Portal:Thriller

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

 * (Doctor Satan series)
 * The Crystal Crypt, 1954 by Philip Kindred Dick