The books referred to in the body of the unit may be used in whole or part depending on the judgement of the teacher.
The following titles were culled from the National Council of English Teachers’
Books for You: A Booklist for Senior High
School Students
, and the H.W. Wilson Company’s
Library Catalog
, which recommends books for a high school library. Both lists are annotated.
Starred titles are those which are recommended by critics as well as the NCTE and H.W. Wilson, and titles I have included as particularly useful in the classroom.
Allingham, Margery.
Death of a Ghost
Ambler, Eric.
The Intercom Conspiracy
Ashley, Bernard.
A King of Wild Justice
*Ball, John.
In the Heat of the Night
Barroll, Clare.
A Strange Place for Murder
Bennett, Jay.
The Birthday Murderer
Berckman, E.
The Nighmare Chase
Bethancourt, T. Ernesto.
Dr. Doom: Superstar
Bleiler, Everett, F.(ed.)
A Treasury of Victorian Detective
Stories
Braddon, R.
The Thirteenth Trick
*Buchanan, John.
The 39 Steps
Cain, James M.
Double Indemnity
Caroselli, Remus F.
The Mystery Cottage in Left Field
Childers, Erskine.
The Riddle of the Sands: A Record of Secret
Service
*Christie, Agatha.
The Murder of Roger Ackroyd
Cook, Robin.
Sphinx
Crichton, Michael.
The Great Train Robbery
*Cross, Amanda.
Poetic Justice
Davis, M.
Tell Them What’s-her-Name-Called
*
Deighton, Len.
The Ipcress File
Edwards, Anne.
The Survivors
*Francis, Dick.
Knockdown
*Gault, W.C.
The Day of the Ram
*Gilbert, Michael.
The Danger Within
Gilman, Dorothy.
Mrs. Pollifax on Safari
*Greene, Graham.
Triple Pursuit
*Guthrie, A.B.
Wild Pitch
Highsmith, Patricia.
Ripley’s Game
*Hillerman, Tony.
The Listening Woman
Iles, Francis.
Before the Fact
*Household, Geoffrey.
Watcher in the Shadows
Innes, Hammond.
The Wreck of the Mary Deare
Innes, Michael.
Lament for a
Maker
Jackson, Shirley.
We Have Always Lived in the Castle
James, Henry.
The Turn of the Screw
*James, P.D.
Death of an Expert Witness
Kemelman, Harry.
Sunday, the Rabbi Stayed Home
*LeCarre, John.
The Spy Who Came In from the Cold
*Macdonald, Ross.
The Goodbye Look
*MacInnes, Helen.
Above Suspicion
MacLean, Alistair.
Night Without End
Marric, J.J.
Gideon’s Month
Marsh, Ngaio.
Surfeit of Lampreys
*Meyer, Nicholas.
The Seven-Per-Cent Solution
Morley, Christopher.
The Haunted Bookshop
Rauch, C.
The Landlady
*Sayers, Dorothy.
The Documents in the Case
*Simeon, Georges. Five Times Maigret
*Sjowall, Maj, and Per Wahlšo.
The Laughing Policeman
Stewart, Mary.
Touch Not the Cat
Taylor, Phoebe A.
The Cape Cod Mystery
*Tey, Josephine.
Three by Tey
Tynan, Kathleen.
Agatha
Wambaugh, Joseph.
The Black Marble
*Woods, Sara.
Though I Know She Lies