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