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Reading Lists: Mystery Reading List

This guide provides reading lists for various genres and topics.

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Mystery Reading List

The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes by Eoin Colfer (Foreword by); Arthur Conan Doyle
Call Number: PR4622 .A7 2003
ISBN: 0439574285
Publication Date: 2004-11-01
Along Came a Spider by James Patterson
Call Number: PS3566 .A822 A79 1993
ISBN: 0316693642
Publication Date: 1993-02-01
Anatomy of a Murder by Robert Traver
Call Number: PS3570 .R339 A5 1959
ISBN: 0312033567
Publication Date: 1983-03-15
The Angel of Darkness by Caleb Carr
Call Number: PS3553 .A76277 A85 1998b
ISBN: 0345427637
Publication Date: 1998-05-27
Arthur and George by Julian Barnes
Call Number: PR6052 .A6657 A84 2007
ISBN: 1400097037
Publication Date: 2007-01-09
B Is for Burglar by Sue Grafton
Call Number: PS3557 .R13 B15 1986b
ISBN: 0553280341
Publication Date: 1986-09-01
Black Betty by Walter Mosley
Call Number: PS3563 .O88456 B58 1995b
ISBN: 0671884271
Publication Date: 1995-08-01
Blue city by Ross Macdonald
Call Number: PS3525 .I486 B58 1974
ISBN: 9780002310277
Publication Date: 1974
Brother Cadfael's Penance by Ellis Peters
Call Number: PR6031 .A49 B75 1996b
ISBN: 0446404535
Publication Date: 1996-02-01
Champagne for One by Rex Stout
Call Number: PS3537 .T733 C33
ISBN: 0553244388
Publication Date: 1995-12-08
The Circular Staircase by Mary Roberts Rinehart
Call Number: PS3535 .I73 C47 1908
ISBN: 0809593475
Publication Date: 2004-03-01
The Cuckoo's Calling by Robert Galbraith
Call Number: PR6068 .O93 C83 2013
ISBN: 0316206849
Publication Date: 2013-04-30
The Daughter of Time by Josephine Tey
Call Number: PR6025 .A2547 D3 1970
ISBN: 0425019276
Publication Date: 1970
The Da Vinci Code by Dan Brown
Call Number: PS3552 .R685434 D3 2003
ISBN: 0385504209
Publication Date: 2003-03-18
The Day of the Jackal by Frederick Forsyth
Call Number: PR6056 .O699 D39 1973
ISBN: 0553266306
Publication Date: 1982-10-04
Death on the Nile by Agatha Christie
Call Number: BBB 0676
ISBN: 9780062073556
Publication Date: 2011-02-01
Double Indemnity by James M. Cain
Call Number: PS3505 .A3113 D6 1978
ISBN: 0394725816
Publication Date: 1978-04-12
The Elusive Mrs. Pollifax by Dorothy Gilman
Call Number: PS3557 .I43 E48 1971
ISBN: 0449215237
Publication Date: 1987-09-12
Get Shorty by Elmore Leonard
Call Number: PS3562 .E55 G4 1991
ISBN: 0440209803
Publication Date: 1991-02-01
A Graveyard to Let by Carter Dickson
Call Number: PS3505 .A763 G72 1949
ISBN: 9780505512222
Publication Date: 1978-01-01
Killer Dolphin by Ngaio Marsh
Call Number: PR9639.3 .M27 K54 1966
ISBN: 0312970102
Publication Date: 1999-07-15
Laura by Vera Caspary
Call Number: PS3505 .A842 L28 1943
ISBN: 1558615059
Publication Date: 2005-10-01
The Light of Day by Eric Ambler; Eric Ambler
Call Number: PR6001 .M48 A6 1943
ISBN: 0375726799
Publication Date: 2004-12-07
The Moonstone by Wilkie Collins; Carolyn G. Heilbrun (Introduction by)
Call Number: PR4494 .M66 1874
ISBN: 0375757856
Publication Date: 2001-09-11
The Murder at the Vicarage by Agatha Christie
Call Number: PR6005 .H66 M642 1989
ISBN: 0816145652
Publication Date: 1989-03-01
Murder in the Smithsonian by Margaret Truman
Call Number: PS3570 .R8 M87 1988
ISBN: 0449209598
Publication Date: 1985-09-24
The Murder of Roger Ackroyd by Agatha Christie
Call Number: PR6005 .H66 M865 1982
ISBN: 1579126278
Publication Date: 2006-09-01
Murder on the Orient Express by Agatha Christie
Call Number: BBB 0681
ISBN: 0553030000
Publication Date: 1983-03-01
The New Centurions by Joseph Wambaugh
Call Number: PS3573 .A475 N48 1987
ISBN: 0440164176
Publication Date: 1987-03-01
Original Sin by P. D. James; Phyllis White
Call Number: PR6060 .A467 O75 1995
ISBN: 0446602345
Publication Date: 1996-02-01
Playback by Raymond Chandler
Call Number: PS3505 .H3224 P53
ISBN: 0394757661
Publication Date: 1988-08-12
Post Mortem by Patricia Cornwell
Call Number: PS3553 .O692 P6 1991
ISBN: 0380710218
Publication Date: 1991-02-01
Presumed Innocent by Scott Turow
Call Number: PS3570 .U754 P7 1987
ISBN: 0374237131
Publication Date: 1987-07-01
Rebecca by Daphne Du Maurier
Call Number: PR6007 .U47 R4 2006
ISBN: 0380730405
Publication Date: 2006-09-05
Rest You Merry by Charlotte MacLeod
Call Number: PS3563 .A312 R37 1979
ISBN: 0743434730
Publication Date: 2001-10-30
R Is for Ricochet by Sue Grafton
Call Number: PS3557 .R13 R15 2005
ISBN: 0425203867
Publication Date: 2005-03-29
River by Roderick Thorp
Call Number: PS3570 .H67 R58 1996b
ISBN: 0804115354
Publication Date: 1996-06-01
The Spy Who Loved Me by Ian Fleming
Call Number: PR6056 .L4 S69 1962
ISBN: 0142003263
Publication Date: 2003-09-02
Strangers on a Train by Patricia Highsmith
Call Number: PS3558 .I366 S77 2001
ISBN: 0393321983
Publication Date: 2001-08-17
A Suitable Vengeance by Elizabeth George
Call Number: PS3557 .E478 S85 1992
ISBN: 0553295608
Publication Date: 1992-02-01
Tales of Mystery and Imagination by Edgar Poe; C. Owen (Illustrator)
Call Number: PS2612 .A3 1988
ISBN: 0195805119
Publication Date: 1976-01-08
Tishomingo Blues by Elmore Leonard
Call Number: PS3562 .E55 T57 2003
ISBN: 0060083948
Publication Date: 2002-12-31
Trace by Patricia Cornwell
Call Number: PS3553 .O692 T73 2004
ISBN: 0399152199
Publication Date: 2004-09-02
Tunnel Vision by Sara Paretsky
Call Number: PS3566 .A647 T86 1995b
ISBN: 0440217520
Publication Date: 1995-05-01
Unnatural Death by Dorothy L. Sayers
Call Number: PR6037 .A95 U4 1969
ISBN: 0061043583
Publication Date: 1995-07-11
The Way Through the Woods by Colin Dexter
Call Number: PR6054 .E93 W39 1994b
ISBN: 0804111421
Publication Date: 1994-03-02
The Woman in White by Wilkie Collins; Matthew Sweet (Editor, Introduction by, Notes by)
Call Number: PR4494 .W65 1937
ISBN: 0141439610
Publication Date: 2003-04-29

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