Mystery Literature

Literature that falls into the Mystery Fiction genre. See also Crime 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.


 * The ABC Murders
 * Affinity Bridge
 * Agatha Christie
 * Albert Campion
 * The Alienist
 * Amelia Peabody
 * The Mysterious Affair At Styles
 * A Murder Is Announced
 * And Then There Were None
 * A Tale Etched in Blood And Hard Black Pencil
 * An Instance of the Fingerpost
 * Arsene Lupin
 * Benjamin January
 * Ben Snow
 * Bernie Rhodenbarr
 * The Bigend Books
 * The Big Sleep
 * Bimbos of the Death Sun
 * Bony
 * Brother Cadfael
 * Carnacki the Ghost Finder
 * The Cat Who Series
 * Charlie Chan
 * Chronicle of a Death Foretold
 * The City and The City
 * Colt Regan
 * Corinna Chapman
 * The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time
 * Darkness Visible
 * The Daughter of Time
 * Dead Is
 * Death On the Nile
 * Detectives in Togas
 * The Dresden Files
 * Edgar Allan Poe (Dupin Stories)
 * Ellery Queen
 * Emma
 * Encyclopedia Brown
 * Enola Holmes
 * Erast Fandorin
 * The Face on the Milk Carton
 * Father Brown
 * The Father Luke Wolfe Trilogy
 * Felse Investigates
 * Finnegan Zwake
 * Five Little Pigs
 * Garrett PI
 * The Glass Books of the Dream Eaters
 * Gorky Park
 * Goth
 * Hamish Macbeth
 * Hardy Boys
 * Harry Hole
 * Haunted 1988
 * Hercule Poirot
 * Hilary Tamar
 * The Historian
 * The Immorality Engine
 * In Death
 * In Hero Years I'm Dead
 * Inspector Imanishi Investigates
 * Inspector Lynley
 * Inspector Morse
 * Jesse Stone
 * Joe Grey
 * John Putnam Thatcher
 * Judge Dee
 * Judge Knott
 * Kiki Strike
 * Kinky Friedman
 * Kinsey Millhone
 * Lady Audleys Secret
 * Lord Darcy
 * Lord Peter Wimsey
 * The Manual of Detection
 * Marcus Didius Falco
 * Mary Russell
 * Matthew Hawkwood
 * Midnight Louie
 * Mike Hammer
 * The Millennium Trilogy
 * Miss Marple
 * Montague Egg
 * The Moonstone
 * Morris and Chastain Investigations
 * Mrs. Murphy Mysteries
 * Murder At the Vicarage
 * The Murder of Roger Ackroyd
 * Murder On the Orient Express
 * Myron Bolitar Series
 * The Name of the Rose
 * Nancy Drew
 * Nero Wolfe
 * Newbury And Hobbes
 * The New York Trilogy
 * Nick Velvet
 * No Country for Old Men
 * Nursery Crime
 * October Daye
 * The Osiris Ritual
 * Phryne Fisher
 * Picnic At Hanging Rock
 * Point of Honour
 * Poirot
 * Retrieval Artist
 * The Roman Mysteries
 * The Roman Mystery Scrolls
 * Rule of Four
 * Sad Cypress
 * Sally Lockhart
 * The Salmon of Doubt
 * Sammy Keyes
 * Sano Ichiro
 * Savannah Reid
 * The Secret History
 * Set This House in Order
 * The Shadow of the Wind
 * Sherlock Holmes
 * The Sherlockian
 * Sherlock in Love
 * Simon Ark
 * Small Change
 * Solar Pons
 * The Sookie Stackhouse Mysteries
 * Sophies World
 * Spellman Files
 * Spenser
 * The Stanley Family
 * Sunny Randall
 * The Thin Man
 * The Three Investigators
 * Thraxas
 * Tommy and Tuppence
 * To Say Nothing of the Dog
 * Traces
 * Tricky Business
 * Trixie Belden
 * Troubleshooters
 * A Void
 * Wallander
 * The Western Mysteries
 * The Westing Game
 * Who Censored Roger Rabbit
 * The Yiddish Policemens Union