Julian Symons' 100 Best Crime Stories

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Julian Gustave Symons (1912-1994) was a British writer and critic, best known for his crime fiction. In 1958 he completed a list of the 100 Best Crime Stories for the London ‘Sunday Times’ newspaper.

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  1. 1.
    Caleb Williams (Oxford World's Classics)
    by William Godwin
  2. 2.
    Tales of Mystery & Imagination (Mystery & Supernatural)
    by Edgar Allan Poe
  3. 3.
    Woman in White
    by Wilkie Collins
  4. 4.
    Uncle Silas
    by Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu
  5. 5.
    The Moonstone
    by Wilkie Collins
  6. 6.
    Mystery of Edwin Drood (Oxford World's Classics)
    by Dickens
  7. 7.
    New Arabian Nights
    by Robert Louis Stevenson
  8. 8.
    Crime and Punishment (Oxford World's Classics)
    by Fyodor Dostoevsky
  9. 9.
    The Mystery of Orcival
    by Émile Gaboriau
  10. 10.
    The Mystery of a Hansom Cab

  11. 11.
    The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes
    by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
  12. 12.
    The Three Impostors
    by Arthur Machen
  13. 13.
    Raffles: The Amateur Cracksman (Penguin Classics)
    by E. W. Hornung
  14. 14.
    The Hound of the Baskervilles: A Sherlock Holmes Mystery
    by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
  16. 16.
    ?
  17. 17.
    The Mystery of the Yellow Room (Dedalus European Classics)
    by Gaston LeRoux
  18. 18.
    The Old Man in the Corner: Twelve Classic Detective Stories
    by Baroness Orczy
  19. 19.
    At the Villa Rose
    by Alfred Edward Woodley Mason
  20. 20.
    The Innocence of Father Brown: Centennial Edition
    by G. K. Chesterton
  21. 21.
    The Singing Bone
    by Richard Austin Freeman
  22. 22.
    Trent's Last Case
    by E C Bentley
  23. 23.
    Max Carrados
    by Ernest Bramah
  24. 24.
    The Thirty-Nine Steps (Dover Thrift Editions)
    by John Buchan
  26. 26.
    ?
    Crimson Circle (Edgar Wallace)
    by Edgar Wallace
  27. 27.
    The Red House Mystery (Dover Mystery Classics)
    by A. A. Milne
  28. 28.
    The Pit-Prop Syndicate
    by Freeman Wills Crofts
  29. 29.
    ?
    The House of the Arrow
    by A. E. W Mason
  31. 31.
    Payment Deferred
    by C. S. Forester
  32. 32.
    ?
    The Greene Murder Case. A Philo Vance Story
    by S.S. VAN DINE
  33. 33.
    The Bellamy Trial
    by Frances Noyes Hart
  34. 34.
    Ashenden: The British Agent
    by W. Somerset Maugham
  35. 35.
    The Poisoned Chocolates Case (Golden Age Classics)
    by Anthony Berkeley
  36. 36.
    ?
    Mr. Fortune speaking,
    by Henry Christopher Bailey
  37. 37.
    ?
    The Pleasantries Of Old Quong
    by Thomas Burke
  38. 38.
    The Glass Key
    by Dashiell Hammett
  39. 39.
    SANCTUARY
    by William Faulkner
  40. 40.
    Malice Aforethought
    by Francis Iles
  41. 41.
    ?
    Above the dark circus,: An adventure
    by Hugh Walpole
  42. 42.
    ?
    The Greek Coffin Mystery
    by Ellery Queen
  43. 43.
    Murder Must Advertise (Lord Peter Wimsey Mysteries)
    by Dorothy L. Sayers
  44. 44.
    ?
    The Wheel Spins
    by Ethel Lina White
  45. 45.
    Death of a Ghost (Felony & Mayhem Mysteries) (Albert Campion)
    by Margery Allingham
  46. 46.
    The Postman Always Rings Twice
    by James M. Cain
  47. 47.
    ?
    A Pin to See the Peep Show
    by F. Tennyson Jesse
  48. 48.
    Fer-de-Lance (Nero Wolfe Mysteries)
    by Rex Stout
  49. 49.
    Adventures of Ellery Queen
    by Ellery Queen
  50. 50.
    We, the Accused (Capuchin Classics)
    by Ernest Raymond

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