Publisher SeriesThe Best Mysteries of All Time

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Above Suspicion by Helen MacInnes 461 copies, 22 reviews2007
Anatomy of a Murder by Robert Traver 880 copies, 21 reviews2000
And Then There Were None by Agatha Christie 20,440 copies, 519 reviews2009
Ashenden, or, The British Agent by W. Somerset Maugham 995 copies, 32 reviews2006
The Asphalt Jungle by W. R. Burnett 249 copies, 4 reviews2013
Before the Fact by Francis Iles 243 copies, 16 reviews2012
The Big Sleep by Raymond Chandler 10,049 copies, 277 reviews2002
The Black Echo by Michael Connelly 5,485 copies, 160 reviews2004
Briarpatch by Ross Thomas 383 copies, 16 reviews2005
Burglars Can't Be Choosers by Lawrence Block 1,117 copies, 28 reviews2010
Calamity Town by Ellery Queen 315 copies, 8 reviews2003
The Case of the Velvet Claws by Erle Stanley Gardner 477 copies, 15 reviews2002
Cat and Mouse by Christianna Brand 74 copies, 2 reviews2013
Chiefs by Stuart Woods 777 copies, 31 reviews2008
The Chill by Ross Macdonald 712 copies, 20 reviews2003
Clouds of Witness by Dorothy L. Sayers 3,563 copies, 102 reviews2006
Crocodile on the Sandbank by Elizabeth Peters 4,514 copies, 221 reviews2004
Dance Hall of the Dead by Tony Hillerman 1,944 copies, 54 reviews2003
The Daughter of Time by Josephine Tey 5,789 copies, 225 reviews2003
The Day of the Jackal by Frederick Forsyth 5,199 copies, 89 reviews2001
Deadlock by Sara Paretsky 1,086 copies, 20 reviews2004
Death of a Dissident by Stuart M. Kaminsky 221 copies, 3 reviews2010
The Deep Blue Good-by by John D. MacDonald 1,833 copies, 48 reviews2004
The Doorbell Rang by Rex Stout 1,342 copies, 30 reviews2000
A Dram of Poison by Charlotte Armstrong 170 copies, 6 reviews2013
Eye of the Needle by Ken Follett 5,231 copies, 92 reviews2001
The False Inspector Dew by Peter Lovesey 432 copies, 18 reviews2006
Final Appeal by Lisa Scottoline 632 copies, 10 reviews2008
Fletch by Gregory Mcdonald 1,059 copies, 18 reviews2009
The Franchise Affair by Josephine Tey 2,076 copies, 81 reviews2008
A Gentle Murderer by Dorothy Salisbury Davis 55 copies, 3 reviews2012
Gorky Park by Marin Cruz Smith 3,717 copies, 77 reviews2007
Grave Mistake by Ngaio Marsh 726 copies, 12 reviews2008
A Great Deliverance by Elizabeth George 3,631 copies, 106 reviews2005
Green for Danger by Christianna Brand 421 copies, 13 reviews2005
Home Sweet Homicide by Craig Rice 170 copies, 8 reviews2008
Hopscotch by Brian Garfield 178 copies, 6 reviews2011
The Horizontal Man by Helen Eustis 159 copies, 4 reviews2011
I, the Jury by Mickey Spillane 682 copies, 29 reviews2006
Ice by Ed McBain 458 copies, 12 reviews2003
The Ice House by Minette Walters 1,578 copies, 24 reviews2012
In a Lonely Place by Dorothy B. Hughes 841 copies, 33 reviews2006
In the Heat of the Night by John Ball 404 copies, 12 reviews2005
A is for Alibi by Sue Grafton 6,506 copies, 176 reviews2001
The Ivory Grin by Ross Macdonald 516 copies, 20 reviews2009
A Judgement in Stone by Ruth Rendell 1,026 copies, 31 reviews2009
A Kiss before Dying by Ira Levin 1,267 copies, 38 reviews1999
L. A. Requiem by Robert Crais 1,798 copies, 35 reviews2010
Last Seen Wearing... by Hillary Waugh 170 copies, 11 reviews2004
The Laughing Policeman by Maj Sjöwall 1,805 copies, 65 reviews2007
Laura by Vera Caspary 542 copies, 24 reviews2002
The Long Goodbye by Raymond Chandler 5,126 copies, 113 reviews2005
The Maltese Falcon by Dashiell Hammett 8,965 copies, 277 reviews2001
The Man from the Sea by Michael Innes 177 copies, 1 review2010
The Man with a Load of Mischief by Martha Grimes 1,542 copies, 26 reviews2006
I Married a Dead Man by Cornell Woolrich 330 copies, 15 reviews2003
The Mask of Dimitrios by Eric Ambler 1,817 copies, 49 reviews2004
Mildred Pierce by James M. Cain 1,195 copies, 44 reviews2003
The Moonstone by Wilkie Collins 10,556 copies, 249 reviews2002
A Morbid Taste for Bones by Ellis Peters 3,853 copies, 101 reviews2007
Mortal Stakes by Robert B. Parker 1,061 copies, 18 reviews2002
The Moving Toyshop by Edmund Crispin 1,412 copies, 62 reviews2012
Murder on the Orient Express by Agatha Christie 16,390 copies, 404 reviews1999
The Mysterious Affair at Styles by Agatha Christie 8,543 copies, 273 reviews2012
Old Bones by Aaron Elkins 578 copies, 16 reviews2012
The Perfect Murder by H. R. F. Keating 222 copies, 7 reviews2010
Postmortem by Patricia Cornwell 7,080 copies, 104 reviews2000
The Quiller Memorandum by Adam Hall 429 copies, 13 reviews2008
Red Harvest by Dashiell Hammett 2,960 copies, 87 reviews2012
The Riddle of the Sands by Erskine Childers 2,543 copies, 68 reviews2008
The Scarlet Pimpernel by Baroness Orczy 8,557 copies, 184 reviews2007
A Ship of the Line by C. S. Forester 1,721 copies, 29 reviews2010
Shroud for a Nightingale by P. D. James 2,142 copies, 42 reviews2002
The Sign of Four & The Valley of Fear (The Best Mysteries of All Time) by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle 39 copies2007
Smallbone Deceased by Michael Gilbert 424 copies, 18 reviews2011
A Stranger in My Grave by Margaret Millar 240 copies, 6 reviews2002
Surfeit of Lampreys by Ngaio Marsh 945 copies, 19 reviews2003
A Thief of Time by Tony Hillerman 2,436 copies, 43 reviews2005
The Three Coffins by John Dickson Carr 775 copies, 32 reviews2009
The Tiger in the Smoke by Margery Allingham 1,373 copies, 48 reviews2005
Where Are the Children? by Mary Higgins Clark 2,225 copies, 33 reviews2001
Whip Hand by Dick Francis 1,310 copies, 19 reviews2001

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The Thirty-Nine Steps [and] Greenmantle by John Buchan 66 copies, 1 review2009

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