HRF Keating 100 Best Crime & Mystery Books

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1845 - Edgar Allan Poe - Tales of Mystery and Imagination 1868 - Wilkie Collins - The Moonstone 1870 - Charles Dickens - The Mystery of Edwin Drood 1892 - Arthur Conan Doyle - The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes 1899 - EW Hornung - The Amateur Cracksman 1902 - Arthur Conan Doyle - The Hound of the Baskervilles 1907 - Jacques Futrelle - The Thinking Machine 1908 - Mary Roberts Rinehart - The Circular Staircase  1911 - GK Chesterton - The Innocence of Father Brown  1918 - Melville Davisson Post - Uncle Abner 1925 - Edgar Wallace - The Mind of JG Reeder 1926 - Agatha Christie - The Murder of Roger Ackroyd 1929 - Dashiell Hammett - Red Harvest 1929 - CHB Kitchin - Death of My Aunt 1930 - Dorothy L. Sayers - The Documents in the Case 1930 - Dashiell Hammett - The Maltese Falcon 1931 - Arthur W Upfield - The Sands of Windee 1932 - Francis Iles - Before the Fact  1933 - Erle Stanley Gardner - The Case of the Sulky Girl  1934 - Agatha Christie - Murder on the Orient Express  1934 - James M Cain - The Postman Always Rings Twice  1934 - Dorothy L Sayers - The Nine Tailors 1935 - John Dickson Carr - The Hollow Man  1935 - Rex Stout - The League of Frightened Men 1936 - Ethel Lina White - The Wheel Spins 1938 - Nicholas Blake - The Beast Must Die  1940 - Cornell Woolrich - The Bride Wore Black 1940 - Ngaio Marsh - Surfeit of Lampreys or Death of a Peer  1942 - Ellery Queen - Calamity Town 1942 - Cyril Hare - Tragedy at Law 1942 - Raymond Chandler - The High Window  1944 - Christianna Brand - Green for Danger 1945 - Michael Innes - Appleby’s End  1946 - Elizabeth Ferrars - Murder Among Friends 1946 - Helen Eustis - The Horizontal Man  1946 - Edmund Crispin - The Moving Toyshop 1947 - Frederic Brown - The Fabulous Clipjoint 1948 - Josephine Tey - The Franchise Affair 1948 - John Franklin Bardin - Devil Take the Blue-Tail Fly 1948 - Margery Allingham - More Work for the Undertaker 1949 - Georges Simenon - My Friend Maigret 1949 - WR Burnett - The Asphalt Jungle 1950 - Michael Gilbert - Smallbone Deceased 1950 - Georges Simenon - The Stain on the Snow, The Snow Was Black. 1951 - Josephine Tey - The Daughter of Time 1952 - Hillary Waugh - Last Seen Wearing 1952 - Margery Allingham - The Tiger in the Smoke  1953 - John Bingham - Five Roundabouts to Heaven  1953 - Raymond Chandler - The Long Goodbye 1953 - Guy Cullingford - Post Mortem  1954 - Shelley Smith - The Party at No. 5 1955 - Patricia Highsmith - The Talented Mr Ripley  1955 - Margaret Millar - The Beast in View 1956 - JJ Marric (John Creasey) - Gideon’s Week  1956 - Stanley Ellin - Mystery Stories 1960 - Georges Simenon - Maigret in Court 1960 - Michael Innes - The New Sonia Wayward 1963 - Nicholas Freeling - Gun Before Butter 1963 - Dorothy Hughes - The Expendable Man  1964 - Jim Thompson - Pop. 1280  1966 - EB Eberhart - R.S.V.P. Murder  1967 - Julian Symons - The Man Who Killed Himself 1967 - Emma Lathen - Murder Against the Grain 1967 - Sjowall & Wahloo - Roseanna  1967 - George Sims - The Last Best Friend 1968 - Peter Dickinson - The Glass-Sided Ants Nest 1968 - Helen McCloy - Mr. Splitfoot 1968 - Nicholas Blake - The Private Wound 1969 - Patricia Highsmith - The Tremor of Forgery 1969 - Chester Himes - Blind Man With a Pistol  1970 - Joan Fleming - Young Man, I Think You're Dying  1970 - Margaret Millar - Beyond This Point are Monsters  1972 - Ed McBain - Sadie When She Died 1972 - George V Higgins - The Friends of Eddie Coyle 1972 - Julian Symons - The Players and the Game  1972 - Stanley Ellin - Mirror, Mirror on the Wall 1973 - Tony Hillerman - Dance Hall of the Dead 1974 - Peter Dickinson - The Poison Oracle 1974 - Gregory McDonald - Fletch  1975 - PD James - The Black Tower 1975 - Celia Fremlin - The Long Shadow 1975 - Colin Watson - The Naked Nuns  1976 - Ross Macdonald - The Blue Hammer  1976 - Agatha Christie - Sleeping Murder  1976 - Dorothy Salisbury Davis - A Death in the Life 1976 - Dorothy Uhnak - The Investigation 1977 - Ruth Rendell - A Judgement in Stone 1977 - William McIlvanney - Laidlaw  1977 - Donald Westlake - Nobody's Perfect 1978 - Reginald Hill - A Pinch of Snuff 1979 - Joseph Hansen - Skinflick  1979 - PM Hubbard - Kill Claudio  1979 - John D MacDonald - The Green Ripper  1981 - John Wainwright - All On a Summers Day 1981 - Amanda Cross - Death in a Tenured Position 1981 - Joseph Wambaugh - The Glitter Dome 1982 - June Thomson - To Make a Killing 1982 - Peter Lovesey - The False Inspector Dew 1984 - James McClure - The Artful Egg 1986 - PD James - A Taste for Death Page Layout © 2004 R.D. Collins see also HRF Keating Bibliography

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