Julian Symons 100 Best Crime & Mystery Books
this list for the Sunday Times in 1957.
Buy Crime and Mystery Books
| 1794 - William Godwin - Caleb Williams
1845 - Edgar Allan Poe - Tales of Mystery and Imagination 1860 - Wilkie Collins - The Woman in White 1864 - Sheridan Le Fanu - Uncle Silas 1868 - Wilkie Collins - The Moonstone 1870 - Charles Dickens - The Mystery of Edwin Drood 1882 - Robert Louis Stevenson - The New Arabian Nights 1886 - Fyodor Dostoevsky - Crime and Punishment 1887 - Emile Gaboriau - The Mystery of Orcival 1887 - Fergus Hume - The Mystery of a Hansom Cab 1894 - Arthur Conan Doyle - The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes 1895 - Arthur Machen - The Three Impostors 1899 - EW Hornung - Raffles 1902 - AC Doyle - The Hound of the Baskervilles 1907 - Jacques Futrelle - The Thinking Machine 1907 - Maurice Leblanc - The Seven of Hearts 1909 - Gaston Leroux - The Mystery of the Yellow Room 1909 - Baroness Orczy - The Old Man in the Corner 1910 - A.E.W. Mason - At the Villa Rose 1911 - G.K. Chesterton - The Innocence of Father Brown 1912 - R Austin Freeman - The Singing Bone 1913 - E.C. Bentley - Trent’s Last Case 1914 - Ernest Bramah - Max Carrados 1915 - John Buchan - The Thirty-Nine Steps 1920 - Sapper - BullDog Drummond 1922 - Edgar Wallace - The Crimson Circle 1922 - A.A. Milne - The Red House Mystery 1922 - Freeman Wills Crofts - The Pit-Prop Syndicate 1924 - A.E.W. Mason - The House of the Arrow 1926 - Agatha Christie - The Murder of Roger Ackroyd 1926 - C.S. Forester - Payment Deferred 1928 - S.S. Van Dine - The Greene Murder Case 1928 - Frances Noyes Hart - The Bellamy Trial 1928 - W. Somerset Maugham - Ashenden 1929 - Anthony Berkeley - The Poisoned Chocolates Case 1929 - H.C. Bailey - Mr. Fortune Speaking 1931 - Thomas Burke - The Pleasantries of Old Quong 1931 - Dashiell Hammett - The Glass Key 1931 - William Faulkner - Sanctuary 1931 - Francis Iles - Malice Aforethought 1931 - Hugh Walpole - Above the Dark Circus 1932 - Ellery Queen - The Greek Coffin Mystery 1933 - Dorothy L Sayers - Murder Must Advertise 1933 - Ethel Lina White - The Wheel Spins 1934 - Margery Allingham - Death of a Ghost 1934 - James M Cain - The Postman Always Rings Twice 1934 - F. Tennyson Jesse - A Pin to See the Peep-Show 1934 - Rex Stout - Fer-de-Lance 1935 - Ellery Queen - The Adventures of Ellery Queen 1935 - Ernest Raymond - We, the Accused 1935 - Dorothy L. Sayers - Gaudy Night 1935 - John Dickson Carr - The Hollow Man 1936 - Erle Stanley Gardner - The Case of the Sleepwalker’s Niece 1936 - Graham Greene - A Gun For Sale 1937 - Michael Innes - Hamlet, Revenged 1937 - Jonathan Latimer - The Lady in the Morgue 1938 - Daphne du Maurier - Rebecca 1938 - Philip MacDonald - The Nursemaid Who Disappeared (Warrant for X) 1939 - Eric Ambler - The Mask of Demetrios 1939 - Geoffrey Household - Rogue Male 1939 - Ngaio Marsh - Overture to Death 1940 - Raymond Postgate - Verdict of Twelve 1941 - Patrick Hamilton - Hangover Square 1941 - John Mair - Never Come Back 1942 - Cyril Hare - Tragedy at Law 1943 - Raymond Chandler - The High Window 1943 - Simenon - The Lodger 1944 - Vera Caspary - Laura 1945 - Agatha Christie - Death Comes as the End 1945 - William Irish - Phantom Lady 1946 - Edmund Crispin - The Moving Toyshop 1946 - Helen Eustis - The Horizontal Man 1947 - Kenneth Fearing - The Big Clock 1947 - Edgar Lustgarten - A Case to Answer or One More Unfortunate 1948 - John Franklin Bardin - Devil Take the Blue-Tail Fly 1948 - Roy Fuller - With My Little Eye 1949 - Roy Vickers - The Department of Dead Ends 1950 - Charlotte Armstrong - Mischief 1950 - Christianna Brand - Cat and Mouse 1950 - WR Burnett - The Asphalt Jungle 1950 - Michael Gilbert - Smallbone Deceased 1951 - Victor Canning - Venetian Bird 1951 - Georges Simenon - Maigret in Montmartre 1951 - Josephine Tey - The Daughter of Time 1952 - John Bingham - My Name is Michael Sibley 1952 - Edward Grierson - Reputation for a Song 1953 - Raymond Chandler - The Long Goodbye 1953 - John Ross Macdonald - The Ivory Grin 1953 - Hillary Waugh - Last Seen Wearing… 1954 - Ira Levin - A Kiss Before Dying 1955 - Margot Bennett - The Man Who Didn’t Fly 1955 - Michael Innes - The Man From the Sea 1955 - Margaret Millar - A Beast in View 1955 - Patrick Quentin - The Man With Two Wives 1956 - Nicholas Blake - A Tangled Web 1956 - Patricia Highsmith - The Blunderer 1956 - Shelley Smith - The Lord Have Mercy 1957 - Stanley Ellin - Mystery Stories 1957 - Ian Fleming - From Russia With Love 1957 - Meyer Levin - Compulsion Page Layout © 2004 R.D. Collins |