The Top 100 Crime Novels of All Time

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This list was originally published by the Crime Writers’ Association (UK) and the Mystery Writers’ Association (US).

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  1. 51.
    A Thief of Time (Joe Leaphorn/Jim Chee Novels)
    by Tony Hillerman

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  2. 52.
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    A Bullet in the Ballet (Black Dagger Crime S.)
    by Caryl Brahms

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  3. 53.
    Deadheads (Dalziel & Pascoe Novel)
    by Reginald Hill

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  4. 54.
    The Third Man
    by Graham Greene

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  5. 55.
    The Labyrinth Makers (David Audley Mysteries)
    by Anthony Price

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  6. 56.
    The Quiller Memorandum (Otto Penzler Presents...)
    by Adam Hall

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  7. 57.
    Beast in View
    by Margaret Millar

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  8. 58.
    The Shortest Way to Hades
    by Sarah L. Caudwell

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  9. 59.
    Running Blind
    by Desmond Bagley

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  10. 60.
    Twice Shy
    by Dick Francis

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  11. 61.
    The Manchurian Candidate
    by Richard Condon

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  12. 62.
    The Killings at Badger's Drift (Inspector Barnaby Mysteries)
    by Caroline Graham

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  13. 63.
    The Beast Must Die (Pan Classic Crime)
    by Nicholas Blake

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  14. 64.
    Gorky Park
    by Martin Cruz Smith

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  15. 65.
    Death Comes As the End
    by Agatha Christie

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  16. 66.
    Green for Danger (Brand, Christianna)
    by Christianna Brand

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  17. 67.
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    Tragedy at Law
    by Cyril Hare

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  18. 68.
    The Collector
    by John Fowles

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  19. 69.
    Gideon's Day
    by J. J. Marric

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  20. 70.
    The Sun Chemist
    by Lionel Davidson

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  21. 71.
    The Guns of Navarone (movie tie-in)
    by Alistair MacLean

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  22. 72.
    The Colour of Murder
    by Julian Symons

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  23. 73.
    Greenmantle - The First Dialogue
    by John Buchan

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  24. 74.
    The Riddle of the Sands (Modern Library Classics)
    by Erskine Childers

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  25. 75.
    Wobble to Death
    by Peter Lovesey

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  26. 76.
    Red Harvest
    by Dashiell Hammett

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  27. 77.
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    The Key to Rebecca
    by Ken Follett

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  29. 79.
    The Murder of the Maharajah
    by H. R. F. Keating

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  30. 80.
    What Bloody Man Is That?
    by Simon Brett

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  31. 81.
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    Shooting Script
    by Gavin Lyall

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  32. 82.
    The Four Just Men
    by Edgar Wallace

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  33. 83.
    The Complete Sherlock Holmes
    by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

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  34. 84.
    Anatomy of a Murder
    by Robert Traver

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  35. 85.
    The Godfather
    by Mario Puzo

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  36. 86.
    Silence of the Lambs
    by Thomas Harris

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  37. 87.
    Witness for the Prosecution
    by AGATHA CHRISTIE

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  38. 88.
    Crime and Punishment (Bantam Classics)
    by Fyodor Dostoevsky

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  39. 89.
    Eye of the Needle
    by Ken Follett

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  40. 90.
    Rumpole of the Bailey
    by John Clifford Mortimer

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  41. 91.
    Red Dragon
    by Thomas Harris

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  42. 92.
    Fletch
    by Gregory Mcdonald

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  43. 93.
    The Thin Man
    by Dashiell Hammett

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  44. 94.
    Double Indemnity
    by James M. Cain

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  45. 95.
    Dance Hall of the Dead
    by Tony Hillerman

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  46. 96.
    The Hot Rock
    by Donald E. Westlake

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  47. 97.
    The Circular Staircase
    by Mary Roberts Rinehart

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  48. 98.
    Murder on the Orient Express (Hercule Poirot Mysteries)
    by Agatha Christie

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  49. 99.
    Laura (Femmes Fatales: Women Write Pulp)
    by Vera Caspary

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  50. 100.
    I, the Jury
    by Mickey Spillane

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