New York Times Best Mysteries of the Year

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New York Times Best Mysteries of the Year
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Nemesis
by Agatha Christie
3,656 members
79 reviews
½ 3.7
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An Unsuitable Job for a Woman
by P. D. James
2,616 members
54 reviews
½ 3.7
2 Members
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3
Picture Miss Seeton
by Heron Carvic
294 members
17 reviews
½ 3.6
2 Members
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4
Shroud for a Nightingale
by P. D. James
2,189 members
43 reviews
3.8
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Dance Hall of the Dead
by Tony Hillerman
1,997 members
56 reviews
3.8
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6
Murder Being Once Done
by Ruth Rendell
609 members
10 reviews
½ 3.6
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7
No More Dying Then
by Ruth Rendell
586 members
13 reviews
½ 3.7
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8
Fuzz
by Ed McBain
330 members
8 reviews
½ 3.5
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9
Hail to the Chief
by Ed McBain
314 members
3 reviews
½ 3.5
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10
Death Claims
by Joseph Hansen
289 members
12 reviews
3.8
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11
The Open House
by Michael Innes
140 members
9 reviews
3.9
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12
The Rocksburg Railroad Murders
by K. C. Constantine
97 members
1 review
4
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13
The Man Who Liked to Look at Himself
by K. C. Constantine
85 members
1 review
½ 3.5
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14
Final Notice
by Joe Gores
76 members
4 reviews
4.1
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15
A Time of Predators
by Joe Gores
48 members
1 review
4
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16
Murder Among Children
by Tucker Coe
60 members
1 review
½ 3.3
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17
Appleby's Answer
by Michael Innes
173 members
6 reviews
½ 3.5
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18
Appleby's Other Story
by Michael Innes
157 members
6 reviews
3.8
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19
A Case of Need
by Michael Crichton
3,255 members
46 reviews
½ 3.4
20
The Laughing Policeman
by Maj Sjöwall
1,845 members
66 reviews
3.9
21
Trevayne
by Robert Ludlum
1,247 members
9 reviews
½ 3.3
22
The Locked Room
by Maj Sjöwall
1,180 members
34 reviews
½ 3.7
23
Murder at the Savoy
by Maj Sjöwall
1,124 members
28 reviews
½ 3.7
24
Blood Sport
by Dick Francis
1,085 members
20 reviews
½ 3.6
25
The Abominable Man
by Maj Sjöwall
1,076 members
26 reviews
3.8
26
Slay Ride
by Dick Francis
1,071 members
17 reviews
½ 3.6
27
Forfeit
by Dick Francis
1,040 members
17 reviews
½ 3.7
28
The Friends of Eddie Coyle
by George V. Higgins
942 members
44 reviews
4
29
The Hot Rock
by Donald E. Westlake
910 members
31 reviews
3.9
30
The Girl in the Plain Brown Wrapper
by John D. MacDonald
888 members
14 reviews
3.9
31
The Eiger Sanction
by Trevanian
839 members
12 reviews
½ 3.7
32
The Turquoise Lament
by John D. MacDonald
767 members
14 reviews
3.8
33
Please Pass the Guilt
by Rex Stout
657 members
8 reviews
½ 3.7
34
Sunday the Rabbi Stayed Home
by Harry Kemelman
622 members
13 reviews
½ 3.6
35
Tuesday The Rabbi Saw Red
by Harry Kemelman
618 members
9 reviews
½ 3.7
36
Binary
by Michael Crichton
509 members
7 reviews
3.2
37
Bank Shot
by Donald E. Westlake
495 members
19 reviews
4
38
Henrietta Who?
by Catherine Aird
361 members
13 reviews
½ 3.7
39
The Levanter
by Eric Ambler
327 members
7 reviews
½ 3.7
40
The Steam Pig
by James McClure
235 members
9 reviews
½ 3.5
41
The Old English Peep Show
by Peter Dickinson
190 members
4 reviews
½ 3.4
42
When in Greece
by Emma Lathen
189 members
3 reviews
4.2
43
The Savage Day
by Jack Higgins
189 members
3 reviews
½ 3.4
44
Sweet and Low
by Emma Lathen
173 members
2 reviews
3.9
45
The Poison Oracle
by Peter Dickinson
170 members
3 reviews
½ 3.5
46
Canto for a Gypsy
by Marin Cruz Smith
150 members
3 reviews
½ 3.5
47
Colonel Butler's Wolf
by Anthony Price
144 members
3 reviews
4
48
The Billion Dollar Sure Thing
by Paul E. Erdman
136 members
2 reviews
½ 3.6
50
11 Harrowhouse
by Gerald A. Browne
135 members
6 reviews
½ 3.3
51
The Caterpillar Cop
by James McClure
104 members
4 reviews
½ 3.7
52
The Lizard in the Cup
by Peter Dickinson
91 members
4.1
53
The Porkchoppers
by Ross Thomas
90 members
1 review
3.9
54
Gideon's River
by J. J. Marric
75 members
2 reviews
½ 3.7
55
The Rainbird Pattern
by Victor Canning
71 members
½ 3.5
56
The Plot against Roger Rider
by Julian Symons
67 members
4.1
57
The Highbinders
by Oliver Bleeck
66 members
4
58
A Raft of Swords
by Duncan Kyle
63 members
2.8
59
Snowball
by Ted Allbeury
59 members
1 review
3
60
Gently with the Innocents
by Alan Hunter
56 members
1 review
4
61
Mirror Mirror on the Wall
by Stanley Ellin
56 members
1 review
½ 3.5
62
The Yermakov Transfer
by Derek Lambert
53 members
2 reviews
½ 3.3
63
Last Man at Arlington
by Joseph DiMona
48 members
1 review
½ 3.6
64
The Bait
by Dorothy Uhnak
47 members
½ 3.5
65
The Valentine Estate
by Stanley Ellin
46 members
½ 4.7
66
Wax Apple
by Tucker Coe
44 members
½ 2.6
67
A Choice of Enemies
by Ted Allbeury
43 members
2 reviews
3.8
68
The Wilby Conspiracy
by Peter Driscoll
39 members
3.2
69
Epitaph for a Lobbyist
by R. B. Dominic
37 members
1 review
½ 3.4
70
Interface
by Joe Gores
35 members
1 review
½ 3.6
71
The Captors
by John Farris
35 members
2
72
A Time for Scandal
by Hans Hellmut Kirst
34 members
4.2
73
Dover Goes to Pott
by Joyce Porter
34 members
1 review
3.9
74
Penelope
by William C. Anderson
31 members
½ 2.3
75
Blackstone
by Richard Falkirk
29 members
2 reviews
3.2
76
The Threepersons Hunt
by Brian Garfield
28 members
1 review
3
77
They Love Not Poison
by Sara Woods
28 members
3
78
Yet She Must Die
by Sara Woods
26 members
1 review
½ 4.5
79
The Nixon Recession Caper
by Ralph Maloney
26 members
½ 2.5
80
The Spy Who Died of Boredom
by George Mikes
20 members
3 reviews
3
81
This Suitcase is Going to Explode
by Tom Ardies
19 members
½ 3.5
82
They've Shot the President's Daughter!
by Edward Stewart
19 members
1 review
½ 3.3
83
The Medusa Touch
by Peter Van Greenaway
18 members
½ 4.3
84
The Queen of America
by Russell H. Greenan
17 members
½ 4.5
85
Shadow of a Tiger
by Michael Collins
17 members
½ 2.5
86
The Kiriov Tapes
by Owen Sela
17 members
2
87
On the Prime Minister's Account
by Olle Högstrand
17 members
88
The Ross Forgery
by William H. Hallahan
16 members
1 review
½ 2.5
89
The Todd Dossier
by Collier Young
15 members
½ 3.3
90
The Girl Who Passed for Normal
by Hugh Fleetwood
15 members
1 review
3
91
The Silent Scream
by Michael Collins
15 members
92
Rotten with honour
by Derek Robinson
14 members
4
93
The Last Doorbell
by Joseph Harrington
14 members
3.9
94
The Man with the Tiny Head
by Ivor Drummond
14 members
2
95
The White Room
by L. P. Davies
13 members
1 review
½ 3.5
96
The Thief-Taker
by Ben Healey
12 members
2.8
97
Death in the Snow
by Richard Martin Stern
12 members
98
Box 100
by Frank Leonard
12 members
99
Location Shots
by J. F. Burke
11 members
2
100
The girl in cabin B54
by Lucille Fletcher
11 members