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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.

The Cat Who Tailed a Thief
Lilian Jackson Braun · 1997
The Door Below
Hugh B. Cave · 1997
The Good, The Bad, and the Indifferent
Joe R. Lansdale · 1997
The Pirate's Daughter
Robert Girardi · 1997
The Saint
Burl Barer · 1997
Triple Feature
Joe R. Lansdale · 1997
Vaporetto 13
Robert Girardi · 1997
The Scroll of the Dead
David Stuart Davies · 1998
Freedomland
Richard Price · 1998
Irish Whiskey
Andrew Greeley · 1998
The Ape Who Guards the Balance
Barbara Mertz · 1998
The E-mail Mystery
Carolyn Keene · 1998
The Haunting
Joan Lowery Nixon · 1998
Mr. X
Peter Straub · 1999
Storm of the Century
Stephen King · 1999
Ashes to Ashes
Tami Hoag · 1999
Faded Steel Heat
Glen Cook · 1999
Skattejakten
Margit Sandemo · 1999
The Tinder Box
Minette Walters · 1999
Dust to Dust
Tami Hoag · 2000
Monkey Beach
Eden Robinson · 2000
Silent to the Bone
E. L. Konigsburg · 2000
The Body of Christopher Creed
Carol Plum-Ucci · 2000
The Ice Harvest
Scott Phillips · 2000
Lost
Gregory Maguire · 2001
Sunday's Silence
Gina B. Nahai · 2001
Frozen Tracks
Åke Edwardson · 2001
Naked Came the Phoenix
Nevada Barr · 2001
Zoenoffer
Pieter Aspe · 2001
Courting Trouble
Lisa Scottoline · 2002
In the Bleak Midwinter
Julia Spencer-Fleming · 2002
Fatal Truth
Robin Burcell · 2002
A Loyal Character Dancer
Qiu Xiaolong · 2002
Angry Lead Skies
Glen Cook · 2002
Fox Evil
Minette Walters · 2002
The Slayers of Seth
Paul C. Doherty · 2002
The Alto Wore Tweed
2002
The Lake of Dead Languages
Carol Goodman · 2002
The Wrong Doyle
Robert Girardi · 2002
Half-Broken Things
Morag Joss · 2003
Maisie Dobbs
Jacqueline Winspear · 2003
Shadows Over Baker Street
Neil Gaiman · 2003
The Cat Who Brought Down the House
Lilian Jackson Braun · 2003
The Cat Who Talked Turkey
Lilian Jackson Braun · 2003
The Face
Dean Koontz · 2003
RUPTURE
Yō Kusakabe · 2004
Little Scarlet
Walter Mosley · 2004
Blood Hollow
William Kent Krueger · 2004