The Art of the English Murder (“As Seen on the BBC as “A Very British Murder”) traces the current love of a good mystery back through time. In addition to occasionally writing about programming, I also enjoy a good mystery.

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In this list, I’ve put all of the authors from the book whose works are available from Project Gutenberg. The author is listed first with a link to Wikipedia, then the Gutenberg page for the author, and then links to specific mentioned works.

Often an author is mentioned in several chapters; I’ve happily duplicated all entries. Sometimes an author is presented without any specific (traceable) work. In these cases, only the page to the authors works are presented.

Not all chapters include references to traceable writers; these are simply skipped. The later chapter deal with more modern writers whose works aren’t yet out of copyright are are therefore not in Project Gutenberg.

Introduction

George Orwell: no listing

Thomas de Quincy: multiple entries including entries from the Lock and Key Library

Charles Dickens: multiple entries including Bleak House

Dorothy L Sayers, creator of Lord Peter Whimsey : a single entry only; “Oxford Poetry” of which she’s the editor has has a single poem (and not a mystery)

Agatha Christie: two entries only

Margery Allingham: no entries

Ngaio Marsh: no entries

Graham Green: no entries

Chapter 1: A Connoisseur in Murder

Thomas de Quincy: multiple entries including Confessions of an English Opium Eater

Chapter 4: The Murder Circuit

Mary Shelley: multiple entries including Frankenstein, Frankenstein and Frankenstein.

Elstree murder:

Thomas de Quincy: multiple entries

Thomas Carlyle: multiple entries

Charles Dickens: multiple entries

Edward Bulwer-Lytton: multiple entries

Walter de la Mare: multiple entries

Sir Walter Scott: multiple entries

Chapter 6: True Crime

Shakespeare: multiple entries including Hamlet

Thomas de Quincy: multiple entries

Ann Radcliffe: multiple entries including The Mysteries of Udolpho

Jane Austen: multiple entries including Northanger Abbey

George Augustus Sala: entries for volumes 1 2 and 3 of The Strange Adventures of Captain Dangerous

Edward Bulwer-Lytton: multiple entries including Pelham, or the Adventures of a Gentleman and Eugene Aram

Lytton Strachey: multiple entries including Eminent Victorians

Chapter 7: Charles Dickens

Charles Dickens: multiple entries including Oliver Twist, exerpts from Household Words, Bleak House

Newgate Calendar: entries for volume 1 and 2 of The Newgate Calendar

Chapter 9: Stage Fright

Victoria and Albert Museum performance

Charles Dickens: multiple entries including Bleak House

Chapter 11: Middle-Class Murderers and Medical Gentlemen

Thomas de Quincy: multiple entries including entries from the Lock and Key Library

Arthur Conan Doyle: multiple entries include Adventure of the Speckled Band

Chapter 13: Detective Fever

Wilkie Collins: multiple entries including Armadale and Moonstone

Charles Dickens: multiple entries

Chapter 14: A New Sensation

Mary Elizabeth Braddon: multiple entries

Wilkie Collins: multiple entries including The Woman in White, Moonstone, Armadale

Dorothy L Sayers, creator of Lord Peter Whimsey : a single entry only; “Oxford Poetry” of which she’s the editor has has a single poem (and not a mystery) – and not The Gaudy Night, the book referenced in the chapter.

Sheridan le Fanu: multiple entries . Sheridan is the research topic for detective Harriet Vane from Dorothy L. Sayer’s Gaudy Night.

Chapter 15: It is worse than a crime, Violet

Mary Elizabeth Braddon: multiple entries including Lady Audley’s Secret

Chapter 16: Monsters and Men

Robert Louis Stevenson: multiple entries including Doctor Jekyll and Mister Hyde

Oscar Wilde: multiple entries including the Picture of Dorian Gray

Arthur Conan Doyle: multiple entries

Chapter 17: The Adventures of the Forensic Scientist

Arthur Conan Doyle: multiple entries including A Study in Scarlet and The Devil’s Foot

Eugène François Vidocq: multiple entries (all in French)

Completely missing from the book is my own favorite detective author, R. Austin Freemen: multiple entries including John Thorndkye’s cases

Chapter 18: Revelations of a Lady Detective

Andrew Forrester: a single entry which isn’t The Female Detective

Catherine Crowe: a single entry which isn’t The Adventures of Susan Hopley

Ann Radcliffe: multiple entries including The Mysteries of Udolpho

Hans Christian Andersen: multiple entries none of which are really mysteries. He’s mentioned as someone known by Catherine Crowe.

Charles Dickens: multiple entries but is just mentioned as a friend of Catherine Crowe

W. S. Hayward isn’t even part of Wikipedia or Project Gutenberg despite write Revelations of a Lady Detective

G. K. Chesterton: multiple entries including the Innocence of Father Brown

Chapter 19: the Women between the Wars

Agatha Christie: two entries only, neither of which is Murder is Easy or the Murder of Roger Ackroyd.

Edgar Wallace: multiple entries

Arthur Conan Doyle: multiple entries including Hound of the Baskervilles

John Buchan: multiple entries including 39 steps and Greenmantle

E. W. Hornung: multiple entries including several Raffles books.

Freeman Wills Crofts: one entry (the Pit Prop Syndicate)

G. K. Chesterton: multiple entries

Margery Allingham: no entries

Nicholas Blake: no entries

Chapter 20: The Duchess of Death

Agatha Christie: two entries only

Chapter 22: The Great Game

Dorothy L Sayers, creator of Lord Peter Whimsey : a single entry only; “Oxford Poetry” of which she’s the editor has has a single poem (and not a mystery)

Agatha Christie: two entries only

G. K. Chesterton: multiple entries

Baroness Orczy: multiple entries

A. A. Milne: multiple entries including the Red House Mystery

Ronald Knox: no entries

Arthur Conan Doyle: multiple entries

Charles Dickens: multiple entries

Wilkie Collins: multiple entries

Thomas de Quincy: multiple entries

Raymond Chandler: no entries

John Rhode (real name: Cecil Street): no entries

Ngaio Marsh: no entries

Chapter 23: Snobbery with Violence

Dorothy L Sayers, creator of Lord Peter Whimsey : a single entry only; “Oxford Poetry” of which she’s the editor has has a single poem (and not a mystery)

Colin Watson: no entries

Agatha Christie: two entries only

Val Gielgud: no entries

S. S. Van Dine: two entries under his real name as Willard Wright including Modern Painting: It’s Tendencies and Meanings but no mysteries.

Nicholas Blake: no entries

Ngaio Marsh: no entries

Edgar Wallace: multiple entries

Graham Green: no entries

Raymond Chandler: no entries