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'''''The Top 100 Crime Novels of All Time''''' is a list published in book form in 1990 by the British-based [[Crime Writers' Association]].<ref>{{cite book |title=The [[Hatchards]] Crime Companion. 100 Top Crime Novels Selected by the Crime Writers' Association |editor-first=Susan |editor-last=Moody |editor-link=Susan Moody |location=London |publisher=Hatchards |year=1990 |isbn=0-904030-02-4}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=Top 100 Crime Novels of All Time - UK Crime Writers' Association |url=https://www.librarything.com/bookaward/Top+100+Crime+Novels+of+All+Time+-+UK+Crime+Writers%27+Association |website=Library Thing |access-date=6 November 2023}}</ref> Five years later, the [[Mystery Writers of America]] published a similar list titled '''''The Top 100 Mystery Novels of All Time'''''.<ref name=Penzler1995>{{cite book |title=The [[Random House#Crown Publishing Group|Crown]] Crime Companion. The Top 100 Mystery Novels of All Time Selected by the Mystery Writers of America |first1=Otto |last1=Penzler |first2=Mickey |author1-link=Otto Penzler |last2=Friedman |quote=annotated by Otto Penzler and compiled by Mickey Friedman |location=New York |year=1995 |isbn=0-517-88115-2}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.librarything.com/bookaward/The+Top+100+Mystery+Novels+of+All+Time+Mystery+Writers+of+America |title=Book awards: The Top 100 Mystery Novels of All Time - Mystery Writers of America |publisher=Library Thing |access-date=12 April 2017}}</ref> Many titles can be found in both lists.<ref name=Penzler1995 /> |
'''''The Top 100 Crime Novels of All Time''''' is a list published in book form in 1990 by the British-based [[Crime Writers' Association]].<ref>{{cite book |title=The [[Hatchards]] Crime Companion. 100 Top Crime Novels Selected by the Crime Writers' Association |editor-first=Susan |editor-last=Moody |editor-link=Susan Moody |location=London |publisher=Hatchards |year=1990 |isbn=0-904030-02-4}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=Top 100 Crime Novels of All Time - UK Crime Writers' Association |url=https://www.librarything.com/bookaward/Top+100+Crime+Novels+of+All+Time+-+UK+Crime+Writers%27+Association |website=Library Thing |access-date=6 November 2023}}</ref> Five years later, the [[Mystery Writers of America]] published a similar list titled '''''The Top 100 Mystery Novels of All Time'''''.<ref name=Penzler1995>{{cite book |title=The [[Random House#Crown Publishing Group|Crown]] Crime Companion. The Top 100 Mystery Novels of All Time Selected by the Mystery Writers of America |first1=Otto |last1=Penzler |first2=Mickey |author1-link=Otto Penzler |last2=Friedman |quote=annotated by Otto Penzler and compiled by Mickey Friedman |location=New York |year=1995 |isbn=0-517-88115-2}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.librarything.com/bookaward/The+Top+100+Mystery+Novels+of+All+Time+Mystery+Writers+of+America |title=Book awards: The Top 100 Mystery Novels of All Time - Mystery Writers of America |publisher=Library Thing |access-date=12 April 2017}}</ref> Many titles can be found in both lists.<ref name=Penzler1995 /> |
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The Big Sleep (1939) by Raymond Chandler |
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The Top 100 Crime Novels of All Time is a list published in book form in 1990 by the British-based Crime Writers' Association.[1][2] Five years later, the Mystery Writers of America published a similar list titled The Top 100 Mystery Novels of All Time.[3][4] Many titles can be found in both lists.[3]
he Daughter of Time (1951) by Josephine Tey 1 The Big Sleep (1939) by Raymond Chandler 2 The Spy Who Came in From the Cold (1963) by John le Carré 3 Gaudy Night (1935) by Dorothy L. Sayers 4 The Murder of Roger Ackroyd (1926) by Agatha Christie 5 Rebecca (1938) by Daphne Du Maurier 6 Farewell, My Lovely (1940) by Raymond Chandler 7 The Moonstone (1868) by Wilkie Collins 8 The Ipcress File (1962) by Len Deighton 9 The Maltese Falcon (1930) by Dashiell Hammett 10 The Franchise Affair (1948) by Josephine Tey 11 Last Seen Wearing... (1952) by Hillary Waugh 12 The Name of the Rose (1980) by Umberto Eco 13 Rogue Male (1939) by Geoffrey Household 14 The Long Goodbye (1953) by Raymond Chandler 15 Malice Aforethought (1931) by Francis Iles 16 The Day of the Jackal (1971) by Frederick Forsyth 17 The Nine Tailors (1934) by Dorothy L. Sayers 18 And Then There Were None (1939) by Agatha Christie 19 The Thirty-Nine Steps (1915) by John Buchan 20 The New Annotated Sherlock Holmes: The Complete Short Stories (2004) by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle 21 Murder Must Advertise (1933) by Dorothy L. Sayers 22 Tales of Mystery and Imagination (1832) by Edgar Allan Poe 23 The Mask of Dimitrios (1939) by Eric Ambler 24 The Moving Toyshop (1946) by Edmund Crispin 25 The Tiger in the Smoke (1952) by Margery Allingham 26 The False Inspector Dew (1982) by Peter Lovesey 27 The Woman in White (1859) by Wilkie Collins 28 A Dark-Adapted Eye (1986) by Barbara Vine 29 The Postman Always Rings Twice (1934) by James M. Cain 30 The Glass Key (1931) by Dashiell Hammett 31 The Hound of the Baskervilles (1902) by Arthur Conan Doyle 32 Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy (1974) by John le Carré 33 Trent's Last Case (1913) by E. C. Bentley 34 From Russia with Love (1957) by Ian Fleming 35 Cop Hater (1956) by Ed McBain 36 The Dead of Jericho (1981) by Colin Dexter 37 Strangers on a Train (1950) by Patricia Highsmith 38 A Judgement in Stone (1977) by Ruth Rendell 39 The Three Coffins (1935) by John Dickson Carr 40 The Poisoned Chocolates Case (1929) by Anthony Berkeley 41 A Morbid Taste for Bones (1977) by Ellis Peters 42 The Leper of Saint Giles (1981) by Ellis Peters 43 A Kiss before Dying (1953) by Ira Levin 44 The Talented Mr. Ripley (1955) by Patricia Highsmith 45 Brighton Rock (1938) by Graham Greene 46 The Lady in the Lake (1943) by Raymond Chandler 47 Presumed Innocent (1987) by Scott Turow 48 A Demon in My View (1976) by Ruth Rendell 49 The Devil in Velvet (1951) by John Dickson Carr 50 A Fatal Inversion (1987) by Barbara Vine 51 The Journeying Boy (1949) by Michael Innes 52 A Taste for Death (1986) by P. D. James 53 The Eagle Has Landed (1975) by Jack Higgins 54 My Brother Michael (1959) by Mary Stewart 55 Bertie and the Tinman (1987) by Peter Lovesey 56 Penny Black (1984) by Susan Moody 57 Game, Set & Match trilogy (1986) by Len Deighton 58 The Danger (1983) by Dick Francis 59 Devices and Desires (1989) by P. D. James 60 Under World (1988) by Reginald Hill 61 Nine Coaches Waiting (1958) by Mary Stewart 62 A Running Duck (1978) by Paula Gosling 63 Smallbone Deceased (1950) by Michael Gilbert 64 The Rose of Tibet (1962) by Lionel Davidson 65 Innocent Blood (1980) by P. D. James 66 Strong Poison (1930) by Dorothy L. Sayers 67 Hamlet, Revenge! (1937) by Michael Innes 68 A Thief of Time (1988) by Tony Hillerman 69 A Bullet in the Ballet (1937) by Caryl Brahms 70 Deadheads (1983) by Reginald Hill 71 The Third Man (1949) by Graham Greene 72 The Labyrinth Makers (1970) by Anthony Price 73 The Quiller Memorandum (1966) by Adam Hall 74 Beast in View (1955) by Margaret Millar 75 The Shortest Way to Hades (1984) by Sarah Caudwell 76 Running Blind (1970) by Desmond Bagley 77 Twice Shy (1982) by Dick Francis 78 The Manchurian Candidate (1959) by Richard Condon 79 The Killings at Badger's Drift (1987) by Caroline Graham 80 The Case of the Abominable Snowman (1941) by Nicholas Blake 81 Gorky Park (1981) by Marin Cruz Smith 82 Death Comes as the End (1944) by Agatha Christie 83 Green for Danger (1944) by Christianna Brand 84 Tragedy at Law (1942) by Cyril Hare 85 The Collector (1963) by John Fowles 86 Gideon's Day (1955) by J. J. Marric 87 The Sun Chemist (1976) by Lionel Davidson 88 The Guns of Navarone (1957) by Alistair MacLean 89 The Colour of Murder (1957) by Julian Symons 90 Greenmantle (1916) by John Buchan 91 The Riddle of the Sands (1903) by Erskine Childers 92 Wobble to Death (1970) by Peter Lovesey 93 Red Harvest (1929) by Dashiell Hammett 94 The Key to Rebecca (1980) by Ken Follett 95 Sadie When She Died (1972) by Ed McBain 96 The Murder of the Maharajah (1980) by H. R. F. Keating 97 What Bloody Man is That? (1987) by Simon Brett 98 Shooting Script (1966) by Gavin Lyall 99 The Four Just Men (1905) by Edgar Wallace
See also
References
- ^ Moody, Susan, ed. (1990). The Hatchards Crime Companion. 100 Top Crime Novels Selected by the Crime Writers' Association. London: Hatchards. ISBN 0-904030-02-4.
- ^ "Top 100 Crime Novels of All Time - UK Crime Writers' Association". Library Thing. Retrieved 6 November 2023.
- ^ a b Penzler, Otto; Friedman, Mickey (1995). The Crown Crime Companion. The Top 100 Mystery Novels of All Time Selected by the Mystery Writers of America. New York. ISBN 0-517-88115-2.
annotated by Otto Penzler and compiled by Mickey Friedman
{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link) - ^ "Book awards: The Top 100 Mystery Novels of All Time - Mystery Writers of America". Library Thing. Retrieved 12 April 2017.