If you’re looking for a concise list of what some consider to be the “best” crime novels of all time, then look no further. Crime Writers’ Association (a membership of over 450 authors of published crime novels) compiled just such a list back in 1990, and while it may not be as current as some would like, following are the top 25 of the association’s top 100 listing. It’s fun to see where you stand in your reading and where you might need to fill a few gaps! Josephine Tey: The Daughter of Time (1951) Raymond Chandler: The Big Sleep (1939) John le Carr: The Spy Who Came In From the Cold (1963) Dorothy L. Sayers: Gaudy Night (1935) Agatha Christie: The Murder of Roger Ackroyd (1926) Daphne du Maurier: Rebecca (1938) Raymond Chandler: Farewell My Lovely (1940) Wilkie Collins: The Moonstone (1868) Len Deighton: The IPCRESS File (1962) Dashiell Hammett: The Maltese Falcon (1930) Josephine Tey: The Franchise Affair (1948) Hillary Waugh: Last Seen Wearing … (1952) Umberto Eco: The Name of the Rose (1980) Geoffrey Household: Rogue Male (1939) Raymond Chandler: The Long Goodbye (1953) Francis Iles: Malice Aforethought (1931)1 Frederick Forsyth: The Day of the Jackal (1971) Dorothy L. Sayers: The Nine Tailors (1934) Agatha Christie: And Then There Were None (1939) John Buchan: The Thirty-Nine Steps (1915) Arthur Conan Doyle: The Collected Sherlock Holmes Short Stories (1892-1927)1 Dorothy L. Sayers: Murder Must Advertise (1933) Edgar Allan Poe: Tales of Mystery & Imagination (1852) Eric Ambler: The Mask of Dimitrios (1939) Edmund Crispin: The Moving Toyshop (1946)
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