The Guardian's 1000 Books Everyone Must Read: 150-297, Crime

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This list is from 2009 but I can’t resist reproducing it here. Selected by the Guardian’s review team and a panel of experts, the list includes only novels and is divided into seven sections: comedy, crime, family and self, love, science fiction & fantasy, state of the nation, and war & travel. These are the crime selections.

I have already done the comedy selections; the rest are to follow. Please do not add or remove anything.

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  1. 1.
    The Man with the Golden Arm
    by Nelson Algren
  2. 2.
    Fantomas
    by Marcel Allain
  3. 3.
    The Mask of Dimitrios
    by Eric Ambler
  4. 4.
    Epitaph for a Spy
    by Eric Ambler
  5. 5.
    Journey Into Fear
    by Eric Ambler
  7. 7.
    ?
    Trent's Last Case
    by E.C. Bentley
  8. 8.
    The Poisoned Chocolates Case (A Roger Sheringham Case)
    by Anthony Berkeley
  9. 9.
    The Beast Must Die
    by Nicholas Blake
  10. 10.
    Lady Audley's Secret (Oxford World's Classics)
    by Mary Elizabeth Braddon
  11. 11.
  12. 12.
    The Tin Roof Blowdown (Dave Robicheaux Mysteries)
    by James Lee Burke
  13. 13.
    The Thirty-Nine Steps (Dover Thrift Editions)
    by John Buchan
  15. 15.
    ?
    The Asphalt Jungle
    by W. R. Burnett
  16. 16.
    The Postman Always Rings Twice
    by James M. Cain
  17. 17.
    Double Indemnity
    by James M. Cain
  18. 18.
    True History of the Kelly Gang
    by Peter Carey
  19. 19.
    The Hollow Man (Black Dagger Crime Series)
    by John Dickson Carr
  20. 20.
    The Big Sleep
    by Raymond Chandler
  21. 21.
    The Long Goodbye
    by Raymond Chandler
  22. 22.
    No Orchids for Miss Blandish
    by James Hadley Chase
  23. 23.
    The Riddle of the Sands (Dover Thrift Editions)
    by Erskine Childers
  24. 24.
    And Then There Were None
    by Agatha Christie
  28. 28.
    The Secret Adversary
    by Agatha Christie
  29. 29.
    The Woman in White (Oxford World's Classics)
    by Wilkie Collins
  30. 30.
    The Moonstone (Oxford World's Classics)
    by Wilkie Collins
  31. 31.
    A Study in Scarlet

  32. 32.
    ?
    The Hound of the Baskervilles

  33. 33.
    The Sign of the Four

  34. 34.
    The Manchurian Candidate
    by Richard Condon
  35. 35.
    The Secret Agent: A Simple Tale (Oxford World's Classics)
    by Joseph Conrad
  36. 36.
    Under Western Eyes - Original Version
    by Joseph Conrad
  37. 37.
    Postmortem (Kay Scarpetta Mysteries)
    by Patricia Cornwell
  38. 38.
    The Andromeda Strain
    by Michael Crichton
  39. 39.
    Jurassic Park
    by Michael Crichton
  40. 40.
    Poetic Justice (Kate Fansler Novels)
    by Amanda Cross
  41. 41.
    The Ipcress File
    by Len Deighton
  42. 42.
    Last Seen Wearing
    by Colin Dexter
  43. 43.
    The Remorseful Day
    by Colin Dexter
  44. 44.
    Ratking (An Aurelio Zen Mystery)
    by Michael Dibdin
  45. 45.
    Dead Lagoon: An Aurelio Zen Mystery
    by Michael Dibdin
  46. 46.
    Dirty Tricks
    by Michael Dibdin
  47. 47.
    A Rich Full Death
    by Michael Dibdin
  48. 48.
    Vendetta: An Aurelio Zen Mystery
    by Michael Dibdin
  49. 49.
    Crime and Punishment (Oxford World's Classics)
    by Fyodor Dostoevsky
  50. 50.
    An American Tragedy (Signet Classics)
    by Theodore Dreiser

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