Unrenewed Mysteries

I took the Crown Crime Companion, and extracted those volumes on their top mystery lists published between 1923 and 1963, and did a quick check for renewals.

The Maltese Falcon, Dashiell Hammett R205663

The Daughter of Time, Josephine Tey RE022912

The Big Sleep, Raymond Chandler R399023

Anatomy of a Murder, Robert Traver RE314467

The Long Goodbye, Raymond Chandler RE097327

The Postman Always Rings Twice, James M. Cain R271503

A Coffin for Dimitrios R396560

Farewell, My Lovely, Raymond Chandler R419089

The Thin Man, Dashiell Hammett R269113

Double Indemnity, James M. Cain (1943)

American author, according to Wikipedia

No obvious renewal found

originally published in Liberty Magazine in 1936, renewed there

Red Harvest, Dashiell Hammett R177772

Laura, Vera Caspary (1942)

No obvious renewal found

Wikipedia: American author,

originally published in Colliers in 1942, renewed there

I, The Jury, Mickey Spillane R608341

The Killer Inside Me, Jim Thompson RE082313

The Lady in the Lake, Raymond Chandler R494628

To Kill a Mockingbird, Harper Lee RE387164

The Talented Mister Ripley, Patricia Highsmith RE183202

Last Seen Wearing, Hillary Waugh RE062817

There's a limitation; the renewal only applies to "changes, additions, and revisions for full-length book version."

published in Hearst's international cosmopolitan, Mar. 1952, renewed there

Little Caesar, W. R. Burnett R174925

Beast in View, Margaret Millar RE162770

Wikipedia lists as American/Canadian author--citizenship unclear

The Glass Key, Dashiell Hammett R223618

Home Sweet Homicide, Craig Rice R501312

The Three Coffins, John Dickson Carr R303648

British authors

John le Carré

Agatha Christie

Daphne du Maurier

Dorthy L. Sayers

Graham Greene

Geoffrey Edward West Household

W. Somerset Maugham

Edmund Crispin

Ian Fleming

Michael Gilbert

Scottish authors

Josephine Tey