Julian Symons Reading Order
1 series · 107 books
Julian Symons was a British crime novelist whose career spanned over six decades, establishing him as one of the genre's most prolific and versatile practitioners. Beyond his numerous standalone detective novels, he demonstrated remarkable range as a poet, historian, and literary critic, bringing intellectual depth to his explorations of crime and human psychology. His extensive body of work reflects a commitment to elevating the detective story beyond formula, earning him recognition as a major figure in twentieth-century British mystery fiction.
Standalone Novels Series
Complete107 books
Start with The second man, the first of 107 books in the Standalone Novels series.
| # | Title |
|---|---|
| 1 | 1948 and 1984 |
| 2 | 1948 and 1984 |
| 3 | A la carte |
| 4 | A man called Jones |
| 5 | A.J.A. Symons 1900-1941 |
| 6 | A.J.A. Symons, Brother Speculator |
| 7 | Agatha Christie, the art of her crimes |
| 8 | Bedside, Bathtub and Armchair Companion to Agatha Christie |
| 9 | Between the Wars: Britain in photographs |
| 10 | Bogue's fortune |
| 11 | CRIMINAL ACTS |
| 12 | Carlyle |
| 13 | Charles Dickens |
| 14 | Confusions about X |
| 15 | Crime and detection quiz |
| 16 | Criminal practices |
| 17 | Ellery Queen presents Julian Symons' How to trap a crook, and 12 other mysteries |
| 18 | Great cases of Scotland Yard |
| 19 | Julian Symons at 80, a tribute |
| 20 | Julian Symons papers |
| 21 | Julian Symons remembered |
| 22 | Murder under the Mistletoe and Other Stories |
| 23 | New Poetry |
| 24 | Notes from another country |
| 25 | Oscar Wilde |
| 26 | Portraits of the Missing |
| 27 | Selected Tales |
| 28 | Selected writings of Samuel Johnson |
| 29 | Show Business is Murder |
| 30 | Somebody else and other stories |
| 31 | Something like a Love Affair |
| 32 | Standard occupational classification manual |
| 33 | The Angry 30's |
| 34 | The Big Call / The Baby Merchants / A Three-Pipe Problem |
| 35 | The Sport of crime |
| 36 | The art of murder |
| 37 | The general strike |
| 38 | The modern crime story |
| 39 | The object of an affair, and other poems |
| 40 | The paper chase |
| 41 | The plain man |
| 42 | The thirties and the nineties |
| 43 | Twentieth century verse |
| 44 | Two brothers |
| 45 | Verdict of thirteen : a Detection Club anthology |
| 46 | ha-Mezimah neged Rog'er Raider |
| 47 | the players and the game,first blood,the skytrap. |
| 48 | The second man 1943 |
| 49 | Bland beginning 1949 |
| 50 | A.J.A. Symons, his life and speculations 1950 |
| 51 | The 31st of February 1950 |
| 52 | Charles Dickens 1951 |
| 53 | Thomas Carlyle 1952 |
| 54 | The broken penny 1953 |
| 55 | The immaterial murder case 1954 |
| 56 | The narrowing circle 1954 |
| 57 | Horatio Bottomley 1955 |
| 58 | Color of Murder 1957 |
| 59 | The General Strike 1957 |
| 60 | The Gigantic Shadow 1958 |
| 61 | A reasonable doubt 1960 |
| 62 | The Progress of a Crime 1960 |
| 63 | The thirties 1960 |
| 64 | The detective story in Britain 1962 |
| 65 | The killing of Francie Lake 1962 |
| 66 | A man called Jones 1963 |
| 67 | Buller's campaign 1963 |
| 68 | The end of Solomon Grundy 1964 |
| 69 | England's Pride 1965 |
| 70 | The Belting Inheritance 1965 |
| 71 | A pictorial history of crime 1966 |
| 72 | Crime and detection 1966 |
| 73 | Critical occasions 1966 |
| 74 | The Julian Symons omnibus 1966 |
| 75 | The man who killed himself 1967 |
| 76 | The man whose dreams came true 1968 |
| 77 | The man who lost his wife 1970 |
| 78 | Mortal consequences 1972 |
| 79 | The Players and the Game 1972 |
| 80 | The plot against Roger Rider 1973 |
| 81 | The paper chase 1977 |
| 82 | The Blackheath poisonings 1978 |
| 83 | The tell-tale heart 1978 |
| 84 | Sweet Adelaide 1980 |
| 85 | Critical observations 1981 |
| 86 | The Great Detectives 1981 |
| 87 | Tom Adams' Agatha Christie Cover Story 1981 |
| 88 | The Detling murders 1982 |
| 89 | Tigers of Subtopia 1984 |
| 90 | Dashiell Hammett 1985 |
| 91 | The Name of Annabel Lee (Crime Monthly) 1985 |
| 92 | A criminal comedy 1986 |
| 93 | Bloody Murder: From the Detective Story to the Crime Novel 1986 |
| 94 | Conan Doyle 1987 |
| 95 | Did Sherlock Holmes meet Hercule Poirot? 1987 |
| 96 | Makers of the new 1987 |
| 97 | The Kentish manor murders 1988 |
| 98 | A Three-pipe Problem (Classic Crime) 1989 |
| 99 | The Penguin Classic Crime Ombnibus 1989 |
| 100 | Ellery Queen's Eyes of Mystery 1990 |
| 101 | Death's Darkest Face 1991 |
| 102 | Something like a love affair 1992 |
| 103 | The Advertising Murders 1992 |
| 104 | Playing happy families 1994 |
| 105 | A sort of virtue 1996 |
| 106 | The man who hated television and other stories 1996 |
| 107 | The Detections of Francis Quarles (Lost Classics) 2006 |
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