mystery booksellers (IMBA)'s "100 favorite mysteries"

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selected by 58 mystery bookshops in the u.s. and canada

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  1. 1.
    The Tiger in the Smoke
    by Margery Allingham

  2. 2.
    A Coffin for Dimitrios
    by Eric Ambler

  3. 3.
    A Dram of Poison
    by Charlotte Armstrong

  4. 4.
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    Aunt Dimity's Death (Aunt Dimity)
    by Nancy Atherton

  5. 5.
    ?
    In the Heat of the Night
    by John Ball

  6. 6.
    Death by Sheer Torture (Crime, Penguin)
    by Robert Barnard

  7. 7.
    Track of the Cat (An Anna Pigeon Novel)
    by Nevada Barr

  8. 8.
    The Beast Must Die
    by Nicholas Blake

  9. 9.
    ?
    When the Sacred Ginmill Closes
    by Lawrence Block

  10. 10.
    Green for Danger
    by Christianna Brand

  11. 11.
    The Fabulous Clipjoint
    by Fredric Brown

  12. 12.
    The 39 Steps
    by John Buchan

  13. 13.
    Black Cherry Blues: A Dave Robicheaux Novel
    by James Lee Burke

  14. 14.
    The Postman Always Rings Twice (Crime Masterworks)
    by James M. Cain

  15. 15.
    The Thin Woman
    by Dorothy Cannell

  16. 16.
    The Three Coffins
    by John Dickson Carr

  17. 17.
    Thus Was Adonis Murdered (A Legal Whodunnit)
    by Sarah Caudwell

  18. 18.
    The Big Sleep (Penguin Fiction)
    by Raymond Chandler

  19. 20.
    The Concrete Blonde (Harry Bosch)
    by Michael Connelly

  20. 21.
    The Man Who Liked Slow Tomatoes
    by K. C. Constantine

  21. 22.
    Monkey's Raincoat (Elvis Cole Novels)
    by Robert Crais

  22. 23.
    The Moving Toyshop
    by Edmund Crispin

  23. 24.
    Dreaming of the Bones
    by Deborah Crombie

  24. 25.
    The Last Good Kiss
    by James Crumley

  25. 26.
    The Yellow Room Conspiracy
    by Peter Dickinson

  26. 27.

  27. 28.
    Rebecca
    by Daphne Du Maurier

  28. 29.
    Booked to Die (Cliff Janeway Novels)
    by John Dunning

  29. 30.
    Old Bones (A Gideon Oliver Mystery)
    by Aaron Elkins

  30. 31.
    One for the Money (Stephanie Plum, No. 1)
    by Janet Evanovich

  31. 32.
    Time and Again
    by Jack Finney

  32. 33.
    Who in Hell Is Wanda Fuca?
    by G.m. Ford

  33. 34.
    Whip Hand
    by Dick Francis

  34. 35.
    Hours Before Dawn (Virago Modern Classics)
    by Celia Fremlin

  35. 36.
    A Great Deliverance (Inspector Lynley)
    by Elizabeth George

  36. 37.
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    Smallbone Deceased (Book Club Edition)
    by Michael Gilbert

  37. 38.

  38. 39.
    The Killings at Badger's Drift (Inspector Barnaby)
    by Caroline Graham

  39. 40.
    ?
    The Man With a Load of Mischief
    by Martha Grimes

  40. 41.
    The Maltese Falcon
    by Dashiell Hammett

  41. 42.
    An English Murder
    by Cyril Hare

  42. 43.
    The Silence of the Lambs
    by Thomas Harris

  43. 44.
    Tourist Season
    by Carl Hiaasen

  44. 45.
    The Talented Mr. Ripley
    by Patricia Highsmith

  45. 46.
    On Beulah Height (Dalziel and Pascoe Mysteries)
    by Reginald Hill

  46. 47.
    A Thief of Time (Joe Leaphorn/Jim Chee Novels)
    by Tony Hillerman

  47. 48.
    Cotton Comes to Harlem (Vintage Crime/Black Lizard)
    by Chester Himes

  48. 49.
    Hamlet, Revenge! (Inspector Appleby Mystery S.)
    by Michael Innes

  49. 50.
    An Unsuitable Job for a Woman
    by P.D. James

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