{"id":10744,"date":"2012-08-19T07:31:28","date_gmt":"2012-08-19T12:31:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cozy-mystery.com\/blog\/?p=10744"},"modified":"2012-08-22T09:01:10","modified_gmt":"2012-08-22T14:01:10","slug":"crime-writers-association-top-100-crime-novels-of-all-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cozy-mystery.com\/blog\/crime-writers-association-top-100-crime-novels-of-all-time\/","title":{"rendered":"Crime Writers’ Association – Top 100 Crime Novels of All Time"},"content":{"rendered":"

Here’s a list you might enjoy looking at. It may just inspire you to go read one of these books. I know it has inspired me! (Yes, I’ve added a few to my TBR queue.)<\/p>\n

In 1990, the Crime Writers’ Association (British) comprised a list of:<\/h3>\n

The Top 100 Crime Novels of All Time<\/strong><\/h3>\n
    \n
  1. Josephine Tey<\/a><\/strong>: The Daughter of Time<\/a> (1951)<\/li>\n
  2. Raymond Chandler: The Big Sleep (1939)<\/li>\n
  3. John le Carr\u00e9<\/a><\/strong>: The Spy Who Came In From the Cold<\/a> (1963)<\/li>\n
  4. Dorothy L. Sayers<\/a><\/strong>: Gaudy Night<\/a> (1935)<\/li>\n
  5. Agatha Christie<\/a><\/strong>: The Murder of Roger Ackroyd<\/a> (1926)<\/li>\n
  6. Daphne du Maurier<\/a><\/strong>: Rebecca<\/a> (1938)<\/li>\n
  7. Raymond Chandler: Farewell, My Lovely (1940)<\/li>\n
  8. Wilkie Collins: The Moonstone (1868)<\/li>\n
  9. Len Deighton: The Ipcress File (1962)<\/li>\n
  10. Dashiell Hammett: The Maltese Falcon (1930)<\/li>\n
  11. Josephine Tey<\/a><\/strong>: The Franchise Affair<\/a> (1948)<\/li>\n
  12. Hillary Waugh: Last Seen Wearing … (1952)<\/li>\n
  13. Umberto Eco: The Name of the Rose (1980)<\/li>\n
  14. Geoffrey Household: Rogue Male (1939)<\/li>\n
  15. Raymond Chandler: The Long Goodbye (1953)<\/li>\n
  16. Francis Iles: Malice Aforethought (1931)<\/li>\n
  17. Frederick Forsyth: The Day of the Jackal (1971)<\/li>\n
  18. Dorothy L. Sayers<\/a><\/strong>: The Nine Tailors<\/a> (1934)<\/li>\n
  19. Agatha Christie<\/a><\/strong>: And Then There Were None<\/a> (1939)<\/li>\n
  20. John Buchan: The Thirty-Nine Steps (1915)<\/li>\n
  21. Arthur Conan Doyle: The Collected Sherlock Holmes Short Stories (1892-1927)<\/li>\n
  22. Dorothy L. Sayers<\/a><\/strong>: Murder Must Advertise<\/a> (1933)<\/li>\n
  23. Edgar Allan Poe: Tales of Mystery & Imagination (1852)<\/li>\n
  24. Eric Ambler: The Mask of Dimitrios (1939) (aka\u00a0A Coffin for Dimitrios)<\/li>\n
  25. Edmund Crispin<\/a><\/strong>: The Moving Toyshop<\/a> (1946)<\/li>\n
  26. Margery Allingham<\/a><\/strong>: The Tiger in the Smoke<\/a> (1952)<\/li>\n
  27. Peter Lovesey: The False Inspector Dew (1982)<\/li>\n
  28. Wilkie Collins: The Woman in White (1860)<\/li>\n
  29. Barbara Vine<\/a><\/strong>: A Dark-Adapted Eye<\/a> (1986)<\/li>\n
  30. James M. Cain: The Postman Always Rings Twice (1934)<\/li>\n
  31. Dashiell Hammett: The Glass Key (1931)<\/li>\n
  32. Arthur Conan Doyle: The Hound of the Baskervilles (1902)<\/li>\n
  33. John le Carr\u00e9<\/a><\/strong>: Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy<\/a> (1974)<\/li>\n
  34. E. C. Bentley: Trent’s Last Case (1913)<\/li>\n
  35. Ian Fleming: From Russia, with Love (1957)<\/li>\n
  36. Ed McBain: Cop Hater (1956)<\/li>\n
  37. Colin Dexter<\/a><\/strong>: The Dead of Jericho<\/a> (1981)<\/li>\n
  38. Patricia Highsmith: Strangers on a Train (1950)<\/li>\n
  39. Ruth Rendell<\/a><\/strong>: A Judgement in Stone<\/a> (1977)<\/li>\n
  40. John Dickson Carr<\/a><\/strong>: The Hollow Man<\/a> (1935) (aka\u00a0The Three Coffins)<\/li>\n
  41. Anthony Berkeley: The Poisoned Chocolates Case (1929)<\/li>\n
  42. Ellis Peters<\/a><\/strong>: A Morbid Taste for Bones<\/a> (1977)<\/li>\n
  43. Ellis Peters<\/a><\/strong>: The Leper of Saint Giles<\/a> (1981)<\/li>\n
  44. Ira Levin: A Kiss Before Dying (1953)<\/li>\n
  45. Patricia Highsmith: The Talented Mr. Ripley (1955)<\/li>\n
  46. Graham Greene: Brighton Rock (1938)<\/li>\n
  47. Raymond Chandler: The Lady in the Lake (1943)<\/li>\n
  48. Scott Turow: Presumed Innocent (1987)<\/li>\n
  49. Ruth Rendell<\/a><\/strong>: A Demon in My View<\/a> (1976)<\/li>\n
  50. John Dickson Carr<\/a><\/strong>: The Devil in Velvet<\/a> (1951)<\/li>\n
  51. Barbara Vine<\/a><\/strong>: A Fatal Inversion<\/a> (1987)<\/li>\n
  52. Michael Innes<\/a><\/strong>: The Journeying Boy<\/a> (1949)<\/li>\n
  53. P. D. James<\/a><\/strong>: A Taste for Death<\/a> (1986)<\/li>\n
  54. Jack Higgins: The Eagle Has Landed (1975)<\/li>\n
  55. Mary Stewart: My Brother Michael (1960)<\/li>\n
  56. Peter Lovesey: Bertie and the Tin Man (1987)<\/li>\n
  57. Susan Moody: Penny Black (1984)<\/li>\n
  58. Len Deighton: Game, Set & Match (1984-1986)<\/li>\n
  59. Dick Francis<\/a><\/strong>: The Danger<\/a> (1983)<\/li>\n
  60. P. D. James<\/a><\/strong>: Devices and Desires<\/a> (1989)<\/li>\n
  61. Reginald Hill<\/a><\/strong>: Under World<\/a> (1988)<\/li>\n
  62. Mary Stewart: Nine Coaches Waiting (1958)<\/li>\n
  63. Paula Gosling<\/a><\/strong>: A Running Duck<\/a> (1978)<\/li>\n
  64. Michael Gilbert: Smallbone Deceased (1950)<\/li>\n
  65. Lionel Davidson: The Rose of Tibet (1962)<\/li>\n
  66. P. D. James<\/a><\/strong>: Innocent Blood<\/a> (1980)<\/li>\n
  67. Dorothy L. Sayers<\/a><\/strong>: Strong Poison<\/a> (1930)<\/li>\n
  68. Michael Innes<\/a><\/strong>: Hamlet, Revenge!<\/a> (1937)<\/li>\n
  69. Tony Hillerman<\/a><\/strong>: A Thief of Time<\/a> (1989)<\/li>\n
  70. Caryl Brahms & S. J. Simon: A Bullet in the Ballet (1937)<\/li>\n
  71. Reginald Hill<\/a><\/strong>: Deadheads<\/a> (1983)<\/li>\n
  72. Graham Greene: The Third Man (1950)<\/li>\n
  73. Anthony Price: The Labyrinth Makers (1974)<\/li>\n
  74. Adam Hall: The Quiller Memorandum (1965)<\/li>\n
  75. Margaret Millar<\/a><\/strong>: Beast in View<\/a> (1955)<\/li>\n
  76. Sarah Caudwell<\/a><\/strong>: The Shortest Way to Hades<\/a> (1984)<\/li>\n
  77. Desmond Bagley: Running Blind (1970)<\/li>\n
  78. Dick Francis<\/a><\/strong>: Twice Shy<\/a> (1981)<\/li>\n
  79. Richard Condon: The Manchurian Candidate (1959)<\/li>\n
  80. Caroline Graham<\/a><\/strong>: The Killings at Badger’s Drift<\/a> (1987)<\/li>\n
  81. Nicholas Blake<\/a><\/strong>: The Beast Must Die <\/a>(1938)<\/li>\n
  82. Martin Cruz Smith: Gorky Park (1981)<\/li>\n
  83. Agatha Christie<\/a><\/strong>: Death Comes as the End<\/a> (1945)<\/li>\n
  84. Christianna Brand<\/a><\/strong>: Green for Danger<\/a> (1945)<\/li>\n
  85. Cyril Hare<\/a><\/strong>: Tragedy at Law<\/a> (1942)<\/li>\n
  86. John Fowles: The Collector (1963)<\/li>\n
  87. J. J. Marric: Gideon’s Day (1955)<\/li>\n
  88. Lionel Davidson: The Sun Chemist (1976)<\/li>\n
  89. Alistair MacLean: The Guns of Navarone (1957)<\/li>\n
  90. Julian Symons: The Colour of Murder (1957)<\/li>\n
  91. John Buchan: Greenmantle (1916)<\/li>\n
  92. Erskine Childers: The Riddle of the Sands (1903)<\/li>\n
  93. Peter Lovesey: Wobble to Death (1970)<\/li>\n
  94. Dashiell Hammett: Red Harvest (1929)<\/li>\n
  95. Ken Follett: The Key to Rebecca (1980)<\/li>\n
  96. Ed McBain: Sadie When She Died (1972)<\/li>\n
  97. H. R. F. Keating: The Murder of the Maharajah (1980)<\/li>\n
  98. Simon Brett<\/a><\/strong>: What Bloody Man Is That?<\/a> (1987)<\/li>\n
  99. Gavin Lyall: Shooting Script (1966)<\/li>\n
  100. Edgar Wallace: The Four Just Men (1906)<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    Do you recognize any of these mysteries? I must admit, I haven’t read a lot of them! I now feel like I should expand my repertoire of mystery authors.<\/p>\n

    Five years later:<\/p>\n

    Mystery Writers of America – 1995 List of Top 100 Crime Novels of All Time<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

    (I highlighted the authors who can be found on the Cozy Mystery site.)<\/p>\n

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