Most Popular Crime Fiction Books of the 1930s

And Then There Were None

Agatha Christie

Crime Fiction · Suspense Thriller · Movie · Mystery · Thriller

November 6, 1939

Hercule Poirot #10

Murder on the Orient Express

Agatha Christie

Crime Fiction · Mystery · Thriller

January 1, 1934

Hercule Poirot #17

Dumb Witness

Agatha Christie

Crime Fiction · Mystery · Thriller

July 5, 1937

Hercule Poirot #14

Murder in Mesopotamia

Agatha Christie

Crime Fiction · Mystery · Thriller

July 6, 1936

Hercule Poirot #20

Hercule Poirot's Christmas

Agatha Christie

Crime Fiction · Short Stories · Mystery · Thriller

December 19, 1938

Hercule Poirot #18

Death on the Nile

Agatha Christie

Crime Fiction · Mystery · Thriller

November 1, 1937

Hercule Poirot #13

The A.B.C. Murders

Agatha Christie

Crime Fiction · Mystery · Thriller

January 6, 1936

Hercule Poirot #12

Death in the Clouds

Agatha Christie

Crime Fiction · Mystery · Thriller

March 10, 1935

Hercule Poirot #9

Lord Edgware Dies

Agatha Christie

Crime Fiction · Mystery · Thriller

September 6, 1933

Hercule Poirot #8

Peril at End House

Agatha Christie

Crime Fiction · Mystery · Thriller

October 8, 1932

Hercule Poirot #19

Appointment with Death

Agatha Christie

Crime Fiction · Mystery · Thriller

May 2, 1938

Hercule Poirot #15

Cards on the Table

Agatha Christie

Crime Fiction · Mystery · Thriller

November 2, 1936

Hercule Poirot #11

Three Act Tragedy

Agatha Christie

Crime Fiction · Mystery · Thriller

January 6, 1935

Hercule Poirot #28

The Witness for the Prosecution and Other Stories

Agatha Christie

Crime Fiction · Collection · Short Stories · Mystery · Thriller

January 1, 1932

The Hound of Death and Other Stories

Agatha Christie

Horror · Crime Fiction · Short Stories · Mystery · Thriller

1933

Murder is Easy

Agatha Christie

Crime Fiction · Mystery · Thriller

June 5, 1939

Hercule Poirot #21

The Regatta Mystery and Other Stories

Agatha Christie

Crime Fiction · Short Stories · Mystery · Thriller

June 1, 1939

Hercule Poirot #16

Murder in the Mews

Agatha Christie

Crime Fiction · Collection · Short Stories · Mystery · Thriller

March 15, 1937

Miss Marple #1

The Murder at the Vicarage

Agatha Christie

Crime Fiction · TV Series · Mystery · Thriller

October 20, 1930

Hercule Poirot #7

Black Coffee

Agatha Christie

Crime Fiction · Mystery · Thriller

January 1, 1930

Sam Spade #1

The Maltese Falcon

Dashiell Hammett

Crime Fiction · Mystery · Thriller

February 1, 1930

Philip Marlowe #1

The Big Sleep

Raymond Chandler

Crime Fiction · Mystery · Thriller

February 6, 1939

Charles Latimer #1

The Mask of Dimitrios

Eric Ambler

Crime Fiction · Spy Thriller · Suspense Thriller · Mystery · Thriller

1939

Epitaph for a Spy

Eric Ambler

Crime Fiction · Spy Thriller · Suspense Thriller · Historical Fiction · Mystery

1938

Valeshoff #2

Cause for Alarm

Eric Ambler

Crime Fiction · Spy Thriller · Suspense Thriller · Historical Fiction · Mystery

1938

Valeshoff #1

Background to Danger

Eric Ambler

Crime Fiction · Spy Thriller · Suspense Thriller · Historical Fiction · Mystery

1937

The Dark Frontier

Eric Ambler

Crime Fiction · Spy Thriller · Suspense Thriller · Mystery · Thriller

1936

Father Brown Collection #5

The Scandal Of Father Brown

G. K. Chesterton

Cozy Mystery · Crime Fiction · Collection · Short Stories · Mystery

1935

The Thin Man

Dashiell Hammett

Crime Fiction · Mystery · Thriller

December 1, 1934

Woman in the Dark

Dashiell Hammett

Crime Fiction · Mystery · Thriller

January 1, 1933

The Glass Key

Dashiell Hammett

Crime Fiction · Mystery · Thriller

January 1, 1931