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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.

Why Is This Night Different From All Other Nights?
Lemony Snicket · 2015
Mycroft Holmes
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar · 2015
The Apocalypse Fire
Dominic Selwood · 2016
A Study in Scarlet Women
Sherry Thomas · 2016
The Chemist
Stephenie Meyer · 2016
Borderless
Tetsuya Honda · 2018
The Terminal List: A Thriller
Jack Carr · 2018
The Book and the Key
Honobu Yonezawa · 2018
Indian Club Mystery
Alice Arisugawa · 2018
Sherlock Holmes and the Sussex Sea-Devils
James Lovegrove · 2018
Mycroft and Sherlock
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar · 2018
Empire of Wild
Cherie Dimaline · 2019
The Tragedy of I
Honobu Yonezawa · 2019
Magic for Liars
Sarah Gailey · 2019
Death in Her Hands
Ottessa Moshfegh · 2020
The President's Daughter
Bill Clinton · 2021
The Plot
Jean Hanff Korelitz · 2021
Dial A for Aunties
Jesse Q. Sutanto · 2021
Murder in the House of Ōmari
Taku Ashibe · 2021
Devil House
John Darnielle · 2022
The Family Chao
Lan Samantha Chang · 2022
Sunset on the Line of Investigation
Alice Arisugawa · 2022
The Bookmark and the Lie
Honobu Yonezawa · 2022
The Murder of the Golden Age of Secret; Snow House and Six Tricks
Danro Kamosaki · 2022
Small Mercies
Dennis Lehane · 2023
El problema final
Arturo Pérez-Reverte · 2023
The Strange Case of Jane O.
Karen Thompson Walker · 2025
The Poisoners
Marjorie Bowen
Tokyo Genji Monogatari
Shin Kibayashi
A Jay of Italy
Bernard Capes
Meitantei ga Ōsugiru
Kyōtarō Nishimura
Meitantei nanka Kowakunai
Kyōtarō Nishimura
Meitantei ni Kanpai
Kyōtarō Nishimura
Meitantei mo Rakujanai
Kyōtarō Nishimura
A World of Curiosities
Louise Penny
Inshite Miru
Honobu Yonezawa
Black Star Comes Back (serial)
Johnston McCulley
The Breaker
Arthur Stringer
Mysterious Doctor Toke
Johnston McCulley
Pro Bono
Seichō Matsumoto
Wrostella's Weird (Ludgate Monthly serial)
Ellen Buckingham Mathews
The Secret of the Quarry (Detective Story Magazine serial)
J. S. Fletcher
The Gallowstree Mystery
J. S. Fletcher
The Woman in the Alcove (American Illustrated serial)
Anna Katharine Green
Confess, Fletch
Gregory Mcdonald
Without Witness
Anthony Armstrong
Uso
Kōji Kitakuni
The Saga of Silver Bend (Argosy All-Story Weekly)
John Ulrich Giesy