Mystery and crime novels and non-fiction that feature the genre trope of a poisoned pen... Careful when you open your post!
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last updated June, 2026
Fear Stalks the Village
Ethel Lina White
Bloody Lessons (A Victorian San Francisco Mystery #3)
M. Louisa Locke
The Littlehampton Libels: A Miscarriage of Justice and a Mystery about Words in 1920s England
Christopher Hilliard
Penning Poison: A history of anonymous letters
Emily Cockayne
The Poison Pen Letters: The Village Detectives, Book 2
Fiona Walker
A Pen Dipped in Poison (Liz, Pat and Thelma, #2)
J.M. Hall
The Poison Pen (The Clara Fitzgerald Mysteries #6)
Evelyn James
Death in a White Tie (Roderick Alleyn, #7)
Ngaio Marsh
The Long Divorce (Gervase Fen, #8)
Edmund Crispin
Night at the Mocking Widow (Sir Henry Merrivale, #20)
Carter Dickson
The Mystery of the Spiteful Letters (The Five Find-Outers, #4)
Enid Blyton
The Voice of the Corpse
Max Murray
Poison in the Pen (Miss Silver, #29)
Patricia Wentworth
Penne Dreadful (Italian Chef Mysteries #1)
Catherine Bruns
Gaudy Night (Lord Peter Wimsey, #12)
Dorothy L. Sayers
A Spoonful of Poison (Agatha Raisin, #19)
M.C. Beaton
The Moving Finger (Miss Marple, #4)
Agatha Christie
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