Franklin Library of Mystery Masterpieces

The Franklin Mystery Library books were produced in both imitation leather and full genuine leather. The imitation leather copies do not have an attached silk page marker, and the genuine leather copies do include the silk page marker.

Listed are the 51 titles that were published in the Franklin Mystery Masterpieces series. (Tales of Mystery and Imagination by Edgar Allan Poe was published in two styles.)

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  1. Mousetrap and other plays by Agatha Christie - 1987

  2. Rebecca by Daphne Du Maurier - 1987

  3. The Great Cases of Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle - 1987

  4. The Day of the Jackal by Frederick Forsyth - 1987

  5. Ashenden (or British agent) by W. S. Maugham - 1987

  6. The Maltese Falcon by Dashiell Hammett - 1987

  7. Tales of Mystery and Imagination by Edgar Allan Poe - 1987 (black cover - gold bug)

  8. Tales of Mystery and Imagination by Edgar Allan Poe - 1987 (red cover)

  9. The Patience of Maigret by George Simenon - 1987

  10. Trent's Last Case by E. C. Bently - 1988

  11. The 39 Steps by John Buchan - 1988

  12. Postman Always Rings Twice by James M. Cain - 1988

  13. Farewell My Lovely by Raymond Chandler - 1988

  14. The Moonstone by Wilkie Collins - 1988

  15. The Ipcress File by Len Deighton - 1988

  16. Blood Sport by Dick Francis - 1988

  17. The Mystery of Edwin Drood by Charles Dickens - 1988

  18. The Man from the Sea by Michael Innes - 1988

  19. Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy by John Le Carre - 1988

  20. Fer-De-Lance by Rex Stout - 1988

  21. Anatomy of Murder by Robert Traver - 1988

  22. Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde - 1988

  23. Great American Mysteries by various authors - 1989

  24. The House without a Key by Earl Derr Biggers - 1989

  25. Laura by Vera Caspary - 1989

  26. The Innocence of Father Brown by G. K. Chesterton - 1989

  27. The Long Divorce by Edmund Crispin - 1989

  28. D.A. calls it Murder by Erle Stanley Gardner - 1989

  29. Ghostly Tales by Henry James - 1989

  30. A Kiss before Dying by Ira Levin - 1989

  31. Thank You Mr. Moto and Mr. Moto is So Sorry by John P. Marquand - 1989

  32. The Roman Hat Mystery by Ellery Queen - 1989

  33. Murder Must Advertise by Dorothy Sayers - 1989

  34. Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson - 1989

  35. The Bride Wore Black by Cornell Woolrich - 1989

  36. Great British Mysteries of the 20th century by various authors - 1990

  37. The Tiger in the Smoke by Margery Allingham - 1990

  38. A Coffin for Dimitrios by Eric Ambler - 1990

  39. The Beast Must Die by Nicolas Blake - 1990

  40. The Benson Murder Case by S. S. Van Dine - 1990

  41. Payment Deferred by C. S. Forester - 1990

  42. Quiet as a Nun by Antonia Fraser - 1990

  43. Raffles by E. W. Hornung - 1990

  44. Compulsion by Meyer Levin - 1990

  45. The Lodger by Marie Belloc Lowndes -1990

  46. Overture to Death by Ngaio Marsh - 1990

  47. The Red House Mystery by A. A. Milne - 1990

  48. The Man in the Corner by Baroness Orczy - 1990

  49. The Door by Mary Rinehart - 1990

  50. The Insidious Dr. Fu Manchu by Sax Rohmer - 1990

  51. The Daughter of Time by Josephine Tey - 1990

  52. The Crimson Circle by Edgar Wallace - 1990