Detective Literature

Martin Hewitt, Investigator
"The Case of the Dixon Torpedo"

Literature that falls under the Detective Fiction genre. See also Mystery Fiction, Crime Fiction, Historical Detective Fiction, and Mystery Literature.

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• The Affinity Bridge
• Albert Campion
• Alex Cross
• The Alienist
• Amelia Peabody
  • Crocodile on the Sandbank
  • Lion in the Valley
  • The Last Camel Died at Noon
  • Children of the Storm
• American Tabloid
• Angie's First Case
• Anonymous Rex
• Another Note
• Archie Sheridan
• The Arcology
• Arsène Lupin
• Asshole Yakuza Boyfriend
• ATL Stories From The Retrofuture
• Aunt Dimity
• The Automatic Detective
  • "Greyback in Blue"
• Azure Rain
• Babylon
• Beautiful Bones: Sakurako's Investigation
• Ben Safford Mysteries
• Ben Snow
• The Bigger They Come
• Black Bat
• Bret King
• Blood Books
• A Blunt Instrument
• Bone Song
• Bony
• Brother Cadfael
• Bubbles in Space
• Bright Falls Mysteries
• Cam Jansen
• Carnacki the Ghost-Finder
• The Case Files of Yakushiji Ryoko
• Case File nº221: Kabukicho
• Cassie Dewell
• C. Auguste Dupin series
• Charlie Chan
• Charlie Parker Series
• The Charlotte and Thomas Pitt Series
• Chet and Bernie
• City of Devils
• City Primeval
• Claudius Lyon
• The Club of Queer Trades
• Cormoran Strike Novels
• Conciencia y Voluntad
• The Continental Op
  • Red Harvest
  • The Dain Curse
• The Count of 9
• Corinna Chapman
• Crooked Little Vein
• Danganronpa Kirigiri
• Daniel Hawthorne Novels
  • A Twist of the Knife
  • The Word Is Murder
• Dead Silver
• Detective Inspector Chen series
• Detective Lane Mysteries
• DI Fawley
• Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency
• Dust and Shadow: An Account of the Ripper Killings by Dr. John H. Watson
• The Dresden Files
• Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Holmes
• Dr. Thorndyke series
  • The Singing Bone
• Easytown
• Ellery Queen
• The Exile's Violin
• Emma
• End of Watch
• Enola Holmes
• Encyclopedia Brown
• Erast Fandorin series
  • The Winter Queen
  • Murder on the Leviathan
  • The Death of Achilles
  • Special Assignments
  • The Coronation
  • She Lover of Death
  • He Lover of Death
• Even Though I Knew the End
• Ezzie
• Far Cry
• Father Brown
• Feluda
• Felse Investigates
• Finders Keepers
• The First Rule of Survival
• Flavia de Luce
• Fletch
• Four Faultless Felons
• Fun Jungle
• Garrett, P.I.
  • Sweet Silver Blues
  • Bitter Gold Hearts
  • Cold Copper Tears
  • Old Tin Sorrows
  • Dread Brass Shadows
  • Red Iron Nights
• Gervase Fen
• Get Blank
• The Glass Key
• The Great Merlini
• Greywalker
• Hakata Tonkotsu Ramens
• Half Moon Investigations
• Hamish Macbeth
• The Hardy Boys
• Harry Bosch series
  • Angels Flight
  • The Black Box
  • The Black Echo
  • The Black Ice
  • The Burning Room
  • City of Bones
  • The Concrete Blonde
  • The Crossing
  • Dark Sacred Night
  • The Drop
  • The Last Coyote
  • Lost Light
  • The Narrows
  • 9 Dragons
  • The Overlook
  • Trunk Music
  • Two Kinds of Truth
  • The Wrong Side of Goodbye
• Harry Hole
• Hercule Poirot
• The Hermux Tantamoq Adventures
• Holmes on the Range
• Hoshi and the Red City Circuit
• Hungover and Handcuffed
• In Death series by Nora Roberts
• In Hero Years, I'm Dead
• In/Spectre
• Inspector Lynley
• Inspector Morse
• The Invisible Detective
• Jo Gar
• Joe Grey
• John Devil
• John Putnam Thatcher
• J.P. Beaumont
• Judge Dee
• Judge Knott
• Julian Kestrel
• Kate Shugak
• Kenzie and Gennaro Series
• Killing Time
• King City
• Kinky Friedman
• Kinsey Millhone
• The L.A. Quartet
  • The Black Dahlia
  • The Big Nowhere
  • L.A. Confidential
  • White Jazz
  • Perfidia
  • This Storm
• Lady Audley's Secret
• The Lady Grace Mysteries
• The Late Show
• Leaphorn & Chee
• Lee Nez
• Lessons for a Perfect Detective Story
• Lester Leith
• The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul
• Lord Darcy
• Lord El-Melloi II Case Files
• Lord Peter Wimsey
  • Whose Body?
  • Clouds of Witness
  • Unnatural Death
  • The Unpleasantness at the Bellona Club
  • Strong Poison
  • The Five Red Herrings
  • Have His Carcase
  • Murder Must Advertise
  • The Nine Tailors
  • Gaudy Night
• Magic for Liars
• Magpie Murders
  • Moonflower Murders (the sequel)
• Maigret
• Malice (2014)
• The Maltese Falcon
• "The Man of the Crowd"
• The Man Who Knew Too Much
• Marcus Didius Falco
• Margin Play
• Matthew Scudder
• Martin Beck
• The McGurk Organization
• The "Michael Shayne" series
  • Dividend on Death (1939)
  • The Private Practice of Michael Shayne (1940)
  • The Uncomplaining Corpses (1940)
  • Tickets for Death (1941)
  • Bodies Are Where You Find Them (1941)
  • The Corpse Came Calling (1942)
  • Murder Wears a Mummer's Mask (1943)
  • Blood on the Black Market (1943)
  • Michael Shayne's Long Chance (1944)
  • Murder and the Married Virgin (1944)
  • Murder Is My Business (1945)
  • Blood on Biscayne Bay (1946)
  • Counterfeit Wife (1946)
  • Blood on the Stars (1948)
  • This Is It, Michael Shayne (1950)
  • Framed in Blood (1951)
  • One Night With Nora (1953)
  • When Dorinda Dances (1953)
  • She Woke to Darkness (1954)
  • Death Has Three Lives (1955)
  • Stranger in Town (1955)
  • The Blonde Cried Murder (1956)
  • Murder and the Wanton Bride (1958)
• Mick Oberon
• Midnight Occult Civil Servants (Partially)
• Mike Hammer
• Miles Pennoyer series
  • Number Seven Queer Street
  • The Case of the Double Husband
• Mindspace Investigations
• Miss Marple
• Montague Egg
• The Moonstone
• Morris and Chastain Investigations
• Mr Blank
• Mr. Mercedes
• The Murder Most Unladylike series
• Murder of a Lady
• Myron Bolitar Series
• Naming The Hangman
• Nancy Drew
• Nate the Great
• New Amsterdam
• Nero Wolfe
  • Fer-de-lance
  • The League of Frightened Men
  • The Rubber Band
  • The Red Box
  • Too Many Cooks
  • Some Buried Caesar
  • Over My Dead Body
  • Where There's a Will
  • Where There's a Will
  • The Silent Speaker
  • Too Many Women
  • And Be a Villain
  • The Second Confession
  • In the Best Families
  • Murder by the Book
  • Prisoner's Base
  • A Family Affair
• Nerve Zero
• The New York Trilogy
• Nickel Plated
• Nick Velvet
• Nikki Heat
• The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency
• No Gods for Drowning
• October Daye
• The Office Of Lost And Found
• The Outsider (2018)
• Philip Marlowe
  • The Big Sleep
  • Farewell, My Lovely
  • The High Window
  • The Lady in the Lake
  • The Little Sister
  • The Long Goodbye
  • Playback
  • The Black Eyed Blonde
• Perfidia
• Philo Vance
• Phryne Fisher
• The Poet and the Lunatics
• Pronto
  • Riding The Rap
• Put the Sepia On
• Retrieval Artist
• The Roman Mysteries
• The Salmon of Doubt
• Sam the Cat: Detective
• Sano Ichiro
• The Savannah Reid Mysteries
• Scarlett Undercover
• Search the Seven Hills
• Sherlock Holmes
  • A Study in Scarlet
  • The Sign of the Four
  • The Hound of the Baskervilles
  • The Valley of Fear
• Sherlock Holmes and Doctor Was Not
• Sherlock Holmes of Baker Street
• The Sherlock Holmes Stories of Edward D. Hoch
• Sid Halley
• The Silence of Bones
• Simon Ark
• Sister Fidelma
• Sister Pelagia
• Small Change
• Smaller & Smaller Circles
• Snyper
• Solar Pons
• Spellman Files
• Spenser
• Split Images
• SPQR
• Sugawara Akitada
• Suspicion
• Tantei Team KZ Jiken Note
• The Teresa Knight Trilogy
• Terror Is My Trade
• The Thinking Machine
• The Thin Man
• Thraxas
• This Storm
• The Three Investigators
• TKKG
• Traces
• The Trees of Pride
• Triptych
• Trueman Bradley
• Undead on Arrival
• Vasquez Private Eye
• Veronica Mars
• Wallander
• * Donald Westlake
  • Somebody Owes Me Money
  • ''Sam Holt
  • The Cutie
  • Mitch Tobin
• Widespread Panic
• Who Censored Roger Rabbit?
• The Woman in Cabin 10
• The Yiddish Policemen's Union
• Zachary Nixon Johnson

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