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These are the classic police novels where crime fiction first put a police officer in charge of the case. Sergeant Cuff, Monsieur Lecoq, Inspector French and Ebenezer Gryce all solve crimes with clues, alibis and patient questions.
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Scotland Yard
Scotland Yard Novels
Scotland Yard gave the police procedural its first heroes, starting with Sergeant Cuff in The Moonstone. Then Freeman Wills Crofts made Inspector French the master of broken alibis and train timetables.
A sacred Indian diamond vanishes from a country house and Sergeant Cuff of Scotland Yard is called in to find it. Often named the first full-length detective novel in English, it is told by a chain of witnesses who each hold part of the truth.
A ruthless financier is found shot on his estate, and the painter and journalist Philip Trent races Inspector Murch of Scotland Yard to explain it. A clever turn on the detective story, with a solution that keeps shifting until the final pages.
A cask unloaded at the London docks holds gold coins and a woman's body. Inspector Burnley of Scotland Yard and the Paris police follow shipping records, timetables and alibis in the novel that made Crofts the master of the police procedural.
A clerk is murdered in a Hatton Garden diamond office and Inspector Joseph French of Scotland Yard gets his first case. Patient, methodical and very human, French follows the trail across Europe one clue at a time.
Sir William Ponson is found drowned near his manor, and every suspect seems to have a perfect alibi. Inspector Tanner of Scotland Yard takes them apart one by one in a classic puzzle of times, trains and footprints.
Two amateurs notice something wrong at a timber business that ships pit props across the Channel. When a murder follows, Inspector Willis of Scotland Yard takes over and turns their hunch into a full smuggling investigation.
A young man is found with his throat cut in a room locked from the inside in East London. Retired detective Grodman and Inspector Wimp of Scotland Yard compete to solve it in one of the earliest locked room novels, short and full of wit.
Few people know that the police novel was born in France, years before Sherlock Holmes. Émile Gaboriau's Monsieur Lecoq and A. E. W. Mason's Inspector Hanaud both solve their cases for the Sûreté.
A rich widow is strangled at her villa in Aix-les-Bains and her young companion disappears. Inspector Hanaud of the French Sûreté, sharp and theatrical, leads the case in the novel that introduced him.
On holiday in London, Inspector Hanaud of the Sûreté is drawn into a death at a luxury hotel when a young man fears he played a part in it. A short, fast Hanaud case told with his friend Mr. Ricardo.
A young woman is attacked in a room locked from the inside, and nobody can explain how the attacker escaped. Reporter Rouletabille takes on Frédéric Larsan, the Sûreté's star detective, in one of the most famous locked room mysteries.
After a triple killing in a Paris tavern, a young police agent named Lecoq reads the footprints in the snow and refuses the easy answer. The novel that created the professional police detective, years before Sherlock Holmes.
A widow is found murdered in her cottage near Paris, and the amateur Tabaret works alongside the Sûreté to unmask the killer. Considered the first French detective novel, it also marks the debut of the young Lecoq.
A fortune vanishes from a Paris banker's safe and his cashier is arrested. Monsieur Lecoq, master of disguise, takes the case and uncovers a family secret behind the theft.
A countess is found dead in the river beside her château and the count has vanished. Monsieur Lecoq arrives from Paris and reads the crime scene with a method that still feels modern.
Anna Katharine Green brought the police procedural to America with Ebenezer Gryce, a quiet New York detective. Every novel here is hers, and The Leavenworth Case is the best place to start.
A wealthy merchant is shot in his locked New York library and suspicion falls on his two nieces. Detective Ebenezer Gryce of the New York police leads the case in the bestseller that brought the police detective to American fiction.
A young woman vanishes from a rich New York household and nobody will admit who she was. Ebenezer Gryce and his team follow a thin trail of clues in a short, tense case.
A widow is murdered in a quiet town and the police must choose between two very different suspects. Ebenezer Gryce and the young detective Horace Byrd follow a trail that ends in a dramatic trial.
A young woman is found dead in the empty house next to Amelia Butterworth's, and the curious spinster starts her own investigation. Her rivalry with Detective Ebenezer Gryce makes this one of the liveliest police novels of its era.
Travelers keep disappearing on a lonely country road, and Detective Gryce sends Amelia Butterworth to stay in the village and watch. A darker, almost gothic case for the famous pair.
A man is found stabbed in his round, curtained study, with a mute servant and a bird that cries "Remember Evelyn!" as the only witnesses. An aging Ebenezer Gryce, his assistant Sweetwater and Amelia Butterworth piece the crime together.
A child pulls a passerby into a New York mansion where her grandfather lies dying of poison, and suspicion soon falls on his sons. Ebenezer Gryce and his protégé Sweetwater dig through a family full of secrets in a later Gryce case.
Once you finish one case, follow the same detective into the next. Most of these police novels belong to a series, so there is always another investigation waiting.
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