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Voltaire

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Howard Haycraft was a historian of the detective story and chose the books he believed formed cornerstones in detective fiction. Mystery writer Ellery Queen then added those titles he thought should be included.

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1748:

Voltaire, Zadig

1828:

Francois Eugene Vidocq, Memoires De Vidocq

1845:

Edgar Allan Poe, Tales

1852:

Charles Dickens, Bleak House

1856:

William "Waters" Russell, Recollections of a Detective Police-officer

1860:

Wilkie Collins, The Woman in White

1862:

Victor Hugo, Les Miserables

1866:

Feodor Dostoevsky, Crime and Punishment

1866:

Emile Gaboriau, L'affaire Lerouge

1867:

Emile Gaboriau, Le Dossier No. 113

1868:

Emile Gaboriau, The Mystery of Orcival

1868:

Wilkie Collins, The Moonstone

1869:

Emile Gaboriau, Monsieur Lecoq

1870:

Charles Dickens, The Mystery of Edwin Drood

1872:

Harlan Page Halsey, Old Sleuth, the Detective

1874:

Allan Pinkerton, The Expressman and the Detective

1878:

Anna Katharine Green, The Leavenworth Case

1882:

Robert Louis Stevenson, New Arabian Nights

1886:

Robert Louis Stevenson, Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde

1887:

A. Conan Doyle, A Study in Scarlet

1887:

Fergus W. Hume, The Mystery of a Hansom Cab

1890:

A. Conan Doyle, The Sign of Four

1892:

A. Conan Doyle, The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes

1892:

Israel Zangwill, The Big Bow Mystery

1894:

Arthur Morrison, Martin Hewitt, Investigator

1894:

Mark Twain, The Tragedy of Pudd'nhead Wilson

1894:

A. Conan Doyle, The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes

1895:

M.P. Shiel, Prince Zaleski

1897:

Bram Stoker, Dracula

1899:

E.W. Hornung, The Amateur Cracksman

1902:

A. Conan Doyle, The Hound of the Baskervilles

1903:

Erskine Childers, The Riddle of the Sands

1905:

A. Conan Doyle, The Return of Sherlock Holmes

1906:

Godfrey R. Benson, Tracks in the Snow

1906:

Robert Barr, The Triumphs of Eugene Valmont

1907:

Maurice Leblanc, Arsene Lupin

1907:

Gaston Leroux, Le Mystere De La Chambre Jaune

1907:

Jacques Futrelle, The Thinking Machine

1907:

R. Austin Freeman, The Red Thumb Mark

1908:

Gaston Leroux, Le Parfum De La Dame En Noir

1908:

Mary Roberts Rinehart, The Circular Staircase

1908:

O. Henry, The Gentle Grafter

1908:

G.K. Chesterton, The Man Who Was Thursday

1909:

R. Austin Freeman, John Thorndyke's Cases

1909:

Carolyn Wells, The Clue

1909:

Cleveland Moffett, Through the Wall

1909:

Baroness Orczy, The Old Man in the Corner

1910:

Maurice Leblanc, 813

1910:

A.E.W. Mason, At the Villa Rose

1910:

William MacHarg, The Achievements of Luther Trent

1911:

R. Austin Freeman, The Eye of Osiris

1911:

G.K. Chesterton, The Innocence of Father Brown

1912:

R. Austin Freeman, The Singing Bone

1912:

Arthur B. Reeve, The Silent Bullet

1913:

E.C. Bentley, Trent's Last Case

1913:

Mrs. Belloc Lowndes, The Lodger

1913:

Sax Rohmer, The Mystery of Dr Fu-Manchu

1914:

Ernest Bramah, Max Carrados

1914:

Louis Joseph Vance, The Lone Wolf

1915:

A. Conan Doyle, The Valley of Fear

1915:

John Buchan, The Thirty-Nine Steps

1916:

Thomas Burke, Limehouse Nights

1917:

A. Conan Doyle, His Last Bow

1918:

Melville Davisson Post, Uncle Abner

1918:

J.S. Fletcher, The Middle Temple Murder

1920:

Cyril "Sapper" McNeile, Bull-dog Drummond

1920:

H.C. Bailey, Call Mr. Fortune

1920:

Freeman Wills Crofts, The Cask

1920:

Arthur Train, Tutt and Mr. Tutt

1920:

Agatha Christie, The Mysterious Affair at Styles

1921:

Eden Phillpotts, The Grey Room

1922:

Maurice Leblanc, Les Huits Coups De L'horloge

1922:

A.A. Milne, The Red House Mystery

1923:

G.D.H. Cole, The Brooklyn Murders

1923:

Dorothy L. Sayers, Whose Body?

1924:

Freeman Wills Crofts, Inspector French's Greatest Case

1924:

Philip MacDonald, The Rasp

1924:

A.E.W. Mason, The House of the Arrow

1925:

Theodore Dreiser, An American Tragedy

1925:

Ronald A. Knox, The Viaduct Murder

1925:

John Rhode, The Paddington Mystery

1925:

Earl Derr Biggers, The House Without a Key

1925:

Edgar Wallace, The Mind of Mr. J.G. Reeder

1925:

Liam O'Flaherty, The Informer

1926:

C.S. Forester, Payment Deferred

1926:

S.S. Van Dine, The Benson Murder Case

1926:

Agatha Christie, The Murder of Roger Ackroyd

1927:

Frances Noyes Hart, The Bellamy Trial

1927:

S.S. Van Dine, The Canary Murder Case

1927:

A. Conan Doyle, The Case-book of Sherlock Holmes

1928:

W. Somerset Maugham, Ashenden

1928:

John Rhode, The Murders in Praed Street

1929:

T.S. Stribling, Clues of the Caribbees

1929:

Harvey J. O'Higgins, Detective Duff Unravels It

1929:

W.R. Burnett, Little Caesar

1929:

Rufus King, Murder By the Clock

1929:

Ellery Queen, The Roman Hat Mystery

1929:

Anthony Berkeley, The Poisoned Chocolates Case

1929:

Mignon G. Eberhart, The Patient in Room 18

1930:

Frederick Irving Anderson, The Book of Murder

1930:

Dorothy L. Sayers, The Documents in the Case

1930:

Dashiell Hammett, The Maltese Falcon

1930:

David Frome, The Hammersmith Murders

1931:

Francis Beeding, Death Walks in Eastrepps

1931:

Damon Runyon, Guys and Dolls

1931:

James Hilton, Murder at School

1931:

Phoebe Atwood Taylor, The Cape Cod Mystery

1931:

Stuart Palmer, The Penguin Pool Murder

1931:

Dashiell Hammett, The Glass Key

1932:

Anthony Berkeley, Before the Fact

1932:

Clemence Dane, Re-enter Sir John

1932:

Ellery Queen, The Tragedy of Y

1932:

Ellery Queen, The Tragedy of X

1932:

H.C. Bailey, The Red Castle

1932:

R.A.J. Walling, The Fatal Five Minutes

1933:

Erle Stanley Gardner, The Case of the Sulky Girl

1933:

Erle Stanley Gardner, The Case of the Velvet Claws

1934:

Margery Allingham, Death of a Ghost

1934:

Rex Stout, Fer-de-lance

1934:

James M. Cain, The Postman Always Rings Twice

1934:

Dorothy L. Sayers, The Nine Tailors

1935:

John P. Marquand, No Hero

1935:

Rex Stout, The League of Frightened Men

1935:

Richard Hull, The Murder of My Aunt

1937:

Anthony Berkeley, Trial and Error

1938:

Graham Greene, Brighton Rock

1938:

Clayton Rawson, Death from a Top Hat

1938:

Michael Innes, Lament for a Maker

1938:

Daphne Du Maurier, Rebecca

1938:

Cecil Day-Lewis, The Beast Must Die

1938:

John Dickson Carr, The Crooked Hinge

1938:

Mabel Seeley, The Listening House

1938:

Philip MacDonald, The Nursemaid Who Disappeared

1938:

John Dickson Carr, The Judas Window

1939:

Eric Ambler, The Mask of Dimitrios

1939:

Raymond Chandler, The Big Sleep

1939:

Ngaio Marsh, Overture to Death

1939:

Georges Simenon, The Patience of Maigret

1940:

Manning Coles, Pray Silence

1940:

Manning Coles, Drink to Yesterday

1940:

Raymond Chandler, Farewell, My Lovely

1940:

Cornell Woolrich, The Bride Wore Black

1940:

Raymond Postgate, Verdict of Twelve

1940:

Dorothy B. Hughes, The So Blue Marble

1940:

Frances and Richard Lockridge, The Norths Meet Murder

1941:

H.F. (Gerald) Heard, A Taste for Honey

1941:

Craig Rice, Trial By Fury

1941:

Manning Coles, A Toast to Tomorrow

1942:

Ellery Queen, Calamity Town

1942:

Cornell Woolrich, Phantom Lady

1942:

Anthony Boucher, Rocket to the Morgue

1942:

James Gould Cozzens, The Just and the Unjust

1944:

Hilda Lawrence, Blood Upon the Snow

1944:

Craig Rice, Home Sweet Homicide

1944:

Dashiell Hammett, The Adventures of Sam Spade

1946:

Lillian de la Torre, Dr. Sam Johnson, Detector

1946:

Charlotte Armstrong, The Unsuspected

1946:

Helen Eustis, The Horizontal Man

1946:

Edmund Crispin, The Moving Toyshop

1947:

Dorothy B. Hughes, In a Lonely Place

1947:

Edgar Lustgarten, One More Unfortunate

1947:

Roy Vickers, The Department of Dead Ends

1948:

Edmund Crispin, Love Lies Bleeding

1948:

Josephine Tey, The Franchise Affair

1948:

William Faulkner, Intruder in the Dust

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Cover Image: A Coffin for Dimitrios by AMBLER, Eric

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Cover Image: Ashenden or: The British Agent by MAUGHAM, W. Somerset

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