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mystery booksellers's "100 favorite mysteries"

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

(found at: http://www.mysterybooksellers.com/favorites.html)

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1. The Tiger in the Smoke
by Margery Allingham
  
2. A Coffin for Dimitrios
by Eric Ambler
  
3.
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 A Dram of Poison
by Charlotte Armstrong
  
4.
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 Aunt Dimity's Death (Aunt Dimity)
by Nancy Atherton
  
5.
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 In the Heat of the Night
by John Ball
  
6. Death by Sheer Torture
by Robert Barnard
  
7. Track of the Cat
by Nevada Barr
  
8. The Beast Must Die (Pan Classic Crime)
by Nicholas Blake
  
9.
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 When the Sacred Ginmill Closes
by Lawrence Block
  
10. Green for Danger (Brand, Christianna)
by Christianna Brand
  
11. The Fabulous Clipjoint
by Fredric Brown
  
12. The 39 Steps
by John Buchan
  
13. Black Cherry Blues: A Dave Robicheaux Novel
by James Lee Burke
  
14. The Postman Always Rings Twice (Crime Masterworks)
by James M. Cain
  
15. The Thin Woman
by Dorothy Cannell
  
16. The Three Coffins
by John Dickson Carr
  
17. Thus Was Adonis Murdered (A Legal Whodunnit)
by Sarah Caudwell
  
18. The Big Sleep (Penguin Fiction)
by Raymond Chandler
  
19. Murder of Roger Ackroyd: A Hercule Poirot Mystery
by Agatha Christie
  
20. The Concrete Blonde (Harry Bosch)
by Michael Connelly
  
21. The Man Who Liked Slow Tomatoes
by K. C. Constantine
  
22. The Monkey's Raincoat (Elvis Cole Novels)
by Robert Crais
  
23. The Moving Toyshop
by Edmund Crispin
  
24. Dreaming of the Bones
by Deborah Crombie
  
25. The Last Good Kiss
by James Crumley
  
26. The Yellow Room Conspiracy
by Peter Dickinson
  
27. The Hound of the Baskervilles (Signet Classics)
by Arthur Conan Doyle
  
28. Rebecca
by Daphne Du Maurier
  
29. Booked to Die (Cliff Janeway Novels)
by John Dunning
  
30. Old Bones
by Aaron Elkins
  
31. One for the Money (A Stephanie Plum Novel)
by Janet Evanovich
  
32. Time and Again
by Jack Finney
  
33. Who in Hell Is Wanda Fuca?
by G.M. Ford
  
34. Whip Hand
by Dick Francis
  
35. Hours Before Dawn (Virago Modern Classics)
by Celia Fremlin
  
36. A Great Deliverance
by Elizabeth George
  
37.
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 Smallbone Deceased (Book Club Edition)
by Michael Gilbert
  
38. A Is for Alibi (The Kinsey Millhone Alphabet Mystery Series)
by Sue Grafton
  
39. The Killings at Badger's Drift (Inspector Barnaby Mysteries)
by Caroline Graham
  
40.
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 The Man With a Load of Mischief
by Martha Grimes
  
41. The Maltese Falcon
by Dashiell Hammett
  
42. An English Murder
by Cyril Hare
  
43. The Silence of the Lambs
by Thomas Harris
  
44. Tourist Season
by Carl Hiaasen
  
45. The Talented Mr. Ripley
by Patricia Highsmith
  
46. On Beulah Height (Dalziel and Pascoe Mysteries)
by Reginald Hill
  
47. A Thief of Time (Joe Leaphorn/Jim Chee Novels)
by Tony Hillerman
  
48. Cotton Comes to Harlem (Vintage Crime/Black Lizard)
by Chester Himes
  
49. Hamlet, Revenge! (Inspector Appleby Mystery)
by Michael Innes
  
50. An Unsuitable Job for a Woman
by P.D. James
  
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Created by paulinseattle on Aug 15, 2007.