100 Best Crime & Mystery Books
In 1987, noted mystery author and reviewer H.R.F. Keating composed this list of his picks of the best mysteries.
1845 - Edgar Allan Poe - Tales of Mystery and Imagination
1868 - Wilkie Collins - The Moonstone
1870 - Charles Dickens - The Mystery of Edwin Drood
1892 - Arthur Conan Doyle - The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes
1899 - EW Hornung - The Amateur Cracksman
1902 - Arthur Conan Doyle - The Hound of the Baskervilles
1907 - Jacques Futrelle - The Thinking Machine
1908 - Mary Roberts Rinehart - The Circular Staircase
1911 - GK Chesterton - The Innocence of Father Brown
1918 - Melville Davisson Post - Uncle Abner
1925 - Edgar Wallace - The Mind of JG Reeder
1926 - Agatha Christie - The Murder of Roger Ackroyd
1929 - Dashiell Hammett - Red Harvest
1929 - CHB Kitchin - Death of My Aunt
1930 - Dorothy L. Sayers - The Documents in the Case
1930 - Dashiell Hammett - The Maltese Falcon
1931 - Arthur W. Upfield - The Sands of Windee
1932 - Francis Iles - Before the Fact
1933 - Erle Stanley Gardner - The Case of the Sulky Girl
1934 - Agatha Christie - Murder on the Orient Express
1934 - James M Cain - The Postman Always Rings Twice
1934 - Dorothy L Sayers - The Nine Tailors
1935 - John Dickson Carr - The Hollow Man
1935 - Rex Stout - The League of Frightened Men
1936 - Ethel Lina White - The Wheel Spins
1938 - Nicholas Blake - The Beast Must Die
1940 - Cornell Woolrich - The Bride Wore Black
1940 - Ngaio Marsh - Surfeit of Lampreys or Death of a Peer
1942 - Ellery Queen - Calamity Town
1942 - Cyril Hare - Tragedy at Law
1942 - Raymond Chandler - The High Window
1944 - Christianna Brand - Green for Danger
1945 - Michael Innes - Appleby’s End
1946 - Elizabeth Ferrars - Murder Among Friends
1946 - Helen Eustis - The Horizontal Man
1946 - Edmund Crispin - The Moving Toyshop
1947 - Frederic Brown - The Fabulous Clipjoint
1948 - Josephine Tey - The Franchise Affair
1948 - John Franklin Bardin - Devil Take the Blue-Tail Fly
1948 - Margery Allingham - More Work for the Undertaker
1949 - Georges Simenon - My Friend Maigret
1949 - W.R. Burnett - The Asphalt Jungle
1950 - Michael Gilbert - Smallbone Deceased
1950 - Georges Simenon - The Stain on the Snow, The Snow Was Black.
1951 - Josephine Tey - The Daughter of Time
1952 - Hillary Waugh - Last Seen Wearing
1952 - Margery Allingham - The Tiger in the Smoke
1953 - John Bingham - Five Roundabouts to Heaven
1953 - Raymond Chandler - The Long Goodbye
1953 - Guy Cullingford - Post Mortem
1954 - Shelley Smith - The Party at No. 5
1955 - Patricia Highsmith - The Talented Mr Ripley
1955 - Margaret Millar - The Beast in View
1956 - JJ Marric (John Creasey) - Gideon’s Week
1956 - Stanley Ellin - Mystery Stories
1960 - Georges Simenon - Maigret in Court
1960 - Michael Innes - The New Sonia Wayward
1963 - Nicholas Freeling - Gun Before Butter
1963 - Dorothy Hughes - The Expendable Man
1964 - Jim Thompson - Pop. 1280
1966 - EB Eberhart - R.S.V.P. Murder
1967 - Julian Symons - The Man Who Killed Himself
1967 - Emma Lathen - Murder Against the Grain
1967 - Sjowall & Wahloo - Roseanna
1967 - George Sims - The Last Best Friend
1968 - Peter Dickinson - The Glass-Sided Ants Nest
1968 - Helen McCloy - Mr. Splitfoot
1969 - Patricia Highsmith - The Tremor of Forgery
1969 - Chester Himes - Blind Man With a Pistol
1970 - Joan Fleming - Young Man, I Think You're Dying
1970 - Margaret Millar - Beyond This Point are Monsters
1972 - Ed McBain - Sadie When She Died
1972 - George V Higgins - The Friends of Eddie Coyle
1972 - Julian Symons - The Players and the Game
1972 - Stanley Ellin - Mirror, Mirror on the Wall
1973 - Tony Hillerman - Dance Hall of the Dead
1974 - Peter Dickinson - The Poison Oracle
1974 - Gregory McDonald - Fletch
1975 - PD James - The Black Tower
1975 - Celia Fremlin - The Long Shadow
1975 - Colin Watson - The Naked Nuns
1976 - Ross Macdonald - The Blue Hammer
1976 - Agatha Christie - Sleeping Murder
1976 - Dorothy Salisbury Davis - A Death in the Life
1976 - Dorothy Uhnak - The Investigation
1977 - Ruth Rendell - A Judgement in Stone
1977 - William McIlvanney - Laidlaw
1977 - Donald Westlake - Nobody's Perfect
1978 - Reginald Hill - A Pinch of Snuff
1979 - Joseph Hansen - Skinflick
1979 - PM Hubbard - Kill Claudio
1979 - John D MacDonald - The Green Ripper
1981 - John Wainwright - All On a Summers Day
1981 - Amanda Cross - Death in a Tenured Position
1981 - Joseph Wambaugh - The Glitter Dome
1982 - June Thomson - To Make a Killing
1982 - Peter Lovesey - The False Inspector Dew
1984 - James McClure - The Artful Egg
1986 - PD James - A Taste for Death
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