A Man Called Jones¹ (1947)

Bland Beginning (1949)

The Narrowing Circle (1954)

The Pipe Dream (1958)
APA: The Gigantic Shadow

Murder! Murder! (1961) [SS]

Francis Quarles Investigates (1965) [SS]

The Detections of Francis Quarles (2006) [SS]

A Three-Pipe Problem (1975)

The Kentish Manor Murders (1988)

The Immaterial Murder Case (1945)

The 31st of February² (1950)
APA: The Thirty-First of February³ (1950)

The Broken Penny (1953)

The Paper Chase (1956)
APA: Bogue’s Fortune (1957)

The Colour of Murder (1957)
1957 Gold Dagger Award

The Progress of a Crime² (1960)

The Plain Man (1962)
APA: The Killing of Francie Lake (1962)

The End of Solomon Grundy² (1964)

The Belting Inheritance (1965)

The Man Who Killed Himself (1967)

The Man Whose Dreams Came True (1968)

The Man Who Lost His Wife (1970)

The Players and the Game (1972)

The Plot Against Roger Rider (1973)

Ellery Queen presents Julian Symons’ How to Trap a Crook and Twelve Other Mysteries (1977) [SS]

The Blackheath Poisonings: A Victorian Murder Mystery (1978)

Critical Observations (1981)

The Tigers of Subtopia: And Other Stories (1982) [SS]

The Detling Murders (1982)
APA: The Detling Secret (1983)

The Name of Annabel Lee (1983)

The Criminal Comedy of the Contented Couple (1985)
APA: A Criminal Comedy (1986)

Death’s Darkest Face (1990)

Something Like a Love Affair (1992)

Playing Happy Families (1995)

The Man Who Hated Television (1995) [SS]

A Sort of Virtue: A Political Crime Novel (1996)