New York Times Best Mysteries of the Year1972

Given by New York Times

40 Works 12,881 Books 303 Reviews ½ 3.7
This list includes mysteries highlighted in year-end roundups in the New York Times. For best mysteries in the Times 1949-1968, see the award Anthony Boucher's Best Crime Fiction of the Year.
Years:
All, 1974 (30), 1973 (46), 1972 (40), 1970 (8), 1969 (15), 1968 (13)
WorkYear
The Levanter by Eric Ambler
1972
This Suitcase is Going to Explode by Tom Ardies
1972
11 Harrowhouse by Gerald A. Browne
1972
Nemesis by Agatha Christie
1972
Shadow of a Tiger by Michael Collins
1972
If you want to see your wife again ... a novel of suspense. by John Craig
1972
Binary by Michael Crichton
1972
A touch of darkness by John Crowe
1972
Shock Wave by Dorothy Salisbury Davis
1972
The Lizard in the Cup by Peter Dickinson
1972
The Wilby Conspiracy by Peter Driscoll
1972
Henry in a Silver Frame by James Eastwood
1972
The gilt-edged traitor by Matthew Eden
1972
Mirror Mirror on the Wall by Stanley Ellin
1972
The chickens in the airshaft by Steve Franklin
1972
The Listener by John Gill
1972
The Queen of America by Russell H. Greenan
1972
Through the Dark and Hairy Wood by Shaun Herron
1972
On the Prime Minister's Account by Olle Högstrand
1972
The Friends of Eddie Coyle by George V. Higgins
1972
The Savage Day by Jack Higgins
1972
Father Pig by Burt Hirschfeld
1972
The Open House by Michael Innes
1972
Shroud for a Nightingale by P. D. James
1972
The Probability Factor by Walter Kempley
1972
Box 100 by Frank Leonard
1972
The Night is a Child by Richard Llewellyn
1972
The Nixon Recession Caper by Ralph Maloney
1972
The Steam Pig by James McClure
1972
A missing person by Oscar Millard
1972
Murder Being Once Done by Ruth Rendell
1972
Davis Doesn't Live Here Any More by Jack Ripley
1972
Folio Forty-One. by Michael Sinclair
1972
The Abominable Man by Maj Sjöwall
1972
Murder at the Savoy by Maj Sjöwall
1972
The Porkchoppers by Ross Thomas
1972
The apartment on K Street by Robert J. Travers
1972
The Eiger Sanction by Trevanian
1972
The Judas Gospel by Peter Van Greenway
1972
Bank Shot by Donald E. Westlake
1972

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