Publisher SeriesThe Best Mysteries of All Time

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Above Suspicion by Helen MacInnes 484 copies, 22 reviews2007
Anatomy of a Murder by Robert Traver 898 copies, 21 reviews2000
And Then There Were None by Agatha Christie 21,283 copies, 538 reviews2009
Ashenden, or, The British Agent by W. Somerset Maugham 1,026 copies, 33 reviews2006
The Asphalt Jungle by W. R. Burnett 255 copies, 4 reviews2013
Before the Fact by Francis Iles 252 copies, 16 reviews2012
The Big Sleep by Raymond Chandler 10,307 copies, 284 reviews2002
The Black Echo by Michael Connelly 5,612 copies, 164 reviews2004
Briarpatch by Ross Thomas 390 copies, 16 reviews2005
Burglars Can't Be Choosers by Lawrence Block 1,146 copies, 30 reviews2010
Calamity Town by Ellery Queen 327 copies, 8 reviews2003
The Case of the Velvet Claws by Erle Stanley Gardner 502 copies, 17 reviews2002
Cat and Mouse by Christianna Brand 74 copies, 2 reviews2013
Chiefs by Stuart Woods 787 copies, 31 reviews2008
The Chill by Ross Macdonald 734 copies, 21 reviews2003
Clouds of Witness by Dorothy L. Sayers 3,666 copies, 102 reviews2006
Crocodile on the Sandbank by Elizabeth Peters 4,597 copies, 227 reviews2004
Dance Hall of the Dead by Tony Hillerman 2,002 copies, 56 reviews2003
The Daughter of Time by Josephine Tey 5,918 copies, 226 reviews2003
The Day of the Jackal by Frederick Forsyth 5,309 copies, 90 reviews2001
Deadlock by Sara Paretsky 1,100 copies, 20 reviews2004
Death of a Dissident by Stuart M. Kaminsky 233 copies, 3 reviews2010
The Deep Blue Good-by by John D. MacDonald 1,877 copies, 49 reviews2004
The Doorbell Rang by Rex Stout 1,377 copies, 30 reviews2000
A Dram of Poison by Charlotte Armstrong 170 copies, 6 reviews2013
Eye of the Needle by Ken Follett 5,352 copies, 93 reviews2001
The False Inspector Dew by Peter Lovesey 438 copies, 18 reviews2006
Final Appeal by Lisa Scottoline 644 copies, 10 reviews2008
Fletch by Gregory Mcdonald 1,084 copies, 19 reviews2009
The Franchise Affair by Josephine Tey 2,141 copies, 83 reviews2008
A Gentle Murderer by Dorothy Salisbury Davis 59 copies, 3 reviews2012
Gorky Park by Marin Cruz Smith 3,807 copies, 78 reviews2007
Grave Mistake by Ngaio Marsh 737 copies, 12 reviews2008
A Great Deliverance by Elizabeth George 3,694 copies, 107 reviews2005
Green for Danger by Christianna Brand 447 copies, 14 reviews2005
Home Sweet Homicide by Craig Rice 178 copies, 8 reviews2008
Hopscotch by Brian Garfield 184 copies, 6 reviews2011
The Horizontal Man by Helen Eustis 166 copies, 5 reviews2011
I, the Jury by Mickey Spillane 712 copies, 29 reviews2006
Ice by Ed McBain 462 copies, 12 reviews2003
The Ice House by Minette Walters 1,605 copies, 24 reviews2012
In a Lonely Place by Dorothy B. Hughes 893 copies, 34 reviews2006
In the Heat of the Night by John Ball 416 copies, 12 reviews2005
A is for Alibi by Sue Grafton 6,608 copies, 212 reviews2001
The Ivory Grin by Ross Macdonald 534 copies, 20 reviews2009
A Judgement in Stone by Ruth Rendell 1,054 copies, 32 reviews2009
A Kiss before Dying by Ira Levin 1,291 copies, 38 reviews1999
L. A. Requiem by Robert Crais 1,834 copies, 35 reviews2010
Last Seen Wearing... by Hillary Waugh 173 copies, 11 reviews2004
The Laughing Policeman by Maj Sjöwall 1,840 copies, 65 reviews2007
Laura by Vera Caspary 563 copies, 25 reviews2002
The Long Goodbye by Raymond Chandler 5,241 copies, 114 reviews2005
The Maltese Falcon by Dashiell Hammett 9,172 copies, 279 reviews2001
The Man from the Sea by Michael Innes 184 copies, 1 review2010
The Man with a Load of Mischief by Martha Grimes 1,587 copies, 29 reviews2006
I Married a Dead Man by Cornell Woolrich 338 copies, 15 reviews2003
The Mask of Dimitrios by Eric Ambler 1,846 copies, 50 reviews2004
Mildred Pierce by James M. Cain 1,220 copies, 46 reviews2003
The Moonstone by Wilkie Collins 10,811 copies, 251 reviews2002
A Morbid Taste for Bones by Ellis Peters 3,942 copies, 103 reviews2007
Mortal Stakes by Robert B. Parker 1,088 copies, 19 reviews2002
The Moving Toyshop by Edmund Crispin 1,444 copies, 62 reviews2012
Murder on the Orient Express by Agatha Christie 17,178 copies, 422 reviews1999
The Mysterious Affair at Styles by Agatha Christie 8,953 copies, 288 reviews2012
Old Bones by Aaron Elkins 589 copies, 16 reviews2012
The Perfect Murder by H. R. F. Keating 225 copies, 7 reviews2010
Postmortem by Patricia Cornwell 7,175 copies, 107 reviews2000
The Quiller Memorandum by Adam Hall 436 copies, 13 reviews2008
Red Harvest by Dashiell Hammett 3,016 copies, 88 reviews2012
The Riddle of the Sands by Erskine Childers 2,595 copies, 68 reviews2008
The Scarlet Pimpernel by Baroness Orczy 8,825 copies, 191 reviews2007
A Ship of the Line by C. S. Forester 1,764 copies, 29 reviews2010
Shroud for a Nightingale by P. D. James 2,188 copies, 43 reviews2002
The Sign of Four & The Valley of Fear (The Best Mysteries of All Time) by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle 42 copies2007
Smallbone Deceased by Michael Gilbert 439 copies, 18 reviews2011
A Stranger in My Grave by Margaret Millar 245 copies, 6 reviews2002
Surfeit of Lampreys by Ngaio Marsh 962 copies, 19 reviews2003
A Thief of Time by Tony Hillerman 2,478 copies, 45 reviews2005
The Three Coffins by John Dickson Carr 798 copies, 33 reviews2009
The Tiger in the Smoke by Margery Allingham 1,416 copies, 49 reviews2005
Where Are the Children? by Mary Higgins Clark 2,298 copies, 34 reviews2001
Whip Hand by Dick Francis 1,339 copies, 19 reviews2001

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The Thirty-Nine Steps [and] Greenmantle by John Buchan 66 copies, 1 review2009

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