Portal:Thriller

Thrillers

Espionage thrillers

Includes plots by "super villains" and non-state actors as well as agents of foreign governments.

• The Riddle of the Sands, 1903 by Robert Erskine Childers
• The Secret Agent, 1907 by Joseph Conrad
• The Insidious Dr. Fu Manchu, 1913 by Sax Rohmer (first of the Fu Manchu series)
• The Thirty-Nine Steps, 1915 by John Buchan (first of the Richard Hannay series)
• The Yellow Claw, 1915 by Sax Rohmer (first of the Gaston Max series)
• Greenmantle, 1916 by John Buchan (Richard Hannay series)
• Mr Standfast, 1919 by John Buchan (Richard Hannay series)
• Bull-dog Drummond, 1920 by Herman Cyril McNeile (first of the Bulldog Drummond series)
• The Secret Adversary, 1922 by Agatha Christie (first of the Tommy and Tuppence series)

Crime thrillers

• The Four Just Men (1920) edition. (Includes "The Four Just Men," 1905 and "The Council of Justice (FJM #2), 1908 by Edgar Wallace
• Sanders of the River, 1911 by Edgar Wallace
• The Clue of the Twisted Candle, 1918 by Edgar Wallace
• The Man Who Knew, 1918 by Edgar Wallace
• The Green Rust, 1919 by Edgar Wallace
• Bat Wing, 1921 by Sax Rohmer (first of the Paul Harley series)
• Fire-Tongue , 1921 by Sax Rohmer (second of the Paul Harley series)

Historical thrillers

• The Count of Monte Cristo, 1844 by Alexandre Dumas

Paranoid thrillers

• The Hanging Stranger, 1953 by Philip Kindred Dick
• Adjustment Team, 1954 by Philip Kindred Dick

Psychological thrillers

• Heart of Darkness, 1903 by Joseph Conrad

Science fiction thrillers

See also: Portal:Science fiction

• "Mask of Death" by Paul Ernst. in Weird Tales, 28 (2) (August-September 1936) (Doctor Satan series)
• The Crystal Crypt, 1954 by Philip Kindred Dick