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mystery fiction (1,135)

This mystery series belongs to the whodunit tradition and was written by Phoebe Atwood Taylor. At its core, it offers stories built around puzzles, clues, and uncertainty, with the emphasis on working out what happened through careful reasoning. If you enjoy fiction where the mystery stays front and center and the pleasure comes from following the trail of evidence, this series fits that lane well.

If you are wondering where to begin, this is a good place to follow the page order: the books are presented in publication order. Booktheque includes 8 titles in the series, ranging from 1938 to 1947. Since there is no separate reading order indicated in the data, the order shown here should be treated as the reading order.

A good starting point is Murder at the New York World's Fair or The Cut Direct, and then you can continue in the order shown on the page. The series is a natural fit for readers who like classic mystery fiction, tidy clue-based investigations, and a steady focus on solving the central puzzle rather than on heavy action.

If the Shoe Fits--
Jackson Gregory · 1916
The impudent lady's maid (Smith's Magazine)
Ben Ames Williams · 1916
Beyond the Rim
J. Allan Dunn · 1916
Black Star's Subterfuge
Johnston McCulley · 1916
The False Faces
Louis Joseph Vance · 1918
The Man from Bar-20
Clarence E. Mulford · 1918
The Twenty-Six Clues
Isabel Ostrander · 1919
A Damsel in Distress
P. G. Wodehouse · 1919
The Heart of the Kimish (People's Favorite Magazine)
Jesse Edward Grinstead · 1919
Lights Out (Popular Magazine)
L. H. Robbins · 1919
The Man on Horseback
Achmed Abdullah · 1919
The glyphs
Roy Norton · 1919
The Tucandeira
Arthur O. Friel · 1920
The Yellow Note (Detective Story Magazine)
Johnston McCulley · 1920
The Loudwater Mystery
Edgar Jepson · 1920
Mary Louise at Dorfield
Emma Speed Sampson · 1920
The ship of shadows
H. Bedford-Jones · 1920
Unseen Hands
Isabel Ostrander · 1920
The Chinese Jewel
Jackson Gregory · 1921
The Holladay Case (Detective Story Magazine)
Burton Egbert Stevenson · 1921
Forced Luck
J. Allan Dunn · 1921
Under Sparkling Lights
Carleton Stevens Montanye · 1922
Fourteen All!
Gilbert Patten · 1922
The Stretton Street Affair
William Le Queux · 1922
Contraband (Packard, Sea Stories Magazine)
Frank L. Packard · 1922
Bootlegger's Luck
Bertha Muzzy Bower · 1922
The Spark of Skeeter Bill
W. C. Tuttle · 1922
The Satisfaction of Honor (Everybody's Magazine)
S. B. H. Hurst · 1922
Mary Louise and Josie O'Gorman
Emma Speed Sampson · 1922
The Isle of Seven Moons
Robert Gordon Anderson · 1922
Breed of the Wolf
George Tracy Marsh · 1922
Flames of the Storm
W. C. Tuttle · 1922
The Shaman
Roy Norton · 1922
Mummers in Mufti
Philip Everett Curtiss · 1922
The Copper Box
J. S. Fletcher · 1923
The King's Choice
Arthur Gilchrist Brodeur · 1923
It Came Out of Egypt
Sax Rohmer · 1923
The Halt and the Blind (Popular Magazine, 1923)
Edison Marshall · 1923
The lost Mr. Lintwhaite
J. S. Fletcher · 1923
Jim Hanvey, Detective
Octavus Roy Cohen · 1923
The Exile of The Lariat
Honoré Willsie Morrow · 1923
The Isle of Retribution
Edison Marshall · 1923
The Deductions of Colonel Gore
Lynn Brock · 1924
Twice in the Graveyard Watch (Popular Magazine)
Bertrand William Sinclair · 1924
"Slim" Learns Something (Popular Magazine, 1924)
Thomson Burtis · 1924
Forward
Harold Lamb · 1924
The witch of Aleppo
Harold Lamb · 1924
The Making of the Morning Star
Harold Lamb · 1924