Rudyard Kipling, Kim (1901)
Herbert Asbury, The Devil of Pei Ling (1927)
Edgar Wallace, Terror Keep (1927)
E. E. "Doc" Smith, Galactic Patrol (serialised in 1937, published in book form 1950)
H. P. Lovecraft, At the Mountains of Madness (1936)
C. S. Lewis, Out of the Silent Planet (1938)
Berkeley Gray, Mr Mortimer Gets the Jitters (1938)
Ian Fleming, Diamonds Are Forever (1956)
Alistair MacLean, Night Without End (1959)
I have to disagree with you strongly with one of these titles being called non-crime. The Devil of Pei Ling is very much a crime novel. It's nothing but mass murder on a gruesome scale! How is that not a crime novel? I guess you shelving it as horror. But I'd not only call it a crime novel I'd call it a detective novel first and foremost with heavy supernatural content.
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