Tozai Mystery Best 100 (2012)
Tozai Mystery Best 100 (東西ミステリーベスト100, Tozai Misuteri Besuto 100; lit. The Top 100 Mystery Novels of the East and the West) is a list published in the Japanese magazine Shūkan Bunshun (the Weekly Bunshun) in 1985 by Bungeishunjū. This list was also published in book form in 1986. There was a list of 100 Japanese novels and one of 100 foreign novels. 508 people who love mystery novels, including the 123 members of Mystery Writers of Japan, took part in the survey. The revised edition came out in 2012.
- 1
And Then There Were None
Agatha Christie · 1939 · 10 lists
- 2
The Tragedy Of Y
Ellery Queen · 1932 · 1 list
- 3
The Complete Sherlock Holmes
Arthur Conan Doyle · 1900 · 10 lists
- 4
Phantom Lady
Cornell Woolrich · 1942 · 1 list
- 5
The Murder of Roger Ackroyd
Agatha Christie · 1926 · 7 lists
- 6
The Long Goodbye
Raymond Chandler · 1953 · 8 lists
- 7
The Name of the Rose
Umberto Eco · 1985 · 11 lists
- 8
The Innocence of Father Brown
G.K. Chesterton · 1911 · 2 lists
- 9
The Silence of the Lambs
Thomas Harris · 1988 · 7 lists
- 10
The Burning Court
John Dickson Carr · 1937 · 1 list
- 11
Murder on the Orient Express
Agatha Christie · 1934 · 5 lists
- 12
Millennium Trilogy
Stieg Larsson · 2008 · 1 list
- 13
A Kiss Before Dying
Ira Levin · 1953 · 3 lists
- 14
The Tragedy Of X
Ellery Queen · 1932 · 1 list
- 15
The Chill
Ross Macdonald · 1963 · 2 lists
- 16
The Hollow Man
John Dickson Carr · 1992 · 4 lists
- 17
The Day of the Jackal
Frederick Forsyth · 1971 · 6 lists
- 18
The Bishop Murder Case
S. S. Van Dine · 1900 · 1 list
- 19
The Eagle Has Landed
Jack Higgins · 1975 · 3 lists
- 20
The Poisoned Chocolates Case
Anthony Berkeley · 1929 · 2 lists
- 21
Eight Million Ways To Die
Lawrence Block · 1985 · 1 list
- 22
The Bone Collector
Jeffery Deaver · 1997 · 2 lists
- 23
The Greek Coffin Mystery
Ellery Queen · 1932 · 1 list
- 24
Death Of Jezebel
Christianna Brand · 1948 · 1 list
- 25
Midnight Plus One
Gavin Lyall · 1965 · 1 list
- 26
Inherit The Stars
James P. Hogan · 1977 · 1 list
- 27
White Jazz
James Ellroy · 1991 · 1 list
- 28
The Mystery of the Yellow Room
Gaston Leroux · 1907 · 1 list
- 29
Presumed Innocent
Scott Turow · 1987 · 4 lists
- 30
The Laughing Policeman
Maj Sjöwall, Per Wahlöö · 1968 · 3 lists
- 31
Trial And Error
Anthony Berkeley · 1937 · 1 list
- 32
Shadow 81
Lucien Nahum · 1975 · 1 list
- 33
The Cask
Freeman Wills Crofts · 1920 · 1 list
- 34
The Murders in the Rue Morgue
Edgar Allan Poe · 1841 · 2 lists
- 35
For Kicks
Dick Francis · 1965 · 1 list
- 36
The Maltese Falcon
Dashiell Hammett · 1929 · 15 lists
- 37
The Emperor's Snuff Box
John Dickson Carr · 1942 · 1 list
- 38
Red Harvest
Dashiell Hammett · 1929 · 9 lists
- 39
The Daughter of Time
Josephine Tey · 1951 · 4 lists
- 40
Chiefs
Stuart Woods · 1981 · 1 list
- 41
Trap For Cinderella
Sebastien Japrisot · 1965 · 1 list
- 42
The Egyptian Cross Mystery
Ellery Queen · 1932 · 1 list
- 43
Frost At Christmas
R. D. Wingfield · 1986 · 1 list
- 44
The Judas Window
John Dickson Carr · 1938 · 1 list
- 45
The Nine Tailors
Dorothy L. Sayers · 1934 · 4 lists
- 46
Whip Hand
Dick Francis · 1787 · 3 lists
- 47
The Hound of the Baskervilles
Arthur Conan Doyle · 1901 · 11 lists
- 48
The Red Redmaynes
Eden Phillpotts · 1922 · 1 list
- 49
Jumping Jenny
Anthony Berkeley · 1933 · 1 list
- 50
Invisible Green
John Sladek · 1977 · 1 list
- 51
A Judgement In Stone
Ruth Rendell · 1977 · 3 lists
- 52
Crime
Ferdinand von Schirach · 2011 · 1 list
- 53
Woman Of Straw
Catherine Arley · 1957 · 1 list
- 54
Point Of Impact
Stephen Hunter · 1993 · 1 list
- 55
The Black Dahlia
James Ellroy · 1987 · 2 lists
- 56
Child 44
Tom Rob Smith · 2008 · 2 lists
- 57
The Wycherly Woman
Ross Macdonald · 1961 · 1 list
- 58
The Judas Child
Carol O'Connell · 1 list
- 59
The Second Shot
Anthony Berkeley · 1920 · 1 list
- 60
The Big Nowhere
James Ellroy · 1988 · 1 list
- 61
Misery
Stephen King · 1978 · 4 lists
- 62
The A.B.C. Murders
Agatha Christie · 1936 · 1 list
- 63
The Hog Murders
William L. Deandrea · 1979 · 1 list
- 64
Someone Like You
Roald Dahl · 1953 · 1 list
- 65
A Touch Of Frost
R. D. Wingfield · 1987 · 1 list
- 66
Tales Of The Black Widowers
Isaac Asimov · 1974 · 1 list
- 67
The Moonstone
Wilkie Collins · 1868 · 7 lists
- 68
The Nine Mile Walk
Harry Kemelman · 1967 · 1 list
- 69
The Da Vinci Code
Dan Brown · 2003 · 8 lists
- 70
Hms Ulysses
Alistair MacLean · 1955 · 1 list
- 71
- 72
Past Caring
Robert Goddard · 1986 · 1 list
- 73
The Cold Moon
Jeffery Deaver · 1994 · 1 list
- 74
Never Let Me Go
Kazuo Ishiguro · 2005 · 11 lists
- 75
Boy's Life
Robert R. McCammon · 2014 · 3 lists
- 76
A Dram of Poison
Charlotte Armstrong · 1956 · 2 lists
- 77
A Cool Breeze On The Underground
Don Winslow · 1996 · 1 list
- 78
Cat Of Many Tails
Ellery Queen · 1 list
- 79
Farewell, My Lovely
Raymond Chandler · 1940 · 4 lists
- 80
Last Seen Wearing
Colin Dexter · 1976 · 1 list
- 81
Flicker
Theodore Roszak · 1991 · 2 lists
- 82
Fingersmith
Sarah Waters · 2002 · 6 lists
- 83
The Big Blowdown
George P. Pelecanos · 1996 · 1 list
- 84
A Simple Plan
Scott Smith · 1993 · 2 lists
- 85
Red Dragon
Thomas Harris · 1981 · 4 lists
- 86
The Poet And The Lunatics
Gilbert Keith Chesterton · 1929 · 1 list
- 87
The Power Of The Dog
Don Winslow · 2006 · 1 list
- 88
Affinity
Sarah Waters · 1999 · 1 list
- 89
Home Sweet Homicide
Craig Rice · 1944 · 2 lists
- 90
Calamity Town
Ellery Queen · 1942 · 1 list
- 91
High Citadel
Desmond Bagley · 1965 · 1 list
- 92
The Hollow Needle
Maurice Leblanc · 2018 · 1 list
- 93
Early Autumn
Robert B. Parker · 1981 · 1 list
- 94
Chatham School Affair
Thomas H. Cook · 1996 · 1 list
- 95
Not A Penny More,Not A Penny Less
Jeffrey Archer · 1974 · 1 list
- 96
A Study in Scarlet
Arthur Conan Doyle · 1887 · 2 lists
- 97
The Hot Rock
Donald E. Westlake · 1970 · 2 lists
- 98
A Madness Of The Heart
Richard Neely · 1976 · 1 list
- 99
Death on the Nile
Agatha Christie · 1937 · 1 list
- 100
The Caves of Steel
Isaac Asimov · 1954 · 1 list
