This is just a personal challenge, to see how many of the Haycraft Queen Cornerstone mysteries I have (highlighted in yellow) and those I have read (highlighted in green). RM
Haycraft Queen Cornerstones - Complete Checklist
"The Definitive Library of Mystery Fiction"
Howard Haycraft originally published the list in his 1941 landmark book Murder For Pleasure and was originally titled "A Reader's List of Detective Story Cornerstones". It was subsequently updated and broadened several times by Ellery Queen and became as a standard amongst dealers and collectors everywhere. The list below is the final revision and includes books from 1748 to 1952. Any entry followed by an * indicates it was added by Ellery Queen.
>> indicates First Edition
Allingham Margery - Death of a Ghost - 1934 OmnibusAmbler Eric - The Mask of Dimitrios - 1939Anderson Frederick Irving - The Book of Murder - 1930Armstrong Charlotte - Mischief - 1950Armstrong Charlotte - The Unsuspected - 1946 *Bailey HC - Call Mr. Fortune - 1920>>Bailey HC - The Red Castle - 1932 - HC First EditionBarr Robert - The Triumphs of Eugene Valmont - 1906>>Beeding Francis - Death Walks in Eastrepps - 1931 * HC Mystery League Benson G.R. - Tracks in the Snow - 1906Bentley E.C. - Trent’s Last Case - 1913Berkeley Anthony - The Poisoned Chocolates Case - 1929Berkeley Anthony - Trial and Error - 1937Holmes H.H. (Boucher Anthony) - Rocket to the Morgue - 1942 *Biggers Earl Derr - The House Without a Key - 1925 kindle editionBlake Nicholas - The Beast Must Die - 1938Bramah Ernest - Max Carrados - 1914Buchan John - The Thirty-Nine Steps - 1915 *Burke Thomas - Limehouse Nights - 1916 *Burnett WR - Little Caesar - 1929 *Cain James M - The Postman Always Rings Twice - 1934 *Carr John Dickson - The Crooked Hinge - 1938Carr John Dickson - The Judas Window - 1938Caspary Vera - Laura - 1943 *Chandler Raymond - The Big Sleep - 1939 - 10 red setChandler Raymond - Farewell, My Lovely - 1940Chandler, Raymond The Simple Art of Murder - 1950>>Charteris Leslie - Meet the Tiger - 1928 * HCChesterton G.K. - The Innocence of Father Brown - 1911 PBChesterton G.K. - The Man Who Was Thursday - 1908 * HCChilders Erskine - The Riddle of the Sands - 1903 *Christie Agatha - The Murder of Roger Ackroyd - 1926 HCChristie Agatha - The Mysterious Affair at Styles - 1920 *Coates Robert M - Wisteria Cottage - 1948Cole G.D.H. - The Brooklyn Murders - 1923>>Coles Manning - Drink to Yesterday - 1940 HC>>Coles Manning - Pray Silence / Toast to Tomorrow - 1940 HCCollins Wilkie - The Moonstone - 1868Collins Wilkie - The Woman in White - 1860 *Conrad Joseph - The Secret Agent - 1907 *Cozzens James Gould - The Just and the Unjust - 1942 *Crispin Edmund - The Moving Toyshop - 1946Crispin Edmund - Love Lies Bleeding - 1948Crofts Freeman Wills - The Cask - 1920Crofts Freeman Wills - Inspector French’s Greatest Case - 1924Dane Clemence, Helen Simpson - Re-enter Sir John - 1932Davis Dorothy Salisbury - A Gentle Murderer - 1951De la Torre Lilian - Dr. Sam Johnson, Detector - 1946 *Dickens Charles - Bleak House - 1853Dickens Charles - The Mystery of Edwin Drood - 1870Dickson Carter - Lord of the Sorcerers - 1946 *Dostoevsky Fyodor - Crime and Punishment - 1866 *Doyle Arthur Conan - The Sign of the Four - 1890Doyle Arthur Conan - The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes - 1894Doyle Arthur Conan - The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes - 1894Doyle Arthur Conan - The Hound of the Baskervilles - 1902Doyle Arthur Conan - The Return of Sherlock Holmes - 1905Doyle Arthur Conan - The Valley of Fear - 1915Doyle Arthur Conan - His Last Bow - 1917Doyle Arthur Conan - The Case-Book of Sherlock Holmes - 1927Dreiser Theodore - An American Tragedy - 1925 *Du Maurier Daphne - Rebecca - 1938 * HCDunsany Lord - The Little Tales of Smethers - 1952>>Eberhart Mignon G - The Patient in Room 18 - 1929 HCEllin Stanley - Dreadful Summit - 1948Eustis Helen - The Horizontal Man - 1946Faulkner William - Intruder in the Dust - 1948 *Fletcher J.S. - The Middle Temple Murder - 1918Forester C.S. - Payment Deferred - 1926 *Freeman R. Austin - The Eye of Osiris - 1911 * HC Collier Front Page editionFreeman R. Austin - John Thorndyke’s Cases - 1909 *Freeman R. Austin - The Red Thumb Mark - 1907Freeman R. Austin - The Singing Bone - 1912Frome David - The Hammersmith Murders - 1930Futrelle Jacques - The Thinking Machine - 1907 Dover PBGaboriau Emile - The Widow Lerouge - 1866Gaboriau Emile - The Mystery Of Orcival - 1868 *Gaboriau Emile - File No. 13 - 1867 *Gaboriau Emile - Monsieur Lecoq - 1869Gardner Erle Stanley - The Case of the Sulky Girl - 1933 HC>>Gardner Erle Stanley - The Case of the Velvet Claws - 1933 * HCGodwin William - The Adventures of Caleb Williams - 1794 *Green Anna Katharine - The Leavenworth Case - 1878 kindleGreene Graham - Brighton Rock - 1938 *Halsey Harlan Page - Old Sleuth, the Detective - 1872 *Hammett Dashiell - The Maltese Falcon - 1930 HC + 10 red setHammett Dashiell - The Glass Key - 1931 *Hammett Dashiell - The Adventures of Sam Spade - 1944 *Hart Frances Noyes - The Bellamy Trial - 1927Heard H.F. - A Taste for Honey - 1941 *Henry O. - The Gentle Grafter - 1908 *Hornung EW - The Amateur Cracksman - 1899 *Hughes Dorothy B - The So Blue Marble - 1940Hugo Victor - Les Miserables - 1862 *Hull Richard - The Murder of My Aunt - 1935Hume Fergus W - The Mystery of a Hansom Cab - 1887 *Iles Francis (Anthony Berkeley) - Before the Fact - 1932Innes Michael - Lament for a Maker - 1938>>King Rufus - Murder by the Clock - 1929 * HC First EditionKnox Ronald A - The Viaduct Murder - 1925Lawrence Hilda - Blood Upon the Snow - 1944Leblanc Maurice - The Eight Strokes of the Clock - 1922Leblanc Maurice - Arsene Lupin, Gentleman-Cambrioleur - 1907 *Leblanc Maurice - “813” - 1910Leroux Gaston - The Mystery of the Yellow Room - 1907Leroux Gaston - The Perfume of the Woman in Black - 1908 *Lipsky Eleazar - The People Against O’Hara - 1950Lockridge Frances and Richard - The Norths Meet Murder - 1940 HC DMG Triple volumeLowndes Mrs Belloc - The Lodger - 1913Lustgarten Edgar - A Case to Answer - 1947MacDonald Philip - The Rasp - 1924MacDonald Philip - The Nursemaid Who Disappeared - 1938 *Macdonald Ross - The Moving Target - 1949MacHarg William & Edwin Balmer - The Achievements of Luther Trant - 1910 *Marquand John P - No Hero - 1935 *Marsh Ngaio - Overture to Death - 1939Mason A.E.W. - At the Villa Rose - 1910Mason A.E.W. - The House of the Arrow - 1924Maugham W. Somerset - Ashenden - 1928 *McCloy Helen - Through a Glass, Darkly - 1950Milne A.A. - The Red House Mystery - 1922Moffett Cleveland - Through the Wall - 1909 *Morrison Arthur - Martin Hewitt, Investigator - 1894O’Flaherty Liam - The Informer - 1925 *O’Higgins Harvey J - Detective Duff Unravels It - 1929 *Oppenheim E. Phillips - The Great Impersonation - 1920 * kindleOrczy Baroness - The Old Man in the Corner - 1909Orczy Baroness - The Scarlet Pimpernel - 1905 *Palmer Stuart - The Penguin Pool Murder - 1931Paul Elliot - The Mysterious Mickey Finn - 1939 *Phillpotts Eden - The Grey Room - 1921Pinkerton Allan - The Expressman and the Detective - 1874 *Piper Evelyn - The Motive - 1950Poe Edgar Allan - Tales - 1845Post Melville Davisson - Uncle Abner - 1918Postgate Raymond - Verdict of Twelve - 1940Queen Ellery - Calamity Town - 1942 *Queen Ellery - The Roman Hat Murder - 1929Queen Ellery (Barnaby Ross) - The Tragedy of X - 1932Queen Ellery (Barnaby Ross) - The Tragedy of Y - 1932 *Rawson Clayton - Death from a Top Hat - 1938 *Reeve Arthur B - The Silent Bullet - 1912 World's Great Detective StoriesRegester Seeley (Mrs. M.V. Victor) - The Dead Letter - 1866Rhode John - The Murders in Praed Street - 1928 *Rhode John - The Paddington Mystery - 1925Rice Craig - Trial by Fury - 1941Rinehart Mary Roberts - The Circular Staircase - 1908Rohmer Sax - The Mystery of Dr. Fu-Manchu - 1908 *Runyon Damon - Guys and Dolls - 1931 *Sapper - Cyrile McNeile - Bull-Dog Drummond - 1920 *Sayers Dorothy L - The Nine Tailors - 1934Sayers Dorothy L - Whose Body? - 1923 *Sayers Dorothy L & Robert Eustace - The Documents in the Case - 1930Seeley Mabel - The Listening House - 1938Seeley Regester - The Dead Letter - 1866 *Shiel M.P. - Prince Zaleski - 1895 *Simenon Georges - The Patience of Maigret - 1940Spicer Bart - Blues for the Prince - 1950Stevenson Robert Louis - New Arabian Nights - 1882 *åStevenson Robert Louis - The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde - 1886 *Stoker Bram - Dracula - 1897 *Stout Rex Fer de Lance - 1934 PBStout Rex The League of Frightened Men - 1935 *Stribling T.S. - Clues of the Caribbees - 1929 *Taylor Phoebe Atwood - The Cape Cod Mystery - 1931Tey Josephine - The Franchise Affair - 1948Train Arthur - Tutt and Mr. Tutt - 1920 *Trevor Glen (James Hilton) - Murder at School - 1931 *Twain Mark - The Tragedy of Pudd’nhead Wilson - 1894 *>>Van Dine SS - The Benson Murder Case - 1926 HC First EditionVan Dine S.S. - The Canary Murder Case - 1927 HC Collier SpiderwebVance Louis Joseph - The Lone Wolf - 1914 *Vickers Roy - The Department of Dead Ends - 1946 *Vidocq Francois Eugene - Memoirs De Vidocq - 1828 *Voltaire - Zadig - 1748 * World's Great Detective StoriesWallace Edgar - The Mind of J. G. Reeder 1925Walling R A J - The Fatal Five Minutes - 1932Walsh Thomas - Nightmare in Manhattan - 1950Waters (William Russell) - Recollections of a Detective Police Officer - 1856 *>>Wells Carolyn - The Clue - 1909 HC First editionWoolrich Cornell (William Irish) - The Bride Wore Black - 1942 *Zangwill Israel - The Big Bow Mystery - 1892
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