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Consolidated List of Mystery-Detective-Crime Fiction Recommendations

Abbot, Anthony: The Shudders (9)

Allingham, Margery: Dancers in Mourning (7)

Allingham, Margery: Death of a Ghost (8)

Allingham, Margery: More Work for the Undertaker (6)

Allingham, Margery: The Fashion in Shrouds (5)

Allingham, Margery: Tiger in the Smoke (1) (3) (4) (6)

Ambler, Eric: A Coffin for Dimitrios (3) (4)

Ambler, Eric: The Mask of Dimitrios (1) (2) (8)

Ambler, Eric. Levanter (11)

Ambler, Eric. Passage of Arms (11)

Andrews, Donna. You’ve Got Murder (12)

Armstrong, Charlotte: A Dram of Poison (4)

Armstrong, Charlotte: Mischief (8)

Atherton, Nancy: Aunt Dimity’s Death (4)

Atkinson, Alex H.: Exit Charlie (7)

Auster, Paul: The New York Trilogy (5)

Bagley, Desmond: Running Blind (1)

Bailey, H. C.: Mr. Fortune Speaking (8)

Ball, John: In the Heat of the Night (4)

Bardin, John Franklin: Devil Take the Blue-Tail Fly (6) (8)

Bardin, John Franklin: The Deadly Percheron (3)

Barnard, Robert: Death by Sheer Torture (4)

Barnard, Robert. A Scandal in Belgravia (15)

Barr, Nevada: Track of the Cat (4)

Bayer, William. Peregrine (10)

Bennett, Margot: The Man Who Didn’t Fly (8)

Bennett. Margot. Someone From the Past (11)

Bentley, E. C.: Trent’s Last Case (1) (2) (3) (5) (7) (8)

Berkeley, Anthony: The Poisoned Chocolates Case (1) (5) (8)

Biggers, Earl Derr: Charlie Chan Carries On (9)

Bingham, John: Five Roundabouts to Heaven (6)

Bingham, John: My Name is Michael Sibley (8)

Blake, Nicholas: A Tangled Web (8)

Blake, Nicholas: Minute for Murder (5) (7)

Blake, Nicholas: The Beast Must Die (1) (3) (4) (5) (6)

Blake, Nicholas: The Corpse in the Snowman (5)

Blake, Nicholas: The Widow’s Cruise (5)

Blake, Nicholas: Thou Shell of Death (5)

Block, Lawrence: When the Sacred Ginmill Closes (3) (4)

Block, Lawrence. A Dance at the Slaughterhouse (10)

Block, Lawrence. The Burglar Who Liked to Quote Kipling (15)

Bowen, Rhys. Murphy’s Law (12)

Boyer, Rick. Billingsgate Shoal (10)

Brahms, Caroline and S. J. Simon: A Bullet in the Ballet (1)

Bramah, Ernest: Max Carrados (8)

Brand, Christianna: Cat and Mouse (8)

Brand, Christianna: Green for Danger (1) (4) (6)

Brean, Herbert: Hardly a Man Is Still Alive (9)

Brean, Herbert: Wilders Walk Away (9)

Breen, Jon I.: Triple Crown (9)

Brett, Simon: What Bloody Man is That (1)

Brown, Frederic: The Fabulous Clipjoint (3) (4) (6)

Bruce, Leo: Furious Old Women (7)

Bruen, Ken. The Killing of the Tinkers (14)

Buchan, John: Greenmantle (1)

Buchan, John: The Thirty-Nine Steps (1) (2) (4) (8)

Bullett, Gerald: The Jury (7)

Burke, James Lee: Black Cherry Blues (4) (10)

Burke, James Lee: The Neon Rain (3)

Burke, James Lee. Cimarron Rose (10)

Burke, James Lee. Sunset Limited (11)

Burke, Jan. Bones (10)

Burke, Thomas: The Pleasantries of Old Quong (8)

Burnett, W. R. Little Caesar (2)

Burnett, W. R.: The Asphalt Jungle (6) (8)

Burton, Miles: The Secret of High Eldersham (7)

Cain, James M.: Double Indemnity (2) (3) (5)

Cain, James M.: The Postman Always Rings Twice (1) (2) (4) (6) (8)

Cain, Paul: Fast One (3)

Campbell, Robert: The Junkyard Dog (9)

Candy, Edward: Words for Murder Perhaps (5)

Cannell, Dorothy: The Thin Woman (4)

Canning, Victor: Venetian Bird (8)

Capote, Truman: In Cold Blood (2)

Carr, A.H.Z.: Finding Maubee (7)

Carr, Glen: Dead Finds a Foothold (7)

Carr, John Dickson: Patrick Butler for the Defense (9)

Carr, John Dickson: The Burning Court (5) (9)

Carr, John Dickson: The Case of the Constant Suicides (9)

Carr, John Dickson: The Crooked Hinge (5) (9)

Carr, John Dickson: The Devil in Velvet (1)

Carr, John Dickson: The Hollow Man (1) (3) (6) (8)

Carr, John Dickson: The Three Coffins (2) (4) (5) (6) (9)

Caspary, Vera: Laura (2) (3) (8)

Caudwell, Sarah: The Shortest Way to Hades (1)

Caudwell, Sarah: Thus Was Adonis Murdered (4)

Caudwell, Sarah. The Sirens Song of Murder (13)

Chandler, Raymond: Farewell My Lovely (1) (2) (3) (5)

Chandler, Raymond: The Big Sleep (1) (2) (3) (4) (5)

Chandler, Raymond: The High Window (5) (6) (8)

Chandler, Raymond: The Lady in the Lake (1) (2) (7)

Chandler, Raymond: The Long Goodbye (1) (5) (6) (8) (10)

Chase, James Hadley: No Orchids for Miss Blandish (3)

Chercover, Sean. Trigger City (16)

Chesterton, G. K.: The Club of Queer Trades (5)

Chesterton, G. K.: The Innocence of Father Brown (2) (3) (5) (6) (8)

Chesterton, G. K.: The Man Who Was Thursday (5)

Chesterton, G. K.: The Wisdom of Father Brown (5)

Child, Lee. The Enemy. (15)

Childers, Erskine: The Riddle of the Sands (1)

Christie, Agatha: A Murder is Announced (3)

Christie, Agatha: And Then There Were None (1) (2) (5)

Christie, Agatha: Curtain (5)

Christie, Agatha: Death Comes at the End (1) (8)

Christie, Agatha: Murder on the Orient Express (2) (5) (6)

Christie, Agatha: Sleeping Murder (6)

Christie, Agatha: The ABC Murders (5)

Christie, Agatha: The Murder of Roger Ackroyd (1) (2) (4) (5) (6) (7) (8)

Clancy, Tom: The Hunt for Red October (2)

Clark, Mary Higgins: Where Are the Children? (2)

Clark, Philip: The Dark River (7)

Clark, Robert. Mr. White’s Confession (10)

Cleary, Jon. Peter’s Pence (10)

Cleeves, Ann. Raven Black (11)

Coben, Harlan: Tell No One (3)

Cole, G. D. H, and R. Postgate: The Murder at Crome House (7)

Collins, Max Allan: Kill Your Darlings (9)

Collins, Wilkie: The Moonstone (1) (2) (3) (5) (6) (8)

Collins, Wilkie: The Woman in White (1) (2) (8)

Condon, Richard: Prizzi’s Honor (2)

Condon, Richard: The Manchurian Candidate (1)

Connelly, Michael: The Black Echo (3)

Connelly, Michael: The Concrete Blonde (4)

Connelly, Michael. Blood Work (13) (14)

Connelly, Michael. City of Bones (13)

Connelly, Michael. The Brass Verdict (13)

Connelly, Michael. The Last Coyote (16)

Connelly, Michael. The Lincoln Lawyer (14)

Connelly, Michael. The Poet (13) (15) (16)

Conrad, Joseph: The Secret Agent (2)

Constantine, K. C.: The Man Who Liked Slow Tomatoes (4)

Constantine, K. C.: The Man Who Liked to Look at Himself (3) (7)

Cook, Thomas H. The Chatham School Affair (10)

Cornwell, Patricia: Postmortem (3)

Cornwell, Patricia. Cruel and Unusual (11)

Cotterill, Colin. Thirty-Three Teeth (16)

Crais, Robert: The Monkey’s Raincoat (3) (4)

Crais, Robert. L. A. Requiem (16)

Creasey, John (J. J. Marric): Gideon’s Week (6)

Crichton, Michael. A Case of Need (10)

Crispin, Edmund: Buried for Pleasure (7)

Crispin, Edmund: The Moving Toyshop (1) (2) (3) (4) (5) (6) (8)

Crofts, Freeman Wills: The Box Office Murders (7)

Crofts, Freeman Wills: The Pit-Prop Syndicate (8)

Crofts, Freeman Wills: The Purple Sickle Murders (7)

Crombie, Deborah: Dreaming of the Bone (4) (14)

Crombie, Deborah. Where Memories Lie (14)

Cross, Amanda (Carolyn Heilbrun). Death in a Tenured Position (6) (9) (15)

Cross, Amanda: In the Last Analysis (7)

Cross, Amanda: The James Joyce Murder (9)

Crumley, James: Dancing Bear (5)

Crumley, James: The Last Good Kiss (3) (4)

D’Amato, Barbara: The Hands of Healing Murder (9)

Daly, Elizabeth: Death and Letters (7)

David, Dorothy Salisbury: A Death in the Life (6)

Davidson, Lionel: The Rose of Tibet (1)

Davidson, Lionel: The Sun Chemist (1)

Davidson, Lionel. A Long Way to Shiloh (11)

Davidson, Lionel. Night of Wenceslas (11)

Davidson, Lionel. The Chelsea Murders (11)

Davis, Dorothy Salisbury: A Gentle Murder (9)

Deaver, Jeffery. The Bone Collector (15)

Deighton, Len: Game, Set & Match (1)

Deighton, Len: The IPCRESS File (1) (2)

Dewey, Thomas Blanchard: A Sad Song Singing (7)

Dexter, Colin: The Dead of Jericho (1) (3)

Dexter, Colin. The Way Through the Woods (11)

Dexter, Colin. The Wench is Dead (11)

Dibdin, Michael: Dead Lagoon (3)

Dickens, Charles: The Mystery of Edwin Drood (2) (5) (8)

Dickinson, Peter: The Glass-Sided Ants’ Nest (6) (11)

Dickinson, Peter: The Poison Oracle (6)

Dickinson, Peter: The Yellow Room Conspiracy (4)

Dickinson, Peter. A Pride of Heroes (11)

Dickson, Carter: Fear Is the Same (9)

Dickson, Carter: He Wouldn’t Kill Patience (9)

Dickson, Carter: She Died a Lady (9)

Dickson, Carter: The Gilded Man (9)

Dickson, Carter: The Judas Window (5) (9)

Dickson, Carter: The Reader is Warned (5) (9)

Didbin, Michael. Ratking (11)

Disney, Doris Miles: Method in Madness (9)

Disney, Doris Miles: Who Rides a Tiger (9)

Dostoyevsky, Fyodor: Crime and Punishment (2) (8)

Doyle, Arthur Conan: A Study in Scarlet (5)

Doyle, Arthur Conan: The Collected Sherlock Holmes Stories (1) (2) (3) (5) (6) (8)

Doyle, Arthur Conan: The Hound of the Baskervilles (1) (4) (5) (6) (7) (8)

Doyle, Arthur Conan: The Sign of Four (3)

Du Maurier, Daphne: Rebecca (1) (2) (4) (8)

Dunning, John. Booked to Die (4) (15) (16)

Eberhart, E. B.: R.S.V.P. Murder (6)

Eco, Umberto: The Name of the Rose (1) (2) (5)

Elkins, Aaron: Old Bones (4) (9) (10)

Elkins, Aaron. Old Scores (15)

Ellin, Stanley: Mirror, Mirror on the Wall (6)

Ellin, Stanley: Mystery Stories (5) (6) (8)

Ellin, Stanley: The Eighth Circle (5) (10)

Ellroy, James: The Black Dahlia (3)

Elton, Ben. Popcorn (11)

Estleman, Loren D.: Downriver (The Amos Walker Series #9) (3)

Eustis, Helen: The Horizontal Man (6) (7) (8) (9)

Evanovich, Janet: One for the Money (4) (16)

Evanovich, Janet. Three to Get Deadly (16)

Fairstein, Linda. The Deadhouse (15)

Fearing, Kenneth: The Big Clock (5) (7) (8)

Ferrars, Elizabeth: Murder Among Friends (6)

Ferrigno, Robert: Flinch (3)

Fforde, Jasper. Lost in a Good Book (16)

Finney, Jack: Time and Again (2) (4)

Fitzgerald, Nigel: Suffer a Witch (7)

Fleming, Ian: From Russia With Love (1) (2) (8)

Fleming, Joan: Young Man, I Think You’re Dying (6) (11)

Fleming, Joan. When I Grow Rich (11)

Follett, Ken: Eye of the Needle (2) (10)

Follett, Ken: The Key to Rebecca (1)

Ford, G. M.: Who in Hell is Wanda Fuca? (3) (4)

Forester, C. S.: Payment Deferred (8)

Forsyth, Frederick: The Day of the Jackal (1) (2) (10)

Fowler, Earlene. Mariner’s Compass (12)

Fowles, John: The Collector (1)

Francis, Dick: Dead Cert (3) (7)

Francis, Dick: The Danger (1)

Francis, Dick: Twice Shy (1)

Francis, Dick: Whip Hand (4) (10) (11)

Francis, Dick. Come to Grief (10)

Francis, Dick. Forfeit (10)

Freeling, Nicholas: Guns Before Butter (6)

Freeling, Nicolas. King of the Rainy Country (10)

Freeman, R. Austin: The Red Thumb Mark (5)

Freeman, R. Austin: The Singing Bone (8)

Fremlin, Celia: The Hours Before Dawn (4)

Fremlin, Celia: The Long Shadow (6)

Fuller, Roy: With My Little Eye (8)

Futrelle, Jacques: The Thinking Machine (6) (8)

Fyfield, Frances. Blood from Stone (11)

Gaborieau, Emile: The Mystery of Orcival (8)

Gardner, Erle Stanley: The Case of the Black-Eyed Blonde (9)

Gardner, Erle Stanley: The Case of the Counterfeit Eye (9)

Gardner, Erle Stanley: The Case of the Crooked Candle (7) (9)

Gardner, Erle Stanley: The Case of the Howling Dog (9)

Gardner, Erle Stanley: The Case of the Lame Canary (9)

Gardner, Erle Stanley: The Case of the Perjured Parrot (9)

Gardner, Erle Stanley: The Case of the Sleepwalker’s Niece (8)

Gardner, Erle Stanley: The Case of the Sulky Girl (6)

Gardner, Erle Stanley: The Case of the Terrified Typist (3)

Garfield, Brian. Hopscotch (10)

Garve, Andrew: No Tears for Hilda (7)

George, Elizabeth: A Great Deliverance (4)

Gerritsen, Tess. Vanish (15)

Gilbert, Michael: Smallbone Deceased (1) (2) (3) (4) (6) (7) (8)

Gill, B. M. The Twelfth Juror (11)

Godsborough, Robert. Murder in E Minor (15)

Godwin, William: Caleb Williams (8)

Goodis, David: Dark Passage (3)

Goodwin, Jason. The Janissary Tree (10)

Gores, Joe: Gone, No Forwarding (3)

Gosling, Paula: A Running Duck (1)

Gosling, Paula. Monkey Puzzle (11)

Grafton, C. W.: Beyond a Reasonable Doubt (7)

Grafton, Sue: A is for Alibi (2) (3) (4)

Grafton, Sue. B is for Burglar (13)

Grafton, Sue: C is for Corpse (5) (13)

Grafton, Sue. G is for Gumshoe (13)

Graham, Caroline: The Killings at Badger’s Drift (1) (4)

Graham, Winston. The Little Walls (11)

Green, Alan: What a Body! (9)

Green, Anna Katherine: The Leavenworth Case (9)

Greene, Anna Katharine: The Circular Study (7)

Greene, Graham: A Gun for Sale (8)

Greene, Graham: A Man in Havana (2)

Greene, Graham: Brighton Rock (1) (2)

Greene, Graham: The Third Man (1) (2)

Grierson, Edward: Reputation for a Song (8)

Grierson, Edward: The Second Man (7) (11)

Grimes, Martha: The Man with the Load of Mischief (4)

Grimes, Martha. The Anodyne Necklace (15)

Grisham, John: A Time to Kill (2)

Grisham, John: The Firm (2)

Gullingford, Guy: Post Mortem (6)

Hall, Adam: The Quiller Memorandum (1) (10)

Hall, James W.: Under Cover of Daylight (3)

Hallahan, William. Catch Me, Kill Me (10)

Hamilton, Bruce: Too Much of Water (7)

Hamilton, Patrick: Hangover Square (8)

Hammett, Dashiell: Red Harvest (1) (2) (5) (6)

Hammett, Dashiell: The Glass Key (1) (2) (3) (5) (8)

Hammett, Dashiell: The Maltese Falcon (1) (2) (4) (5) (6)

Hammett, Dashiell: The Thin Man (2)

Hansen, Joseph: Fadeout (3)

Hansen, Joseph: Skinflick (6)

Hare, Cyril: An English Murder (4)

Hare, Cyril: Tragedy at Law (1) (6) (8)

Hare, Cyril: When the Wind Blows (3) (7)

Harris, Fred. Coyote Revenge (15)

Harris, Thomas: Red Dragon (2) (3)

Harris, Thomas: The Silence of the Lambs (2) (4) (13)

Hart, Carolyn. A Little Class on Murder (14)

Hart, Carolyn. Dead Man’s Island (12)

Hart, Carolyn. Letter From Home (12)

Hart, Carolyn. Something Wicked (12)

Hart, Frances Noyes: The Bellamy Trial (8) (9)

Hart, John. Down River (10)

Head, Matthew: The Congo Venus (7)

Head, Matthew: The Devil in the Bush (9)

Heberden, M.: Engaged to Murder (7)

Heyer, Georgette: A Blunt Instrument (7)

Hiaasen, Carl: Tourist Season (3)

Hiaasen, Carl. Native Tongue (16)

Higgins, George V.: The Friends of Eddie Coyle (2) (3) (6)

Higgins, Jack: The Eagle Has Landed (1)

Highsmith, Patricia: Strangers on a Train (1) (5)

Highsmith, Patricia: The Blunderer (8)

Highsmith, Patricia: The Talented Mr. Ripley (1) (2) (3) (5) (6)

Highsmith, Patricia: The Tremor of Forgery (6)

Hill, Reginald: A Pinch of Snuff (6)

Hill, Reginald: Dead Heads (1)

Hill, Reginald: Dialogues of the Dead (3)

Hill, Reginald: On Beulah Height (4)

Hill, Reginald: Underhill (1)

Hill, Reginald. Bones and Silence (11)

Hillerman, Tony: A Thief of Time (1) (2) (3) (14)

Hillerman, Tony: Dance Hall of the Dead (2) (6) (10)

Hillerman, Tony: The Fly on the Wall (7) (9)

Hillerman, Tony. Coyote Waits (15)

Hillerman, Tony. Skinwalkers (13)

Hilton, James: Was It Murder (7)

Himes, Chester: A Rage in Harlem (3)

Himes, Chester: Blind Man with a Pistol (6)

Himes, Chester: Cotton Comes to Harlem (4)

Hjortsberg, William: Falling Angel (5)

Hoeg, Peter. Smilla’s Sense of Snow (16)

Holden, Craig: Four Corners of the Night (3)

Holmes, H. H.: Nine Times Nine (9)

Holmes, H. H.: Rocket to the Morgue (9)

Hornung, E. W.: Raffles (8)

Hornung, E. W.: The Amateur Cracksman (6)

Hough, S. B.: The Bronze Perseus (7)

Hough, S. B.: The Tender Killer (7)

Household, Geoffrey: Rogue Male (1) (2) (8)

Hubbard, P. M.: High Tide (7)

Hubbard, P. M.: Kill Claudio (6)

Hudson, Jeffrey: A Case of Need (9)

Hughes, Dorothy: The Expendable Man (6)

Hume, Fergus: The Mystery of the Hansom Cab (3) (8)

Hutton, John. Accidental Crimes (11)

Huxley, Elspeth: The African Poison Murders (7)

Iles, Frances: Before the Fact (6)

Iles, Frances: Malice Aforethought (1) (3) (8)

Indridason, Arnaldur. Silence of the Grave (11)

Innes, Michael: Appleby’s End (6)

Innes, Michael: Hamlet, Revenge (1) (3) (4) (5) (8)

Innes, Michael: The Daffodil Affair (7)

Innes, Michael: The Journeying Boy (1)

Innes, Michael: The Man From the Sea (8)

Innes, Michael: The New Sonia Wayward (6)

Irish, William: Phantom Lady (8)

James, P. D: Devices and Desires (1)

James, P. D.: A Taste for Death (1) (3) (5) (6) (14)

James, P. D.: An Unsuitable Job for a Woman (4)

James, P. D.: Cover Her Face (7)

James, P. D.: Death of an Expert Witness (5)

James, P. D.: Innocent Blood (1)

James, P. D.: Shroud for a Nightingale (2)

James, P. D.: The Black Tower (6)

Jess, F. Tennyson: A Pin to See the Peep-Show (8)

Kaminsky, Stuart M. Cold, Red Sunrise (10)

Kaminsky, Stuart M.: Murder on the Yellow Brick Road (3)

Keating, H. R. F.: The Murder of the Maharajah (1) (11)

Keating, H.R.F. The Perfect Murder (11)

Keith, Carlton: The Crayfish Dinner (7)

Keith, Carlton: The Elusive Epicure (7)

Kellerman, Faye: The Ritual Bath (4)

Kellerman, Jonathan: When the Bough Breaks (4)

Kelly, Mary. The Spoilt Kill (11)

Kemelman, Harry: Friday the Rabbi Slept Late (5) (9)

Kemelman, Harry: Saturday the Rabbi Went Hungry (9)

Kiefer, Warren. Lingala Code (10)

Kindon, Thomas: Murder in the Moor (7)

King, C. Daly: Obelists Fly High (9)

King, Laurie R. A Monstrous Regiment of Women (15)

King, Laurie R. Folly (14)

King, Laurie: The Beekeeper’s Apprentice (4)

Kitchin, C. H. B.: Death of My Aunt (6)

Krueger, William Kent. Blood Hollow (13)

Krueger, William Kent. Mercy Falls (13)

Kruger, William Kent. Thunder Bay (16)

Kuttner, Henry: Murder of a Wife (7)

Kyd, Thomas: Blood on the Bosom Divine (7)

Landon, Christopher: Stone Cold Dead in the Market (7)

Lange, Lewis: The Birthday Murder (7)

Langton, Jane: Dark Nantucket Noon (4)

Langton, Jane: Emily Dickinson Is Dead (9) (15)

Lansdale, Joe R.: The Bottoms (3) (10)

Lathen, Emma: Accounting for Murder (9)

Lathen, Emma: Banking on Death (9)

Lathen, Emma: Murder Against the Grain (6) (9) (11)

Lathen, Emma: Murder Makes the Wheels Go ‘Round (7) (9)

Lathen, Emma: When in Greece (9)

Latimer, Jonathan: The Lady in the Morgue (8)

Le Carre, John: Smiley’s People (2)

Le Carre, John: The Little Drummer Girl (2)

Le Carre, John: The Spy Who Came in From the Cold (1) (2) (4) (10) (11)

Le Carre, John: Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy (1) (2)

Le Carre, John. The Honourable Schoolboy (11)

LeBlanc, Maurice: The Seven of Hearts (8)

Lee, Harper: To Kill a Mockingbird (2) (4)

LeFanu, Sheridan: Uncle Silas (8)

Lehand, Dennis. Gone, Baby, Gone (16)

LeHane, Dennis: Darkness, Take My Hand (4)

Lehane, Dennis. Mystic River (3) (13) (16)

Lehane, Dennis. Sacred (15)

Leon, Donna: Death in a Strange Country (3)

Leonard, Elmore: Get Shorty (4)

Leonard, Elmore: Glitz (5)

Leonard, Elmore: LaBrava (3) (10)

Leonard, Elmore: Stick (2)

Leroux, Gaston: Le Mystere de la chamber jaune (3) (8)

Lethem, Jonathan. Motherless Brooklyn (11)

Levin, Ira: A Kiss Before Dying (1) (5) (8)

Levin, Ira: Rosemary’s Baby (2)

Levin, Meyer: Compulsion (8)

Lindsay, Jeffrey. Darkly Dreaming Dexter (16)

Lippman, Laura. Butcher’s Hill (12)

Lippman, Laura. Every Secret Thing (13)

Lippman, Laura. No Good Deeds (13)

Lippman, Laura. Sugar House (15)

Lippman, Laura. What the Dead Know (13) (14)

Littell, Robert. The Defection of A. J. Lewinter (11)

Lochte, Dick: Sleeping Dog (4) (15)

Lockridge, Frances and Richard: Murder Out of Turn (9)

Lockridge, Frances and Richard: The Dishonest Murder (9)

Lockridge, Frances and Richard: The North Meets Murder (9)

Longmate, Norman: Strip Death Naked (7)

Lovesey, Peter: Bertie and the Tin Man (1) (2)

Lovesey, Peter: Rough Cider (4)

Lovesey, Peter: The False Inspector Dew (1) (6) (11)

Lovesey, Peter: Wobble to Death (1)

Lovesey, Peter. Bloodhounds (14)

Lovesey, Peter. The House Sitter (14)

Lovesey, Peter. The Last Detective (13)

Lustgarten, Edgar: A Case to Answer (8)

Lustgarten, Edgar: One More Unfortunate (8)

Lyall, Gavin: Shooting Script (1)

Lyons, Arthur: Hard Trade (5)

MacDonald, John D.: The Deep Blue Good-by (3) (4)

MacDonald, John D.: The Dreadful Lemon Sky (2)

MacDonald, John D.: The Green Ripper (6)

MacDonald, Philip: The List of Adrian Messenger (4)

MacDonald, Philip: The Nursemaid Who Disappeared (8)

MacDonald, Philip: Warrant for X (8)

Macdonald, Ross: The Blue Hammer (6)

Macdonald, Ross: The Chill (2) (4) (5)

Macdonald, Ross: The Drowning Pool (7)

Macdonald, Ross: The Goodbye Look (5)

Macdonald, Ross: The Ivory Grin (8)

Macdonald, Ross: The Moving Target (3)

Macdonald, Ross: The Underground Man (5)

Macdonald, Ross. Far Side of the Dollar (11)

Mache, Arthur: The Three Imposters (8)

MacLean, Alistair: The Guns of Navaronne (1)

MacLeod, Charlotte, The Corpse in Oozak’s Pond (15)

MacLeod, Charlotte: Rest You Merry (9)

Mair, John: Never Come Back (8)

Maling, Arthur. The Rheingold Route (10)

Malone, Michael: Uncivil Season (3)

Mankell, Henning: Sidetracked (3) (11)

Maron, Margaret. Bootlegger’s Daughter (4) (10) (12) (13) (14)

Maron, Margaret. Storm Track (12)

Maron, Margaret. Up Jumps the Devil (12)

Marric, J. B.: Gideon’s River (7)

Marric, J. J.: Gideon’s Day (1)

Marsh, Ngaio: A Wreath for Rivera (7)

Marsh, Ngaio: Death of a Peer (4) (6)

Marsh, Ngaio: Off With His Head (3)

Marsh, Ngaio: Overture to Death (5) (8)

Marsh, Ngaio: Surfeit of Lampreys (6)

Mason, A. E. W.: At the Villa Rose (8)

Mason, A. E. W.: The House and the Arrow (8)

Massey, Sujata. The Flower Master (14)

Maugham, W. Somerset: Ashenden (2) (8)

McBain, Ed: Cop Hater (1)

McBain, Ed: Ice (5)

McBain, Ed: Long Time No See (5)

McBain, Ed: Sadie When She Died (1) (3) (4) (6)

McBain, Ed: Ten Plus One (5)

McCabe, Cameron: The Face on the Cutting Room Floor (3)

McCloy, Helen: Mr. Splitfoot (6)

McCloy, Helen: Through a Glass, Darkly (9)

McCloy, Helen. Burn This (15)

McClure, James: The Artful Egg (6)

McClure, James: The Steam Pig (2) (11)

McClure, James: The Sunday Hangman (3)

McCrumb, Sharyn: If Ever I Return, Pretty Peggy-O (4) (14)

McCrumb, Sharyn. If I’d Killed Him When I Met Him (12)

McCrumb, Sharyn. She Walks These Hills (13) (14) (15)

McDermid, Val. A Place of Execution (13) (14) (16)

McDermid, Val. The Mermaids Singing (11)

McDonald, Gregory: Fletch (2) (6)

McGerr, Patricia: Pick Your Victim (7) (9)

McGuire, Paul: A Funeral in Eden; or Burial Service (7)

McIlvanney, William: Laidlaw (6)

Meyer, Lynn: Paperback Thriller (9)

Meyer, Nicholas: The Seven Per-Cent Solution (2) (11)

Miles, John: The Night Hunters (7)

Millar, Margaret: Ask for Me Tomorrow (9)

Millar, Margaret: Beast in View (1) (2) (3) (6) (8) (9) (10)

Millar, Margaret: Beyond This Point Are Monsters (6)

Millar, Margaret: Stranger in My Grave (4)

Millar, Margaret: The Iron Gates (9)

Millar, Margaret: Vanish in an Instant (9)

Milne, A. A.: The Red House Mystery (7) (8)

Mitchell, Gladys: Come Away Death (3)

Mole, William: The Hammersmith Maggot (or Small Venom) (7)

Montalban, Manuel Vazquez: Murder in the Central Committee (3)

Moody, Susan: Penny Black (1)

Moore, Richard A.: Death in the Past (9)

Morrah, Dermot: The Mummy Case Mystery (or The Mummy Case) (7)

Mortimer, John: Rumpole of the Bailey (2)

Mosley, Walter, Fear Itself (15)

Mosley, Walter: Devil in a Blue Dress (2) (3) (4)

Moyes, Patricia: Johnny Underground (7)

Muller, Marcia: Edwin of the Iron Shoes (4)

Muller, Marcia. Wolf in the Shadows (13)

Murphy, Haughton: Murder for Lunch (9)

Nash, Simon: Death Over Deep Water (5)

Nash, Simon: Killed by Scandal (7)

Neel, Janet: Death’s Bright Angel (4)

Nevin, Francis M. Jr.: The 120-Hour Clock (9)

O’Connell, Carol: Mallory’s Oracle (4)

Onion, Oliver: In Accordance With the Evidence (7)

Orczy, Baroness: The Old Man in the Corner (8)

Padgett, Abigail: Child of Silence (4)

Page, Katherine Hall: The Body in the Belfry (9)

Page, Katherine Hall. The Body in the Snowdrift (12)

Page, Marco: The Shadowy Third (7)

Palmer, Stuart: The Puzzle of the Blue Banderilla (9)

Paretsky, Sara: Bitter Medicine (5)

Paretsky, Sara: Deadlock (4)

Paretsky, Sara: Indemnity Only (3)

Paretsky, Sara. Blacklist (11)

Parker, Robert B. Promised Land (10)

Parker, Robert B.: God Save the Child (3)

Parker, Robert: Looking for Rachel Wallace (4)

Parker, T. Jefferson. California Girl (10)

Parker, T. Jefferson. Silent Joe (10)

Pelecanos, George P.: A Firing Offense (3)

Penny, Louise, Still Life (16)

Penny, Louise. A Fatal Grace (12)

Penny, Louise. The Cruelest Month (12)

Pentecost, Hugh: Remember to Kill Me (9)

Pentecost, Hugh. Past, Present and Murder (15)

Perdue, Virginia: Alarum and Excursion (7)

Perez-Reverte, Arturo: Club Dumas (4)

Perry, Thomas: Vanishing Act (4)

Peters, Elizabeth: Crocodile on the Sandbank (2) (3) (4)

Peters, Elizabeth. Naked Once More (12)

Peters, Ellis: A Morbid Taste for Bones (1) (2)

Peters, Ellis: Never Pick Up Hitch Hikers (7)

Peters, Ellis: One Corpse Too Many (3) (4)

Peters, Ellis: The Leper of St. Giles (1)

Phillpotts, Eden: Found Drowned (7)

Pickard, Nancy: Generous Death (9)

Pickard, Nancy: No Body (9)

Pickard, Nancy. Bum Steer (12)

Pickard, Nancy. IOU (12) (14)

Pickard, Nancy. Marriage is Murder (14)

Pickard, Nancy. The Virgin of Small Plains (12) (14)

Piesman, Marissa: Unorthodox Practices (9)

Poe, Edgar Allan: Tales of Mystery and Imagination (1) (2) (3) (5) (6) (8)

Post, Melville Davisson: Uncle Abner (6)

Postgate, Raymond: Verdict of Twelve (5) (8)

Potter, Dennis: The Singing Detective (5)

Price, Anthony: The Labyrinth Makers (1)

Price, Anthony. Other Paths to Glory (11)

Priestley, J. B.: Salt is Leaving (7)

Proctor, Maurice: The Pub Crawler (7)

Pronzini, Bill: Blue Lonesome (4)

Puzo, Mario: The Godfather (2)

Queen, Ellery: Calamity Town (6) (9)

Queen, Ellery: Cat of Many Tails (4) (9)

Queen, Ellery: The Adventures of Ellery Queen (8)

Queen, Ellery: The Chinese Orange Mystery (5) (9)

Queen, Ellery: The Egyptian Cross Mystery (9)

Queen, Ellery: The French Powder Mystery (9)

Queen, Ellery: The Greek Coffin Mystery (8) (9)

Queen, Ellery: The Roman Hat Mystery (9)

Quentin, Patrick: Puzzle for Puppets (9)

Quentin, Patrick: The Man With Two Wives (8)

Rankin, Ian: Black and Blue (3) (11)

Rankin, Ian. Resurrection Men (10)

Rawson, Clayton: Death from a Top Hat (9)

Raymond, Derek: The Devil’s Home on Leave (3)

Raymond, Ernest: We, the Accused (8)

Rendell, Ruth: A Demon in My View (1) (11)

Rendell, Ruth: A Fatal Inversion (3)

Rendell, Ruth: An Unkindness of Ravens (3)

Rendell, Ruth: Judgment in Stone (1) (2) (6)

Rendell, Ruth: Means of Evil (5)

Rendell, Ruth: No More Dying Then (4)

Rendell, Ruth: The Killing Doll (5)

Rendell, Ruth. Live Flesh (11)

Resnicow, Herbert: The Gold Gamble (9)

Rice, Craig: 8 Faces at 3 (9)

Rice, Craig: Home Sweet Homicide (2)

Rice, Craig: The Wrong Number (4)

Rinehart, Mary Roberts: The Circular Staircase (2) (4) (6)

Robertson, Helen: Swan Song (or The Chinese Goose) (7)

Robinson, Peter: Blood at the Root (4)

Robinson, Peter: In a Dry Season (3) (13)

Rosen, Richard: Strike Three You’re Dead (4) (5) (9)

Ross, Barnaby: The Tragedy of X (9)

Ross, Barnaby: The Tragedy of Y (9)

Ross, Kate: A Broken Vessel (4)

Ross, Kate. The Devil in Music (12)

Rozan, S. J. Concourse (4)

Rozan, S. J. No Colder Place (13)

Rozan, S. J. Winter and Night (10) (14) (15)

Sanders, Lawrence: The First Deadly Sin (2)

Santlofer, Jonathan. Anatomy of fear (15)

Sapper: Bull-Dog Drummond (8)

Sayers, Dorothy L.: Clouds of Witness (2)

Sayers, Dorothy: Gaudy Night (1) (2)

Sayers, Dorothy: Murder Must Advertise (1) (2) (4) (5)

Sayers, Dorothy: Strong Poison (1) (2) (5) (7)

Sayers, Dorothy: The Documents in the Case (6)

Sayers, Dorothy: The Nine Tailors (1) (2) (3) (6)

Saylor, Steven: Roman Blood (3)

Scholey, Jean: The Dead Past (7)

Simenon, Georges: Maigret in Court (6)

Simenon, Georges: Maigret in Montmarte (8)

Simenon, Georges: Maigret Sets a Trap (3)

Simenon, Georges: My Friend Maigret (6)

Simenon, Georges: The Lodger (8)

Simenon, Georges: The Stain on the Snow, The Snow Was Black (6)

Simon, Roger: The Big Fix (5)

Sims, George: The Last Best Friend (6)

Sjowall, Maj and Per Wahloo: Roseanna (6)

Sjowall, Maj and Per Wahloo: The Laughing Policeman (2) (4) (10)

Slesar, Henry: The Gray Flannel Shroud (9)

Smith, Charles Merrill: Reverend Randolph and the Wages of Sin (9)

Smith, Julie. New Orleans Mourning (10)

Smith, Mark: The Death of the Detective (5)

Smith, Martin Cruz: Gorky Park (1) (2) (11)

Smith, Shelley: The Lord Have Mercy (8)

Smith, Shelley: The Party at No. 5 (6)

Snow, C. P.: Death Under Sail (7)

Somoza, Jose Carlos. The Athenian Murders (11)

Spencer-Fleming, Julia. All Mortal Flesh (15)

Spencer-Fleming, Julia. In the Bleak Midwinter (16)

Spillane, Mickey: I, the Jury (2)

Spillane, Mickey: Kiss Me, Deadly (3)

Stark, Richard: The Hunter (3)

Stevenson, Robert Louis: The New Arabian Nights (8)

Stewart, Mary: My Brother Michael (1)

Stewart, Mary: Nine Coaches Waiting (1)

Stinson, Jim: Double Exposure (9)

Stoker, Bram: Dracula (2)

Stout, David: Carolina Skeletons (9)

Stout, Rex: A Family Affair (9)

Stout, Rex: And Be a Villain (5)

Stout, Rex: Fer-de-Lance (8) (9)

Stout, Rex: In the Best Families (9)

Stout, Rex: Some Buried Caesar (4) (9)

Stout, Rex: The Black Mountain (9)

Stout, Rex: The Doorbell Rang (2) (9)

Stout, Rex: The League of Frightened Men (3) (6)

Stout, Rex: The Rubber Band (9)

Stout, Rex: The Second Confession (5)

Stout, Rex: The Silent Speaker (9)

Stout, Rex: Too Many Cooks (7) (9)

Stout, Rex: Too Many Women (5)

Swinnerton, Frank: On the Shady Side (7)

Symons, Julian: A Three Pipe Problem (3)

Symons, Julian: The 31^st of February (5)

Symons, Julian: The Colour of Murder (1) (11)

Symons, Julian: The Man Who Killed Himself (6)

Symons, Julian: The Narrowing Circle (7)

Symons, Julian: The Players of the Game (6)

Talbot, Hake: Rim of the Pit (9)

Teller, Joseph. The Tenth Case (15)

Temple, Peter. The Broken Shore (11)

Tey, Josephine: Brat Farrar (2) (4)

Tey, Josephine: The Daughter of Time (1) (2) (5) (6) (8)

Tey, Josephine: The Franchise Affair (1) (2) (3) (6)

Tey, Josephine: The Singing Sands (7)

Thomas, Ross: Chinamen’s Chance (2) (4)

Thomas, Ross: The Fools in Town Are on Our Side (3)

Thomas, Ross. Briarpatch (10)

Thompson, Jim: Pop. 1280 (6)

Thompson, Jim: The Getaway (5)

Thompson, Jim: The Killer Inside Me (2) (3) (5)

Thomson, June: To Make a Killing (6)

Tilton, Alice: The Cut Direct (9)

Todd, Charles: A Test of Wills (4)

Traver, Robert: Anatomy of a Murder (2)

Troy, Simon: Swift to Its Close (7)

Turow, Scott: Presumed Innocent (1) (2) (4)

Uhnak, Dorothy: The Investigation (6)

Upfield, Arthur W.: The Sands of Windee (4) (6)

Upfield, Arthur: The Bone is Pointed (7)

Van Dine, S. S.: The Green Murder Case (8) (9)

Vickers, Roy: The Department of Dead Ends (8)

Vine, Barbara: A Dark Adapted Eye (1) (3) (10) (11)

Vine, Barbara: A Fatal Inversion (1) (5) (11)

Vine, Barbara. King Solomon’s Carpet (11)

Wade, Henry: Heir Presumptive (5)

Wainwright, John: All on a Summer’s Day (6)

Walker, Mary Willis. The Red Scream (10)

Walker, Mary Willis. Under the Beetle’s Cellar (13) (14)

Wallace, Edgar: Four Just Men (1)

Wallace, Edgar: The Crimson Circle (8)

Wallace, Edgar: The Mind of J. G. Reeder (6)

Walpole, Hugh: Above the Dark Circus (8)

Walter, Jess. Citizen Vince (10)

Walters, Minette: The Ice House (3) (4)

Walters, Minette. Fox Evil (11)

Walters, Minette. Scold’s Bridle (11)

Walters, Minette. The Sculptress (10) (14)

Wambaugh, Joseph: The Choirboys (2) (3)

Wambaugh, Joseph: The Glitter Dome (6)

Watson, Colin: Just What the Doctor Ordered (7)

Watson, Colin: The Naked Nuns or Six Nuns and a Shotgun (6)

Waugh, Hillary: Last Seen Wearing (1) (2) (6) (8)

Waugh, Hillary: The Missing Man (7)

Webster, Henry K.: Who Is the Next (7)

Westlake, Donald: Bank Shot (2)

Westlake, Donald: God Save the Mark (2) (10)

Westlake, Donald: Nobody’s Perfect (6)

Westlake, Donald: The Hot Rock (2)

White, Ethel Lina: The Wheel Spins (6) (8)

White, Randy Wayne: Sanibel Flats (4)

Wilkinson, Ellen: The Division Bell Mystery (7)

Willeford, Charles: Miami Blues (3)

Williams, Charles: Dead Calm (3)

Wilson, Robert. A Small Death in Lisbon (11)

Winspear, Jacqueline. Birds of a Feather (12)

Witting, Clifford: Measure for Murder (7)

Woodrell, Daniel: Under the Bright Lights (3)

Woolrich, Cornell: I Married a Dead Man (4)

Woolrich, Cornell: The Bride Wore Black (3) (6)

Wright, L. R. Suspect (10)

Wyrer, Walter: Such Friends Are Dangerous (7)

Notes:

(1) Crime Writer’s Association (UK) – The Top 100 Crime Novels of All Time

(2) Mystery Writers of America – The Top 100 Crime Novels of All Time

(3) Bloomsbury 100 Must Read Crime Novels

(4) IMBA’s 100 Favorite Mysteries of the 20^th Century

(5) David Lehman’s Recommendations (The Perfect Murder: 1989)

(6) H. R. F. Keating’s 100 Best Crime and Mystery Books (1987)

(7) Barzun and Taylor’s A Catalogue of Crime (1989)

(8) Julian Symons’ 100 Best Crime Stories

(9) Marvin Lachman’s 100 Notable American Novels of Detection

(10) The Mystery Writers’ of America Edgar Award

(11) The Crime Writers’ Association Dagger Awards (UK)

(12) Agatha Awards (Malice Domestic, Ltd.)

(13) Anthony Awards (Boucheron World Mystery Convention)

(14) Macavity Awards (Mystery Readers International)

(15) Nero Award

(16) Dilys Awards (Independent Mystery Booksellers Association)