Case Closed

Jacques Barzun and Wendell Hertig Taylor selected 50 Classics of Crime Fiction 1900–1950 (Garland, 1976) and 50 Classics of Crime Fiction 1950–1975 (Garland, 1983), many of which are shown in this photograph taken at a 2005 exhibit called A Talent to Deceive: Mystery and Detective Fiction in the Rare Book Collection [of the University of North Carolina]

The UNC Barzun-Taylor Mystery-Detective Collection contains 12,500 volumes, and the UNC manuscripts department houses the Jacques Barzun and Wendell Hertig Taylor Papers.

The prefaces to the first series of Classics of Crime Fiction were collected in Barzun and Taylor, A Book of Prefaces.

Here are the titles in the two series by year of original publication. The CC numbers are from Jacques Barzun and Wendell Hertig Taylor, A Catalogue of Crime, Revised and Enlarge Edition, (Harper & Row, 1988).

Year  CC
1900 1566 Green, Anna Katharine, The Circular Study
1902 1142 Doyle, A. Conan, The Hound of the Baskervilles
1911 3677 Chesterton, G. K., The Innocence of Father Brown
1912  226 Bentley, E. C., Trent's Last Case
1912 3802 Freeman, R. Austin, The Singing Bone
1914 3635 Brahmah, Ernest, Max Carrados
1915 2603 Onions, Oliver, In Accordance with the Evidence
1922 2504 Milne, A. A., The Red House Mystery
1926  777 Christie, Agatha, The Murder of Roger Ackroyd
1927  863 Cole, G. D. H. & M. Postgate, The Murder at Crome House
1929  989 Crofts, Freeman Wills, The Purple Sickle Murders
1929 2043 Kindon, Thomas, Murder in the Moor
1930  583 Burton, Miles, The Secret of High Eldersham
1930    * Wade, Henry, The Dying Alderman
1930 2948 Sayers, Dorothy L., Strong Poison
1931 2677 Phillpotts, Eden, "Found Drowned"
1931 3377 Webster, Henry Kitchell, Who Is the Next?
1932 3031 Snow, C. P., Death Under Sail
1932 3445 Wilkinson, Ellen, The Division Bell Mystery
1933 2529 Morrah, Dermot, The Mummy Case Mystery
1935  521 Bullett, Gerald, The Jury
1935 1767 Hilton, James, Was It Murder?
1937   60 Allingham, Margery, Dancers in Mourning
1938 1738 Heyer, Georgette, A Blunt Instrument
1938 2338 McGuire, Paul, A Funeral in Eden
1938 3093 Stout, Rex, Too Many Cooks
1938 3238 Upfield, Arthur W., The Bone Is Pointed
1939 1851 Huxley, Elspeth, The African Poison Murders
1940 1555 Grafton, C. W., Beyond a Reasonable Doubt
1942 1877 Innes, Michael, The Daffodil Affair
1943  734 Chandler, Raymond, The Lady in the Lake
1944 1412 Gardner, Erle Stanley, The Case of the Crooked Candle
1944 2649 Perdue, Virginia, Alarum and Excursion
1945 2172 Lewis, Lange, The Birthday Murder
1945 3475 Witting, Clifford, Measure for Murder
1946 1201 Eustis, Helen, The Horizontal Man
1946 1221 Fearing, Kenneth, The Big Clock
1946 2326 McGerr, Pat, Pick Your Victim
1946 2626 Page, Marco, The Shadowy Third
1947  345 Blake, Nicholas, Minute for Murder
1948 2093 Kyd, Thomas, Blood on the Bosom Devine
1949  815 Clark, Philip, The Dark River
1949  962 Crispin, Edmund, Buried for Pleasure
1949 1663 Hare, Cyril, When the Wind Blows
1949 1705 Heberden, M. V., Engaged to Murder
1949 2433 Marsh, Ngaio, A Wreathe for Rivera
1950 1030 Daly, Elizabeth, Death and Letters
1950 1453 Garve, Andrew, No Tears for Hilda
1950 1499 Gilbert, Michael, Smallbone Deceased
1950 1691 Head, Matthew, The Congo Venus
1950 2307 Macdonald, Ross, The Drowning Pool
1951  372 Bonett, John, A Banner for Pegasus
1952  462 Brown, Fredric, The Deep End
1952  625 Cannan, Joanna, The Body in the Beck
1952 1190 Ellin, Stanley, The Key to Nicholas Street
1952 1893 Innes, Michael, One-Man Show
1953 2285 MacDonald, John D., Dead Low Tide
1953 3142 Tey, Josephine, The Singing Sands
1954 3112 Symons, Julian, The Narrowing Circle
1954 3206 Tyrer, Walter, Such Friends Are Dangerous
1955  143 Atkinson, Alex, Exit Charlie
1955 2104 Landon, Christopher, Stone Cold Dead in the Market
1955 2517 Mole, William, Small Venom
1956  113 Arthur, Frank, Another Mystery in Suva
1956 1585 Grierson, Edward, The Second Man
1956 2731 Procter, Maurice, The Pub Crawler
1958 1270 Fitzgerald, Nigel, Suffer a Witch
1958 1631 Hamilton, Bruce, Too Much of Water
1958 2091 Kuttner, Henry, Murder of a Wife
1959 2212 Longmate, Norman, Strip Death Naked
1960  498 Bruce, Leo, Furious Old Women
1960 2891 Robertson, Helen, Swan Song
1961  675 Carr, Glyn, Death Finds a Foothold
1961 2956 Scholey, Jean, The Dead Past
1962 1324 Francis, Dick, Dead Cert
1962 1807 Hough, S. B. The Bronze Perseus
1962 1913 James, P. D., Cover Her Face
1962 2570 Nash, Simon, Killed by Scandal
1963 1096 Dewey, Thomas B., A Sad Song Singing
1963   ** Van Gulik, Robert, The Lacquer Screen
1964  997 Cross, Amanda, In the Last Analysis
1964 3355 Waugh, Hillary, The Missing Man
1965 2544 Moyes, Patricia, Johnny Under Ground
1966 1995 Keith, Carlton, The Crayfish Dinner
1966 2124 Lathen, Emma, Murder Makes the Wheels Go 'Round
1966 2720 Priestley, J. B., Salt Is Leaving
1967  *** Rendell, Ruth, New Lease of Death
1968 2405 Marric, J. J., Gideon's River
1969 3190 Troy, Simon, Swift to Its Close
1969 3351 Watson, Colin, Just What the Doctor Ordered
1970 1817 Hubbard, Margaret Ann, High Tide
1970 3106 Swinnerton, Frank, On the Shady Side
1971  672 Carr, A. H. Z., Finding Maubee
1971 1763 Hillerman, Tony, The Fly on the Wall
1973  908 Constantine, K. C., The Man Who Liked to Look at Himself
1973 2488 Miles, John, The Night Hunters
1976 2663 Peters, Ellis, Never Pick Up Hitch Hikers
1976 3605 Barzun & Taylor, eds., Classic Stories of Crime and Detection
1976 3607 Barzun & Taylor, eds. (Bailey, H. C.), Mr. Fortune, Eight of His Adventures
1983 3606 Barzun & Taylor, eds., Classic Short Stories of Crime and Detection

   * 2149 in CC(1971)
  ** 2129 in CC(1971)
 *** Not listed in CC

Compare the list in Barzun and Taylor's Classic Crime Novels.