| Mysteries Around the World | Top 100 Mysteries | Mystery Awards | Award Winning Mysteries | Mysterious Connecticut |
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1 |
The Complete Sherlock Holmes | Arthur Conan Doyle |
|
2 |
The Maltese falcon | Dashiell Hammett |
|
3 |
Tales of mystery and imagination | Edgar Allan Poe |
|
4 |
The daughter of time | Josephine Tey |
|
5 |
Presumed innocent | Scott Turow |
|
6 |
The spy who came in from the cold | John le Carre |
|
7 |
The moonstone | Wilkie Collins |
|
8 |
The big sleep | Raymond Chandler |
|
9 |
Rebecca | Daphne du Maurier |
|
10 |
And then there were none | Agatha Christie |
|
11 |
Anatomy of a murder | Robert Traver |
|
12 |
The murder of Roger Ackroyd | Agatha Christie |
|
13 |
The long goodbye | Raymond Chandler |
|
14 |
The postman always rings twice | James M. Cain |
|
15 |
The godfather | Mario Puzo |
|
16 |
The silence of the lambs | Thomas Harris |
|
17 |
A coffin for Dimitrios | Eric Ambler |
|
18 |
Gaudy night | Dorothy L. Sayers |
|
19 |
Witness for the prosecution | Agatha Christie |
|
20 |
The day of the jackal | Frederick Forsyth |
|
21 |
Farewell, my lovely | Raymond Chandler |
|
22 |
The thirty-nine steps | John Buchan |
|
23 |
The name of the rose | Umberto Eco |
|
24 |
Crime and punishment | Fyodor Dostoevski |
|
25 |
Eye of the needle | Ken Follett |
|
26 |
Rumpole of the Bailey | John Mortimer |
|
27 |
Red dragon | Thomas Harris |
|
28 |
The nine tailors | Dorothy L. Sayers |
|
29 |
Fletch | Gregory Mcdonald |
|
30 |
Tinker, tailor, soldier, spy | John le Carre |
|
31 |
The thin man | Dashiell Hammett |
|
32 |
The woman in white | Wilkie Collins |
|
33 |
Trent's last case | E. C. Bentley |
|
34 |
Double indemnity | James M. Cain |
|
35 |
Gorky Park | Martin Cruz Smith |
|
36 |
Strong poison | Dorothy L. Sayers |
|
37 |
Dance hall of the dead | Tony Hillerman |
|
38 |
The hot rock | Donald E. Westlake |
|
39 |
Red harvest | Dashiell Hammett |
|
40 |
The circular staircase | Mary Roberts Rinehart |
|
41 |
Murder on the Orient Express | Agatha Christie |
|
42 |
The firm | John Grisham |
|
43 |
The Ipcress file | Len Deighton |
|
44 |
Laura | Vera Caspary |
|
45 |
I, the jury | Mickey Spillane |
|
46 |
The laughing policeman | Maj Sjowall and Per Wahloo |
|
47 |
Bank shot | Donald E. Westlake |
|
48 |
The third man | Graham Greene |
|
49 |
The killer inside me | Jim Thompson |
|
50 |
Where are the children? | Mary Higgins Clark |
|
51 |
"A" is for alibi | Sue Grafton |
|
52 |
The first deadly sin | Lawrence Sanders |
|
53 |
A thief of time | Tony Hillerman |
|
54 |
In cold blood | Truman Capote |
|
55 |
Rogue male | Geoffrey Household |
|
56 |
Murder must advertise | Dorothy L. Sayers |
|
57 |
The innocence of Father Brown | G. K. Chesterton |
|
58 |
Smiley's people | John le Carre |
|
59 |
The lady in the lake | Raymond Chandler |
|
60 |
To kill a mockingbird | Harper Lee |
|
61 |
Our man in Havana | Graham Greene |
|
62 |
The mystery of Edwin Drood | Charles Dickens |
|
63 |
Wobble to death | Peter Lovesey |
|
64 |
Ashenden | W. Somerset Maugham |
|
65 |
The seven per-cent solution | Nicholas Meyer |
|
66 |
The doorbell rang | Rex Stout |
|
67 |
Stick | Elmore Leonard |
|
68 |
The little drummer girl | John le Carre |
|
69 |
Brighton rock | Graham Greene |
|
70 |
Dracula | Bram Stoker |
|
71 |
The talented Mr. Ripley | Patricia Highsmith |
|
72 |
The moving toyshop | Edmund Crispin |
|
73 |
A time to kill | John Grisham |
|
74 |
Last seen wearing | Hillary Waugh |
|
75 |
Little Caesar | W. R. Burnett |
|
76 |
The friends of Eddie Coyle | George W. Higgins |
|
77 |
Clouds of witness | Dorothy L. Sayers |
|
78 |
From Russia with love | Ian Fleming |
|
79 |
Beast in view | Margaret Millar |
|
80 |
Smallbone deceased | Michael Gilbert |
|
81 |
The franchise affair | Josephine Tey |
|
82 |
Crocodile on the sandbank | Elizabeth Peters |
|
83 |
Shroud for a nightingale | P. D. James |
|
84 |
The hunt for Red October | Tom Clancy |
|
85 |
Chinaman's chance | Ross Thomas |
|
86 |
The secret agent | Joseph Conrad |
|
87 |
The dreadful lemon sky | John D. MacDonald |
|
88 |
The glass key | Dashiell Hammett |
|
89 |
Judgment in stone | Ruth Rendell |
|
90 |
Brat Farrar | Josephine Tey |
|
91 |
The chill | Ross Macdonald |
|
92 |
Devil in a blue dress | Walter Mosley |
|
93 |
The choirboys | Joseph Wambaugh |
|
94 |
God save the mark | Donald E. Westlake |
|
95 |
Home sweet homicide | Craig Rice |
|
96 |
The three coffins | John Dickson Carr |
|
97 |
Prizzi's honor | Richard Condon |
|
98 |
The steam pig | James McClure |
|
99 |
Time and again | Jack Finney |
|
100 |
A morbid taste for bones | Ellis Peters |
| Rosemary's baby (TIE) | Ira Levin | |
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Source: The Crown
Crime Companion. 1995 New York : Crown Trade Paperbacks |
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