Dal suo romanzo The Man Who Killed Himself del 1967 è stato tratto il film Arthur! Arthur! del 1969.

Opere Romanzi The Immaterial Murder Case (1945) A Man Called Jones (1947) Bland Beginning (1949) I falsi di Amberside, I Classici del Giallo Mondadori n. 497, 1986 The Thirty-First of February (1950) Il 31 febbraio, I Classici del Giallo Mondadori, 2014 The Broken Penny (1953) The Narrowing Circle (1954) The Paper Chase (1956) (alias Bogue's Fortune) The Colour of Murder (1957) (vincitore nel 1957 del Gold Dagger Award) Un quadrato di seta nera The Gigantic Shadow (1958) (alias The Pipe Dream) The Progress of a Crime (1960) (vincitore nel 1961 dell'Edgar Award) The Killing of Francie Lake (1962) (alias The Plain Man) The End of Solomon Grundy (1964) The Belting Inheritance (1965) The Man Who Killed Himself (1967) The Man Whose Dreams Came True (1968) The Man Who Lost His Wife (1970) The Players and the Game (1972) The Plot Against Roger Rider (1973) A Three-Pipe Problem (1975) The Blackheath Poisonings (1978) False verità, I Classici del Giallo Mondadori n. 704, 1994 Sweet Adelaide (1980) The Detling Murders (1982) (alias The Detling Secret) The Name of Annabel Lee (1983) The Criminal Comedy of the Contented Couple (1985) The Kentish Manor Murders (1988) Death's Darkest Face (1990) Something Like a Love Affair (1992) Playing Happy Families (1994) La famiglia felice, Il Giallo Mondadori n. 2508, 1997 A Sort of Virtue: A Political Crime Novel (1996)

Racconti Murder! Murder! (1961) Francis Quarles Investigates (1965) How to Trap a Crook (1977) Great Detectives - Seven Original Investigations (1981) The Tigers of Subtopia (1982) Did Sherlock Holmes Meet Hercule... (1988) The Man Who Hated Television (1995) A Julian Symons Sherlockian Duet (2000) The Detections of Francis Quarles (2006)

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