• Setting: Mainly Manhattan, but they do occasionally go further afield
• Bold type indicates a book I've read.
Novels:
- Fer-de-Lance (1934) [see review]
- The League of Frightened Men (1935)
- The Rubber Band (1936)
- The Red Box (1937)
- Too Many Cooks (1938)
- Some Buried Caesar (1939)
- Over My Dead Body (1940)
- Where There's a Will (1940)
- The Silent Speaker (1946)
- Too Many Women (1947)
- And Be a Villain (1948) aka: More Deaths Than One
- The Second Confession (1949)
- In the Best Families (1950) aka: Even in the Best Families
- Murder by the Book (1951)
- Prisoner's Base (1952) aka: Out Goes She
- The Golden Spiders (1953)
- The Black Mountain (1954)
- Before Midnight (1955)
- Might as Well Be Dead (1956)
- If Death Ever Slept (1957)
- Champagne for One (1958)
- Plot It Yourself (1959) aka: Murder in Style
- Too Many Clients (1960)
- The Final Deduction (1961)
- Gambit (1962)
- The Mother Hunt (1963)
- A Right to Die (1964)
- The Doorbell Rang (1965)
- Death of a Doxy (1966)
- The Father Hunt (1968)
- Death of a Dude (1969)
- Please Pass the Guilt (1973)
- A Family Affair (1975)
- Black Orchids (1942; contains "Black Orchids" and "Cordially Invited to Meet Death")
- Not Quite Dead Enough (1944; contains "Not Quite Dead Enough" and "Booby Trap")
- Trouble in Triplicate (1949; contains "Before I Die", "Help Wanted, Male" and "Instead of Evidence")
- Three Doors to Death (1950; contains "Man Alive", "Omit Flowers" and "Door to Death")
- Curtains for Three (1951; contains "The Gun with Wings", "Bullet for One" and "Disguise for Murder")
- Triple Jeopardy (1952; contains "Home to Roost", "The Cop-Killer" and "The Squirt and the Monkey")
- Three Men Out (1954; contains "Invitation to Murder", "The Zero Clue" and "This Won't Kill You")
- Three Witnesses (1956; contains "The Next Witness", "When a Man Murders" and "Die Like a Dog")
- Three for the Chair (1957; contains "A Window for Death", "Immune to Murder" and "Too Many Detectives")
- And Four to Go (1958; contains "Christmas Party", "Easter Parade", "Fourth of July Picnic" and "Murder Is No Joke")
- Three at Wolfe's Door (1960; contains "Poison à la Carte", "Method Three for Murder" and "The Rodeo Murder")
- Homicide Trinity (1962; contains "Eeny Meeny Murder Mo", "Death of a Demon" and "Counterfeit for Murder")
- Trio for Blunt Instruments (1964; contains "Kill Now—Pay Later", "Murder Is Corny" and "Blood Will Tell")
- Death Times Three (1985; posthumous; contains "Bitter End", "Frame-Up for Murder" and "Assault on a Brownstone")