Barzun and Taylor's Classics of Crime

Based on bookaward
Barzun and Taylor's Classics of Crime
1
Strong Poison
by Dorothy L. Sayers
4,899 members
139 reviews
4.1
3 Members
merrystar, NinieB, ManWithAnAgenda
2
The Murder of Roger Ackroyd
by Agatha Christie
12,041 members
385 reviews
4.1
3 Members
merrystar, NinieB, ManWithAnAgenda
3
The Hound of the Baskervilles
by Arthur Conan Doyle
17,816 members
341 reviews
3.9
3 Members
merrystar, NinieB, ManWithAnAgenda
4
The Lady in the Lake
by Raymond Chandler
3,710 members
69 reviews
4
2 Members
NinieB, ManWithAnAgenda
5
A Blunt Instrument
by Georgette Heyer
954 members
31 reviews
½ 3.6
2 Members
merrystar, NinieB
6
Cover Her Face
by P. D. James
3,701 members
96 reviews
½ 3.6
2 Members
merrystar, NinieB
7
The Secret of High Eldersham
by Miles Burton
227 members
6 reviews
3.2
2 Members
merrystar, NinieB
8
The Innocence of Father Brown
by G. K. Chesterton
2,250 members
61 reviews
½ 3.6
2 Members
merrystar, NinieB
9
The Singing Sands
by Josephine Tey
1,633 members
55 reviews
3.8
Member
merrystar
10
The Red House Mystery
by A. A. Milne
1,876 members
97 reviews
½ 3.5
Member
NinieB
11
Too Many Cooks
by Rex Stout
1,091 members
34 reviews
3.9
Member
NinieB
12
Trent's Last Case
by E. C. Bentley
1,024 members
35 reviews
½ 3.6
Member
NinieB
13
The Drowning Pool
by Ross Macdonald
928 members
20 reviews
3.8
Member
NinieB
14
A New Lease of Death
by Ruth Rendell
761 members
15 reviews
½ 3.4
Member
NinieB
15
The Big Clock
by Kenneth Fearing
741 members
33 reviews
½ 3.7
Member
NinieB
16
Smallbone Deceased
by Michael Gilbert
512 members
19 reviews
3.9
Member
NinieB
17
The Bone Is Pointed
by Arthur William Upfield
349 members
8 reviews
3.8
Member
NinieB
18
The Daffodil Affair
by Michael Innes
285 members
14 reviews
½ 3.4
Member
NinieB
19
The Wind Blows Death
by Cyril Hare
266 members
14 reviews
3.8
Member
NinieB
20
A Private View
by Michael Innes
252 members
6 reviews
½ 3.6
Member
NinieB
21
The Horizontal Man
by Helen Eustis
196 members
5 reviews
½ 3.3
Member
NinieB
22
Minute for Murder
by Nicholas Blake
170 members
7 reviews
½ 3.7
Member
NinieB
23
Death and Letters
by Elizabeth Daly
121 members
2 reviews
3.8
Member
NinieB
24
The Box Office Murders
by Freeman Wills Crofts
86 members
3 reviews
½ 3.4
Member
NinieB
25
Furious Old Women
by Leo Bruce
62 members
1 review
½ 3.7
Member
NinieB
26
The Birthday Murder
by Lange Lewis
51 members
1 review
3.1
Member
NinieB
27
The Second Man
by Edward Grierson
46 members
3 reviews
½ 3.3
Member
NinieB
28
Beyond a Reasonable Doubt
by C. W. Grafton
38 members
1 review
½ 3.5
Member
NinieB
29
A Banner for Pegasus
by John Bonett
34 members
3.8
Member
NinieB
30
Too Much of Water
by Bruce Hamilton
27 members
4
Member
NinieB
31
A Funeral in Eden
by Paul McGuire
25 members
1 review
½ 3.3
Member
NinieB
32
The Missing Man
by Hillary Waugh
22 members
4.1
Member
NinieB
33
"Found Drowned"
by Eden Phillpotts
10 members
1 review
3
Member
NinieB
34
Death Under Sail
by C. P. Snow
196 members
4 reviews
3.1
Member
NinieB
35
Who Is the Next?
by Henry Kitchell Webster
21 members
2 reviews
½ 3.5
Member
NinieB
36
Was It Murder?
by James Hilton
143 members
5 reviews
½ 3.3
Member
NinieB
37
The Fly on the Wall
by Tony Hillerman
1,081 members
18 reviews
½ 3.3
Member
NinieB
38
The Man Who Liked to Look at Himself
by K. C. Constantine
89 members
1 review
½ 3.5
Member
NinieB
39
Dead Cert
by Dick Francis
1,392 members
26 reviews
3.8
40
Swing, Brother, Swing
by Ngaio Marsh
783 members
13 reviews
½ 3.5
41
The Case of the Crooked Candle
by Erle Stanley Gardner
287 members
8 reviews
½ 3.7
42
Johnny Under Ground
by Patricia Moyes
234 members
1 review
½ 3.6
43
The Division Bell Mystery
by Ellen Wilkinson
182 members
13 reviews
½ 3.5
44
Murder Makes the Wheels Go Round
by Emma Lathen
176 members
5 reviews
½ 3.7
45
Dead Low Tide
by John D. MacDonald
171 members
6 reviews
3.8
46
Never Pick Up Hitch-hikers!
by Ellis Peters
153 members
4 reviews
4
47
The Flaxborough Crab
by Colin Watson
139 members
11 reviews
3.8
48
The Key to Nicholas Street
by Stanley Ellin
98 members
1 review
3.1
49
The Singing Bone
by R. Austin Freeman
97 members
5 reviews
½ 3.5
50
Max Carrados
by Ernest Bramah
83 members
2 reviews
½ 3.4
51
Salt is Leaving
by J. B. Priestley
80 members
2 reviews
3.1
52
Gideon's River
by J. J. Marric
76 members
2 reviews
½ 3.7
53
No Tears for Hilda
by Andrew Garve
70 members
3 reviews
½ 3.3
54
The Deep End
by Fredric Brown
69 members
2 reviews
½ 3.7
55
The Narrowing Circle
by Julian Symons
66 members
1 review
½ 3.3
56
The Circular Study
by Anna Katharine Green
61 members
4 reviews
2.9
57
The Mummy Case Mystery
by Dermot Morrah
46 members
1 review
3.9
58
The Congo Venus
by Matthew Head
45 members
3 reviews
3.9
59
The Murder at Crome House
by G. D. H. Cole
36 members
3 reviews
½ 2.7
60
Pick Your Victim
by Patricia McGerr
31 members
½ 3.7
61
Finding Maubee
by A. H. Z. Carr
29 members
4
62
In accordance with the evidence
by Oliver Onions
27 members
2 reviews
½ 3.6
63
Measure for Murder
by Clifford Witting
27 members
3
64
The Dying Alderman
by Henry Wade
26 members
3 reviews
½ 3.6
65
The Hammersmith Maggot
by William Younger
25 members
1 review
½ 3.3
66
High Tide
by P. M. Hubbard
23 members
½ 3.6
67
The Jury
by Gerald Bullett
23 members
½ 3.4
68
Swift to Its Close
by Simon Troy
20 members
1 review
3.8
69
A Sad Song Singing
by Thomas B. Dewey
17 members
3
70
The Shadowy Third
by Harry Kurnitz
17 members
2
71
Such Friends Are Dangerous
by Walter Tyrer
15 members
½ 3.5
72
The dark river (Perennial Library mystery series)
by Philip Clark
14 members
4
73
Killed by scandal
by Simon Nash
14 members
4
74
Exit Charlie
by Alex Atkinson
14 members
1 review
2.8
75
Alarum and excursion
by Virginia Perdue
14 members
2.8
76
The Body in the Beck
by Joanna Cannan
14 members
½ 2.7
77
Murder in the Moor
by Thomas Kindon
13 members
½ 3.5
78
Classic stories of crime and detection
by Jacques Barzun
11 members
2
79
Engaged to Murder
by M. V. Heberden
10 members
80
Murder of a Wife
by Henry Kuttner
9 members
½ 2.5
81
On the Shady Side
by Frank Swinnerton
9 members
82
The Pub Crawler
by Maurice Procter
8 members
½ 2.5
83
The Tender Killer
by S. B. Hough
7 members
3
84
Suffer a Witch
by Nigel Fitzgerald
7 members
3
85
The crayfish dinner
by Carlton Keith
7 members
86
Another Mystery in Suva
by Frank Arthur
6 members
3.2
87
Stone cold dead in the market
by Christopher Landon
6 members
3
88
Blood on the Bosom Devine
by Alfred Harbage
5 members
½ 3.3
89
The Night Hunters
by John Miles
5 members
1 review
½ 2.5
90
Strip death naked
by Norman Longmate
4 members
½ 2.5
91
Swan Song
by Helen Robertson
4 members
92
Mr. Fortune: Eight of His Adventures
by H. C. Bailey
3 members
1 review
4
93
The Dead Past
by Jean Scholey
1 member
94
Dancers in Mourning
by Margery Allingham
702 members
19 reviews
½ 3.7
95
In the Last Analysis
by Amanda Cross
548 members
15 reviews
½ 3.3
96
Buried for Pleasure
by Edmund Crispin
528 members
15 reviews
3.8
97
The Lacquer Screen
by Robert van Gulik
528 members
13 reviews
½ 3.7
98
The African Poison Murders
by Elspeth Huxley
144 members
4 reviews
½ 3.3
99
Death Finds a Foothold (An Abercrombie Lewker Welsh Climbing Mystery)
by Glyn Carr
13 members
2