Complete Clue List
Across
1. Echoes of Joplin in Mary Higgins Clark & Alafair Burke's 2020 tale; "Piece of My ___"
4. Elmore Leonard from 1959; "Last ___ at Saber River"
7. Dick Francis deserting a sinking ship in this 1970 mystery; "___ Race"
8. Lisa Gardner's State Trooper, features in "Love You More" (2011); Tessa ___
9. Evan Hunter partnership tale from 1976; "Me ___ Stenner" (Two words 3,2)
10. A Boysie Oakes thriller from John Gardner; "___ Apparent" (1971)
11. 87th Precinct mystery from Ed McBain; "So Long as You Both ___ Live" (1976)
14. Ian Rankin ties up this 1987 Inspector Rebus mystery; "___ and Crosses"
17. A stainless sci-fi detective story from Isaac Asimov; "The Caves of ___" (1953)
20. Rock solid mystery from Ruth Rendell; "A Judgement in ___" (1977)
23. Ruth Rendell (as Barbara Vine) sees all with this 1986 thriller; "A Dark Adapted ___"
24. The Deaf Man has the 87th Precinct's number in this Ed McBain mystery; "___ Black Horses" (1985)
25. Rendell's Inspector Wexford hunts "The Babes ___ Wood" in 2002 (Two words 2,3)
26. Sir Arthur Conan Doyle introduced us to "The ___ With the Twisted Lip" in 1891
27. In "The Distant Echo" (2003) Val McDermid introduces her "Inspector Karen ___" series
28. Author of "Fenian Street" (2022), shortlisted for the Canadian Whodunit Award; Anne ___
Down
1. A Christmas feel about Mary Higgins Clark's 2000 mystery; "Deck the ___"
2. Leslie Langtry's "Ukelele Murder" (2016), the first in Gemma Halliday's series "___ Lagoon Mysteries
3. Dick Francis has a practice jog in this 1978 mystery; "___ Run"
4. Sharply defined, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's mystery from 1895; "The ___ Munro Letters"
5. Lisa Gardner's State Trooper reappears, a little dubiously, in "Touch ___" (2013) (Two words 3,2)
6. Not quite a mystery but a Chris Ryan thriller; "Who ___ Wins" (2011)
12. Temperature's rising for Carl Webster in this 2005 Elmore Leonard novel; "The ___ Kid"
13. Creator of the "Jack Reacher" series of novels; ___ Child
15. A negative from Ruth Rendell in 2007; "___ in the Flesh"
16. "___ Little Indians" was an alternate title for Agatha Christie's "And Then There Were None" (1939)
17. Raymond Chandler's hardboiled crime novel features Philip Marlowe; "The Big ___" (1939)
18. Wrote the 1841 mystery, "Murders in the Rue Morgue"; ___ Allan Poe
19. Not a song, but it's a Mary Higgins Clark mystery; "___ Call You Sweetheart" (1995 - 2 words 3,2)
20. Georges Simenon sets Inspector Maigret loose on a French river; "Guinguette by the ___" (1931)
21. 1965 Ross MacDonald novel features PI Lew Archer; "The Far Side ___ Dollar" (Two words 2,3)
22. Elmore Leonard has a foe for his lawman Carl Webster in this 2010 collection; "Comfort to the ___"