OTHER AUTHORS REVIEWED
Every month on the blog of my personal site at www.jasonhalf.com , I provide reviews for other classic and contemporary mystery writers. I hope to review the complete works of some authors, while many others will probably be sampled singly until the next book comes along.
Below is a list of the authors whose books I have read and reviewed. Links to the review pages are provided below. If a title is not in bold and linked, I plan to read the book at some point and provide a review.
AUTHORS (complete bibliography)
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WINIFRED BLAZEY
Gladys Mitchell's friend and companion; she dedicated her books to Mitchell and her pseudonym Stephen Hockaby.
Dora Beddoe (1936)
Indian Rain (1938)
The Crouching Hill (1941)
Grace Before Meat (1942)
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RICHARD HULL
The Murder of My Aunt (1934)
Keep It Quiet (1935)
Murder Isn't Easy (1936)
The Ghost It Was (1936)
The Murderers of Monty (1937)
Excellent Intentions (1938) aka Beyond Reasonable Doubt
And Death Came Too (1939)
My Own Murderer (1941)
The Unfortunate Murderer (1942)
Left Handed Death (1946)
Last First (1947)
Until She Was Dead (1949)
A Matter of Nerves (1950)
Invitation to an Inquest (1950)
The Martineau Murders (1953)
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AUTHORS AND TITLES
Golden Age Mystery
HERBERT ADAMS
The Knife (1933)
A Word of Six Letters (1936)
The Chief Witness (1940)
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MARGERY ALLINGHAM
The Allingham Minibus (1973)
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HUGH AUSTIN
Murder in Triplicate (1935)
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GEORGE BELLAIRS
The Case of the Famished Parson (1949)
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NICHOLAS BLAKE
A Question of Proof (1935)
Thou Shell of Death (1936)
There's Trouble Brewing (1937)
The Beast Must Die (1938)
The Smiler with the Knife (1939)
Malice in Wonderland (1940)
The Case of the Abominable Snowman (1941)
Minute for Murder (1947)
The Dreadful Hollow (1953)
The Whisper in the Gloom (1954)
End of Chapter (1957)
The Widow's Cruise (1959)
The Worm of Death (1961)
The Sad Variety (1964)
The Morning after Death (1966)
ANTHONY BOUCHER
The Case of the Seven of Calvary (1937)
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LEO BRUCE
Case Without a Corpse (1937)
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JOHN BUDE
The Sussex Downs Murder (1936)
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JAMES CORBETT
The Merrivale Mystery (1929)
The Hound of Death (1944)
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FREEMAN WILLS CROFTS
The 12.30 from Croydon (1934)
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MIGNON G. EBERHART
While the Patient Slept (1930)
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J. JEFFERSON FARJEON
The Z Murders (1932)
Mystery in White (1937)
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CORTLAND FITZSIMMONS
Tied for Murder (1943)
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ERLE STANLEY GARDNER
The Case of the Velvet Claws (1933)
The Case of the Howling Dog (1934)
The Case of the Curious Bride (1934)
The Case of the Caretaker's Cat (1935)
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MICHAEL GILBERT
Smallbone Deceased (1950)
Death in Captivity (1952)
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DAVID GOODIS
Nightfall (1947)
Cassidy's Girl (1951)
Street of No Return (1954)
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ANNA KATHARINE GREEN
That Affair Next Door (1897)
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MICHAEL INNES
Appleby Talking (1954)
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MILWARD KENNEDY
Half-Mast Murder (1930)
The Murderer of Sleep (1932)
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C. DALY KING
Obelists at Sea (1932)
Obelists en Route (1934)
Obelists Fly High (1935)
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RUPERT LATIMER
Murder after Christmas (1944)
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VERNON LODER
The Essex Murders (1930)
Good by Stealth (1936, as Henrietta Clandon)
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NAP LOMBARD
Murder's a Swine (1943)
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E.C.R. LORAC
Crossed Skis (1952, as Carol Carnac)
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PHILIP MACDONALD
The Crime Conductor (1931)
X v. Rex (1933, as Martin Porlock)
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ROSS MACDONALD
The Moving Target (1949)
The Drowning Pool (1950)
The Ivory Grin (1952)
Find a Victim (1954)
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HELEN MCCLOY
The Deadly Truth (1941)
The Long Body (1955)
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GEORGE MILNER
Stately Homicide (1953)
Shark among Herrings (1954)
A Bloody Scandal (1985)
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E. PHILLIPS OPPENHEIM
The Avenger (1907)
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Q. PATRICK / PATRICK QUENTIN
Cottage Sinister (1931)
Murder at the Women's City Club (1932)
Murder at the 'Varsity (1933)
The Grindle Nightmare (1935)
Shadow of Guilt (1959)
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E.R. PUNSHON
Death of a Beauty Queen (1935)
Murder Abroad (1939)
Bobby Owen, Black Magic, Bloodshed, and Burglary (coll. 2015)
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JOHN RHODE / MILES BURTON
Murder at Monk's Barn (1931) as Cecil Waye
Death at Breakfast (1936)
Death in the Tunnel (1936)
Death at the Club (1937)
Murder in Crown Passage (1937)
Invisible Weapons (1938)
Death at the Helm (1941)
This Undesirable Residence (1942)
Vegetable Duck (1944)
Murder in Absence (1954)
Robbery with Violence (1957)
Twice Dead (1960)
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CRAIG RICE
Eight Faces at Three (1939)
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HARRIET RUTLAND
Knock! Murderer! Knock! (1938)
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HENRY WADE
Gold Was Our Grave (1954)
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ANTHOLOGIES - Various authors
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The Best American Mystery Stories of the Year (1932) ed. Carolyn Wells
The Christmas Card Crime and other Stories (2018) ed. Martin Edwards
Continental Crimes (2017) ed. Martin Edwards
Crimson Snow (2016) ed. Martin Edwards
Death by Suggestion (2018) ed. Donald K. Hartman
Echoes of Sherlock Holmes (2016) ed. Laurie R. King and Leslie S. Klinger
Foreign Bodies (2018) ed. Martin Edwards
Hark the Herald Angels Scream (2018) ed. Christopher Golden
The Hypno-Ripper (2021) ed. Donald K. Hartman
The Perfect Crime (2022) ed. Vaseem Khan and Maxim Jakubowski
Serpents in Eden (2016) ed. Martin Edwards
Vintage Crime (2020) ed. Martin Edwards
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CONTEMPORARY MYSTERY (generally, after 1960)
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NICLOLAS FREELING (Inspector Van der Valk)
Love in Amsterdam (1962)
Gun Before Butter (1963)
Criminal Conversation (1965)
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ANDREW GARVE
Murderer's Fen (1966)
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BILL JAMES (Harpur & Iles series)
You'd Better Believe It (1985)
The Lolita Man (1986)
Halo Parade (1987)
Protection (1988)
Come Clean (1989)
Take (1990)
Club (1991)
Astride a Grave (1991)
Gospel (1992)
Roses, Roses (1993)
In Good Hands (1994)
The Detective Is Dead (1995)
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GREGORY McDONALD (Fletch series)
Fletch (1974)
Confess, Fletch (1976)
Fletch Won (1985)
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ANNE MORICE
Death in the Grand Manor (1970)
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MAJ SJOWALL & PER WAHLOO (Inspector Martin Beck)
Roseanna (1965) by Maj Sjowall & Per Wahloo
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Various Authors
The Master Key (1962) by Masako Togawa
The Mad and the Bad (1972) by Jean-Patrick Manchette
Cronus (1984) by William L. DeAndrea
Treachery in Bordeaux (2004) by Jean-Pierre Alaux and Noel Balen
Archie Meets Nero Wolfe (2012) by Robert Goldsborough
Stone Cold Dead (2013) by Catherine Dilts
A Consternation of Monsters (2015) by Eric Fritzius
A Guide for Murdered Children (2018) by Sarah Sparrow
Gallows Court (2018) by Martin Edwards
Survive or Die (2019) by Catherine Dilts
Mortmain Hall (2020) by Martin Edwards
Dead Money (2021) by Srinath Adiga
Unnatural Ends (2022) by Christopher Huang
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