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Category:  Mystery (Sorted by Author's last name)


River of Darkness: A John Madden Mystery (1999) - Rennie Airth (1935-)    (Grade:B)

The Black Dudley Murder (1929) - Margery Allingham (05/20/1904-06/30/1966)    (Grade:C+)

In the Heat of the Night (1965) - John Ball (1911 -1988)    (Grade:A-)

Death in Pont-Aven : A Case for Commissaire Dupin (2012) - Jean-Luc Bannalec (1966-)    (Grade:A)

Christine Falls: A Novel (2006) - John Banville (12/08/1945 -)    (Grade:C)

Death of an Outsider (Hamish Macbeth Mysteries) (1988) - M. C. Beaton (1936-)    (Grade:A)

Death of a Gossip (Hamish Macbeth Mysteries) (1985) - M. C. Beaton (1936-)    (Grade:A)

The House Without a Key (1925) - Earl Derr Biggers (1884-1933)    (Grade:B)

Bangkok 8 (2003) - John Burdett (1951-)    (Grade:A-)

Missing Justice : A Samantha Kincaid Mystery (2004) - Alafair S. Burke (-)    (Grade:B+)

The Neon Rain (1987) - James Lee Burke (12/05/1936-)    (Grade:A-)

Judgment Calls (2003) - Alafair S. Burke (-)    (Grade:B-)

Wycliffe and the Four Jacks (1985) - William John Burley (08/01/1914-11/15/2002)    (Grade:B)

Possession: A Romance (1990) - A.S. [Antonia Susan] Byatt (8/24/1936 -)    (Grade:A+)

The Shape of Water (1994) - Andrea Camilleri (9/06/1925 -7/17/2019)    (Grade:A-)

The Alienist (1994) - Caleb Carr (8/02/1955 -)    (Grade:C+)

Laura (1942/43) - Vera Louise Casparay (11/13/1899 -06/13/1987)    (Grade:B)

The Last Kashmiri Rose (2001) - Barbara Cleverly (-)    (Grade:A-)

Cover Story (1994) - Robert Cullen (-)    (Grade:B+)

Dr. Sam Johnson: Detector (1946) - Lillian de la Torre (03/15/1902-1993)    (Grade:A+)

The General's Daughter (1992) - Nelson DeMille (8/23/1943 -9/17/2024)    (Grade:B-)

The Way Through the Woods: An Inspector Morse Mystery (1992) - Colin Dexter (1930 -)    (Grade:A+)

The Daughters of Cain (1994) - Colin Dexter (1930 -)    (Grade:A+)

The Hound of the Baskervilles (1901) - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (5/22/1859 -7/07/1930)    (Grade:A+)

Booked to Die (1992) - John Dunning (-)    (Grade:A)

The Name of the Rose [Il nome della rosa] (1980) - Umberto Eco (1932 -)    (Grade:B+)

Black Dahlia (1987) - James Ellroy (3/04/1948 -)    (Grade:A-)

The Princess of Burundi (Ann Lindell Mysteries) (2002) - Kjell Eriksson (1953-)    (Grade:A-)

The Big Clock (1946) - Kenneth Fearing (7/28/1902 -6/26/1961)    (Grade:B-)

City of Veils (2010) - Zoë Ferraris (-)    (Grade:A)

First Among Sequels (2007) - Jasper Fforde (01/11/1961-)    (Grade:C)

In the Woods (2007) - Tana French (-)    (Grade:B+)

The Monkey House (1996) - John Fullerton (-)    (Grade:B-)

Pursuit : An Inspector Espinosa Mystery (2003) - Luiz Alfredo Garcia-Roza (1936-)    (Grade:A)

The Case of the Baited Hook (1940) - Erle Stanley Gardner (07/17/1889 -03/11/1970)    (Grade:B+)

Gold from Gemini (1978) - Jonathan Gash (09/30/1933-)    (Grade:A)

A Great Deliverance: an Inspector Lynley Mystery (1988) - Susan Elizabeth George (02/26/1949-)    (Grade:A-)

Ghost Image (2002) - Joshua Gilder (-)    (Grade:B)

The Death of a Joyce Scholar: A Peter McGarr Mystery (1989) - Bartholomew Gill (1943-)    (Grade:B+)

The Chinaman (1939) - Friedrich Glauser (02/04/1896-12/08/1938)    (Grade:B+)

Crime Partners (1971) - Donald Goines (12/15/1936 -10/21/1974)    (Grade:C+)

The Caveman's Valentine (1994) - George Dawes Green (-)    (Grade:B)

The Spook Who Sat by the Door (1969) - Sam Greenlee (-)    (Grade:C+)

The Old Fox Deceiv'd (1982) - Martha Grimes (1931-)    (Grade:B+)

Red Dragon (1981) - Thomas Harris (04/11/1940 -)    (Grade:A)

When in Greece : A John Putnam Thatcher Mystery (1969) - Martha Henissart (1929-)    (Grade:A-)

The Friends of Eddie Coyle (1971) - George V. Higgins (11/13/1939-11/06/1999)    (Grade:A)

The Dark Wind (1982) - Tony Hillerman (05/07/1925 -10/26/2008)    (Grade:B)

Skinwalkers (1986) - Tony Hillerman (05/07/1925 -10/26/2008)    (Grade:A-)

The Heat's On (aka : Come Back Charleston Blue) (1961) - Chester Himes (7/29/1909 -11/12/1984)    (Grade:A)

The Crazy Kill (1959) - Chester Himes (7/29/1909 -11/12/1984)    (Grade:B)

Penance (1995) - David Housewright (-)    (Grade:B-)

Silence of the Grave: A Reykjavik Thriller (2006) - Arnaldur Indridason (01/08/1961-)    (Grade:A)

Jar City: A Reykjavik Thriller (2000) - Arnaldur Indridason (01/08/1961-)    (Grade:A)

Voices: A Reykjavik Thriller (2003) - Arnaldur Indridason (01/08/1961-)    (Grade:A+)

Jar City : A Reykjavik Thriller (2005) - Arnaldur Indridason (01/08/1961-)    (Grade:A)

The Draining Lake : A Reykjavik Thriller (2004) - Arnaldur Indridason (01/08/1961-)    (Grade:A+)

Hare Sitting Up (Inspector Appleby Mystery) (1959) - Michael Innes (09/30/1906-11/12/1994)    (Grade:B+)

In Good Hands: A Harpur & Iles Mystery (2000) - Bill James (08/15/1929-)    (Grade:A)

Sandman: a Jean Louis St-Cyr and Hermann Kohler Investigation (1996) - J. [Joseph] Robert Janes (1935-)    (Grade:B)

Another Man’s Moccasins (2008) - Craig Johnson (01/16/1961 -)    (Grade:A)

Los Alamos : A Novel (1997) - Joseph Kanon (-)    (Grade:C)

Friday the Rabbi Slept Late (1964) - Harry Kemelman (11/24/1908 -12/15/1996)    (Grade:A+)

The Beekeeper's Apprentice (1994) - Laurie R. King (-)    (Grade:C)

The Walls of Jericho (1997) - Jon Land (-)    (Grade:C+)

When in Greece : A John Putnam Thatcher Mystery (1969) - Mary J. Latsis (07/12/1927-10/29/1997)    (Grade:A-)

Death and Judgment (1995) - Donna Leon (02/28/1942 -)    (Grade:A)

Death in a Strange Country : a Commissario Guido Brunetti Mystery (1993) - Donna Leon (02/28/1942 -)    (Grade:A-)

A Noble Radiance (1998) - Donna Leon (02/28/1942 -)    (Grade:A+)

The Damned Season [L'estate torbida] (1991) - Carlo Lucarelli (10/26/1960-)    (Grade:A+)

Lake Charles (2011) - Ed Lynskey (1956-)    (Grade:B)

Nightmare in Pink (1964) - John D. MacDonald (7/24/1916 -12/28/1986)    (Grade:C+)

Faceless Killers (1991) - Henning Mankell (02/03/1948-)    (Grade:B+)

The Man Who Smiled (Kurt Wallander Mysteries) (1994) - Henning Mankell (02/03/1948-)    (Grade:B)

The Oxford Murders [Crimenes Imperceptibles] (2005) - Guillermo Martinez (07/29/1962-)    (Grade:B+)

Touch of Evil (1992) - Whit Masterson (1920-1961)    (Grade:B)

The Skeleton's Knee: A Joe Gunther Mystery Novel (1993) - Archer Mayor (07/30/1950 -)    (Grade:B)

Bomber's Moon (2019) - Archer Mayor (07/30/1950 -)    (Grade:B+)

Fat Ollie's Book : A Novel of the 87th Precinct (2002) - Ed McBain (10/15/1926 -07/06/2005)    (Grade:A-)

Mexican Hat (1997) - Michael McGarrity (-)    (Grade:B+)

The Seven-Per-Cent Solution: Being a Reprint from the Reminiscences of John H. Watson, M.D. (1974) - Nicholas Meyer (12/24/45 -)    (Grade:B+)

The Red House Mystery (1922) - A.A. Milne (1/18/1882 -1/31/1956)    (Grade:C+)

The Devil's Star [Marekors] (2003) - Jo Nesbo (03/29/1960 -)    (Grade:B+)

Mandarin Gate (2012) - Elliot Pattison (10/20/1951-)    (Grade:A)

Death of a Nationalist (2002) - Rebecca Pawel (1977-)    (Grade:A-)

An Instance of the Fingerpost (1998) - Iain Pears (1955-)    (Grade:A)

The Raphael Affair (1992) - Iain Pears (1955-)    (Grade:B+)

The Queen's Man (1996) - Sharon Kay Penman (08/13/1945 -1/22/2021)    (Grade:B-)

The Flanders Panel (1994) - Arturo Perez-Reverte (11/24/1951-)    (Grade:B+)

There Was an Old Woman (1943) - Ellery Queen (-)    (Grade:B)

Resurrection Men (2003) - Ian Rankin (1960 -)    (Grade:A)

Let it Bleed (1996) - Ian Rankin (1960 -)    (Grade:A+)

Knots and Crosses: An Inspector Rebus Novel (1987) - Ian Rankin (1960 -)    (Grade:B+)

Black and Blue (1997) - Ian Rankin (1960 -)    (Grade:A+)

He Died With His Eyes Open (1984) - Derek Raymond (06/12/1931-07/30/1994)    (Grade:A)

The Samaritan's Secret (Omar Yussef Mysteries) (2010) - Matthew Beynon Rees (1967-)    (Grade:A-)

The Babes in the Wood: A Chief Inspector Wexford Mystery (2002) - Ruth Rendell (02/17/1930 -)    (Grade:B+)

The Insidious Fu Manchu : Being a Somewhat Detailed Account of the Amazing Adventures of Nayland (1911) - Sax Rohmer (1886-06/01/1959)    (Grade:B)

The Interpretation of Murder (2006) - Jed Rubenfeld (-)    (Grade:B-)

The Night Crew (1997) - John Sandford (-)    (Grade:C+)

Dissolution (2004) - C. J. Sansom (12/09/1952 -4/27/2024)    (Grade:A)

Maigret in Montmartre (1959) - Georges Simenon (02/13/1903 -09/04/1989)    (Grade:A)

Drood (2009) - Dan Simmons (04/04/1948-)    (Grade:B)

A Simple Plan (1993) - Scott Smith (-)    (Grade:C+)

Rose (1996) - Martin Cruz Smith (-)    (Grade:B+)

The Athenian Murders (2000) - Jose Carlos Somoza (11/13/1959-)    (Grade:B)

Vienna Secrets: A Max Liebermann Mystery : Volume Four of the Liebermann Papers (2009) - Frank Tallis (9/01/1958 -)    (Grade:A-)

The Secret History (1992) - Donna Tartt (12/23/1963 -)    (Grade:A-)

The Broken Shore (2005) - Peter Temple (1946-)    (Grade:A)

The Daughter of Time (1951) - Josephine Tey (7/25/1896 -2/13/1952)    (Grade:B-)

Pop. 1280 (1964) - Jim Thompson (1906-1977)    (Grade:A-)

The Grifters (1964) - Jim Thompson (1906-1977)    (Grade:A)

A Test of Wills (1996) - Charles Todd ( -)    (Grade:C+)

The Loo Sanction (1973) - Trevanian (6/12/1931 -12/14/2005)    (Grade:B)

Deep and Crisp and Even (1981) - Peter Turnbull (1950-)    (Grade:A-)

Seeking Whom He May Devour (1999) - Fred Vargas (1957-)    (Grade:A)

Bruno, Chief of Police: A Mystery of the French Countryside (2007) - Martin Walker ( 1/23/1947-)    (Grade:A)

The Sculptress (1993) - Minette Walters (-)    (Grade:C+)

Last Seen Wearing (1952) - Hillary Baldwin Waugh (6/22/20-12/08/08)    (Grade:A+)

Captiva: A Doc Ford Novel (1996) - Randy Wayne White (-)    (Grade:A)

Siberian Light (1997) - Robin White (-)    (Grade:B+)

The Burnt Orange Heresy (1971) - Charles Willeford (1/02/1919 -3/27.1988)    (Grade:A)

Death of a Red Heroine (2000) - Qiu Xiaolong (1953 -)    (Grade:A+)

Panama (1995) - Eric Zencey (-)    (Grade:C+)