Lists of Bests: Top 100 Crime Novels of All Time (from The Hatchards Crime Companion)

Send to Printer Top 100 Crime Novels of All Time (from The Hatchards Crime Companion) In 1990 the members of the Crime Writers Association (of Great Britain) voted for their five favorite crime novels in each of ten categories ("The Founding Fathers", "The Golden Age (1914-1939)", "Police Procedural", "Psychological Suspense", "The Whodunnit", "History Mystery", "Romantic Suspense", "Thrillers", "Espionage" and "Hard-Boiled". The following 100 books (including some story collections as well as novels) are the top vote-getters from all categories, listed below in descending order.
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	1.		The Daughter of Time by Josephine Tey
	2.		The Big Sleep by Raymond Chandler
	3.		The Spy Who Came In from the Cold by John le Carre
	4.		Gaudy Night (Lord Peter Wimsey Mystery) by Dorothy L. Sayers
	5.		Murder of Roger Ackroyd: A Hercule Poirot Mystery by Agatha Christie
	6.		Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier
	7.		Farewell, My Lovely by Raymond Chandler
	8.		The Moonstone (Modern Library Classics) by Wilkie Collins
	9.		The Ipcress File by Len Deighton
	10.		The Maltese Falcon by Dashiell Hammett
	11.		The FRANCHISE AFFAIR by Josephine Tey
	12.	?	Last Seen Wearing... by Hillary Waugh
	13.		The Name of the Rose (Everyman's Library (Cloth)) by Umberto Eco
	14.		Rogue Male (Crime Masterworks) by Geoffrey Household
	15.		The Long Goodbye by Raymond Chandler
	16.		Malice Aforethought by Francis Iles
	17.		The Day of the Jackal by Frederick Forsyth
	18.		The Nine Tailors by Dorothy L. Sayers
	19.		And Then There Were None by Agatha Christie
	20.		The Thirty-Nine Steps (Penguin Classics) by John Buchan
	21.	?	The Complete Sherlock Holmes Short Stories by Arthur Conan Doyle
	22.		Murder Must Advertise (Lord Peter Wimsey Mystery) by Dorothy L. Sayers
	23.		Tales of Mystery & Imagination (Paperback Classics) by Edgar Allan Poe
	24.	?	The Mask of Dimitrios by Eric Ambler
	25.	?	The Moving Toyshop: A Detective Story by Edmund Crispin
	26.		The Tiger in the Smoke by Margery Allingham
	27.		The False Inspector Dew by Peter Lovesey
	28.		The Woman in White (Penguin Classics) by Wilkie Collins
	29.		A Dark-Adapted Eye (Plume) by Ruth Rendell
	30.		The Postman Always Rings Twice by James Mallahan Cain
	31.		The Glass Key by Dashiell Hammett
	32.		The Hound of the Baskervilles (Modern Library Classics) by Arthur Conan Doyle
	33.		Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy by John le Carre
	34.	?	Trent's Last Case by E. Clerihew Bentley
	35.		From Russia with Love (James Bond Novels) by Ian Fleming
	36.		Cop Hater (87th Precinct Mysteries (Paperback)) by Ed McBain
	37.		Dead of Jericho (Inspector Morse Mysteries (Paperback)) by Colin Dexter
	38.		Strangers on a Train by Patricia Highsmith
	39.		A Judgement in Stone by Ruth Rendell
	40.		Hollow Man by John Dickson Carr
	41.		The Poisoned Chocolates Case (A Roger Sheringham Case) by Anthony Berkeley
	42.		A Morbid Taste for Bones: The First Chronicle of Brother Cadfael by Ellis Peters
	43.		The Leper of St. Giles (Cadfael Chronicles) by Peters
	44.		A Kiss Before Dying by Ira, Levin
	45.		The Talented Mr.Ripley by Patricia Highsmith
	46.		Brighton Rock: (Penguin Classic Deluxe Edition) (Penguin Classics Deluxe Editio) by Graham Greene
	47.		The Lady in the Lake by Raymond Chandler
	48.		Presumed Innocent by Scott Turow
	49.		A Demon in My View by Ruth Rendell
	50.		The Devil in Velvet by John Dickson Carr
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