Woodthorpe, R. C. xix, 93, 158, 219, 223, 273, 279n, 283, 330–1, 377, 406–7
Woolf, Leonard 75, 222, 230–1n
Woolf, Virginia 75, 222, 230–1n, 346
Woollcott, Alexander 116, 137, 320, 418
Woolley, Katherine 152, 153, 154, 417, 418
Woolley, Leonard 151, 152, 153, 154, 417
Wright, Willard Huntington 28, 33n, 113
Wrong, E. M. 28, 33n
Wyndham, John 245n
Wynne, Anthony 190n
Yates, Dornford 391
Zangwill, Israel 111
Index of Titles
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ABC Murders, The (Christie) 203, 343–4
‘Abominable History of the Man with Copper Fingers, The’ (Sayers) 24
Acquittal (Simpson) 215
‘Adventure of the Christmas Pudding, The’ (Christie) 59
‘Adventure of the Egyptian Tomb, The’ (Christie) 151
Affair at Aliquid, The (G. D. H. and M. Cole) 222–3
After the Funeral (Christie) 59
Agatha (film) 419
Akhnaton (play) (Christie) 345–6, 347, 419
Anatomy of Murder, The (Detection Club) 293–300
And Then There Were None (Christie) 51n, 224, 232n, 332, 398–9
Angel in the Case (Elder) 129n, 206
Antidote to Venom (Crofts) 385–6
Appointment with Death (Christie) 343
As for the Woman (Iles) 39–40, 137, 399–400, 427, 428–9
Ask a Policeman (Detection Club) 248, 251–3, 258n, 280n
‘Avenging Chance, The’ (Berkeley) 85, 94n
Baffle Book, The (Wren and MacKay) 257n
Baker Street Studies (Detection Club) 253
Beast Must Die, The (Blake) 389–90, 432
Before the Fact (Iles) 135, 136, 140–5, 212, 253, 355, 401, 405, 424, 427, 428
Behind the Screen (Detection Club radio story) 89–90, 93, 163–7, 171, 173n, 314, 403
Benson Murder Case, The (Dine) 114–15, 116
Best Detective Stories of the Year (ed. Knox) 118, 440
Better Dead (screenplay) (Balchin) 257n
Big Bow Mystery, The (Zangwill) 111
Big Business Murder (G. D. H. and M. Cole) 263
Big Four, The (Christie) 65
Bill of Divorcement, A (play) (Dane) 213–14
Birthday Party (Kitchin) 231n
Bishop Murder Case, The (Dine) 203, 398–9
Black and Blue (Rankin) 433
Black Coffee (play) (Christie) 154, 159n
Blackerchief Dick (Allingham) 232
Bleston Mystery, The (Kennedy/Macdonnell) 206
Blood on the Dining Room Floor (Stein) 115
Bloody Murder (Symons) vii, xiv, 80n, 233n, 265n, 441
Boat-House Riddle, The (Connington) 185
Body in the Silo, The (Knox) 191n, 231n, 387
Book of Acrostics, A (Knox) 118
Brenda Entertains (Berkeley) 42, 47
Bring the Monkey (Franklin) 232n
Brooklyn Murders, The (G. D. H. and M. Cole) 76
Burglars in Bucks (G. D. H. and M. Cole) 156, 379
Burning Court, The (Carr) 228, 317–18
Busman’s Honeymoon (Sayers) 307–8, 338, 340, 383, 403, 423
Calamity Town (Queen) 405
Canary Murder Case, The (Dine) 115
Cards on the Table (Christie) 239, 344–5
Case for Cain (Hamilton) 364n
Case for Three Detectives (Bruce) 259n
Case of Constance Kent, The (Rhode) 300, 446
‘Case of Oscar Brodski, The’ (Freeman) 287
Case of the Chinese Gong, The (Bush) 261
Case of the Constant Suicides, The (Carr) 398
‘Case of the Missing Lady, The’ (Christie) 88
Case is Altered, The (Plomer) 230n
Case with Nine Solutions, The (Connington) 186–7, 192
Cask, The (Crofts) 75, 400, 402n
Cat’s Eye, The (Freeman) 183
Casual Slaughters (Quince) 394n
Charabanc Mystery, The (Burton) 203
Cicely Disappears (Platts) 47–50, 156
Clouds of Witness (Sayers) 16, 23, 32n, 177, 234
Commoner and King (Berkeley) 339
Condition of Britain, The (G. D. H. and M. Cole) 301
Corpse in Cold Storage (Kennedy) 313n, 365n
Corpse in the Car, The (Rhode) 200
Corpse on the Mat, The (Kennedy) 205
Coward, The (Meredith) 260–1
Craft of the Short Story, The (Maconochie) 306
Crime at Black Dudley, The (Allingham/Carter) 242–3, 363
Crime of the Century, The (Amis) 173n
Crime at Christmas (Kitchin) 231n
Crime Conductor, The (MacDonald) 257n
Crooked Hinge, The (Carr) 318, 320
Crooked House (Christie) 349
Crossword Mystery (Punshon) 326–8
Cuckoo’s Calling, The (Galbraith 146n
Curtain: Poirot’s Final Case (Christie) 332
Dagger in Fleet Street, A (Woodthorpe) 330
Dagmar Case, The (Duse) 64
Davidson Case, The (Rhode) 200
Dead Man’s Folly (Christie) 180
Dead Man’s Watch (G. D. H. and M. Cole) 80–1n
Dead Men’s Morris (Mitchell) 241
Death at Broadcasting House (Fleming) 160
Death at the Opera (Mitchell) 241
Death at the President’s Lodging (Innes) 276
Death Beneath Jerusalem (Bax) 391
Death by Request (John) 245n
Death Comes as the End (Christie) 151, 346
Death in a Little Town (Woodthorpe) 158, 219
Death in the Clouds (Christie) 154, 227, 420
Death in the Dark (Antheil) 115
Death in the House (Berkeley) 399
Death of a Banker (Wynne) 190n
Death of a Beauty Queen (Punshon) 284
Death of a Millionaire (G. D. H. and M. Cole) 76
Death of an Airman (Sprigg) 313n
Death of a Star (G. D. H. and M. Cole) 218–19
Death of Laurence Vining, The (Thomas) 95n
Death of the Home Secretary (Thomas) 95n
Death of the King’s Canary (Thomas and Davenport) 230n
Death on the Board (Rhode) 262
Death on the Nile (Christie) 226, 346
Death to the Rescue (Kennedy) 187, 206–8, 332, 353–4, 365n
Deaths, The (Lawson) 139
Death Walks in Eastrepps (Beeding) 258n
‘Decline of the English Murder, The’ (Orwell) 51n, 288–9
Deed without a Name (Bowers) 403
‘Defence of Detective Stories, A’ (essay) (Chesterton) 103, 107n
Detection Medley (Detection Club anthology) 94n, 377, 407, 441
‘Detective Story’ (poem) (Auden) 274
Devil is an English Gentleman, The (Cournos) 21
Devil to Pay, The (play) (Sayers) 384
Diabolic Candelabra (Punshon) 340
Diary of a Provincial Lady, The (Delafield) 429
Dictator’s Way (Punshon) 329, 339–40
Disgrace to the College (G. D. H. and M. Cole) 76–7
Division Bell Mystery, The (Wilkinson) 262
Documents in the Case, The (Sayers/Eustace) 124–7, 129n, 179, 224, 379
Door to Doom, The (Carr) 381n)
Dorothy and Agatha (Larsen) 431–2, 436n
Dorrington Deed-Box, The (Morrison) 99–100
Double Cross Purposes (Knox) 387, 394n
Double Death (Sayers et al) 258n
Dr Smirno’s Diary (Duse) 63–4
Draughtsman’s Contract, The (film) 432, 436n
Drop to his Death (Dickson) 376
Duke of York’s Step’s, The (Wade) 196–7
Dying Alderm
an, The (Wade) 197
Elephant’s Work (Bentley) 304
End of Chapter (Blake) 432
Enter Sir John (Dane/Simpson) 212, 214, 215
Equus (Shaffer) 412n
Escape to Quebec (Kennedy) 406
Eugenics and Other Evils (Chesterton) 102
Evil under the Sun (Christie) 224
Excellent Intentions (Hull) 358–9
Eye in the Museum, The (Connington) 187
Eye of Osiris, The (Freeman) 182
‘Face in the Dark, The’ (Eustace/Meade) 123
Face on the Cutting-Room Floor, The (McCabe) 377–9
‘Fallen Idol, The’ (Knox) 285, 329
Family Witch, The (Berkeley) 41
‘Fantastic Horror of the Cat in the Bag, The’ (Sayers) 24
Fashion in Shrouds, The (Allingham) 243, 372
Fatal Venture (Crofts) 187
Five Little Pigs (Christie) 358
Five Red Herrings (Sayers) 187, 220, 227
Flame Trees of Thika, The (Huxley) 279n
Flight from Destiny (film) 424
Floating Admiral, The (Detection Club novel) 12n, 52n, 91, 246–8, 251, 258n, 442
Footsteps at the Lock, The (Knox) 88
For Murder Will Speak (Connington) 374–5
Found Floating (Crofts) 226
Four Defences, The (Connington) 178
Four Gospels as One Story written as a modern biography, The (Crofts) 385
Four Just Men, The (Wallace) 52n, 286–7, 359
Four Quartets (Eliot) 275
Fourth Wall, The (play) (Milne) 212
French Ambassador’s Trousers, The (play) (Carr) 253
Gas Light (play) (Hamilton) 364n
Gaudy Night (Sayers) 17, 180, 259n, 276–8, 296, 307, 340, 390, 423
Giant’s Bread (Westmacott) 152
Gone Girl (Flynn) 432, 433, 436n
Gory Knight (Larminie and Langslow) 259n
Great Short Stories of Detection, Mystery and Horror 28, 96, 107n, 123
‘Greedy Night’ (Bentley) 259n, 296
Grell Mystery, The (Froest) 209n
Grim Vengeance (Connington) 185
Grindle Nightmare, The (Webb/Aswell) 115
‘Guilty Vicarage, The’ (essay) (Auden) 274, 279n
Ha-Ha Case, The (Connington) 188–9
Hag’s Nook (Carr) 315–16
Hampdenshire Wonder, The (Beresford) 402n
Hanging Captain, The (Wade) 197–8
Hangman’s Holiday (Sayers) 228
Hangover Square (Hamilton) 364n
Have His Carcase (Sayers) 200, 220–1
Heir Presumptive (Wade) 288
Heir to Lucifer (Burton) 202
Hendon’s First Case (Rhode) 202–3
Hercule Poirot’s Christmas (Christie) 397–8
He Should Have Died Hereafter (Hare) 432
He Should Not Have Slipped (Beeding) 258n
Hide My Eyes (Allingham) 313n
High Sherriff, The (Wade) 198–9
His Master’s Voice (Low) 402n
Hog’s Back Mystery (Crofts) 191n
Hollow Man, The (Carr) 316–17, 318
Horse under Water (Deighton) 52n
Hound of the Baskervilles, The (Conan Doyle) 155
House by the River, The (Herbert) 146n
House of Dr Edwardes (Beeding) 257n
Human Flies, The (Lahlum) 432
Hungry Goblin, The (Carr) 408
I am Jonathan Scrivener (Houghton) 173n
I’ll Be Judge, I’ll Be Jury (Kennedy) 62, 355
In the Next Room (Stevenson) 62, 420
In the Night (Gorell) 112
‘In the Teeth of the Evidence’ (Sayers) 178
In Whose Dim Shadow (Connington) 374
Incredulity of Father Brown, The (Chesterton) 104
Information Received (Punshon) 284
Innocence of Father Brown, The (Chesterton) 103
Intelligent Man’s Guide though World Chaos, The (Cole) 262
Intelligent Man’s Review of Europe Today, The (Cole) 262
Invisible Host, The (Bristow and Manning) 232n
‘Invisible Man, The’ (Chesterton) 97
Israel Rank (Horniman) 290n
‘It Pays to Look Soulful: a Story for Cynics’ (Berkeley) 426
It Walks by Night (Carr) 314, 315
Jill (Delafield) 425–6
Journey’s End (Sheriff) 193
Judge’s Dilemma, The (Kyle) 265
Jumping Jenny (Berkeley) 253, 359–60, 362
Keep It Quiet (Hull) 358
Killer and the Slain, The (Walpole) 151, 401, 432
Knife in the Dark (G. D. H. and M. Cole) 81n
Lady Molly of Scotland Yard (Orczy) 101
Lady Vanishes, The (film) 31n
Last Will and Testament (G. D. H. and M. Cole) 221
Layton Court Mystery, The (Berkeley) 42–3, 63
Ledger is Kept, The (Postgate) 79n
List of Adrian Messenger, The (MacDonald) 257n
Lodger, The (Belloc Lowndes) 203
London is a Fine Town (Woodthorpe) 279n
Lonely Magdalen (Wade) 397, 432
Lord Edgware Dies (Christie) 91, 205, 325
Lord Peter Views the Body (Sayers) 27
Love from a Stranger (play) (Vosper) 347
Luminaries, The (Catton) 433
Malice Aforethought (Iles) 133–6, 137, 139, 140–1, 144, 146n, 147n, 287–8, 309, 355, 364n, 378, 424, 427–8, 432
Maltese Falcon, The (Hammett) 116
Man Born to Be King, The (radio drama) (Sayers) 404
Man in the Brown Suit, The (Christie) 62–3
Man Lay Dead, A (Marsh) 242
Man Who Killed Himself, The (Symons) 432
Man Who Knew Too Much, The (film) 212
Man with the Clubfoot, The (Williams) 194
‘Man with the Nailed Shoes, The’ (Freeman) 183
Many Dimensions (Williams) 231n
‘Manx Gold’ (Christie) 154, 159n
Mask of Dimitrios, The (Ambler) 391–2
Messalina of the Suburbs (Delafield) 47, 425
Middle Class Murder (Hamilton) 358, 364n
Midnight House, The (White) 31n
Mind of the Maker, The (Sayers) 404
Minor Operation, A (Connington) 374
Mist on the Saltings (Wade) 195, 221–2, 224, 389
Monogram Murders, The (Hannah) 433
Moonstone, The (Collins) 99, 126, 300–1
Mousetrap, The (play) (Christie) 57
Moving Toyshop, The (Crispin) 210n
Mr Priestley’s Problem (Cox) 48
Mrs McGinty’s Dead (Christie) 293, 350
Mummy Case Mystery, The (Morrah) 279n
Murder at Crome House, The (G. D. H. and M. Cole) 76
Murder at School (Trevor) 138, 146n
Murder at 28:10 (Gayle) 375
Murder at the College (Whitechurch) 279n
Murder at the Vicarage, The (Christie) xiv, 155, 263, 384
Murder in Black and White (Elder) 206
Murder in Mesopotamia (Christie) 227, 343, 417–18
Murder in the Basement (Berkeley) 138–9
Murder in the Cathedral (Eliot) 99, 383
Murder in the Maze (Connington) 186
Murder is Easy (Christie) 398
Murder Isn’t Easy (Hull) 390
Murder May Pass Unpunished (Everton) 190n
Murder Must Advertise (Sayers) 151, 223, 250, 263–4, 307, 390, 421–2
Murder of a Lady (Wynne) 191n
Murder of a Snob (Vickers) 265
‘Murder of Julia Wallace, The’ (Sayers) 293–5, 302n
Murder of My Aunt (Hull) 329–30, 390
Murder of Roger Ackroyd, The (Christie) 43, 54, 63–4, 104, 152, 228, 233n, 380, 382n, 390, 419–20, 435
Murder of Sir Edmund Godfrey, The (Carr) 319
Murder Off Miami (Wheatley/Links) 380
Murder on the Links, The (Christie) 62, 309
Murder on the Orient
Express (Christie) xv, 6, 12n, 38, 150–2, 224–6, 273, 399, 432, 437n
Murder! (film) 212–13
Murders in Praed Street, The (Rhode) 201–2
‘Murders in the Rue Morgue, The’ (Poe) 97
‘Musgrave Ritual, The’ (Conan Doyle) 99
Mysterious Affair at Styles, The (Christie) 53, 60, 309
Mysterious Mr Quin, The (Christie) 154
Mystery at Lynden Sands, The (Connington) 186
‘Mystery in Geneva (Macaulay) 231n
Mystery of Marie Roget, The’ (Poe) 97–8
Mystery of Norman’s Court, The (Chancellor) 62
Mystery of the Blue Train, The (Christie) 65–6
Mystery of the Underground, A (Oxenham) 210n
Mystery of the Yellow Room, The (Leroux) 67n
N or M? (Christie) 418–19
Napoleon of Notting Hill, The (Chesterton) 73–4
Nebuly Coat, The (Falkner) 233n
Next Ten Years in British Social and Economic Policy, The (Cole) 77
Nightmare (Brock) 146n
Nine Tailors, The (Sayers) 17, 223–4, 227–8, 231n, 390
No Flowers By Request (Detection Club) 258n
No One Now Will Know (Delafield) 47
Nordenholt’s Million (Connington) 185
Norwich Victims, The (Beeding) 258n
Nose on my Face, The (Payne) 31n
Not To Be Taken (Berkeley) 362–3
Nothing is Safe (Delafield) 426–7, 428
No Walls of Jasper (Cannan) 146n
Obelists at Sea (King) 121n
Obelists en Route 121n
Obelists Fly High (King) 191n
O England! (Cox) 44, 267–9, 339
Old King Cole (Shanks) 230n
One, Two, Buckle My Shoe (Christie) 326
Original Sin (James) 432
Oxford Murders, The (Broome) 279n
Oxford Tragedy, An (Masterman) 276
Paddington Mystery, The (Rhode) 200
Pale Horse, The (Christie) 60
Panic Party (Berkeley) 137, 253, 332–3, 362
Papers Relating to the Family of Wimsey (Sayers/Simpson/Byrne/Scott-Giles) 376–7
Partners in Crime (Christie) 66, 88
Passenger to Frankfurt (Christies) 383n
Payment Deferred (Forester) 146n
Peace with Honour (Milne) 266
‘Perfect Alibi’ (Berkeley) 131
Perfect Murder, The (Bush) 204–5
People Like Us (Vosper) 212, 349
Peril at Cranbury Hall (Rhode) 221
Peril at End House (Christie) 156–7, 224, 331–2, 405
Phantom of the Opera, The (Leblanc) 67n
‘Philomel Cottage’ (Christie) 212, 216n
Piccadilly Murder, The (Berkeley) 131
Pin to See the Peep-Show, A (Jesse) 257n
Plain Murder (Forester) 146n
Poison in the Parish (Kennedy) 354–5
Poison Pipe (Berkeley) 400
Poisoned Chocolates Case, The (Berkeley) 85–8, 91, 131
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