The Crown Crime Companion: The Top 100 Mystery Novels of All Time

by Otto Penzler (Annotator), Mickey Friedman (Compiler)

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The Crown Crime Companion The Top 100 Mystery Novels Of All Time Selected by the Mystery Writers Of America Annotated by 0tto Penzler and Compiled by Mickey Friedman For The Crown Crime Companion, the Mystery Writers of America have compiled a list of the best 100 mystery novels of all time, as well as a list of favorites in ten categories. Fully annotated and reviewed by Otto Penzler, this list of the top 100 mysteries will be a valuable resource to fans, introducing them to new novels and show more reminding them about books by favorite writers they may have missed. Each of the ten category lists is introduced by a master of that category: Classics: Suspense: Hardboiled/Private Eye: Police Procedural: Espionage/Thriller: Criminal: Cozy/Traditional: Historical: Humorous: Legal/Courtroom: H.R.F. Keating Mary Higgins Clark Sue Grafton Joseph Wambaugh John Gardner Richard Condon Margaret Maron Peter Lovesey Gregory Mcdonald Scott Turow show less

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251+ Works 11,786 Members
Otto Penzler owns the Mysterious Bookshop in New York & founded the Mysterious Press & Otto Penzler Books. He has written & edited several books, including the Edgar-winning "Encyclopedia of Mystery & Detection". (Bowker Author Biography)
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Clark, Mary Higgins (Contributor)
Condon, Richard (Contributor)
Gardner, John (Contributor)
Grafton, Sue (Contributor)
Keating, H. R. F. (Contributor)
Lovesey, Peter (Contributor)
Maron, Margaret (Contributor)
Mcdonald, Gregory (Contributor)
Turow, Scott (Contributor)
Wambaugh, Joseph (Contributor)

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1995

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Nonfiction, Literature Studies and Criticism
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016.823Computer science, information & general worksBibliographies (books containing lists of books)Bibliographies of works on specific subjectsLiteratureEnglishFiction
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PR830 .D4 .C755Language and LiteratureEnglishEnglish LiteratureProseProse fiction. The novel
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