100 Crime Novels of All Time (Crime Writers' Association)

Josephine Tey - The Daughter of Time
Raymond Chandler - The Big Sleep
John le Carré - The Spy Who Came In From the Cold
Dorothy L. Sayers - Gaudy Night
Agatha Christie - The Murder of Roger Ackroyd
Daphne du Maurier - Rebecca (1938)
Raymond Chandler - Farewell My Lovely
Wilkie Collins - The Moonstone
Len Deighton - The IPCRESS File
Dashiell Hammett - The Maltese Falcon
Josephine Tey - The Franchise Affair
Hillary Waugh - Last Seen Wearing ...
Umberto Eco - The Name of the Rose
Geoffrey Household - Rogue Male
Raymond Chandler - The Long Goodbye
Francis Iles - Malice Aforethought
Frederick Forsyth - The Day of the Jackal
Dorothy L. Sayers - The Nine Tailors
Agatha Christie - And Then There Were None
John Buchan - The Thirty-Nine Steps
Arthur Conan Doyle - The Collected Sherlock Holmes Short Stories
Dorothy L. Sayers - Murder Must Advertise
Edgar Allan Poe - Tales of Mystery & Imagination
Eric Ambler - The Mask of Dimitrios
Edmund Crispin - The Moving Toyshop
Margery Allingham - The Tiger in the Smoke
Peter Lovesey - The False Inspector Dew
Wilkie Collins - The Woman in White
Barbara Vine - A Dark-Adapted Eye
James M. Cain - The Postman Always Rings Twice
Dashiell Hammett - The Glass Key
Arthur Conan Doyle - The Hound of the Baskervilles
John le Carré - Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy
E. C. Bentley - Trent's Last Case
Ian Fleming - From Russia, with Love
Ed McBain - Cop Hater
Colin Dexter - The Dead of Jericho
Patricia Highsmith - Strangers on a Train
Ruth Rendell - A Judgement in Stone
John Dickson Carr - The Hollow Man
Anthony Berkeley - The Poisoned Chocolates Case
Ellis Peters - A Morbid Taste for Bones
Ellis Peters - The Leper of Saint Giles
Ira Levin - A Kiss Before Dying
Patricia Highsmith - The Talented Mr. Ripley
Graham Greene - Brighton Rock
Raymond Chandler - The Lady in the Lake
Scott Turow - Presumed Innocent
Ruth Rendell - A Demon in My View
John Dickson Carr - The Devil in Velvet
Barbara Vine - A Fatal Inversion
Michael Innes - The Journeying Boy
P. D. James - A Taste for Death
Jack Higgins - The Eagle Has Landed
Mary Stewart - My Brother Michael
Peter Lovesey - Bertie and the Tin Man
Susan Moody - Penny Black
Len Deighton - Game, Set & Match
Dick Francis - The Danger
P. D. James - Devices and Desires
Reginald Hill - Underworld
Mary Stewart - Nine Coaches Waiting
Paula Gosling - A Running Duck
Michael Gilbert - Smallbone Deceased
Lionel Davidson - The Rose of Tibet
P. D. James - Innocent Blood
Dorothy L. Sayers - Strong Poison
Michael Innes - Hamlet, Revenge!
Tony Hillerman - A Thief of Time
Caryl Brahms & S. J. Simon - A Bullet in the Ballet
Reginald Hill - Dead Heads
Graham Greene - The Third Man
Anthony Price - The Labyrinth Makers
Adam Hall - The Quiller Memorandum
Margaret Millar - Beast in View
Sarah Caudwell - The Shortest Way to Hades
Desmond Bagley - Running Blind
Dick Francis - Twice Shy
Richard Condon - The Manchurian Candidate
Caroline Graham - The Killings at Badger's Drift
Nicholas Blake - The Beast Must Die
Martin Cruz Smith - Gorky Park
Agatha Christie - Death Comes as the End
Christianna Brand - Green for Danger
Cyril Hare - Tragedy at Law
John Fowles - The Collector
J. J. Marric - Gideon's Day
Lionel Davidson - The Sun Chemist
Alistair MacLean - The Guns of Navarone
Julian Symons - The Colour of Murder
John Buchan - Greenmantle
Erskine Childers - The Riddle of the Sands
Peter Lovesey - Wobble to Death
Dashiell Hammett - Red Harvest
Ken Follett - The Key to Rebecca
Ed McBain - Sadie When She Died
H. R. F. Keating - The Murder of the Maharajah
Simon Brett - What Bloody Man Is That?
Gavin Lyall - Shooting Script
Edgar Wallace - The Four Just Men