119 best crime novels according to German critics

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A poll of 37 critics, authors, booksellers etc. organized by Bochumer Krimi Archiv in 1990.

Another German poll, this time of crime novelists:

http://www.listsofbests.com/list/91577-best-crime-novels-according-to-german-crime-novelists

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  1. 1.
    The Postman Always Rings Twice
    by James M. Cain
  2. 2.
    The Long Goodbye
    by Raymond Chandler
  3. 3.
    The Big Sleep
    by Raymond Chandler
  4. 4.
    The Maltese Falcon
    by Dashiell Hammett
  5. 5.
    The Mask of Dimitrios
    by Eric Ambler
  6. 6.
    Thumbprint (A Sergeant Studer Mystery)
    by Friedrich Glauser
  7. 7.
    The Thin Man
    by Dashiell Hammett
  8. 8.
    The Spy Who Came In from the Cold
    by John le Carre
  9. 9.
  10. 10.
    The Glass Key
    by Dashiell Hammett
  11. 11.
    Farewell, My Lovely
    by Raymond Chandler
  12. 12.
    No Orchids for Miss Blandish
    by James Hadley Chase
  13. 13.
    Red Harvest
    by Dashiell Hammett
  14. 14.
    The Judge and His Hangman
    by Friedrich Durrenmatt
  15. 15.
    The Talented Mr. Ripley
    by Patricia Highsmith
  16. 16.
    The Murders in the Rue Morgue (Crime Classics)
    by Edgar Allan Poe
  17. 17.
    I, the Jury
    by Mickey Spillane
  18. 18.
    The Thirty-Nine Steps (Penguin Classics)
    by John Buchan
  19. 19.
    The High Window
    by Raymond Chandler
  20. 20.
    Duffy
    by Dan Kavanagh
  21. 21.
    The Lady in the Lake
    by Raymond Chandler
  23. 23.
    The Ipcress File
    by Len Deighton
  25. 25.
    The Snowman
    by Jorg Fauser
  26. 26.
    Charlie Muffin
    by Brian Freemantle
  27. 27.
    In Matto's Realm: A Sergeant Studer Mystery
    by Friedrich Glauser
  28. 28.
    Blind Man with a Pistol
    by Chester Himes
  29. 29.
    Chinaman's Chance
    by Ross Thomas
  30. 30.
    The Levanter
    by Eric Ambler
  31. 31.
    Trent's Last Case
    by E C Bentley
  32. 32.
    Gaudy Night (Lord Peter Wimsey Mysteries)
    by Dorothy L. Sayers
  33. 33.
    The Terrorists (Vintage Crime/Black Lizard)
    by Maj Sjöwall
  34. 34.
    A Study in Scarlet: The First Sherlock Holmes Mystery
    by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
  35. 35.
    Sunday Woman
    by Carlo Fruttero
  36. 36.
    Strangers on a Train
    by Patricia Highsmith
  37. 37.
    Friday the Rabbi Slept Late (Rabbi Small Mystery)
    by Harry Kemelman
  38. 38.
    The Killer Inside Me
    by Jim Thompson
  39. 39.
    The Schirmer Inheritance
    by Eric Ambler
  40. 40.
    The Light of Day
    by Eric Ambler
  41. 41.
    Double Indemnity
    by James M. Cain
  42. 42.
    In Cold Blood
    by Truman Capote
  43. 43.
    Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy
    by John le Carre
  44. 44.
    The Riddle of the Sands (Modern Library Classics)
    by Erskine Childers
  45. 45.
    Ripley's Game
    by Patricia Highsmith
  46. 46.
    This Sweet Sickness
    by Patricia Highsmith
  47. 47.
    Run Man Run (Himes, Chester)
    by Chester Himes
  48. 48.
    Glitz
    by Elmore Leonard
  49. 49.
    Fletch
    by Gregory Mcdonald
  50. 50.
    Beast in View (Crime Masterworks S.)
    by Margaret Millar

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