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

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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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WorkOrder Label
The Daughter of Time (1951) by Josephine Tey
1
The Big Sleep (1939) by Raymond Chandler
2
The Spy Who Came in From the Cold (1963) by John le Carré
3
Gaudy Night (1935) by Dorothy L. Sayers
4
The Murder of Roger Ackroyd (1926) by Agatha Christie
5
Rebecca (1938) by Daphne Du Maurier
6
Farewell, My Lovely (1940) by Raymond Chandler
7
The Moonstone (1868) by Wilkie Collins
8
The Ipcress File (1962) by Len Deighton
9
The Maltese Falcon (1930) by Dashiell Hammett
10
The Franchise Affair (1948) by Josephine Tey
11
Last Seen Wearing... (1952) by Hillary Waugh
12
The Name of the Rose (1980) by Umberto Eco
13
Rogue Male (1939) by Geoffrey Household
14
The Long Goodbye (1953) by Raymond Chandler
15
Malice Aforethought (1931) by Francis Iles
16
The Day of the Jackal (1971) by Frederick Forsyth
17
The Nine Tailors (1934) by Dorothy L. Sayers
18
And Then There Were None (1939) by Agatha Christie
19
The Thirty-Nine Steps (1915) by John Buchan
20
The New Annotated Sherlock Holmes: The Complete Short Stories (2004) by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
21
Murder Must Advertise (1933) by Dorothy L. Sayers
22
Tales of Mystery and Imagination (1832) by Edgar Allan Poe
23
The Mask of Dimitrios (1939) by Eric Ambler
24
The Moving Toyshop (1946) by Edmund Crispin
25
The Tiger in the Smoke (1952) by Margery Allingham
26
The False Inspector Dew (1982) by Peter Lovesey
27
The Woman in White (1859) by Wilkie Collins
28
A Dark-Adapted Eye (1986) by Barbara Vine
29
The Postman Always Rings Twice (1934) by James M. Cain
30
The Glass Key (1931) by Dashiell Hammett
31
The Hound of the Baskervilles (1902) by Arthur Conan Doyle
32
Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy (1974) by John le Carré
33
Trent's Last Case (1913) by E. C. Bentley
34
From Russia with Love (1957) by Ian Fleming
35
Cop Hater (1956) by Ed McBain
36
The Dead of Jericho (1981) by Colin Dexter
37
Strangers on a Train (1950) by Patricia Highsmith
38
A Judgement in Stone (1977) by Ruth Rendell
39
The Three Coffins (1935) by John Dickson Carr
40
The Poisoned Chocolates Case (1929) by Anthony Berkeley
41
A Morbid Taste for Bones (1977) by Ellis Peters
42
The Leper of Saint Giles (1981) by Ellis Peters
43
A Kiss before Dying (1953) by Ira Levin
44
The Talented Mr. Ripley (1955) by Patricia Highsmith
45
Brighton Rock (1938) by Graham Greene
46
The Lady in the Lake (1943) by Raymond Chandler
47
Presumed Innocent (1987) by Scott Turow
48
A Demon in My View (1976) by Ruth Rendell
49
The Devil in Velvet (1951) by John Dickson Carr
50
A Fatal Inversion (1987) by Barbara Vine
51
The Journeying Boy (1949) by Michael Innes
52
A Taste for Death (1986) by P. D. James
53
The Eagle Has Landed (1975) by Jack Higgins
54
My Brother Michael (1959) by Mary Stewart
55
Bertie and the Tinman (1987) by Peter Lovesey
56
Penny Black (1984) by Susan Moody
57
Game, Set & Match trilogy (1986) by Len Deighton
58
The Danger (1983) by Dick Francis
59
Devices and Desires (1989) by P. D. James
60
Under World (1988) by Reginald Hill
61
Nine Coaches Waiting (1958) by Mary Stewart
62
A Running Duck (1978) by Paula Gosling
63
Smallbone Deceased (1950) by Michael Gilbert
64
The Rose of Tibet (1962) by Lionel Davidson
65
Innocent Blood (1980) by P. D. James
66
Strong Poison (1930) by Dorothy L. Sayers
67
Hamlet, Revenge! (1937) by Michael Innes
68
A Thief of Time (1988) by Tony Hillerman
69
A Bullet in the Ballet (1937) by Caryl Brahms
70
Deadheads (1983) by Reginald Hill
71
The Third Man (1949) by Graham Greene
72
The Labyrinth Makers (1970) by Anthony Price
73
The Quiller Memorandum (1966) by Adam Hall
74
Beast in View (1955) by Margaret Millar
75
The Shortest Way to Hades (1984) by Sarah Caudwell
76
Running Blind (1970) by Desmond Bagley
77
Twice Shy (1982) by Dick Francis
78
The Manchurian Candidate (1959) by Richard Condon
79
The Killings at Badger's Drift (1987) by Caroline Graham
80
The Case of the Abominable Snowman (1941) by Nicholas Blake
81
Gorky Park (1981) by Marin Cruz Smith
82
Death Comes as the End (1944) by Agatha Christie
83
Green for Danger (1944) by Christianna Brand
84
Tragedy at Law (1942) by Cyril Hare
85
The Collector (1963) by John Fowles
86
Gideon's Day (1955) by J. J. Marric
87
The Sun Chemist (1976) by Lionel Davidson
88
The Guns of Navarone (1957) by Alistair MacLean
89
The Colour of Murder (1957) by Julian Symons
90
Greenmantle (1916) by John Buchan
91
The Riddle of the Sands (1903) by Erskine Childers
92
Wobble to Death (1970) by Peter Lovesey
93
Red Harvest (1929) by Dashiell Hammett
94
The Key to Rebecca (1980) by Ken Follett
95
Sadie When She Died (1972) by Ed McBain
96
The Murder of the Maharajah (1980) by H. R. F. Keating
97
What Bloody Man is That? (1987) by Simon Brett
98
Shooting Script (1966) by Gavin Lyall
99
The Four Just Men (1905) by Edgar Wallace
100

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