Lists of Bests: The Top 100 Crime Novels of All Time

Send to Printer The Top 100 Crime Novels of All Time This list was originally published by the Crime Writers’ Association (UK) and the Mystery Writers’ Association (US). (found at: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Top_100_Crime_Novels_of_All_Time)
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	1.		The Big Sleep by Raymond Chandler
	2.		The Spy Who Came In from the Cold by John le Carre
	3.		Farewell, My Lovely by Raymond Chandler
	4.		The Maltese Falcon by Dashiell Hammett
	5.		The Ipcress File by Len Deighton
	6.		Last Seen Wearing (Pan Classic Crime) by Hillary Waugh
	7.		The Name of the Rose
	8.		Rogue Male (Crime Masterworks) by Geoffrey Household
	9.		The Long Goodbye by Raymond Chandler
	10.		Malice Aforethought by Francis Iles
	11.		The Day of the Jackal by Frederick Forsyth
	12.		The Thirty-Nine Steps (Penguin Classics) by John Buchan
	13.	?	The Mask of Dimitrios by Eric Ambler
	14.		The Tiger in the Smoke by Margery Allingham
	15.		The False Inspector Dew by Peter Lovesey
	16.		The Postman Always Rings Twice by James Mallahan Cain
	17.		The Glass Key by Dashiell Hammett
	18.		The Hound of the Baskervilles by Arthur Conan, Sir Doyle
	19.		Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy by John le Carre
	20.	?	Trent's Last Case by E. Clerihew Bentley
	21.		From Russia with Love (James Bond Novels) by Ian Fleming
	22.		Cop Hater (87th Precinct Mysteries (Paperback)) by Ed McBain
	23.		Dead of Jericho (Inspector Morse Mysteries (Paperback)) by Colin Dexter
	24.		A Judgement in Stone by Ruth Rendell
	25.		The Three Coffins by John Dickson Carr
	26.		A Morbid Taste for Bones: The First Chronicle of Brother Cadfael by Ellis Peters
	27.		The Leper of St. Giles (Cadfael Chronicles) by Peters
	28.		A Kiss Before Dying by Ira, Levin
	29.		The Talented Mr.Ripley by Patricia Highsmith
	30.		Brighton Rock: (Penguin Classic Deluxe Edition) (Penguin Classics Deluxe Editio) by Graham Greene
	31.		The Lady in the Lake by Raymond Chandler
	32.		Presumed Innocent by Scott Turow
	33.	?	A Demon in My View by Ruth Rendell
	34.		The Devil in Velvet by John Dickson Carr
	35.		A Fatal Inversion by Barbara Vine
	36.		The Journeying Boy by Michael Innes
	37.		A Taste for Death by P.D. James
	38.		The Eagle Has Landed by Jack Higgins
	39.		My Brother Michael by Mary Stewart
	40.	?	Bertie and the Tin Man by Peter Lovesey
	41.		Penny Black by Susan Moody
	42.	?	Len Deighton's Game, Set, Match by Len Deighton
	43.		The Danger by Dick Francis
	44.		Under World (Dalziel and Pascoe) by Reginald Hill
	45.		Nine Coaches Waiting by Mary Stewart
	46.	?	A Running Duck by Paula Gosling
	47.	?	Smallbone Deceased by Michael Gilbert
	48.		The Rose of Tibet by Lionel Davidson
	49.		Innocent Blood by P.D. James
	50.		Strong Poison by Dorothy L. Sayers
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