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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 Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

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

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

  4. 4.
    The Daughter of Time
    by Josephine Tey

  5. 5.
    Presumed Innocent
    by Scott Turow

  6. 6.
    The Spy Who Came in From the Cold
    by John le Carre

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

  8. 8.
    The Big Sleep
    by Raymond Chandler

  9. 9.
    Rebecca
    by Daphne Du Maurier

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

  11. 11.
    ?
    Anatomy of a Murder (The Best Mysteries of All Time)
    by Robert Traver

  12. 13.
    The Long Goodbye
    by Raymond Chandler

  13. 14.
    The Postman Always Rings Twice
    by James Mallahan Cain

  14. 15.
    The Godfather
    by Mario Puzo

  15. 16.
    The Silence of the Lambs (Hannibal Lector)
    by Thomas Harris

  16. 17.
    A Coffin for Dimitrios
    by Eric Ambler

  17. 18.
    Gaudy Night (Lord Peter Wimsey Mysteries)
    by Dorothy L. Sayers

  18. 19.

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

  20. 21.
    ?
    Farewell, My Lovely
    by Raymond Chandler

  21. 22.
    The Thirty-Nine Steps (Oxford World's Classics)
    by John Buchan

  22. 24.
    Crime and Punishment (Bantam Classics)
    by Fyodor Dostoevsky

  23. 25.
    Eye of the Needle
    by Ken Follett

  24. 26.
    ?
    Rumpole of the Bailey
    by John Clifford Mortimer

  25. 27.
    Red Dragon
    by Thomas Harris

  26. 28.
    The Nine Tailors
    by Dorothy L. Sayers

  27. 29.
    Fletch
    by Gregory Mcdonald

  28. 30.
    ?

  29. 31.
    The Thin Man
    by Dashiell Hammett

  30. 32.
    The Woman in White (Giant Thrifts)
    by Wilkie Collins

  31. 33.
    ?
    Trent's Last Case
    by E.C. Bentley

  32. 34.
    Double Indemnity
    by James M. Cain

  33. 35.
    Gorky Park (Arkady Renko, No. 1)
    by Martin Cruz Smith

  34. 36.
    Strong Poison
    by Dorothy L. Sayers

  35. 37.
    Dance Hall of the Dead
    by Tony Hillerman

  36. 38.
    The Hot Rock
    by Donald E. Westlake

  37. 39.
    Red Harvest
    by Dashiell Hammett

  38. 40.
    The Circular Staircase
    by Mary Roberts Rinehart

  39. 41.
    Murder on the Orient Express (Hercule Poirot Mysteries)
    by Agatha Christie

  40. 42.
    The Firm: A Novel
    by John Grisham

  41. 43.
    ?
    The Ipcress File
    by Len Deighton

  42. 44.
    ?
    Laura
    by Vera Caspary

  43. 45.
    I, the Jury
    by Mickey Spillane

  44. 46.
    The Laughing Policeman (Vintage Crime/Black Lizard)
    by Maj Sjöwall

  45. 47.
    ?
    Bank Shot
    by Donald E Westlake

  46. 48.
    The Third Man
    by Graham Greene

  47. 49.
    The Killer Inside Me
    by Jim Thompson

  48. 50.
    Where Are the Children?
    by Mary Higgins Clark

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Created by Jennifer on Oct 15, 2009.
 

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Fixed #77. — 2 years ago

Should have been Dorothy Sayers.




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