The Crime Club Books of 1928

1928: The first year of The Crime Club was 1928, and the series kicked off with The Desert Moon Mystery by Kay Cleaver Strahan as the inaugural edition on April 1st, 1928.

The premiere year continued with a number of great titles,  featuring 27 titles in total by 9 American authors by the end of December.

• The Silk Stocking Murders by Anthony Berkeley (Anthony Berkeley Cox)
• House of Two Green Eyes by Stephen Chalmers
• Juggernaut by Alice Campbell
• That Gay Nineties Murder by Foxhall Daingerfield
• The Black House in Harley Street by J.S. (John Smith) Fletcher
• In Search of a Villain by Robert Gore-Browne
• The Bellamy Trail by Frances Noyes Hart
• The Black Heart by Syndney Horler
• The Fatal Kiss Mystery by Rufus King
• The Prisoner in the Opal by A. E. W. (Alfred Edward Woodley) Mason
• The Female of the Species by H.C. (Herman Cyril) McNeile (aka Sapper)
• Skin O' My Tooth by Baroness Orczy
• Shanghai Jim by Frank L. Packard
• Tiger Paws by Frank L. Packard
• The Innocent Accomplice by Mrs. Baillie Reynolds (Gertrude Robins Reynolds)
• The Master Mystery by Austin J. Small
• The Mystery of Uncle Boolard by H. (Henry) deVere Stacpoole
• The Desert Moon Mystery by Kay Cleaver Strahan
• The Man Who Killed Fortescue by John Stephen Strange (Dorothy Stockbridge Tillett)
• Werewolf by Charles Lee Swem
• The Clever One by Edgar Wallace
• The Double by Edgar Wallace
• The Feathered Serpent by Edgar Wallace
• The Master of Revels by Richard Howells Watkins
• The Baffle Book by Lassiter Wren and Randle McKay (John T. Colter)