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Standalone Books in Order
Below you'll find the complete list of Standalone books in publication order. This is generally the recommended reading order for the series.
Reading order verified: April 2026
Quick Answer
What order should I read the Standalone series? Start with "Cover Charge" (1926) and follow publication order through all 70 books.
The complete Standalone reading order is listed below in publication sequence.
Publication Order
Cover Charge
1926
Children of the Ritz
1927
Times Square
1929
A Young Man's Heart
1930
The Time of Her Life
1931
Manhattan Love Song
1932
The Bride Wore Black / Beware the Lady (As: William Irish)
1940
The Black Curtain
1941
Black Alibi
1942
Phantom Lady (As: William Irish)
1942
The Black Angel
1943
And So to Death (As: William Irish)
1943
Deadline at Dawn (As: William Irish)
1944
Night Has a Thousand Eyes
1945
The Black Path of Fear
1946
Borrowed Crime (As: William Irish)
1946
The Dancing Detective (As: William Irish)
1946
Waltz Into Darkness
1947
Rendezvous in Black
1948
I Married a Dead Man (As: William Irish)
1948
The Blue Ribbon (As: William Irish)
1949
Fright
1950
Savage Bride
1950
You'll Never See Me Again
1951
Strangler's Serenade (As: William Irish)
1951
Marijuana
1951
Bluebeard's Seventh Wife (As: William Irish)
1952
Hotel Room
1958
Into the Night (With: Lawrence Block)
1959
The Doom Stone
1960
Irish Trophy (As: William Irish)
1978
Dilemma of the Dead Lady
1950
Rear Window
1991
Mystery in Room 913
2013
Too Nice a Day to Die
2014
Guns, Gentlemen
2015
Hot Water
2015
The Dark Oblivion
2021
Rear Window and Other Stories
1942
Violence
1958
Beyond the Night
1959
Nightmare
1964
The Ten Faces of Cornell Woolrich
1965
The Dark Side of Love
1965
Nightwebs
1971
Angels of Darkness
1978
The Fantastic Stories of Cornell Woolrich
1981
Darkness at Dawn
1985
Vampire's Honeymoon
1985
Blind Date with Death
1985
Night and Fear (With: Francis M. Nevins Jr.)
1990
Tonight, Somewhere in New York (With: Francis M. Nevins Jr.)
2005
Love and Night
2007
Literary Noir
2018
An Obsession with Death and Dying
2018
If I Should Die Before I Wake
1946
Dead Man Blues
1947
Six Nights of Mystery
1950
Deadly Night Call
1951
Eyes That Watch You
1952
Daring Detectives
1969
Tantalizing Locked Room Mysteries
1982
Tales of Mystery
1986
Mammoth Book of Short Crime Novels
1986
Kill or Cure
1989
Tales of the Occult
1989
Pulp Frictions: Hardboiled Stories
1996
Murder to Music
1997
The Vintage Book of Amnesia
2000
Murder On The Railways
2003
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