H.R.F. Keating's 100 Best Crime & Mystery Books

Other Names: HRF Keating 100 Best Crime & Mystery Books
100 Works 160,850 Books 4,140 Reviews ½ 3.9
Published in 1987 H.R.F. Keating draws on a lifetime's experience to select his pick of the 100 best books that the genre has to offer. Crime & Mystery: The 100 Best Books by H.R.F. Keating
Year Awarded:
1987
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Tales of Mystery and Imagination (1832) by Edgar Allan Poe
1
The Moonstone (1868) by Wilkie Collins
2
The Mystery of Edwin Drood (1870) by Charles Dickens
3
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (1892) by Arthur Conan Doyle
4
Raffles: The Amateur Cracksman (1898) by E. W. Hornung
5
The Hound of the Baskervilles (1902) by Arthur Conan Doyle
6
Jacques Futrelle's "The Thinking Machine": The Enigmatic Problems of Prof. Augustus S.F.X. Van Dusen, Ph.D., LL.D., F.R.S., M.D., M.D.S. (1907) by Jacques Futrelle
7
The Circular Staircase (1908) by Mary Roberts Rinehart
8
The Innocence of Father Brown (1911) by G. K. Chesterton
9
Uncle Abner: Master of Mysteries (1918) by Melville Davisson Post
10
The Mind of J. G. Reeder (1925) by Edgar Wallace
11
The Murder of Roger Ackroyd (1926) by Agatha Christie
12
Red Harvest (1929) by Dashiell Hammett
13
Death of My Aunt (1929) by C. H. B. Kitchin
14
The Documents in the Case (1930) by Dorothy L. Sayers
15
The Maltese Falcon (1930) by Dashiell Hammett
16
The Sands Of Windee (1931) by Arthur William Upfield
17
Before the Fact (1931) by Francis Iles
18
The Case of the Sulky Girl (1933) by Erle Stanley Gardner
19
Murder on the Orient Express (1934) by Agatha Christie
20
The Postman Always Rings Twice (1934) by James M. Cain
21
The Nine Tailors (1934) by Dorothy L. Sayers
22
The Three Coffins (1935) by John Dickson Carr
23
The League of Frightened Men (1935) by Rex Stout
24
The Lady Vanishes (1936) by Ethel Lina White
25
The Beast Must Die (1938) by Nicholas Blake
26
The Bride Wore Black (1940) by Cornell Woolrich
27
Surfeit of Lampreys (1940) by Ngaio Marsh
28
Calamity Town (1942) by Ellery Queen
29
Tragedy at Law (1942) by Cyril Hare
30
The High Window (1942) by Raymond Chandler
31
Green for Danger (1944) by Christianna Brand
32
Appleby's End (1945) by Michael Innes
33
Murder Among Friends (1946) by Elizabeth Ferrars
34
The Horizontal Man (1946) by Helen Eustis
35
The Moving Toyshop (1946) by Edmund Crispin
36
The Fabulous Clipjoint (1947) by Fredric Brown
37
The Franchise Affair (1948) by Josephine Tey
38
Devil Take the Blue-Tail Fly (1948) by John Franklin Bardin
39
More Work for the Undertaker (1949) by Margery Allingham
40
My Friend Maigret (1949) by Georges Simenon
41
The Asphalt Jungle (1949) by W. R. Burnett
42
Smallbone Deceased (1950) by Michael Gilbert
43
Dirty Snow (1948) by Georges Simenon
44
The Daughter of Time (1951) by Josephine Tey
45
Last Seen Wearing... (1952) by Hillary Waugh
46
The Tiger in the Smoke (1952) by Margery Allingham
47
Five Roundabouts to Heaven (1953) by John Bingham
48
The Long Goodbye (1953) by Raymond Chandler
49
Post Mortem (1953) by Guy Cullingford
50
The Cellar at No. 5 (1954) by Shelley Smith
51
The Talented Mr. Ripley (1955) by Patricia Highsmith
52
Beast in View (1955) by Margaret Millar
53
Gideon's Week (1956) by J. J. Marric
54
Quiet Horror (1956) by Stanley Ellin
55
Maigret in Court (1961) by Georges Simenon
56
The New Sonia Wayward (1960) by Michael Innes
57
Gun Before Butter (1963) by Nicolas Freeling
58
The Expendable Man (1963) by Dorothy B. Hughes
59
Pop. 1280 (1964) by Jim Thompson
60
R.S.V.P. Murder (1965) by Mignon Good Eberhart
61
The Man Who Killed Himself (1967) by Julian Symons
62
Murder Against the Grain (1967) by Emma Lathen
63
Roseanna (1965) by Maj Sjöwall
64
The Last Best Friend (1967) by George Sims
65
The Glass-Sided Ants' Nest (1968) by Peter Dickinson
66
Mr. Splitfoot (1968) by Helen McCloy
67
The Private Wound (1968) by Nicholas Blake
68
The Tremor of Forgery (1969) by Patricia Highsmith
69
Blind Man with a Pistol (1969) by Chester Himes
70
Young Man, I Think You're Dying (1970) by Joan Fleming
71
Beyond This Point Are Monsters (1970) by Margaret Millar
72
Sadie When She Died (1972) by Ed McBain
73
The Friends of Eddie Coyle (1971) by George V. Higgins
74
The Players and the Game (1972) by Julian Symons
75
Mirror Mirror on the Wall (1972) by Stanley Ellin
76
Dance Hall of the Dead (1973) by Tony Hillerman
77
The Poison Oracle (1974) by Peter Dickinson
78
Fletch (1974) by Gregory Mcdonald
79
The Black Tower (1975) by P. D. James
80
The long shadow (2005) by Celia Fremlin
81
The Naked Nuns (1975) by Colin Watson
82
The Blue Hammer (1976) by Ross Macdonald
83
Sleeping Murder (1976) by Agatha Christie
84
A Death in the Life (1976) by Dorothy Salisbury Davis
85
The Investigation (1977) by Dorothy Uhnak
86
A Judgement in Stone (1977) by Ruth Rendell
87
Laidlaw (1977) by William McIlvanney
88
Nobody's Perfect (1977) by Donald E. Westlake
89
A Pinch of Snuff (1978) by Reginald Hill
90
Skinflick (1979) by Joseph Hansen
91
Kill Claudio (1979) by P. M. Hubbard
92
The Green Ripper (1979) by John D. MacDonald
93
All on a Summer's Day (1981) by John William Wainwright
94
Death in a Tenured Position (1981) by Amanda Cross
95
The Glitter Dome (1981) by Joseph Wambaugh
96
To Make a Killing (1982) by June Thomson
97
The False Inspector Dew (1982) by Peter Lovesey
98
The Artful Egg (1984) by James McClure
99
A Taste for Death (1986) by P. D. James
100

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