Last Policeman
• The Law and the Lady
• League Of Literary Ladies
• Leaphorn & Chee
• Lessons for a Perfect Detective Story
• Let Me Call You Sweetheart
• Light Thickens
• Linked
• The Lodger
• Lord Darcy
• Lord Peter Wimsey
  • Whose Body?
  • Clouds of Witness
  • Unnatural Death
  • The Unpleasantness at the Bellona Club
  • Strong Poison
  • The Five Red Herrings
  • Have His Carcase
  • Murder Must Advertise
  • The Nine Tailors
  • Gaudy Night
• Madeline Dare
  • A Field of Darkness
  • The Crazy School
  • Invisible Boy
  • Valley of Ashes
• Magpie Murders
• The Man Who Knew Too Much
• The Manual of Detection
• Marcus Didius Falco
• Martin Beck
• Mary Russell
• Matthew Hawkwood
• Meg Langslow Mysteries
• Midnight Louie
• Mike Hammer
• Miles Pennoyer series
  • Number Seven Queer Street
  • The Case of the Double Husband
• Millennium
• The Mirage
• Miss Marple
  • At Bertram's Hotel
  • The Body in the Library
  • A Caribbean Mystery
  • The Mirror Crack'd from Side to Side
  • The Moving Finger
  • The Murder at the Vicarage
  • A Murder Is Announced
  • The Thirteen Problems
• Missing Since Monday
• Mistress of the Art of Death
• Montague Egg
• Moon Base Alpha
  • Space Case
  • Spaced Out (2016)
  • Waste of Space
• Moonlight Becomes You
• The Moonstone
• Morris and Chastain Investigations
• Mr Blank
• Mrs. Murphy Mysteries
• Murder at Colefax Manor
• Murder of a Lady
• Myron Bolitar Series
• The Mysterious Disappearance of Leon (I mean Noel)
• The Mysterious Mr. Quin
• Mystery in White
• Mystery of the Witches' Bridge
• Nadia Stafford series
• The Name of the Rose
• Nancy Drew
• Nero Wolfe
  • Fer-de-lance
  • The League of Frightened Men
  • The Rubber Band
  • The Red Box
  • Too Many Cooks
  • Some Buried Caesar
  • Over My Dead Body
  • Where There's a Will
  • The Silent Speaker
  • Too Many Women
  • And Be a Villain
  • The Second Confession
  • In the Best Families
  • Murder by the Book
  • Prisoner's Base
  • A Family Affair
• Others
• Nerve Zero
• Newbury And Hobbes
• The New York Trilogy
• Nick Velvet
• Night Film
• Nighttime Is My Time
• No Country for Old Men
• Nursery Crime
• Obsidian & Blood
• October Daye
• One of Us is Lying
• On the Street Where You Live
• The Order of Melkizedek
• The Osiris Ritual
• Owen Archer
• Parker Pyne Investigates
• Penny Parker
• The Perfect Insider
• Perry Mason
• Philip Marlowe
  • The Big Sleep
  • Farewell, My Lovely
  • The High Window
  • The Lady in the Lake
  • The Little Sister
  • The Long Goodbye
  • Playback
• Photo Finish
• Phryne Fisher series
• Picnic at Hanging Rock
• The Poet
• The Poet and the Lunatics
• Point of Honour
• Pretty Boy Detective Club
• The Prisoner of Heaven
• Project NRI
• Prudence Penderhaus
• Psychic Detective Yakumo
• Put the Sepia On
• Remember Me (1989)
• Retrieval Artist
• Riley McDaniels
• Ripper (2014)
• Rokka: Braves of the Six Flowers
• The Roman Mysteries
• The Roman Mystery Scrolls
• Rule of Four
• Rules Of The Scam Mysteries
• The Sage Adair Historical Mysteries
• Sally Lockhart series
• The Salmon of Doubt
• Sam Jones
• Sammy Keyes
• The Sano Ichiro series
• The Sarah Bain series
• The Satan Bug
• The Savannah Reid Mysteries
• The Scarecrow
• Scarlett Undercover
• Secret Santa (2004)
• The Secret Adventures of Charlotte Brontë
• The Secret History
• Set This House in Order
• The Seven Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle
• The Shadow of the Wind
• Shady Hollow
• Sheriff Joanna Brady
• Sherlock Holmes
  • A Study in Scarlet
  • The Sign of the Four
  • The Hound of the Baskervilles
  • The Valley of Fear
• The Sherlock Holmes Stories of Edward D. Hoch
• The Sherlockian
• Sherlock in Love
• A Shilling for Candles
• The Silence of Bones
• The Silence of Murder
• Sid Halley
• Simon Ark
• Sir Henry Merrivale
• Sister Fidelma
• Sister Pelagia
• The Sittaford Mystery
• Six Suspects
• Six Wakes
• Slugfest
• Small Change
• Smaller & Smaller Circles
• Soft Desire
• Solar Pons
• The Somnambulist
• The Sookie Stackhouse Mysteries
• Sophie's World
• Southern Ladies Mysteries (spinoff of The Cat in the Stacks Mysteries)
• Southern Sisters Mysteries
• Sparkling Cyanide
• Special Topics In Calamity Physics
• Spellman Files
• Spenser
• SPQR
• The Stanley Family
• The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
• Sugawara Akitada
• Sunny Randall
• Superintendent Battle
  • Murder is Easy
• T*A*C*K
• A Tale Etched in Blood and Hard Black Pencil
• "Talma Gordon"
• Tantei Team KZ Jiken Note
• Tarot Mysteries
• Tea Shop Mysteries
• Teen Power Inc.
• Ten
• Thieves Gambit
• The Thin Man
• Think Twice
• The Thinking Machine
• Thraxas
• The Three Investigators
• The Thursday Murder Club
• Tita Rosie's Kitchen Mysteries
  • Arsenic and Adobo
  • Homicide and Halo-Halo
  • Blackmail and Bibingka
• Tommy and Tuppence
• To Say Nothing of the Dog
• The Tournament
• Towards Zero
• Traces
• Travis McGee
• The Treasure of Alpheus Winterborn
• The Trees of Pride
• Tricky Business
• Trixie Belden
• Troubleshooters
• Truth or Dare (2000)
• Two Can Keep A Secret
• Two-Minute Mysteries
• Undead Girl Murder Farce
• Undead on Arrival
• Under Suspicion (Series)
  • I've Got You Under My Skin
  • The Cinderella Murder
  • All Dressed in White
  • The Sleeping Beauty Killer
  • Every Breath You Take
  • You Don't Own Me
  • Piece of My Heart
• The Unholy Three
• Vatican Miracle Examiner
• Vera Wong's Unsolicited Advice For Murderers
• Vigilauntie Justice
• A Void
• Wallander
• Wax
• The Western Mysteries
• The Westing Game
• Donald Westlake
  • Somebody Owes Me Money
  • Sam Holt
  • The Cutie
  • Mitch Tobin
• West Meadows Detectives
• Where Are the Children?
• While My Pretty One Sleeps
• Who Censored Roger Rabbit?
• Whodunit Mysteries
• The Word Is Murder
• The Yiddish Policemen's Union
• You Be the Jury
• You Killed Wesley Payne

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