The Complete Sherlock Holmes, by Arthur Conan Doyle (Included in this are The Hound of the Baskervilles, A Study in Scarlet, The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes and The Sign of Four, each of which garned a lot of attention on its own.)
Raymond Chandler
The Big Sleep
The Long Goodbye
Farewell, My Lovely
The Lady in the Lake
Agatha Christie
And Then There Were None (aka Ten Little Indians)
The Murder of Roger Ackroyd
Murder on the Orient Express
A Murder is Announced
The Thirteen Problems
Towards Zero
Endless Night
Crooked House
Ordeal by Innocence
The Moving Finger
Dorothy L. Sayers
Gaudy Night
The Nine Tailors
Strong Poison
Murder Must Advertise
Clouds of Witness
Dashiell Hammett
The Thin Man
The Glass Key
Red Harvest, by
The Maltese Falcon
Tony Hillerman
Dance Hall of the Dead
A Thief of Time, by
Donald E Westlake
The Hot Rock
God Save the Mark
John Grisham
The Firm,
A Time to Kill
Graham Greene
The Third Man
Our Man in Havana
Brighton Rock
John le Carré
Smiley’s People
The Little Drummer Girl
The Spy Who Came in from the Cold
Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy
James M Cain
The Postman Always Rings Twice
Double Indemnity
Josephine Tey
The Franchise Affair
Brat Farrar
Tales of Mystery and Imagination, by Edgar Allen Poe (Includes “The Gold Bug” and “Murders in the Rue Morgue,” which also received a lot of individual votes.)
The Daughter of Time, by Josephine TeyPresumed Innocent, by Scott Turow
The Moonstone, by Wilkie CollinsRebecca, by Daphne du Maurier
Anatomy of a Murder, by Robert Traver
The Godfather, by Mario Puzo
The Silence of the Lambs, by Thomas Harris
A Coffin for Dimitrios, by Eric Ambler
The Day of the Jackal, by Frederick Forsyth
The Thirty-Nine Steps, by John Buchan
The Name of the Rose, by Umberto Eco
Crime and Punishment, by Fyodor Dostoevsky
Eye of the Needle, by Ken Follett
Rumpole of the Bailey, by John Mortimer
Red Dragon, by Thomas Harris
Fletch, by Gregory Mcdonald
The Woman in White, by Wilkie Collins
Trent’s Last Case, by E C Bentley
Gorky Park, by Martin Cruz Smith
The Circular Staircase, by Mary Roberts Rinehart
The Ipcress File, by Len Deighton
Laura, by Vera Caspary
I, the Jury, by Mickey Spillane
The Laughing Policeman, by Maj Sjöwall and Per Wahlöö
Bank Shot, by Donald E Westlake
The Killer Inside Me, by Jim Thompson
Where Are the Children?, by Mary Higgins Clark
“A” Is for Alibi, by Sue Grafton
The First Deadly Sin, by Lawrence Sanders
In Cold Blood, by Truman Capote
Rogue Male, by Geoffrey Household
The Innocence of Father Brown, by G K Chesterton
To Kill a Mockingbird, by Harper Lee
The Mystery of Edwin Drood, by Charles Dickens
Wobble to Death, by Peter Lovesey
Ashenden, by W Somerset Maugham
The Seven Per-Cent Solution, by Nicholas Meyer
The Doorbell Rang, by Rex Stout
Stick, by Elmore Leonard
The Talented Mr Ripley, by Patricia Highsmith
The Moving Toyshop, by Edmund Crispin
Last Seen Wearing, by Hillary Waugh
Little Caesar, by W R Burnett
The Friends of Eddie Coyle, by John V Higgins
From Russia, with Love, by Ian Fleming
Beast in View, by Margaret Millar
Smallbone Deceased, by Michael Gilbert
Crocodile on the Sandbank, by Elizabeth Peters
Shroud for a Nightingale, by P. D. James
The Hunt for Red October, by Tom Clancy
Chinaman’s Chance, by Ross Thomas
The Secret Agent, by Joseph Conrad
The Dreadful Lemon Sky, by John D MacDonald
Judgment in Stone, by Ruth Rendell
The Chill, by Ross Macdonald
Devil in a Blue Dress, by Walter Mosley
The Choirboys, by Joseph Wambaugh
Home Sweet Homicide, by Craig Rice
The Three Coffins (aka The Hollow Man), by John Dickson Carr
Prizzi’s Honor, by Richard Condon
The Steam Pig, by James McClure
Time and Again, by Jack Finney
A Morbid Taste for Bones, by Ellis Peters, tied with Rosemary’s Baby, by Ira Levin
