Another 100 Top Crime Novels List
In 1995, the Mystery Writers of America comprised a list of:
The Top 100 Crime Novels of All Time
- Arthur Conan Doyle: The Complete Sherlock Holmes (1887-1927)
- Dashiell Hammett: The Maltese Falcon (1930)
- Edgar Allan Poe: Tales of Mystery & Imagination (1852)
- Josephine Tey: The Daughter of Time (1951)
- Scott Turow: Presumed Innocent (1987)
- John le Carré: The Spy Who Came In From the Cold (1963)
- Wilkie Collins: The Moonstone (1868)
- Raymond Chandler: The Big Sleep (1939)
- Daphne du Maurier: Rebecca (1938)
- Agatha Christie: And Then There Were None (1939)
- Robert Traver: Anatomy of a Murder (1958)
- Agatha Christie: The Murder of Roger Ackroyd (1926)
- Raymond Chandler: The Long Goodbye (1953)
- James M. Cain: The Postman Always Rings Twice (1934)
- Mario Puzo: The Godfather (1969)
- Thomas Harris: The Silence of the Lambs (1988)
- Eric Ambler: A Coffin for Dimitrios (1939)
- Dorothy L. Sayers: Gaudy Night (1935)
- Agatha Christie: Witness for the Prosecution (1948)
- Frederick Forsyth: The Day of the Jackal (1971)
- Raymond Chandler: Farewell, My Lovely (1940)
- John Buchan: The Thirty-Nine Steps (1915)
- Umberto Eco: The Name of the Rose (1980)
- Fyodor Dostoyevsky: Crime and Punishment (1866)
- Ken Follett: Eye of the Needle (1978)
- John Mortimer: Rumpole of the Bailey (1978)
- Thomas Harris: Red Dragon (1981)
- Dorothy L. Sayers: The Nine Tailors (1934)
- Gregory Mcdonald: Fletch (1974)
- John le Carré: Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy (1974)
- Dashiell Hammett: The Thin Man (1934)
- Wilkie Collins: The Woman in White (1860)
- E. C. Bentley: Trent’s Last Case (1913)
- James M. Cain: Double Indemnity (1943)
- Martin Cruz Smith: Gorky Park (1981)
- Dorothy L. Sayers: Strong Poison (1930)
- Tony Hillerman: Dance Hall of the Dead (1973)
- Donald E. Westlake: The Hot Rock (1970)
- Dashiell Hammett: Red Harvest (1929)
- Mary Roberts Rinehart: The Circular Staircase (1908)
- Agatha Christie: Murder on the Orient Express (1934)
- John Grisham: The Firm (1991)
- Len Deighton: The Ipcress File (1962)
- Vera Caspary: Laura (1942)
- Mickey Spillane: I, the Jury (1947)
- Maj Sjöwall & Per Wahlöö: The Laughing Policeman (1968)
- Donald E. Westlake: Bank Shot (1972)
- Graham Greene: The Third Man (1950)
- Jim Thompson: The Killer Inside Me (1952)
- Mary Higgins Clark: Where Are the Children? (1975)
- Sue Grafton: “A” is for Alibi (1982)
- Lawrence Sanders: The First Deadly Sin (1973)
- Tony Hillerman: A Thief of Time (1989)
- Truman Capote: In Cold Blood (1966)
- Geoffrey Household: Rogue Male (1939)
- Dorothy L. Sayers: Murder Must Advertise (1933)
- G. K. Chesterton: The Innocence of Father Brown (1911)
- John le Carré: Smiley’s People (1979)
- Raymond Chandler: The Lady in the Lake (1943)
- Harper Lee: To Kill a Mockingbird (1960)
- Graham Greene: Our Man in Havana (1958)
- Charles Dickens: The Mystery of Edwin Drood (1870)
- Peter Lovesey: Wobble to Death (1970)
- W. Somerset Maugham: Ashenden (1928)
- Nicholas Meyer: The Seven-Per-Cent Solution: Being a Reprint from the Reminiscences of John H. Watson (1974)
- Rex Stout: The Doorbell Rang (1965)
- Elmore Leonard: Stick (1983)
- John le Carré: The Little Drummer Girl (1983)
- Graham Greene: Brighton Rock (1938)
- Bram Stoker: Dracula (1897)
- Patricia Highsmith: The Talented Mr. Ripley (1955)
- Edmund Crispin: The Moving Toyshop (1946)
- John Grisham: A Time to Kill (1989)
- Hillary Waugh: Last Seen Wearing … (1952)
- W. R. Burnett: Little Caesar (1929)
- George V. Higgins: The Friends of Eddie Coyle (1972)
- Dorothy L. Sayers: Clouds of Witness (1927)
- Ian Fleming: From Russia, with Love (1957)
- Margaret Millar: Beast in View (1955)
- Michael Gilbert: Smallbone Deceased (1950)
- Josephine Tey: The Franchise Affair (1948)
- Elizabeth Peters: Crocodile on the Sandbank (1975)
- P. D. James: Shroud for a Nightingale (1971)
- Tom Clancy: The Hunt for Red October (1984)
- Ross Thomas: Chinaman’s Chance (1978)
- Joseph Conrad: The Secret Agent (1907)
- John D. MacDonald: The Dreadful Lemon Sky (1975)
- Dashiell Hammett: The Glass Key (1931)
- Ruth Rendell: A Judgement in Stone (1977)
- Josephine Tey: Brat Farrar (1950)
- Ross Macdonald: The Chill (1963)
- Walter Mosley: Devil in a Blue Dress (1990)
- Joseph Wambaugh: The Choirboys (1975)
- Donald E. Westlake: God Save the Mark (1967)
- Craig Rice: Home Sweet Homicide (1944)
- John Dickson Carr: The Three Coffins (1935)
- Richard Condon: Prizzi’s Honor (1982)
- James McClure: The Steam Pig (1974)
- Jack Finney: Time and Again (1970)
- Ellis Peters: A Morbid Taste for Bones (1977) Tied with Ira Levin: Rosemary’s Baby (1967)
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