HRF Keating 100 Best Crime & Mystery Books

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