MetaFilter's "The 100 best mystery novels of all time"

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101 novels because there was a tie for 100th place.

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  1. 1.
    The Complete Sherlock Holmes (Vintage Classics)
    by Arthur Conan Doyle

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  2. 2.
    The Maltese Falcon (Crime Masterworks)
    by Dashiell Hammett

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  3. 3.
    Tales of Mystery and Imagination
    by Edgar Allan Poe

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  4. 4.
    The Daughter of Time
    by Josephine Tey

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  5. 5.
    Presumed Innocent
    by Scott Turow

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  6. 6.
    The Spy Who Came in From the Cold

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  7. 7.
    The Moonstone (Modern Library Classics)
    by Wilkie Collins

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  8. 8.
    The Big Sleep
    by Raymond Chandler

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  9. 9.
    Rebecca
    by Daphne du Maurier

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  10. 10.
    And Then There Were None
    by Agatha Christie

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    Anatomy of a Murder (The Best Mysteries of All Time)
    by Robert Traver

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  12. 12.
    Murder of Roger Ackroyd: A Hercule Poirot Mystery
    by Agatha Christie

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  13. 13.
    The Long Goodbye
    by Raymond Chandler

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  14. 14.
    The Postman Always Rings Twice
    by James Mallahan Cain

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  15. 15.
    The Godfather
    by Mario Puzo

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  16. 16.
    The Silence of the Lambs (Hannibal Lector)
    by Thomas Harris

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  17. 17.
    A Coffin for Dimitrios
    by Eric Ambler

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  18. 18.
    Gaudy Night (Lord Peter Wimsey Mystery)
    by Dorothy L. Sayers

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  19. 20.
    The Day of the Jackal
    by Frederick Forsyth

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  20. 21.
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    Farewell, My Lovely
    by Raymond Chandler

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  22. 23.
    The Name of the Rose (Everyman's Library (Cloth))
    by Umberto Eco

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  23. 24.
    Crime and Punishment (Bantam Classics)
    by Fyodor Dostoevsky

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  24. 25.
    Eye of the Needle
    by Ken Follett

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    Rumpole of the Bailey
    by John Clifford Mortimer

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  26. 27.
    Red Dragon
    by Thomas Harris

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  27. 28.
    The Nine Tailors
    by Dorothy L. Sayers

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  28. 29.
    Fletch
    by Gregory Mcdonald

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  30. 31.
    The Thin Man
    by Dashiell Hammett

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  31. 32.
    The Woman in White (Giant Thrifts)
    by Wilkie Collins

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  32. 33.
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    Trent's Last Case
    by E.C. Bentley

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  33. 34.
    Double Indemnity
    by James M. Cain

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  34. 35.
    Gorky Park: A Novel (Mortalis.)
    by Martin Cruz Smith

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  35. 36.
    Strong Poison
    by Dorothy L. Sayers

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  36. 37.
    Dance Hall of the Dead
    by Tony Hillerman

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  37. 38.
    The Hot Rock (Westlake, Donald E. Dortmunder Series.)
    by Donald E. Westlake

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  38. 39.
    Red Harvest
    by Dashiell Hammett

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  39. 40.
    The Circular Staircase
    by Mary Roberts Rinehart

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  40. 41.
    Murder on the Orient Express (Hercule Poirot Mysteries)
    by Agatha Christie

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  41. 42.
    The Firm: A Novel
    by John Grisham

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    The Ipcress File
    by Len Deighton

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    Laura
    by Vera Caspary

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  44. 45.
    I, the Jury
    by Mickey Spillane

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  45. 46.
    The Laughing Policeman (Vintage Crime/Black Lizard)
    by Per Wahloo

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    Bank Shot
    by Donald E Westlake

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  47. 48.
    The Third Man
    by Graham Greene

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  48. 49.
    The Killer Inside Me
    by Jim Thompson

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  49. 50.
    Where Are the Children?
    by Mary Higgins Clark

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K McQuage
Houston

Fixed #77. — 5 weeks ago

Should have been Dorothy Sayers.