2024’s Classic Crime Reprints: A List

As promised here is a list of all the classic crime novels and short stories collections that I have found that have been reprinted in 2024. It goes without saying that I will have miss some titles and some errors or typos will have certainly crept in. So, if you see a book missing or spot a mistake then let me know below, so I can correct and update the list. I expect the list to get bigger over the next few days as suggestions come in, so do check back to see which titles have been newly added.

I hope your TBR pile was not planning on going on a diet this month!

Short Story Collections

1. Metropolitan Mysteries: A Casebook of London Detectives (British Library Crime Classics)
2. Lessons in Crime: Academic Mysteries (British Library Crime Classics)
3. Golden Age Whodunits (American Mystery Classics)
4. Reflections on Murder: Selected Short Stories of Nedra Tyre (Stark House Press)
5. Flair for Murder by Frances and Richard Lockridge (Crippen & Landru)

American Mystery Classics

1. The Tule Marsh Murder by Nancy Barr Mavity
2. S. S. Murder by Q. Patrick
3. The Cat Wears a Noose by Dolores Hitchens
4. The Greene Murder Case by S. S. Van Dine
5. The Problem of the Wire Cage by John Dickson Carr
6. McKee of Centre Street by Helen Reilly
7. Cat of Many Tails by Ellery Queen
8. The Mystery of the Cape Cod Players by Phoebe Atwood Taylor
9. The Three Coffins by John Dickson Carr
10. The Fallen Sparrow by Dorothy B. Hughes
11. The Door by Mary Roberts Rinehart

Verse Chorus Press

1. Make-Up for Murder by June Wright

Stark House Press

1. The 17th Letter by Doris Miles Disney
2. A Grave Undertaking by Lionel White
3. Obsession by Lionel White
4. The Man with My Face by Samuel W. Taylor
5. The Grinning Gismo by Samuel W. Taylor
6. The Wench is Dead by Ruth Fenisong
7. Miscast for Murder by Ruth Fenisong
8. The Dark Corner by Leo Rosten
9. Sleep, My Love by Leo Rosten
10. The Butler Died in Brooklyn by Ruth Fenisong
11. Murder Runs a Fever by Ruth Fenisong
12. The Body in the Bed by Bill S. Ballinger
13. The Body Beautiful by Bill S. Ballinger
14. Sinister House by Charles G. Booth
15. Poor Harriet by Elizabeth Fenwick
16. The Silent Cousin by Elizabeth Fenwick
17. Hunter at Large by Thomas B. Dewey
18. Each Dawn I Die by Jerome Odlum
19. Mrs Homicide by Day Keene
20. Naked Fury by Day Keene
21. Murder on the Side by Day Keene
22. Breathe No More, My Lady by Ed Lacy
23. Shakedown for Murder by Ed Lacy
24. The Steel Noose by Arnold Drake
25. Night Boat to Paris by Richard Jessup
26. Kiss the Blood Off My Hands by Gerald Butler
27. The Ransomed Madonna by Lionel White
28. The House on K Street by Lionel White
29. The Tigress by Carter Brown
30. Exotic by Carter Brown
31. Angel! By Carter Brown
32. The Haunting of Low Fennel by Sax Rohmer
33. Tales of Secret Egypt by Sax Rohmer
34. Deadlier than the Male by James Gunn

Dean Street Press

1. Bloody Instructions by Sara Woods
2. Malice Domestic by Sara Woods
3. Error of the Moon by Sara Woods
4. The Taste of Fears by Sara Woods
5. The Little Measure by Sara Woods

Pushkin Vertigo

1. The Red House Mystery by A. A. Milne
2. The Little Sparrow Murders by Seishi Yokomizo [Trans. Bryan Karetnyk]  
3. The Noh Mask Murder by Akinitsu Takagi [Trans. Jesse Kirkwood]
4. The Lady Vanishes by Ethel Lina White (This was reprinted last year the British Library, under its original title, but it did not make it on to nomination list.)
5. The Black Swan Mystery by Tetsuya Ayukawa [Trans. Bryan Karetnyk]

British Library Crime Classics

1. Before the Fact by Francis Iles
2. Telegram from Le Touquet by John Bude
3. Tour de Force by Christianna Brand
4. Fear Stalks the Village by Ethel Lina White
5. Impact of the Evidence by E. C. R. Lorac
6. Mr Pottermack’s Oversight by R. Austin Freeman
7. London Particular by Christianna Brand
8. Murder in Vienna by E. C. R. Lorac
9. Dramatic Murder by Elizabeth Anthony
10. Tea on Sunday by Lettice Cooper

Moonstone Press

1. The Banquet Ceases by Mary Fitt
2. Sweet Poison by Mary Fitt
3. This Way Out by James Ronald
4. Murder for Cash by James Ronald
5. The Dark Angel by James Ronald
6. Pity for Pamela by Mary Fitt
7. They Can’t Hang Me by James Ronald
8. Hard-Boiled by James Ronald
9. Cross Marks the Spot by James Ronald
10. Death Croons the Blues by James Ronald
11. Clues to Christabel by Mary Fitt

Galileo Publishing

1. The Voice of the Corpse by Max Murray
2. A Bullet for Rhino by Clifford Witting
3. Midsummer Murder by Cecil M. Wills
4. The Case of the Busy Bees by Clifford Witting
5. Deadly Earnest by Joan Cockin
6. Bloodshed in Bayswater by John Rowland

Penguin Modern Classics & Espionage

1. The Chinese Gold Murders by Robert Van Gulik
2. The Deadly Percheron by John Franklin Bardin
3. We Have Always Lived in the Castle by Shirley Jackson
4. The Underground Men by Ross Macdonald
5. The Labyrinth Markers by Anthony Price
6. The Gold Mask by Edogawa Rampo [Trans. William Varteresian]
7. Night at the Crossroads by Georges Simenon [Trans. Lind Coverdale]
8. I Married a Dead Man by Cornell Woolrich
9. The Big Gold Dream by Chester Himes
10. Blind Man with a Pistol by Chester Himes
11. The Crazy Kill by Chester Himes

Coachwhip Publications

1. The Death Kiss by Madelon St Denis
2. The Perfumed Death by Madelon St Denis
3. The Hollow Tree Mystery by Madelon St Denis
4. The Jekyll-Hyde Murder Case by Madelon St Denis
5. Murder Does Light Housekeeping by Minna Bardon
6. The Desert Moon Mystery by Kay Cleaver Strahan
7. The Desert Lake Mystery by Kay Cleaver Strahan
8. The Sleeping Cat by Isabel Ostrander

Oleander Press

1. Buried Once by Max Dalman

Library of Congress Crime Classics

1. In the Fog by Richard Harding Davis

 There are some books which were not included in this list due to their later publication dates. Appointment with Yesterday by Celia Fremlin and The Labyrinth House Murders by Yukito Ayatsuji [Trans. Ho-Ling Wong] were both published in the 1980s. Similarly, The Night Manager by John Le Carre, which was reprinted by Penguin this year, was first published in 1993. Ian Fleming has been reprinted this year, but like Agatha Christie he is a very big name who has never been out of print, so I don’t feel he needs help getting noticed!