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The Best American Mystery Stories

The Best American Mystery Stories of the Century

The Best of Sisters in Crime

The Black Mask Boys

Cat Crimes and Cat Crimes III

Cat Crimes For the Holidays

Cat Crimes Through Time


Crime Classics: The Mystery Story From Poe to the Present

Crime Novels: American Noir of the 1930s and 40s

Crime Novels: American Noir of the 1950s


The Cutting Edge: The Best and Brightest Mystery Writers of the 90s

Danger in D.C.

Deadly Allies: Private Eyes Writers of the America/Sisters in Crime

Deadly Morsels


Death Cruise: Crime Stories on the Open Seas

Death Dines at 8:30

Death in Dixie

Detective Duos


Detective Stories From the Strand

Ellery Queen: Masters of Mystery

Ellery Queen's Eyewitnesses


Ellery Queen's Lost Men

English Country House Murders: Tales of Perfidious Albion


The Ethnic Detectives: Masterpieces of Mystery Fiction

The Eyes Still Have it: The Shamus Award-Winning Stories

The 50 Greatest Mysteries of All Time

First Cases: The Private Eyes

The Floating Admiral


Hard-Boiled: An Anthology of American Crime Stories

Holmes For the Holidays

Invitation to Murder: All New Stories of Mystery and Suspense

Irreconcilable Differences


Love Kills

Love and Death

The Mammoth Book of Historical Detectives

The Mammoth Book of Historical Whodunits


Mary Higgins Clark Presents the Plot Thickens

Master’s Choice: Mystery Stories by Today’s Top Writers and the Masters Who Inspired Them


Mean Streets: The Second Private Eye Writers of America Anthology

Midnight Louie’s Pet Detectives


Mom, Apple Pie, and Murder

More Mystery Cats: Feline Felonies


Ms. Murder: The Best Mysteries Featuring Women Detectives...

Murder and Obsession

Murder & Other Acts of Literature

Murder by the Book:
Literary Mysteries from Alfred Hitchcock Mystery Magazine

Murder For Christmas

Murder For Love

Murder For Revenge

Murder Impossible: The Book of Locked Room Mysteries and Other Impossible Crimes


Murder in Baker Street: New Tales of Sherlock Holmes

Murder is My Business

Murder on Deck!:  Shipboard & Shoreline Mystery Stories

Murder on the Run

Murder Takes a Holiday

Murder to Music: Musical Mysteries from Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine and Alfred
       Hitchcock Mystery Magazine


Murderous Schemes: An Anthology of Classic Detective Stories

Mysterious Cat Stories

The Mysterious West

Mystery in the Sunshine State

Mystery Midrash: An Anthology of Jewish Mystery & Detective Fiction

Once Upon a Crime: Fairy Tales for Mystery Lovers

101 Years’ Entertainment: The Great Detective Stories, 1841-1941

The Oxford Book of American Detective Stories

The Oxford Book of English Detective Stories

Perfectly Criminal


Simply the Best Mysteries: Edgar Award Winners and Front Runners

Sleuths of the Century

Spooks, Spies and Private Eyes: Black Mystery, Crime, and Suspense Fiction

Tantalizing Locked Room Mysteries

Victorian Villanies


Winter's Crimes

Women on the Case

World's Finest Mystery and Crime Stories

The Year’s 25 Finest Crime and Mystery Stories


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Collections by Author
Margery Allingham:
     The Allingham Minibus: More Short Stories
     The Return of Mr. Campion: Uncollected Stories

The Tell-Tale Tattoo and Other Stories  K.K. Beck
 
Lawrence Block:
     The Collected Mystery Stories
     Enough Rope: Collected Stories
Tickled to Death, And Other Stories of Crime and Suspense  Simon Brett
 
Raymond Chandler:
     Raymond Chandler: Collected Stories
     Stories and Early Novels
 
Agatha Christie:
     Double Sin and Other Stories
     The Harlequin Tea Set and Other Stories
     Miss Marple: The Complete Short Stories
     The Under Dog and Other Stories
     Witness for the Prosecution and Other Stories
 
The Lottery Winner: Alvirah and Willy Stories  Mary Higgins Clark
 
Fen Country:  Twenty-six Stories  Edmund Crispin
 
The Collected Stories of Amanda Cross  Amanda Cross
 
Of Course You Know That Chocolate Is a Vegetable and Other Stories  Barbara D’Amato
 
Morse’s Greatest Mystery and Other Stories  Colin Dexter
 
Antonia Fraser:
     Jemima Shore at the Sunny Grave and Other Stories
     Jemima Shore’s First Case, and Other Stories
 
Erle Stanley Gardner:
     The Case of the Crimson Kiss: a Perry Mason Novelette,
      and Other Stories
     The Case of the Crying Swallow: a Perry Mason Novelette...
     The Case of the Irate Witness: a Perry Mason Mystery, and Other Stories
 
Michael Gilbert:  
     Anything for a Quiet Life and Other New Mysteries  
     Man Who Hated Banks and Other Mystery Stories
 
 
Dashiell Hammett:  
     The Big Knockover:  Selected Stories and Short Novels  
     Crime Stories and Other Writings  
     Nightmare Town: Stories
 
 
Crime on Her Mind: A Collection of Short Stories  Carolyn Hart
 
The Concise Cuddy: A Collection of John Francis Cuddy Stories  Jeremiah Healy
 
Joan Hess:  
     The Deadly Ackee and Other Stories of Crime and Catastrophe  
     Death of a Romance Writer and Other Stories
 
 
The Snail-Watcher and Other Stories  Patricia Highsmith

Barking at Butterflies and Other Stories  Evan Hunter
 
The Appleby File: Detective Stories  Michael Innes

Hidden and Other Stories  Stuart Kaminsky

When the Women Come Out to Dance Stories  Elmore Leonard
 
Peter Lovesey:  
     Do Not Exceed the Stated Dose  
     Sedgemoor Strangler  

Better Mousetraps:  The Best Mystery Stories of John Lutz  John Lutz
 
The Good Old Stuff: 13 Early Stories  John D. MacDonald

Shoveling Smoke: Selected Mystery Stories  Margaret Maron

Death on the Air and Other Stories Ngaio Marsh

Foggy Mountain Breakdown and Other Stories  Sharyn McCrumb

Rumpole Rests His Case  John Clifford Mortimer

Six Easy Pieces: Easy Rawlins Stories  Walter Mosely

Duo: Stories  Marcia Muller

Windy City Blues: V. I. Warshawski Stories  Sara Paretsky

Dover: The Collected Short Stories  Joyce Porter

A Good Hanging: Short Stories  Ian Rankin

The Great Merlini: the Complete Stories of the Magician Detective  Clayton Rawson

Ruth Rendell:
 
     Blood Lines: Long and Short Stories  
     The Copper Peacock and Other Stories  
     The Fallen Curtain: Eleven Mystery Stories  
     The Fever Tree and Other Stories  
     Means of Evil and Other Stories  
     The New Girl Friend and Other Stories of Suspense  
     Piranha to Scurfy  

The Scent of Spiced Oranges and Other Stories  Les Roberts

Not Safe After Dark and Other Stories  PeterRobinson

Lord Peter: A Collection of All the Lord Peter Wimsey Stories  Dorothy L. Sayers

Maigret’s Pipe: Seventeen Stories  Georges Simenon

Mean Rooms  Julie Smith

Together We Kill: The Uncollected Stories of Mickey Spillane  Mickey Spillane

The Tigers of Subtopia, and Other Stories  Julian Symons

The Amsterdam Cops: Collected Stories  Janwillem Van de Wetering

The Scotland Yard Book of Edgar Wallace: An Omnibus of Wallace’s Most Exciting Works
     Edgar Wallace

A Good Story and Other Stories  Donald E. Westlake

My Mother, the Detective: The Complete “Mom” Short Stories  James Yaffe


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Last updated March 23, 2006 by Courtney Moore (cmoore@wppl.org).