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. 101.
    The Laughing Policeman
    by Maj Sjowall

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  2. 102.
    Bank Shot
    by Donald E. Westlake

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  3. 103.
    The Killer Inside Me
    by Jim Thompson

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  4. 104.
    Where Are the Children?
    by Mary Higgins Clark

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  5. 105.

  6. 106.
    The First Deadly Sin
    by Lawrence Sanders

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  7. 107.
    In Cold Blood
    by Truman Capote

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  8. 108.
    The Innocence of Father Brown
    by G. K. Chesterton

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  9. 109.
    Smiley's People
    by John le Carre

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  10. 110.
    To Kill a Mockingbird
    by Harper Lee

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  11. 111.

  12. 112.
    The Mystery of Edwin Drood (Penguin Classics)
    by Charles Dickens

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  13. 113.
    Ashenden Or: The British Agent
    by W. Somerset Maugham

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  14. 115.
    The Doorbell Rang (The Rex Stout Library)
    by Rex Stout

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  15. 116.
    Stick (Leonard, Elmore, Elmore Leonard Library.)
    by Elmore Leonard

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  16. 117.
    The Little Drummer Girl: A Novel
    by John le Carre

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  17. 118.
    Dracula (Norton Critical Editions)
    by Bram Stoker

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  18. 119.
    A Time to Kill
    by John Grisham

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  19. 120.
    Little Caesar
    by W. R. Burnett

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  20. 121.
    The Friends of Eddie Coyle: A Novel (John MacRae Books)
    by George V. Higgins

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  21. 122.
    Clouds of Witness
    by Dorothy L. Sayers

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  22. 123.
    Crocodile on the Sandbank
    by Elizabeth Peters

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  23. 124.
    Shroud for a Nightingale
    by P.D. James

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  24. 125.
    The Hunt for Red October (Jack Ryan Novels)
    by Tom Clancy

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  25. 126.
    Chinaman's Chance
    by Ross Thomas

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  26. 127.
    The Secret Agent (Oxford World's Classics)
    by Joseph Conrad

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  27. 128.
    The Dreadful Lemon Sky (Travis McGee Mysteries)
    by John D. Macdonald

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  28. 129.
    Brat Farrar
    by Josephine Tey

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  29. 130.
    The Chill
    by Ross Macdonald

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  30. 131.
    Devil in a Blue Dress (Easy Rawlins Mysteries)
    by Walter Mosley

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  31. 132.
    The Choirboys
    by Joseph Wambaugh

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  32. 133.
    God Save the Mark: A Novel of Crime and Confusion
    by Donald E. Westlake

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  33. 134.
    Home Sweet Homicide (Rue Morgue Vintage Mystery)
    by Craig Rice

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  34. 135.
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    Prizzis Honor
    by Richard Condon

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  35. 136.
    The Steam Pig (Crime Club)
    by James McCLure

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  36. 137.
    Time and Again
    by Jack Finney

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  37. 138.
    Rosemary's Baby
    by Ira Levin

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