Haycraft Queen Cornerstones - Complete Checklist
"The Definitive Library of Mystery Fiction"
Murder For Pleasure and was originally titled
"A Reader's List of Detective Story Cornerstones".
It was subsequently updated and broadened several times by Ellery Queen
and became as a standard amongst dealers and collectors everywhere.
The list below is the final revision and includes books from 1748 to 1952.
Any entry followed by an * indicates it was added by Ellery Queen.
Authors name hyperlink goes to bibliography or biography
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| Allingham Margery - Death of a Ghost - 1934
Ambler Eric - The Mask of Dimitrios - 1939 Anderson Frederick Irving - The Book of Murder - 1930 Armstrong Charlotte - Mischief - 1950 Armstrong Charlotte - The Unsuspected - 1946 * Bailey HC - Call Mr. Fortune - 1920 Bailey HC - The Red Castle - 1932 Barr Robert - The Triumphs of Eugene Valmont - 1906 Beeding Francis - Death Walks in Eastrepps - 1931 * Benson G.R. - Tracks in the Snow - 1906 Bentley E.C. - Trent’s Last Case - 1913 Berkeley Anthony - The Poisoned Chocolates Case - 1929 Berkeley Anthony - Trial and Error - 1937 Holmes H.H. (Boucher Anthony) - Rocket to the Morgue - 1942 * Biggers Earl Derr - The House Without a Key - 1925 Blake Nicholas - The Beast Must Die - 1938 Bramah Ernest - Max Carrados - 1914 Buchan John - The Thirty-Nine Steps - 1915 * Burke Thomas - Limehouse Nights - 1916 * Burnett WR - Little Caesar - 1929 * Cain James M - The Postman Always Rings Twice - 1934 * Carr John Dickson - The Crooked Hinge - 1938 Carr John Dickson - The Judas Window - 1938 Caspary Vera - Laura - 1943 * Chandler Raymond - The Big Sleep - 1939 Chandler Raymond - Farewell, My Lovely - 1940 Chandler, Raymond The Simple Art of Murder - 1950 Charteris Leslie - Meet the Tiger - 1928 * Chesterton G.K. - The Innocence of Father Brown - 1911 Chesterton G.K. - The Man Who Was Thursday - 1908 * Childers Erskine - The Riddle of the Sands - 1903 * Christie Agatha - The Murder of Roger Ackroyd - 1926 Christie Agatha - The Mysterious Affair at Styles - 1920 * Coates Robert M - Wisteria Cottage - 1948 Cole G.D.H. - The Brooklyn Murders - 1923 Coles Manning - Drink to Yesterday - 1940 Coles Manning - Pray Silence - 1940 Collins Wilkie - The Moonstone - 1868 Collins Wilkie - The Woman in White - 1860 * Conrad Joseph - The Secret Agent - 1907 * Cozzens James Gould - The Just and the Unjust - 1942 * Crispin Edmund - The Moving Toyshop - 1946 Crispin Edmund - Love Lies Bleeding - 1948 Crofts Freeman Wills - The Cask - 1920 Crofts Freeman Wills - Inspector French’s Greatest Case - 1924 Dane Clemence, Helen Simpson - Re-enter Sir John - 1932 Davis Dorothy Salisbury - A Gentle Murderer - 1951 De la Torre Lilian - Dr. Sam Johnson, Detector - 1946 * Dickens Charles - Bleak House - 1853 Dickens Charles - The Mystery of Edwin Drood - 1870 Dickson Carter - Lord of the Sorcerers - 1946 * Dostoevsky Fyodor - Crime and Punishment - 1866 * Doyle Arthur Conan - The Sign of the Four - 1890 Doyle Arthur Conan - The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes - 1894 Doyle Arthur Conan - The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes - 1894 Doyle Arthur Conan - The Hound of the Baskervilles - 1902 Doyle Arthur Conan - The Return of Sherlock Holmes - 1905 Doyle Arthur Conan - The Valley of Fear - 1915 Doyle Arthur Conan - His Last Bow - 1917 Doyle Arthur Conan - The Case-Book of Sherlock Holmes - 1927 Dreiser Theodore - An American Tragedy - 1925 * Du Maurier Daphne - Rebecca - 1938 * Dunsany Lord - The Little Tales of Smethers - 1952 Eberhart Mignon G - The Patient in Room 18 - 1929 Ellin Stanley - Dreadful Summit - 1948 Eustis Helen - The Horizontal Man - 1946 Faulkner William - Intruder in the Dust - 1948 * Fletcher J.S. - The Middle Temple Murder - 1918 Forester C.S. - Payment Deferred - 1926 * Freeman R. Austin - The Eye of Osiris - 1911 * Freeman R. Austin - John Thorndyke’s Cases - 1909 * Freeman R. Austin - The Red Thumb Mark - 1907 Freeman R. Austin - The Singing Bone - 1912 Frome David - The Hammersmith Murders - 1930 Futrelle Jacques - The Thinking Machine - 1907 Gaboriau Emile - The Widow Lerouge - 1866 Gaboriau Emile - The Mystery Of Orcival - 1868 * Gaboriau Emile - File No. 13 - 1867 * Gaboriau Emile - Monsieur Lecoq - 1869 Gardner Erle Stanley - The Case of the Sulky Girl - 1933 Gardner Erle Stanley - The Case of the Velvet Claws - 1933 * Godwin William - The Adventures of Caleb Williams - 1794 * Green Anna Katharine - The Leavenworth Case - 1878 Greene Graham - Brighton Rock - 1938 * Halsey Harlan Page - Old Sleuth, the Detective - 1872 * Hammett Dashiell - The Maltese Falcon - 1930 Hammett Dashiell - The Glass Key - 1931 * Hammett Dashiell - The Adventures of Sam Spade - 1944 * Hart Frances Noyes - The Bellamy Trial - 1927 Heard H.F. - A Taste for Honey - 1941 * Henry O. - The Gentle Grafter - 1908 * Hornung EW - The Amateur Cracksman - 1899 * Hughes Dorothy B - The So Blue Marble - 1940 Hugo Victor - Les Miserables - 1862 * Hull Richard - The Murder of My Aunt - 1935 Hume Fergus W - The Mystery of a Hansom Cab - 1887 * Iles Francis (Anthony Berkeley) - Before the Fact - 1932 Innes Michael - Lament for a Maker - 1938 King Rufus - Murder by the Clock - 1929 * Knox Ronald A - The Viaduct Murder - 1925 Lawrence Hilda - Blood Upon the Snow - 1944 Leblanc Maurice - The Eight Strokes of the Clock - 1922 Leblanc Maurice - Arsene Lupin, Gentleman-Cambrioleur - 1907 * Leblanc Maurice - “813” - 1910 Leroux Gaston - The Mystery of the Yellow Room - 1907 Leroux Gaston - The Perfume of the Woman in Black - 1908 * Lipsky Eleazar - The People Against O’Hara - 1950 Lockridge Frances and Richard - The Norths Meet Murder - 1940 Lowndes Mrs Belloc - The Lodger - 1913 Lustgarten Edgar - A Case to Answer - 1947 MacDonald Philip - The Rasp - 1924 MacDonald Philip - The Nursemaid Who Disappeared - 1938 * Macdonald Ross - The Moving Target - 1949 MacHarg William & Edwin Balmer - The Achievements of Luther Trant - 1910 * Marquand John P - No Hero - 1935 * Marsh Ngaio - Overture to Death - 1939 Mason A.E.W. - At the Villa Rose - 1910 Mason A.E.W. - The House of the Arrow - 1924 Maugham W. Somerset - Ashenden - 1928 * McCloy Helen - Through a Glass, Darkly - 1950 Milne A.A. - The Red House Mystery - 1922 Moffett Cleveland - Through the Wall - 1909 * Morrison Arthur - Martin Hewitt, Investigator - 1894 O’Flaherty Liam - The Informer - 1925 * O’Higgins Harvey J - Detective Duff Unravels It - 1929 * Oppenheim E. Phillips - The Great Impersonation - 1920 * Orczy Baroness - The Old Man in the Corner - 1909 Orczy Baroness - The Scarlet Pimpernel - 1905 * Palmer Stuart - The Penguin Pool Murder - 1931 Paul Elliot - The Mysterious Mickey Finn - 1939 * Phillpotts Eden - The Grey Room - 1921 Pinkerton Allan - The Expressman and the Detective - 1874 * Piper Evelyn - The Motive - 1950 Poe Edgar Allan - Tales - 1845 Post Melville Davisson - Uncle Abner - 1918 Postgate Raymond - Verdict of Twelve - 1940 Queen Ellery - Calamity Town - 1942 * Queen Ellery - The Roman Hat Murder - 1929 Queen Ellery (Barnaby Ross) - The Tragedy of X - 1932 Queen Ellery (Barnaby Ross) - The Tragedy of Y - 1932 * Rawson Clayton - Death from a Top Hat - 1938 * Reeve Arthur B - The Silent Bullet - 1912 Regester Seeley (Mrs. M.V. Victor) - The Dead Letter - 1866 Rhode John - The Murders in Praed Street - 1928 * Rhode John - The Paddington Mystery - 1925 Rice Craig - Trial by Fury - 1941 Rinehart Mary Roberts - The Circular Staircase - 1908 Rohmer Sax - The Mystery of Dr. Fu-Manchu - 1908 * Runyon Damon - Guys and Dolls - 1931 * Sapper - Cyrile McNeile - Bull-Dog Drummond - 1920 * Sayers Dorothy L - The Nine Tailors - 1934 Sayers Dorothy L - Whose Body? - 1923 * Sayers Dorothy L & Robert Eustace - The Documents in the Case - 1930 Seeley Mabel - The Listening House - 1938 Seeley Regester - The Dead Letter - 1866 * Shiel M.P. - Prince Zaleski - 1895 * Simenon Georges - The Patience of Maigret - 1940 Spicer Bart - Blues for the Prince - 1950 Stevenson Robert Louis - New Arabian Nights - 1882 * Stevenson Robert Louis - The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde - 1886 * Stoker Bram - Dracula - 1897 * Stout Rex Fer de Lance - 1934 Stout Rex The League of Frightened Men - 1935 * Stribling T.S. - Clues of the Caribbees - 1929 * Taylor Phoebe Atwood - The Cape Cod Mystery - 1931 Tey Josephine - The Franchise Affair - 1948 Train Arthur - Tutt and Mr. Tutt - 1920 * Trevor Glen (James Hilton) - Murder at School - 1931 * Twain Mark - The Tragedy of Pudd’nhead Wilson - 1894 * Van Dine SS - The Benson Murder Case - 1926 Van Dine S.S. - The Canary Murder Case - 1927 Vance Louis Joseph - The Lone Wolf - 1914 * Vickers Roy - The Department of Dead Ends - 1946 * Vidocq Francois Eugene - Memoirs De Vidocq - 1828 * Voltaire - Zadig - 1748 * Wallace Edgar - The Mind of J. G. Reeder 1925 Walling R A J - The Fatal Five Minutes - 1932 Walsh Thomas - Nightmare in Manhattan - 1950 Waters (William Russell) - Recollections of a Detective Police Officer - 1856 * Wells Carolyn - The Clue - 1909 Woolrich Cornell (William Irish) - The Bride Wore Black - 1942 * Zangwill Israel - The Big Bow Mystery - 1892 A Selected List of Detective Story Anthologies by
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