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A number of interesting authors, most long out of print, plus some other odds and ends, including some horror stories by Conan Doyle. - Crippen & Landru
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This publisher specializes in classic mysteries, broadly defined, including newer mysteries that adhere to classic standards. They have just overhauled their website to make it much more informative and user-friendly. - Merion Press
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This book club mostly publishes current thrillers, spy and horror stories, etc., but has a few "lost classics" by the likes of Ellery Queen and John Dickson Carr. As such, it may be worth your attention. Be warned though that it's a "negative option" club - if you join, you have to reply to each offer every few weeks to keep them from being sent to you. - Poisoned Pen Press
Based in Scottsdale, Arizona, the Poisoned Pen Press publishes a fairly wide variety of mysteries. Some are reprints; many are new, by newer authors. Their website has a great deal of information about their books and authors. - Rue Morgue Press
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- "The Nine Tailors," by Dorothy L. Sayers
- "The Three Coffins," by John Dickson Carr
- "The Final Deduction," by Rex Stout
- "The Daughter of Time," by Josephine Tey
- "Murders in Volume 2," by Elizabeth Daly
- "Lament for a Maker," by Michael Innes
- "Swan Song," by Edmund Crispin
- "Necklace and Calabash," by Robert Van Gulik
- "The Hound of the Baskervilles," by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
- "The Tragedy of Errors," by Ellery Queen
- "The Lamp of God," by Ellery Queen
- "Killer Dolphin," by Ngaio Marsh
- "The Maltese Falcon," by Dashiell Hammett
- "And Then There Were None," by Agatha Christie
- "The Criminal C.O.D.," by Phoebe Atwood Taylor
- "A Graveyard to Let," by Carter Dickson
- "The Bachelors of Broken Hill," by Arthur Upfield
- "The Doorbell Rang," by Rex Stout
- "The Case of the Baker Street Irregulars," by Anthony Boucher
- "Trent's Last Case," by E. C. Bentley
- "The Red House Mystery," by A. A. Milne
- "Taken at the Flood," by Agatha Christie
- "Police at the Funeral," by Margery Allingham
- "Nipped in the Bud," by Stuart Palmer
- "The Frightened Stiff," by Kelley Roos
- "Hallowe'en Party," by Agatha Christie
- "Death Under Snowdon," by Glyn Carr
- "The Chinese Lake Murders," by Robert H. Van Gulik
- "Shadows Before," by Dorothy Bowers
- "The Thin Man," by Dashiell Hammett
- "The Bone Is Pointed," by Arthur W. Upfield
- "The Body in the Transept," by Jeanne M. Dams
- "Tied Up in Tinsel," by Ngaio Marsh
- "Christmas at Candleshoe," by Michael Innes
- "Busman's Honeymoon," by Dorothy L. Sayers
- "The Moving Finger," by Agatha Christie
- "Evidence of Things Seen," by Elizabeth Daly
- "The Big Sleep," by Raymond Chandler
- "Sailor Take Warning," by Kelley Roos
- "To Love and Be Wise," by Josephine Tey
- "The Innocence of Father Brown," by G. K. Chesterton
- "The Mouse in the Mountain," by Norbert Davis
- "Death Lights a Candle," by Phoebe Atwood Taylor
- Locked Rooms: A John Dickson Carr Anthology
- "An Excellent Mystery," by Ellis Peters
- "The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes," by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
- "Our First Murder," by Torrey Chanslor
- "Three Act Tragedy," by Agatha Christie
- "The Father Hunt," by Rex Stout
- "The Youth Hostel Murders," by Glyn Carr
- "Arsene Lupin, Gentleman-Thief," by Maurice LeBlanc
- "The Loss of the Jane Vosper," by Freeman Wills Crofts
- "The A.B.C. Murders," by Agatha Christie
- "The Bells of Old Bailey," by Dorothy Bowers
- "Mystery Mile," by Margery Allingham
- "The Return of the Black Widowers," by Isaac Asimov
- "The Rivals of Sherlock Holmes," edited by Nick Rennison
- "The Religious Body," by Catherine Aird
- "Three Witnesses," by Rex Stout
- "The Vicious Circle," edited by Otto Penzler
- "Painted for the Kill," by Lucy Cores
- "Clutch of Constables," by Ngaio Marsh
- "Because of the Cats," by Nicolas Freeling
- "Classic Mystery Stories," edited by Douglas G. Greene
- "Detection by Gaslight," edited by Douglas G. Greene
- "The Four Just Men," by Edgar Wallace
- "Appleby's End," by Michael Innes
- "Sally's in the Alley," by Norbert Davis
- "The Devil in the Bush," by Matthew Head
- "Death and the Chaste Apprentice," by Robert Barnard
- "The Roman Hat Mystery," by Ellery Queen
- "Flowers for the Judge," by Margery Allingham
- "The Mystery of the Yellow Room," by Gaston Leroux
- "Maigret and the Wine Merchant," by Georges Simenon
- "The Viaduct Murder," by Ronald A. Knox
- "Death on Milestone Buttress," by Glyn Carr
- "The Penguin Pool Murder," by Stuart Palmer
- "Tom Brown's Body," by Gladys Mitchell
- "Home Sweet Homicide," by Craig Rice
- "The Judas Window," by Carter Dickson
- "The 50 Greatest Mysteries of All Times," ed. by Otto Penzler
- "Henrietta Who," by Catherine Aird
- "The Big Bow Mystery," by Israel Zangwill
- "Nothing Can Rescue Me," by Elizabeth Daly
- "She Shall Have Murder," by Delano Ames
- "Cat of Many Tails," by Ellery Queen
- "The Asey Mayo Trio," by Phoebe Atwood Taylor
- "The Benson Murder Case," by S. S. Van Dine
- "The Body in the Library," by Agatha Christie
- "The Gun in Daniel Webster's Bust," by Margaret Scherf
- "The Unpleasantness at the Bellona Club," by Dorothy L. Sayers
- "Inspector French's Greatest Case," by Freeman Wills Crofts
- "Poison Jasmine," By Clyde B. Clason
- "813," by Maurice LeBlanc
- "Black Land, White Land," by H. C. Bailey
- "The Mysterious Mr. Quin," by Agatha Christie
- "The Puzzle of the Pepper Tree," by Stuart Palmer
- "The Rising of the Moon," by Gladys Mitchell
- "The Mystery at Number 31, New Inn," by R. Austin Freeman
- "Green for Danger," by Christianna Brand
- "The Dream Detective," by Sax Rohmer
- "Coffin, Scarcely Used," by Colin Watson
- "The Stately Home Murder," by Catherine Aird
- "The Canary Murder Case," by S. S. Van Dine
- "Buried for Pleasure," by Edmund Crispin
- "The House Without A Key," by Earl Derr Biggers
- "Close Quarters," by Michael Gilbert
- "Our Jubilee Is Death," by Leo Bruce
- "Overture to Death," by Ngaio Marsh
- "The Frightened Lady," by Edgar Wallace
- "The Penguin Book of Gaslight Crime," ed. by Michael Sims
- "Black Is the Color of my True Love's Heart," by Ellis Peters
- "The Secret Adversary," by Agatha Christie
- "The Key," by Patricia Wentworth
- "The Bar on the Seine," by Georges Simenon
- "The Grey Mist Murders," by Constance & Gwyneth Little
- "And Be a Villain," by Rex Stout
- "Death at Crane's Court," by Eilis Dillon
- "Bulldog Drummond," by "Sapper"
- "The Avenging Chance," by Anthony Berkeley
- "The Case of the Late Pig," by Margery Allingham
- "The House Without the Door," by Elizabeth Daly
- "The Widening Stain," by Morris Bishop
- "The Longer Bodies," by Gladys Mitchell
- "Smallbone Deceased," by Michael Gilbert
- "The Labors of Hercules," by Agatha Christie
- "The Continental Op," by Dashiell Hammett
- "13 to the Gallows," by John Dickson Carr and Val Gielgud
- "The Journeying Boy," by Michael Innes
- "Who Killed the Curate?" by Joan Coggin
- "Murder for Christmas" (Hercule Poirot's Christmas), by Agatha Christie
- "If the Shroud Fits," by Kelley Roos
- "Corpse in a Gilded Cage," by Robert Barnard
- "The Moving Toyshop," by Edmund Crispin
- "Shadow on the Wall," by H. C. Bailey
- "Case for Three Detectives," by Leo Bruce
- "The Tuesday Club Murders," by Agatha Christie
- "The Iron Clew," by Phoebe Atwood Taylor (writing as "Alice Tilton")
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