All Collins unless stated
1939-1950
Confusions About X (1939 Fortune Press)
- 1st book. Frontis by Wyndham Lewis
(Ed)
An Anthology of War Poetry (1942 Penguin)
The Second Man : Poems (1943 Routledge)
The Immaterial Murder Case (1945 Gollancz)
(1957 Macmillan US)
A Man called Jones (1947 Gollancz)
Bland Beginning (1949 Gollancz)
(1949 Harper)
The Thirty-first of February (1950 Gollancz)
(1950 Harper)
A J A Symons (1950 Eyre & Spottiswoode)
1951-1960
Charles Dickens (1951 Arthur Barker)
Thomas Carlyle (1952 Gollancz)
The Broken Penny (1953 Gollancz)
(1953 Harper)
The Narrowing Circle (1954 Gollancz)
(1954 Harper)
[Filmed in 1955]
Horatio Bottomley (1955 Cresset Press)
The Paper Chase (1956)
(in US as "Bogue's Fortune" 1957 Harper)
The Colour of Murder (1957)
(1957 Harper)
The General Strike (1957 Cresset Press)
The Gigantic Shadow (1958)
(in US as "Pipe Dream" 1958 Harper)
The Progress of a Crime (1960)
(1960 Harper)
The Thirties (1960 Cresset 25/-)
A Reasonable Doubt : Some Criminal Cases Re-examined (1960 Cresset)
1961-1970
Murder! Murder! (1961 Fontana)
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The Detective Story in Britain (1962 Longmans)
The Killing of Francie Lake (1962)
(in US as "The Plain Man" 1962 Harper)
Buller's Campaign (1963 Cresset)
The End of Solomon Grundy (1964)
(1964 Harper)
The Belting Inheritance (1965)
(1965 Harper)
England's Pride : The Story of the Gordon Relief Expedition (1965 Hamish Hamilton)
Francis Quarles Investigates (1965 Panther)
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The Julian Symons Omnibus (1966 Collins)
Crime and Detection : An Illustrated History from 1840 (1966 Studio Vista)
Critical Occasions (1966 Hamish Hamilton)
The Man who Killed Himself (1967)
(1967 Harper)
The Man whose Dreams Came True (1968)
(1969 Harper)
The Man who Lost His Wife (1970)
(1971 Harper)
1971-1980
The Players and the Game (1972)
(1972 Harper)
Between the Wars : Britain in Photographs (1972 Batsford)
Notes from Another Country (1972 London Magazine Editions)
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Bloody Murder : from the Detective Story to the Crime Novel - A History
(1972 Faber)
(1985 Viking US)
The Plot Against Roger Rider (1973)
(1973 Harper)
A Reflection on Auden (1973 Poem of Month Club)
The Object of an Affair & Other Poems (1974 Tragara Press,
Edinburgh)
- Ltd Ed 90
The Three-Pipe Problem (1975)
(1975 Harper)
(Ed)
The Angry Thirties (1976 Eyre Methuen)
How to Trap a Crook & 12 Other Mysteries (1977 Davis, US)
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The Blackheath Poisonings (1978)
(1979 Harper)
The Tell-Tale Heart : The Life and Works of Edgar Allan Poe (1978 Faber)
Conan Doyle (1979 Whizzard)
(Ed)
Verdict of 13 (1979 Faber)
Sweet Adelaide (1980)
(1980 Harper)
The Modern Crime Story (1980 Tragara Press,
Edinburgh)
- Ltd Ed 90
1981-1990
Critical Observations (1981 Faber)
The Great Detectives (1981 Orbis)
- ss
(Ed)
The Complete Sherlock Holmes (1981 Secker & Warburg)
Tom Adams' Agatha Christie Cover Story (1981 Dragon's World, Limpsfield)
The Tigers of Subtopia (1982 Macmillan)
(1983 Viking)
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The Detling Murders (1982 Macmillan)
(in US as "The Detling Secret" 1983 Viking)
The Name of Annabel Lee (1983 Macmillan)
(1983 Viking)
(Ed)
Crime and Detection Quiz (1983 Weidenfeld & Nicolson)
(Ed)
New Poetry 9 (1983 Hutchinson)
1948 and 1984 : The 2nd Orwell memorial Lecture (1984 Tragara Press)
- Ltd Ed
Two Brothers : Fragments of a Correspondence (1985 Tragara Press)
- Ltd Ed
The Criminal Comedy of the Contented Couple (1985 Macmillan)
(in Us as "A Criminal Comedy" 1986 Viking)
Makers of the New : The Revolution in Literature 1912-1939 (1987 Deutsch)
The Kentish Manor Murders (1988 Macmillan)
(1988 Viking)
(Ed)
The Essential Wyndham Lewis (1989 Deutsch £17.95)
Death's Darkest Face (1990 Macmillan £12.95)
(1990 Viking)
The Thirties and the Nineties (1990 Carcanet)
Somebody Else & Other Stories (1990 Eurographica, Helsinki)
1991 Onwards
Portraits of the Missing (1991 Deutsch)
Something Like a Love Affair (1992 Macmillan)
(1992 Mysterious Press)
Playing Happy Families (1994 Macmillan £14.99)
Criminal Practices : Symons on Crime Writing 60s to 90s (1994 Macmillan £7.99)
The Man Who Hated Television (1995 Macmillan)
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