Haycraft-Queen Cornerstones

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Murder For Pleasure (Book), 180 Books

A list of "cornerstone" detective novels first published by editor and publisher Howard Haycraft in 1941 book "Murder For Pleasure", and later updated by Ellery Queen in the '50s.

This list was originally published in 1955 and was added to this site over 1 year ago.

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Rank Book Authors Year Country Language Actions
3379 Zadig Voltaire 1747 French French
757 The Adventures of Caleb Williams William Godwin 1794 British English
15910 Memoirs De Vidocq Francois Eugene Vidocq 1828 French French
98 The Complete Tales and Poems of Edgar Allan Poe Edgar Allan Poe 1902 American English
121 Bleak House Charles Dickens 1852 British English
15910 Recollections Of A Detective Police Officer William Russell Waters 1856 British English
139 The Woman in White Wilkie Collins 1860 British English
40 Les Misérables Victor Hugo 1862 French French
15910 The Widow Lerouge Émile Gaboriau 1866 French French
15910 The Dead Letter Seeley Regester 1866 American English
11 Crime and Punishment Fyodor Dostoevsky 1866 Russian Russian
15910 File No 13 Émile Gaboriau 1867 French French
393 The Moonstone Wilkie Collins 1868 British English
15910 The Mystery Of Orcival Émile Gaboriau 1866 French English
14719 Monsieur Lecoq Émile Gaboriau 1869 French French
1789 The Mystery Of Edwin Drood Charles Dickens 1870 British English
17152 Old Sleuth, The Detective Harlan Page Halsey 2014 American English
17152 The Expressman And The Detective Allan Pinkerton 2004 American English
5318 The Leavenworth Case Anna Katharine Green 1878 American English
5862 The New Arabian Nights Robert Louis Stevenson 1882 Scottish English
218 The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde Robert Louis Stevenson 1886 British English
17152 The Mystery Of A Hansom Cab Fergus Hume 2006 Australian English
15910 Sherlock Holmes, Volume I Arthur Conan Doyle 1887 British English
15910 The Big Bow Mystery Israel Zangwill 1895 British English
2123 The Adventures Of Sherlock Holmes Arthur Conan Doyle 1892 British English
14767 The Memoirs Of Sherlock Holmes Arthur Conan Doyle 1893 British English
15910 Martin Hewitt, Investigator Arthur Morrison 1894 British English
2444 Pudd'nhead Wilson Mark Twain 1894 American English
15910 Prince Zaleski M. P. Shiel 1895 British English
53 Dracula Bram Stoker 1897 British English
14788 The Amateur Cracksman E. W. Hornung 1899 British English
164 The Hound of the Baskervilles Arthur Conan Doyle 1902 British English
831 Riddle of the Sands Erskine Childers 1903 British English
14782 Return Of Sherlock Holmes Arthur Conan Doyle 1905 British English
2434 The Scarlet Pimpernel Baroness Emmuska Orczy 1905 British English
16547 The Triumphs Of Eugene Valmont Robert Barr 1906 British English
16547 Tracks In The Snow Godfrey Rathbone Benson 1906 British English
16640 The Red Thumb Mark R Austin Freeman 1907 British English
14788 The Thinking Machine Jacques Futrelle 1905 American English
16640 Arsene Lupin, Gentleman Cambrioleur Maurice Leblanc 1907 French French
2530 The Mystery Of The Yellow Room Gaston Leroux 1907 French French
470 The Secret Agent Joseph Conrad 1907 British English
2735 The Circular Staircase Mary Roberts Rinehart 1908 American English
17152 The Mystery Of Dr Fu Manchu Rohmer Sax 1913 British English
444 The Man Who Was Thursday G. K. Chesterton 1908 British English
16801 The Gentle Grafter O. Henry 1908 American English
16801 The Perfume Of The Woman In Black Gaston Leroux 1908 French French
16801 The Old Man In The Corner Baroness Emmuska Orczy 1908 British English
17152 The Clue Carolyn Welles 1909 Unknown English
17152 John Thorndyke's Cases R Austin Freeman 1909 British English
17152 Through The Wall Cleveland Moffett 1909 American English
17152 813 Maurice Leblanc 1910 French French
17152 At The Villa Rose A. E. W. Mason 1910 British English
17152 The Achievements Of Luther Trant William MacHarg, Edwin Balmer 1910 American English
581 The Innocence of Father Brown G. K. Chesterton 1911 British English
17152 The Eye Of Osiris R Austin Freeman 1911 British English
17152 The Singing Bone R Austin Freeman 1912 British English
17152 The Silent Bullet Arthur B Reeve 1910 American English
953 Trent's Last Case E. C. Bentley 1913 British English
17152 The Lodger Mrs Belloc Lowndes 1913 British English
17152 Max Carrados Ernest Bramah 1914 British English
17152 The Lone Wolf Louis Joseph Vance 2003 American English
344 The Thirty-Nine Steps John Buchan 1915 British English
5917 The Valley Of Fear Arthur Conan Doyle 1915 British English
17152 Limehouse Nights Thomas Burke 1917 British English
17152 His Last Bow Arthur Conan Doyle 1917 British English
17152 The Middle Temple Murder J. S. Fletcher 1919 British English
14898 Uncle Abner Melville Davisson Post 1918 American English
17152 Call Mr. Fortune H.C. Bailey 1920 British English
3143 The Cask Freeman Wills Crofts 1920 British English
801 The Mysterious Affair at Styles Agatha Christie 1920 British English
3042 The Great Impersonation E. Phillips Oppenheim 1920 British English
17152 Bull Dog Drummond Sapper 1920 British English
17152 Tutt And Mr Tutt Arthur Cheney Train 1920 American English
17152 The Grey Room Eden Phillpotts 1920 British English
17152 The Eight Strokes Of The Clock Maurice Leblanc 1923 French French
14898 The Red House Mystery A. A. Milne 1922 British English
17152 The Brooklyn Murders G. D. H. Cole 1923 British English
3042 Whose Body? Dorothy L. Sayers 1923 British English
17152 Inspector French’s Greatest Case Freeman Wills Crofts 1924 British English
17152 The Rasp Philip MacDonald 1924 British English
17152 The House Of The Arrow A. E. W. Mason 1924 British English
17152 The House Without A Key Earl Derr Biggers 1925 American English
17152 The Viaduct Murder Ronald Knox 1925 British English
17152 The Paddington Mystery John Rhode 1925 British English
14898 The Mind Of J G Reeder Edgar Wallace 1925 British English
195 An American Tragedy Theodore Dreiser 1925 American English
14985 The Informer Liam O'Flaherty 1925 Irish English
251 The Murder of Roger Ackroyd Agatha Christie 1926 British English
17152 The Benson Murder Case S. S. Van Dine 1926 American English
17152 Payment Deferred C. S. Forester 1926 British English
14865 The Case Book Of Sherlock Holmes Arthur Conan Doyle 1927 British English
17152 The Bellamy Trial Frances Noyes Hart 1927 American English
17152 The Canary Murder Case S. S. Van Dine 1927 American English
17152 Meet The Tiger Leslie Charteris 1968 British English
2840 Ashenden, Or, The British Agent W. Somerset Maugham 1928 British English
948 The Poisoned Chocolates Case Anthony Berkeley 1929 British English
5325 The Patient In Room 18 Mignon G. Eberhart 1929 American English
17152 The Roman Hat Murder Ellery Queen 1929 American English
3470 Little Caesar W. R. Burnett 1929 American English
17152 Murder By The Clock Rufus King 1929 American English
17152 Detective Duff Unravels It Harvey J O'Higgins 2008 American English
17152 Clues Of The Caribbees T. S. Stribling 1929 American English
17152 The Book Of Murder Frederick Irving Anderson 1930 American English
17152 The Hammersmith Murders David Frome 1930 British English
142 The Maltese Falcon Dashiell Hammett 1930 American English
14898 The Documents In The Case Dorothy L. Sayers, Robert Eustace 1930 British English
17152 The Penguin Pool Murder Stuart Palmer 1932 American English
17152 The Cape Cod Mystery Phoebe Atwood Taylor 1931 American English
17152 Death Walks In Eastrepps Francis Beeding 1931 British English
698 The Glass Key Dashiell Hammett 1931 American English
14898 Guys And Dolls Damon Runyon 1932 American English
17152 Murder At School James Hilton 1931 British English
17152 The Red Castle H.C. Bailey 1932 Unknown English
17152 Re Enter Sir John Clemence Dane, Helen Simpson 1932 British English
14898 Before The Fact Francis Iles 1932 British English
3004 The Tragedy Of X Ellery Queen 1932 American English
17152 The Fatal Five Minutes R.A.J. Walling 1932 British English
2886 The Tragedy Of Y Ellery Queen 1932 American English
14898 The Case Of The Sulky Girl Erle Stanley Gardner 1933 American English