Book awards: Top 100 Crime Novels of All Time - UK Crime Writers' Association

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Titles	Order
The Daughter of Time by Josephine Tey	1
The Big Sleep by Raymond Chandler	2
The Spy Who Came in From the Cold by John le Carré	3
Gaudy Night by Dorothy L. Sayers	4
The Murder of Roger Ackroyd by Agatha Christie	5
Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier	6
Farewell, My Lovely by Raymond Chandler	7
The Moonstone by Wilkie Collins	8
The Ipcress File by Len Deighton	9
The Maltese Falcon by Dashiell Hammett	10
The Franchise Affair by Josephine Tey	11
Last Seen Wearing... by Hillary Waugh	12
The Name of the Rose by Umberto Eco	13
Rogue Male by Geoffrey Household	14
The Long Goodbye by Raymond Chandler	15
Malice Aforethought by Francis Iles	16
The Day of the Jackal by Frederick Forsyth	17
The Nine Tailors by Dorothy L. Sayers	18
And Then There Were None by Agatha Christie	19
The Thirty-Nine Steps by John Buchan	20
The New Annotated Sherlock Holmes (Omnibus) by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle	21
Murder Must Advertise by Dorothy L. Sayers	22
Tales of Mystery and Imagination by Edgar Allan Poe	23
A Coffin for Dimitrios by Eric Ambler	24
The Moving Toyshop by Edmund Crispin	25
The Tiger in the Smoke by Margery Allingham	26
The False Inspector Dew by Peter Lovesey	27
The Woman in White by Wilkie Collins	28
A Dark-Adapted Eye by Barbara Vine	29
The Postman Always Rings Twice by James M. Cain	30
The Glass Key by Dashiell Hammett	31
The Hound of the Baskervilles by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle	32
Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy by John le Carré	33
Trent's Last Case by E. C. Bentley	34
From Russia with Love by Ian Fleming	35
Cop Hater by Ed McBain	36
The Dead of Jericho by Colin Dexter	37
Strangers on a Train by Patricia Highsmith	38
A Judgement in Stone by Ruth Rendell	39
The Three Coffins by John Dickson Carr	40
The Poisoned Chocolates Case by Anthony Berkeley	41
A Morbid Taste for Bones by Ellis Peters	42
The Leper of Saint Giles by Ellis Peters	43
A Kiss Before Dying by Ira Levin	44
The Talented Mr. Ripley by Patricia Highsmith	45
Brighton Rock by Graham Greene	46
The Lady in the Lake by Raymond Chandler	47
Presumed Innocent by Scott Turow	48
A Demon in My View by Ruth Rendell	49
The Devil in Velvet by John Dickson Carr	50
A Fatal Inversion by Barbara Vine	51
The Journeying Boy by Michael Innes	52
A Taste for Death by P. D. James	53
The Eagle Has Landed by Jack Higgins	54
My Brother Michael by Mary Stewart	55
Bertie and the Tinman by Peter Lovesey	56
Penny Black by Susan Moody	57
Game, Set & Match by Len Deighton	58
The Danger by Dick Francis	59
Devices and Desires by P. D. James	60
Under World by Reginald Hill	61
Nine Coaches Waiting by Mary Stewart	62
A Running Duck by Paula Gosling	63
Smallbone Deceased by Michael Gilbert	64
The Rose of Tibet by Lionel Davidson	65
Innocent Blood by P. D. James	66
Strong Poison by Dorothy L. Sayers	67
Hamlet, revenge! by Michael Innes	68
A Thief of Time by Tony Hillerman	69
A Bullet in the Ballet by Caryl Brahms	70
Deadheads by Reginald Hill	71
The Third Man by Graham Greene	72
The Labyrinth Makers by Anthony Price	73
The Quiller Memorandum by Adam Hall	74
Beast in View by Margaret Millar	75
The Shortest Way to Hades by Sarah Caudwell	76
Running Blind by Desmond Bagley	77
Twice Shy by Dick Francis	78
The Manchurian Candidate by Richard Condon	79
The Killings at Badger's Drift (Inspector Barnaby Mysteries) by Caroline Graham	80
The Beast Must Die by Nicholas Blake	81
Gorky Park by Martin Cruz Smith	82
Death Comes As the End by Agatha Christie	83
Green for Danger by Christianna Brand	84
Tragedy at Law by Cyril Hare	85
The Collector by John Fowles	86
Gideon's Day by J. J. Marric	87
The Sun Chemist by Lionel Davidson	88
The Guns of Navarone by Alistair MacLean	89
The Color of Murder by Julian Symons	90
Greenmantle by John Buchan	91
The Riddle of the Sands by Erskine Childers	92
Wobble to Death by Peter Lovesey	93
Red Harvest by Dashiell Hammett	94
The Key to Rebecca by Ken Follett	95
Sadie When She Died by Ed McBain	96
The Murder of the Maharajah by H. R. F. Keating	97
What Bloody Man is That? by Simon Brett	98
Shooting Script by Gavin Lyall	99
The Four Just Men by Edgar Wallace	100

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Shroud for a Nightingale by P. D. James
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The Odessa File by Frederick Forsyth
Smiley's People by John le Carré
The Dain Curse by Dashiell Hammett
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Double Indemnity by James M. Cain
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The Top 100 Crime Novels of All Time is a list published in book form in 1990 by the British-based Crime Writers' Association.

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