This page is to collect my reviews of books from authors from the Golden Age. I’m stretching things a bit in terms of the definition – basically, if they wrote some books in the Golden Age, then I’ll list all of their books here. I’m also going to include US authors who are sometimes overlooked when the Golden Age is concerned.

Golden Age authors with their own pages (due to me reviewing a lot of their books):

• Christopher Bush
• Agatha Christie
• John Dickson Carr
• Brian Flynn
• Ellery Queen
• John Rhode aka Miles Burton

The Detection Club

• The Floating Admiral (1931)

Margery Allingham

• Death Of A Ghost (1934)
• Traitor’s Purse (1941)

Delano Ames

• She Shall Have Murder (1948)

Anthony Armstrong

• Ten Minute Alibi (1934)

Lois Austen-Leigh

• The Incredible Crime (1931)

H C Bailey

• Call Mr Fortune (1920)
• Slippery Ann (1944)

Francis Beeding

• The Four Armourers (1930)
• Death Walks In Eastrepps (1931)
• The Norwich Victims (1935)
• No Fury (1936)

Josephine Bell

• A Well-Known Face (1960)

George Bellairs

• Death Of A Busybody (1942)
• The Body In The Dumb River (1961)

Anthony Berkeley

• The Wychford Poisoning Case (1926)
• The Poisoned Chocolates Case (1929) – British Library Reprint

Nicholas Blake

• Thou Shell Of Death (1936)
• The Beast Must Die (1938)
• The Case Of The Abominable Snowman (1941)
• End Of Chapter (1957)
• The Worm Of Death (1961)

John & Emery Bonett

• Dead Lion (1949)

Anthony Boucher

• The Case Of The Seven Of Calvary (1937)
• Nine Times Nine (1940)

Dorothy Bowers

• A Deed Without A Name (1940)

Christianna Brand

• Heads You Lose (1941)
• Green For Danger (1944)
• Suddenly At His Residence (1946)
• Death Of Jezebel (1948)
• London Particular (1952)

Herbert Brean

• Wilders Walk Away (1948)
• The Darker The Night (1950)

Gwen Bristow and Bruce Manning

• The Invisible Host (1930)

Douglas G Browne

• The Dead Don’t Bite (1933)

Leo Bruce

• Case For Three Detectives (1936)
• Case Without A Corpse (1937)
• Murder In Miniature (various)
• Our Jubilee Is Death (1959)

John Bude

• The Cornish Coast Murder (1935)
• The Cheltenham Square Murder (1937)
• Death In White Pyjamas (1944)
• Trouble A-Brewing (1946)
• Death Makes A Prophet (1947)
• Death On The Riviera (1952)

Miles Burton aka John Rhode

• Link to John Rhode reviews

Christopher Bush

• Link to Christopher Bush reviews

John Dickson Carr

• Link to Carr reviews

Agatha Christie

• Link to Christie reviews

V C Clinton-Baddeley

• Death’s Bright Dart (1967)
• My foe outstretch’d beneath the tree (1967)

Belton Cobb

• Double Detection (1945)
• Corpse At Casablanca (1956)
• The Horrible Man In Heron’s Wood (1970)

G D H & M Cole

• Death In The Quarry (1934)

J J Connington

• Murder In The Maze (1927)
• The Case With Nine Solutions (1928)
• The Boathouse Riddle (1931)
• The Ha-Ha Case (1934)
• A Minor Operation (1937)

George Harmon Coxe

• The Man Who Died Twice (1955)

Edmund Crispin

• The Case Of The Gilded Fly (1944)
• The Moving Toyshop (1946)
• Love Lies Bleeding (1948)
• Buried For Pleasure (1948)

Freeman Wills Crofts

• The Pit-Prop Syndicate (1922)
• Inspector French And The Starvel Tragedy (1927)
• The Sea Mystery (1928)
• Mystery In The Channel (1931)
• The Loss Of The Jane Vosper (1936)
• Golden Ashes (1940)

Guy Cullingford

• Conjurer’s Coffin (1954)

Moray Dalton

• The Body In The Road (1931)
• The Night Of Fear (1931)
• The Strange Case Of Harriet Hall (1936)
• The Art School Murders (1943)
• The Condamine Case (1947)

Elizabeth Daly

• The House Without The Door (1942)

Augusto De Angelis

• Death In A Bookstore (1936)

Todd Downing

• Vultures In The Sky (1935)

Francis Duncan

• So Pretty A Problem (1950)

J Jefferson Farjeon

• The Z Murders (1932)
• Thirteen Guests (1936)
• Seven Dead (1939)

Nigel Fitzgerald

• The Candles Are All Out (1960)

Brian Flynn

• Link to Brian Flynn reviews

Robin Forsythe

• Missing Or Murdered (1929)
• The Polo Ground Mystery (1932)
• The Pleasure Cruise Mystery (1933)

R Austin Freeman

• The Red Thumb Mark (1907)

Erle Stanley Gardner

• The Case Of The Baited Hook (1940)

Anthony Gilbert

• Riddle Of A Lady (1956)

Michael Gilbert

• Death In Captivity (1952)
• The Night Of The Twelfth (1976)

Elizabeth Gill

• The Crime Coast (1931)

Bruce Graeme

• Seven Clues In Search Of A Crime (1941)

C W Grafton

• The Rat Began To Knaw The Rope (1944)

Leonard Gribble

• The Arsenal Stadium Mystery (1939)

Dashiell Hammett

• The Maltese Falcon (1930)

Henrietta Hamilton

• Answer In The Negative (1959)

Cyril Hare

• Suicide Excepted (1939)
• Tragedy At Law (1942)
• With A Bare Bodkin (1946)
• An English Murder (1951)
• That Yew Tree’s Shade (1954)
• He Should Have Died Hereafter (1958)

Mavis Doriel Hay

• The Santa Klaus Murder (1936)

Annie Haynes

• The Bungalow Mystery (1923)
• The Man With The Dark Beard (1928)
• The Crystal Beads Murder (1930)

Donald Henderson

• A Voice Like Velvet (1946)

Richard Hull

• The Murder Of My Aunt (1934)
• Keep It Quiet (1935)
• Murder Isn’t Easy (1936)
• The Ghost It Was (1936)
• Excellent Intentions (1938)
• And Death Came Too (1939)
• Left-Handed Death (1946)

Michael Innes

• A Night Of Errors (1948)
• Appleby’s Answer (1973)

Ianthe Jerrold

• The Studio Crime (1929)
• Dead Man’s Quarry (1930)
• Let Him Lie (1940)
• There May Be Danger (1948)

Baynard Kendrick

• Odor of Violets (1940)

Milward Kennedy

• Corpse In Cold Storage (1934)

Robert Knox

• The Viaduct Murder (1925)

W H Lane Crauford

• And Then There Were Nine (1945)

Marcel Lanteaume

• The Thirteenth Bullet (1948)

E C R Lorac

• These Names Make Clues (1937)
• The Sixteenth Stair (1942)
• Rope’s End, Rogue’s End (1942)
• Checkmate To Murder (1944)
• Fire In The Thatch (1946)
• Murder In The Mill Race (1952)
• Shroud Of Darkness (1954)
• Two-Way Murder (2021) – a previously unreleased novel

Philip MacDonald

• Murder Gone Mad (1931)
• X v. Rex (1933)
• The List Of Adrian Messenger (1959)

Helen McCloy

• Dance Of Death (1938)
• Cue For Murder (1942)
• The Goblin Market (1942)
• Mr Splitfoot (1968)

Ernest McReay

• Murder At Eight Bells (1939)

Ngaio Marsh

• Artists In Crime (1938)
• Overture To Death (1939)
• Surfeit Of Lampreys (1941)
• False Scent (1960)
• Death At The Dolphin (1967)
• Clutch Of Constables (1968)
• Vintage Murder (1937)

Alan Melville

• Quick Curtain (1934)
• Death Of Anton (1936)

Anne Meredith

• Portrait Of A Murderer (1933)

Gladys Mitchell

• Speedy Death (1929)
• The Saltmarsh Murders (1932)
• Brazen Tongue (1940)
• Hangman’s Curfew (1941)
• When Last I Died (1941)
• Tom Brown’s Body (1949)
• The Twenty-Third Man (1957)

Max Murray

• The Sunshine Corpse (1954)

Beverley Nichols

• Death To Slow Music (1956)

Stuart Palmer

• The Penguin Pool Murder (1931)
• Murder On The Blackboard (1932)

Rupert Penny

• Policeman In Armour (1937)

Tyline Perry

• The Owner Lies Dead (1930)

W Shepard Pleasants

• The Stingaree Murders (1932)

Martin Porlock (see also Philip MacDonald)

• Mystery At Friar’s Pardon (1931)

E R Punshon

• Crossword Mystery (1934)
• Death Comes To Cambers (1935)
• Mystery Of Mr Jessop (1937)
• Comes A Stranger (1938)
• Suspects – Nine (1939)
• Diabolic Candelabra (1942)

Ellery Queen

• Link to Ellery Queen reviews

Patrick Quentin

• A Puzzle For Fools (1936)
• Puzzle For Players (1938)
• Puzzle For Puppets (1944)
• Puzzle For Wantons (1945)

Hugh Pentecost

• The Obituary Club (1958)
• The Cannibal Who Overate (1962)

B G Quin

• The Death Box (1929)

E & M A Radford

• Murder Isn’t Cricket (1946)
• Who Killed Dick Whittington? (1947)
• Death Of A Frightened Editor (1959)
• Death And The Professor (1961)

Virginia Rath

• A Shroud For Rowena (1947)

Clayton Rawson

• The Headless Lady (1940)
• Death Out Of Thin Air (1941)
• No Coffin For The Corpse (1942)
• Death From Nowhere (1943)
• The Great Merlini (Various)

John Rhode

• Link to John Rhode reviews

Craig Rice

• Eight Faces At Three (1939)
• Trial By Fury (1941)

Mary Roberts Rinehart

• The Bat aka The Circular Staircase (1908)

Joel Townsley Rogers

• The Red Right Hand (1945)

James Ronald

• They Can’t Hang Me (1938)

Theodore Roscoe

• Murder On The Way! (1935)

John Rowland

• Murder In The Museum (1938)

Harriet Rutland

• Knock, Murderer, Knock! (1938)
• Bleeding Hooks (1940)
• Blue Murder (1942)

George Sanders

• Crime On My Hands (1944)

Dorothy L Sayers

• Whose Body? (1923)

Mabel Seeley

• Eleven Came Back (1943)

Peter Shaffer

• The Woman In The Wardrobe (1951)

Derek Smith

• Whistle Up The Devil (1954)

Shelley Smith

• This Is The House (1945)

Christopher St John Sprigg

• Fatality In Fleet Street (1933)
• Death Of An Airman (1934)
• The Six Queer Things (1937)

Jonathan Stagge

• The Stars Spell Death (1939)
• Death My Darling Daughters (1945)

Rex Stout

• Prisoner’s Base (1956)

Jonathan Stephen Strange

• The Man Who Killed Fortescue (1929)

Julian Symons

• The Colour Of Murder (1957)

Hake Talbot

• Rim Of The Pit (1944)

Phoebe Atwood Taylor

• Octagon House (1937)

Josephine Tey

• The Daughter Of Time (1951)

Molly Thynne

• The Draycott Murder Mystery (1928)
• Death In The Dentist’s Chair (1932)

Franco Vallati

• The Flying Boat Mystery (1935)

S S Van Dine

• The Greene Murder Case (1928)

Robert Van Gulik

• The Chinese Gold Murders (1959)

Francis Vivian

• The Threefold Cord (1947)
• The Ninth Enemy (1948)
• The Laughing Dog (1949)
• The Singing Masons (1950)
• The Elusive Bowman (1951)
• The Ladies Of Locksley (1953)

Henry Wade

• The Verdict Of You All (1926)
• A Dying Fall (1955)

Carolyn Wells

• Murder In The Bookshop (1936)

Patricia Wentworth

• Pursuit Of A Parcel (1942)
• The Clock Strikes Twelve (1944)
• Silence In Court (1945)
• Miss Silver Comes To Stay (1949)

Ethel Lina White

• Some Must Watch (1933)

Cecil M Wills

• The Dead Voice (1952)
• Midsummer Murder (1956)
• The Case Of The Empty Beehive (1959)

Clifford Witting

• Midsummer Murder (1937)
• Dead On Time (1948)
• There Was A Crooked Man (1960)

Barbara Worsley-Gough

• Alibi Innings (1954)

Anthony Wynne

• Murder Of A Lady (1931)

Seishi Yokomizo

• The Honjin Murders (1948)

Short Stories

• Silent Nights
• Murder At The Manor
• Serpents In Eden
• Crimson Snow
• The Measure Of Malice
• Bodies From The Library
• Bodies From The Library 2
• Bodies From The Library 3