The Top 100 Crime Novels of All Time
The Top 100 Crime Novels of All Time is a list published in book form in 1990 by the British-based Crime Writers' Association.
- 1
The Daughter of Time
Josephine Tey · 1951 · 4 lists
- 2
The Big Sleep
Raymond Chandler · 1939 · 13 lists
- 3
The Spy Who Came in from the Cold
John Le Carré · 1963 · 13 lists
- 4
Gaudy Night
Dorothy L. Sayers · 1935 · 4 lists
- 5
The Murder of Roger Ackroyd
Agatha Christie · 1926 · 7 lists
- 6
Rebecca
Daphne Du Maurier · 1938 · 15 lists
- 7
Farewell, My Lovely
Raymond Chandler · 1940 · 4 lists
- 8
The Moonstone
Wilkie Collins · 1868 · 7 lists
- 9
The Ipcress File
Len Deighton · 1962 · 2 lists
- 10
The Maltese Falcon
Dashiell Hammett · 1929 · 15 lists
- 11
The Franchise Affair
Josephine Tey · 1948 · 2 lists
- 12
Last Seen Wearing ...
Hillary Waugh · 1952 · 2 lists
- 13
The Name of the Rose
Umberto Eco · 1985 · 11 lists
- 14
Rogue Male
Geoffrey Household · 1939 · 2 lists
- 15
The Long Goodbye
Raymond Chandler · 1953 · 8 lists
- 16
Malice Aforethought
Francis Iles · 1931 · 1 list
- 17
The Day of the Jackal
Frederick Forsyth · 1971 · 6 lists
- 18
The Nine Tailors
Dorothy L. Sayers · 1934 · 4 lists
- 19
And Then There Were None
Agatha Christie · 1939 · 10 lists
- 20
The Thirty-Nine Steps
John Buchan · 1915 · 8 lists
- 21
The Complete Sherlock Holmes
Arthur Conan Doyle · 1900 · 10 lists
- 22
Murder Must Advertise
Dorothy L. Sayers · 1933 · 3 lists
- 23
The Complete Tales and Poems of Edgar Allan Poe
Edgar Allan Poe · 1849 · 12 lists
- 24
The Mask of Dimitrios
Eric Ambler · 1939 · 4 lists
- 25
The Moving Toyshop
Edmund Crispin · 1946 · 2 lists
- 26
The Tiger In The Smoke
Margery Allingham · 1952 · 1 list
- 27
The False Inspector Dew
Peter Lovesey · 1982 · 2 lists
- 28
The Woman in White
Wilkie Collins · 1860 · 11 lists
- 29
A Dark Adapted Eye
Barbara Vine · 1986 · 3 lists
- 30
The Postman Always Rings Twice
James M. Cain · 1934 · 6 lists
- 31
The Glass Key
Dashiell Hammett · 1931 · 3 lists
- 32
The Hound of the Baskervilles
Arthur Conan Doyle · 1901 · 11 lists
- 33
Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy
John Le Carré · 1974 · 8 lists
- 34
Trent's Last Case
E. C. Bentley · 1900 · 1 list
- 35
From Russia with Love
Ian Fleming · 1957 · 2 lists
- 36
- 37
The Dead Of Jericho
Colin Dexter · 1737 · 1 list
- 38
Strangers on a Train
Patricia Highsmith · 1950 · 2 lists
- 39
A Judgement In Stone
Ruth Rendell · 1977 · 3 lists
- 40
The Hollow Man
John Dickson Carr · 1992 · 4 lists
- 41
The Poisoned Chocolates Case
Anthony Berkeley · 1929 · 2 lists
- 42
A Morbid Taste For Bones
Ellis Peters · 1977 · 2 lists
- 43
The Leper Of Saint Giles
Ellis Peters · 1981 · 1 list
- 44
A Kiss Before Dying
Ira Levin · 1953 · 3 lists
- 45
The Talented Mr. Ripley
Patricia Highsmith · 1955 · 13 lists
- 46
Brighton Rock
Graham Greene · 1938 · 5 lists
- 47
The Lady in the Lake
Raymond Chandler · 1943 · 2 lists
- 48
Presumed Innocent
Scott Turow · 1987 · 4 lists
- 49
A Demon In My View
Ruth Rendell · 1976 · 2 lists
- 50
The Devil In Velvet
John Dickson Carr · 1951 · 1 list
- 51
A Fatal Inversion
Barbara Vine · 1987 · 2 lists
- 52
The Journeying Boy
Michael Innes · 1949 · 1 list
- 53
A Taste for Death
P. D. James · 1986 · 1 list
- 54
The Eagle Has Landed
Jack Higgins · 1975 · 3 lists
- 55
My Brother Michael
Mary Stewart · 1960 · 1 list
- 56
Bertie And The Tin Man
Peter Lovesey · 1989 · 1 list
- 57
Penny Black
Susan Moody · 1985 · 1 list
- 58
Game, Set & Match
Len Deighton · 1986 · 1 list
- 59
The Danger
Dick Francis · 1983 · 1 list
- 60
Devices And Desires
P. D. James · 1989 · 1 list
- 61
Underworld
Reginald Hill · 1989 · 1 list
- 62
Nine Coaches Waiting
Mary Stewart · 1958 · 1 list
- 63
A Running Duck
Paula Gosling · 1978 · 1 list
- 64
Smallbone Deceased
Michael Gilbert · 1950 · 2 lists
- 65
The Rose Of Tibet
Lionel Davidson · 1962 · 1 list
- 66
Innocent Blood
P. D. James · 1980 · 1 list
- 67
Strong Poison
Dorothy L. Sayers · 1930 · 3 lists
- 68
Hamlet, Revenge!
Michael Innes · 1937 · 1 list
- 69
A Thief Of Time
Tony Hillerman · 1978 · 2 lists
- 70
A Bullet In The Ballet
Caryl Brahms &S. J. Simon · 1938 · 1 list
- 71
Deadheads
Reginald Hill · 1983 · 1 list
- 72
The Third Man
Graham Greene · 1935 · 3 lists
- 73
The Labyrinth Makers
Anthony Price · 1970 · 1 list
- 74
The Quiller Memorandum
Adam Hall · 1965 · 2 lists
- 75
Beast In View
Margaret Millar · 1955 · 4 lists
- 76
- 77
Running Blind
Desmond Bagley · 1970 · 1 list
- 78
Twice Shy
Dick Francis · 1900 · 1 list
- 79
The Manchurian Candidate
Richard Condon · 1959 · 2 lists
- 80
The Killings At Badger's Drift
Caroline Graham · 1987 · 1 list
- 81
The Beast Must Die
Nicholas Blake · 1 list
- 82
Gorky Park
Martin Cruz Smith · 1981 · 4 lists
- 83
Death Comes as the End
Agatha Christie · 1944 · 1 list
- 84
Green For Danger
Christianna Brand · 1944 · 1 list
- 85
Tragedy At Law
Cyril Hare · 1942 · 1 list
- 86
The Collector
John Fowles · 1900 · 2 lists
- 87
Gideon Of Scotland Yard
J. J. Marric · 1 list
- 88
The Sun Chemist
Lionel Davidson · 1976 · 1 list
- 89
The Guns of Navarone
Alistair MacLean · 1957 · 1 list
- 90
The Colour Of Murder
Julian Symons · 1957 · 2 lists
- 91
Greenmantle
John Buchan · 1916 · 2 lists
- 92
Riddle of the Sands
Erskine Childers · 1903 · 2 lists
- 93
Wobble To Death
Peter Lovesey · 1970 · 2 lists
- 94
Red Harvest
Dashiell Hammett · 1929 · 9 lists
- 95
The Key To Rebecca
Ken Follett · 1980 · 1 list
- 96
Sadie When She Died
Ed McBain · 1972 · 1 list
- 97
The Murder Of The Maharajah
H.R.F. Keating · 1980 · 1 list
- 98
What Bloody Man Is That?
Simon Brett · 1987 · 1 list
- 99
Shooting Script
Gavin Lyall · 1966 · 1 list
- 100
The Four Just Men
Edgar Wallace · 1905 · 1 list
