Mystery and detective fiction

The mystery listings run from classic pastiche to hard-boiled and procedural. Dr. Ben F. Eller's The Children of Sherlock Holmes placed a new Holmes case in the London of the 1890s. Stuart A. Barnhill's Creature Comforts introduced Winston Nash, a six-foot-nine former Army Ranger turned private investigator in St. Louis, in the Chandler and Hammett tradition. Dr. H.R. Gillespie's The London Club sent a Scotland Yard team after the killer of a self-made businessman. Amy Patricia Hauck's Million Dollar Baby opened in 1935 with a body found on a country estate in a small Connecticut town.

Twist Phelan listed two Pinnacle Peak mysteries, Heir Apparent, which named Sands Publishing as publisher, and Lear's Daughter. Margarethe Greenshpon's Hamsin began with a divorced mother in Haifa on a hot spring morning. Sally Simpson Roseveare's Murder at Spawning Run brought a travelogue producer back to Smith Mountain Lake in Virginia for her mother's funeral. Tom Baker's The Sands of Luxor took a Chicago assistant professor skilled in hieroglyphics to the Valley of the Kings. Most of these carried no publisher; the archive records what the agency said and nothing more.