New York Times Best Mysteries of the Year1973

Given by New York Times

46 Works 9,772 Books 210 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
A Choice of Enemies by Ted Allbeury
1973
The Cat's Eye by Claude Aveline
1973
Fair Game by George Bartram
1973
Spy in Chancery by Kenneth Benton
1973
The Avima Affair by Ned Calmer
1973
The Rainbird Pattern by Victor Canning
1973
The Silent Scream by Michael Collins
1973
The Rocksburg Railroad Murders by K. C. Constantine
1973
Last Man at Arlington by Joseph DiMona
1973
The Billion Dollar Sure Thing by Paul E. Erdman
1973
Blackstone by Richard Falkirk
1973
The Girl Who Passed for Normal by Hugh Fleetwood
1973
A File on Death by Kenneth Giles
1973
Final Notice by Joe Gores
1973
Death Claims by Joseph Hansen
1973
Mister Target by William Harrington
1973
Life sentence by Olga Hesky
1973
Dance Hall of the Dead by Tony Hillerman
1973
Appleby's Answer by Michael Innes
1973
An Unsuitable Job for a Woman by P. D. James
1973
The Thief-Taker by Ben Healey
1973
A Time for Scandal by Hans Hellmut Kirst
1973
The Boondocks by Desmond Lowden
1973
Trevayne by Robert Ludlum
1973
The Vacancy by Patrick Mann
1973
Hail to the Chief by Ed McBain
1973
The Caterpillar Cop by James McClure
1973
Just Sheaffer : Or, Storms in the troubled heir by Ian Mowatt
1973
Any War Will Do by Eric Pace
1973
Colonel Butler's Wolf by Anthony Price
1973
Trip Trap by Julian Rathbone
1973
Rotten with honour by Derek Robinson
1973
The Mushroom Cave by Robert Rosenblum
1973
Circle Of Fire by Mark Sadler
1973
A Maigret Trio [Maigret's Failure / Maigret in Society / Maigret and the Lazy Burglar] by Georges Simenon
1973
The Locked Room by Maj Sjöwall
1973
Canto for a Gypsy by Marin Cruz Smith
1973
Death in the Snow by Richard Martin Stern
1973
They've Shot the President's Daughter! by Edward Stewart
1973
Please Pass the Guilt by Rex Stout
1973
The tooth merchant;: A novel, by C. L. Sulzberger
1973
The Serpent Under It by Edith Taylor
1973
The Medusa Touch by Peter Van Greenaway
1973
Year of the yahoo,: A novel by Victor Wartofsky
1973
They Love Not Poison by Sara Woods
1973
The overlords by William Woolfolk
1973

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