Crime fiction/Catalogs/Famous books

This is a chronological supplement to the Crime fiction article, listed by date of first book appearance

• 1868 The Moonstone: A Romance, three-volume novel by Wilkie Collins

• 1902 The Hound of the Baskervilles, Sherlock Holmes novel by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

• 1926 The Murder of Roger Ackroyd, Hercule Poirot novel by Agatha Christie

• 1929 The Roman Hat Mystery, first Ellery Queen novel by Ellery Queen

• 1930 The Maltese Falcon, the sole Sam Spade novel by Dashiell Hammett

• 1934 Fer-de-Lance, first Nero Wolfe novel by Rex Stout

• 1934 The Nine Tailors, Lord Peter Wimsey novel by Dorothy L. Sayers

• 1938 Lament for a Maker, Sir John Appleby novel by Michael Innes

• 1939 Ten Little Niggers (1940, US: And Then There Were None; also: Ten Little Indians), novel by Agatha Christie

• 1939 The Big Sleep, Philip Marlowe novel by Raymond Chandler

• 1957 4.50 from Paddington (US: What Mrs. McGillicuddy Saw!), also Murder, She Said (1963), Miss Marple novel by Agatha Christie

• 1980 The Name of the Rose (Il nome della rosa), novel featuring Guglielmo da Baskerville (William of Baskerville) by Umberto Eco