Coming up with a list of mysteries and “whodunits” is simultaneously an easy and difficult task for the same reason—there are just so many. Below is the ever evolving list. We tried to include all the things we already knew about and perhaps shoehorned in some favorites with a looser mystery classification. Some are specific titles and others are more generic, such as “one of the Dorothy L. Sayers books.” We are totally open to suggestions; however please check the list before sending one in. Ctrl-F to find it if you don’t want to read it all! Thank you!
Actor names for the detectives/characters with multiple adaptations are added after titles in most cases for clarity. Bolded properties have been recorded already and have their projected episode number in front. They may be future episodes so keep an ear out!
The list also is located in a Google Doc at this link: click here!
TV SHOWS
1- Agatha Christie’s Poirot – S9E4 “The Hollow”
2- Buffy the Vampire Slayer– S3E18 “Earshot”
3- Fargo – S1E1 “The Crocodile’s Dilemma”
7- Twin Peaks – S1E1 – “Pilot/Northwest Passage”
8- Rosemary and Thyme S2E4 “The Invisible Worm”
9- Criminal Minds S5E16 “Mosley Lane”
12- Gravity Falls – S1E3 “Headhunters”
13 – Death in Paradise S1E5 “Spot the Difference”
15 – Grantchester S1E1 “Episode 1”
16 – Wallander S1E1 “Sidetracked”
17 – Miss Fisher’s Murder Mysteries S1E8 “Away With The Fairies”
18 – X-Files S3E4 “Clyde Bruckman’s Final Repose”
24- Star Trek The Next Generation – S2E3 “Elementary, Dear Data”, S6E12 “Ship in a Bottle”
26- NCIS: New Orleans S1E15 “Le Carnival du Mort”
27 – The Adventures of Mary-Kate and Ashley “The Logical I Ranch”
31- The Night Of “Part 1: The Beach”
34- Castle S3E10 “Last Call”
36- Hawaii Five-O (Original) – S3E11 “Over Fifty? Steal!”
37- Riverdale – S1E1 “Chapter One: The River’s Edge”
38- Adventure Time S2E19 – “Mystery Train”, S3E12 “The Creeps”
39- And Then There Were None (2015 miniseries)
42- Midsomer Murders S3E3 “Judgement Day”
44 – Miami Vice S5E14 “The Lost Madonna”
45 – Murder She Wrote S5E13 “Fire Burn, Cauldron Bubble”
47 – Magnum P.I. S3E12 (or 13) “Of Sound Mind”
48 – Lucifer S1E1 “Pilot”
49 – 80’s Crossover! Magnum P.I. S7E9 “Novel Connection” / Murder She Wrote S3E8 “Magnum on Ice”
50 – Agatha Christie’s Marple S3E1 “At Bertram’s Hotel”
53- Pushing Daisies S1E7 “Smell of Success”
54- Marcella S1E1 “Episode 1”
Bonus – Only Murders in the Building, Season One
56- Dexter S1E1 “Dexter”
57- LOST S3E14 “Exposé”
60- Murdoch Mysteries S9E9 “Raised on Robbery”
61- Colombo S3E1 “Lovely But Lethal”
63- Death Comes to Pemberley (miniseries)
64- The No. 1 Ladies’ Detective Agency S1E1 “Pilot”
67- Ripper Street S1E1 “I Need Light”
68- Veronica Mars S1E1 “Pilot”
70- The Mentalist S1E18 “Russet Potatoes”
76- Inspector George Gently S4E1 “Gently Upside Down”
82- Bones S2E9 “Spaceman in a Crater”
86- Top of the Lake S1E1 “Pilot”
87- The Pinkertons S1E1 “Kansas City”
90- Inspector Morse S1E1 “The Dead of Jericho”
The ABC Murders (miniseries) – John Malkovitch
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes – Jeremy Brett
The Adventures of Shirley Holmes
Agatha Christie’s Great Detectives Poirot and Marple (anime)
Agatha Christie’s Marple – Julia McKenzie
Alfred Hitchcock Presents
Angel
Backstrom
Batman: The Animated Series (Suggested Episodes: Feat of Clay, On Leather Wings, Second Chances)
The Bill
Bletchley Circle
Bored to Death
Broadchurch
Brooklyn 99
The Brokenwood Mysteries
Cagney and Lacey
Candice Renoir
The Chelsea Detective
C.I.D. (Indian detective series)
Criminal
Criminal Minds
Conviction
Crooked House (miniseries)
CSI
CSI: Miami
CSI: New York
Dalgliesh
Dark Winds
Deadloch
Death and Other Details (Hulu)
Diagnosis Murder
Dirk Gently’s Holistic Detective Agency
Doctor Black Mysteries
Doctor Who – S4E7 “The Unicorn and the Wasp”
Due South
Early Edition
Elementary – Johnny Lee Miller
Endeavour
Father Brown
Father Dowling Mysteries
Foyle’s War
The Frankenstein Chronicles
Frankie Drake Mysteries
Fringe
Hannibal
Happy Valley
Hawaii Five-O – (revival)
Hetty Wainthropp Investigates
Inspector Koo
Inspector Lewis
In The Heat of the Night
Jessica Jones
Jonathan Creek
Knight Rider
The Last Detective
The Law According to Lidia Poët
Law & Order
Law & Order: Criminal Intent
Law & Order: SVU
Loch Ness
Longmire
Luther
Magic School Bus S1E8 “In The Haunted House”
Maigret
Miss Marple – Joan Hickson
Miss Sherlock
Monk
Moonlighting
Monsieur Spade
Mr. and Mrs Murder (Australian)
Murder at the End of the World (miniseries)
Mystery Road
Nancy Drew
Nash Bridges
NCIS
NCIS: LA
NYPD Blue
Ordeal By Innocence (miniseries)
Pie In The Sky
Prime Suspect
Prime Suspect: Tennison
Psych
Queens of Mystery
Remington Steele
The Rockford Files
The Saint
Scooby-Doo
Search Party
Shakespeare & Hathaway: Private Investigators
Sherlock – Benedict Cumberbatch
Sherlock Holmes – Douglas Wilmer
Sherlock Holmes – Igor Petrenko
Sherlock Hound – Japanese anime
Shetland
Silent Witness
The Singing Detective
The Sinner
Star Wars: The Clone Wars– S3E4 “Sphere of Influence”
Strike
Supernatural – S2E6 “No Exit”, S10E6 “Ask Jeeves”
A Touch of Frost
Twilight Zone
Unforgotten
Vera
Why Didn’t They Ask Evans? (Britbox/Amazon)
MOVIES
4 – The Great Muppet Caper (1981)
5 – Rebecca (1940)
6- The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes (1970)- Robert Stephens
11- Rear Window (1954)
14- Seven (1995)
Bonus – Knives Out (2019)
20- The Phantom Thief (Boston Blackie) (1946)
21- Murder on the Orient Express (1974)- Albert Finney
22- The Nice Guys (2016)
23- Clue (1985)
25- L.A. Confidential (1997)
28 – Blood Simple (1985)
29 – Red Dragon (2002)
30 – The Maltese Falcon (1941)
32- Sherlock Holmes (2009) – RDJ
Bonus – Enola Holmes (2020)
35- Devil In A Blue Dress (1995)
40- Zodiac (2007)
41- Nancy Drew… Detective (1938)
43 – Batman: Mask of the Phantasm (1993)
46 – Scooby Doo! Legend of the Phantosaur (2011)
51 – The Long Goodbye (1973)
52 – Happy Death Day (2017)
55- Hound of the Baskervilles (1959)
58- The Last of Sheila (1973)
59- Kiss Me Deadly (1955)
64- The Kid Detective (2020)
66- The Big Lebowski (1998)
71- Muppets Most Wanted (2014)
72- Enola Holmes 2 (2022)
Bonus – Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery (2022)
73- The Great Mouse Detective (1986) – Barrie Ingham / Basil Rathborne
74- The Prestige (2006)
75- Charade (1963)
77- Memories of Murder (2003)
78- A Simple Favor (2018)
79- Double Indemnity (1944)
80- The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo (Swedish original) (2009)
83- The Suspicions of Mr. Whicher: The Murder at Road Hill House (2011)
84- The Usual Suspects (1995)
85- Death on the Nile (2022) – Kenneth Branaugh
88- Kiss Kiss Bang Bang (2005)
89- The Private Eyes (1980)
The Adventure of Sherlock Holmes’ Smarter Brother (1975) – Douglas Wilmer (Gene Wilder)
The Alphabet Murders (1965)
Anatomy of a Fall (2023)
The Big Sleep (1946)
The Black Dahlia (2006)
Blow the Man Down (2019)
Blue Velvet (1986)
Chinatown (1974)*
Chip and Dale: Rescue Rangers (2022)
Dead Again (1991)
Death on the Nile (1978) – Peter Ustinov
Deathtrap (1982)
Detective Pikachu (2019)
Diabolique (1955)
Dial M For Murder (1954)
Evil Under the Sun (1982)
Farewell, My Lovely (1975)
Fargo (1996)
The Fugitive (1993)
The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo (2011)
Gone Girl (2014)
Gosford Park (2001)
The Happytime Murders (2018)
Holy Spider (2022)
Hotel Artemis (2018)
Laura (1944)
The Lovebirds (2020)
Manhunter (1986)
Mank (2020)
The Mirror Crack’d (1980) – Angela Lansbury
Murder by Decree (1979)- Christopher Plummer
Murder by Death (1976)
Murder Can Hurt You! (1980)
Murder on the Orient Express (2017) – Kenneth Branaugh
Murder Mystery (2019)
Murder, My Sweet (1944)
Mystère à la Tour Eiffel [The Eiffel Tower Mystery] (2015)
Mystery Woman (Hallmark series of movies)
North by Northwest (1959)
Northanger Abbey (2007)
Out of the Past (1947)
Psycho (1960)
Scooby-Doo (2002)
See How They Run (2022)
Sherlock Holmes – 1930’s – Arthur Wontner
Sherlock Holmes – 1940’s – Basil Rathborne
Sherlock Holmes – (2010) – Ben Syder
Sherlock Holmes and the Deadly Necklace (1962)
Sherlock: Case of Evil (2002)- James D’Arcy
Silence of the Lambs (1991)
Sleuth (1972)
Thin Man – 1930’s movies
The Third Man (1950)
Vertigo (1958)
Who Framed Roger Rabbit (1988)
Without a Clue (1988)- Michael Caine
Young Sherlock Holmes (1985) – Nicholas Rowe
BOOKS
10- Silence of the Lambs by Thomas Harris (1988)
19- The Westing Game by Ellen Raskin (1978)
33- The Big Sleep by Raymond Chandler (1939)
69- Wicked Things by John Allison and Max Sarin (2021)
91- The Valley of Fear by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (1914)
The Appeal by Janice Hallett
Baby-Sitter’s Club mysteries
Batman: Hush (2003 Comic)
Batman: The Long Halloween (1996 Comic)
Boxcar Children mysteries
Dorothy L Sayers novels
Edgar Allan Poe’s Dupin mysteries
Georgette Heyer mystery novels
Hannibal by Thomas Harris (1999)
Hardy Boys mysteries
Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets by J.K. Rowling (1999)
Hollywood Homicide by Kellye Garrett (2017)
Magpie Murders by Anthony Horowitz (2017)
Maisie Dobbs mysteries
Miss Marple mysteries
The Mousetrap – Agatha Christie play
Mystery Man by Colin Bateman (2009)
Nancy Drew mysteries
Northanger Abbey by Jane Austen (1817)
Poirot mysteries
Raymond Chandler novels
Reckless by Ed Brubaker (2020 Comic)
Red Dragon by Thomas Harris (1981)
Rivers of London mysteries
Sherlock Holmes mysteries
Sweet Valley High Super Thrillers mysteries
The 7 ½ Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle by Stuart Turton (2018)
The Real Inspector Hound- play Tom Stoppard 1968
Trixie Belden mysteries
Walter Mosley – writer
Watson & Holmes comic by Karl Bollers
Who Killed Harlowe Thromby (Choose Your Own Adventure)
OTHER
Bonus – Crack the Casemas 2020 (Crack the Case – board game)
Bonus – Just In Case (Crack the Case – board game)
Bonus – Crack the Casemas 2:Electric Boogaloo 2021 (Crack the Case – board game)
62- Hitman 3, Level 2
Bonus – Christmas 2022 Mack’s Big Christmas Show – Game show
81- The Wolf Among Us- Whole Video Game
Bonus – Christmas 2023 The Tinkertons: A Mackenzie Christmas Mystery – D&D Style Mystery
BBC Holmes with Clive Merrison and Michael Williams – radio plays
The Black Museum – radio plays
Clue – board game
Detective Barbie- PC Video Game
Dimension 20: Mice & Murder (D&D Webseries)
Mack, DM-ing a Dungeons and Dragons campaign with a mystery in it
Mystery Date – board game
Something’s Afoot – musical
“Stray Gods, A Roleplaying Musical”,:A Video Game
Virtual escape room
*We will not be covering Chinatown. It is included on this list to show we know about it, understand it fits the criteria, but will not be watching or discussing it.
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