1 The Complete Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle 2 The Maltese Falcon by Dashiell Hammett 3 Tales of Mystery & Imagination by Edgar Allan Poe 4 The Daughter of Time by Josephine Tey 5 Presumed Innocent by Scott Turow 6 The Spy Who Came in from the Cold by John le Carré 7 The Moonstone by Wilkie Collins 8 The Big Sleep by Raymond Chandler 9 Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier 10 And Then There Were None by Agatha Christie 11 Anatomy of a Murder by Robert Traver 12 The Murder of Roger Ackroyd by Agatha Christie 13 The Long Goodbye by Raymond Chandler 14 The Postman Always Rings Twice by James M Cain 15 The Godfather by Mario Puzo 16 The Silence of the Lambs by Thomas Harris 17 The Mask of Dimitrios by Eric Ambler 18 Gaudy Night by Dorothy L Sayers 19 The Witness for the Prosecution by Agatha Christie 20 The Day of the Jackal by Frederick Forsyth 21 Farewell My Lovely by Raymond Chandler 22 The Thirty-Nine Steps by John Buchan 23 The Name of the Rose by Umberto Eco 24 Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoyevsky 25 Eye of the Needle by Ken Follett 26 Rumpole of the Bailey by John Mortimer 27 Red Dragon by Thomas Harris 28 The Nine Tailors by Dorothy L Sayers 29 Fletch by Gregory Mcdonald 30 Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy by John le Carré 31 The Thin Man by Dashiell Hammett 32 The Woman in White by Wilkie Collins 33 Trent's Last Case by EC Bentley 34 Double Indemnity by James M Cain 35 Gorky Park by Martin Cruz Smith 36 Strong Poison by Dorothy L Sayers 37 Dance Hall of the Dead by Tony Hillerman 38 The Hot Rock by Donald E Westlake 39 Red Harvest by Dashiell Hammett 40 The Circular Staircase by Mary Roberts Rinehart 41 Murder on the Orient Express by Agatha Christie 42 The Firm by John Grisham 43 The Ipcress File by Len Deighton 44 Laura by Vera Caspary 45 I, the Jury by Mickey Spillane 46 The Laughing Policeman by Maj Sjöwall & Per Wahlöö 47 Bank Shot by Donald E Westlake 48 The Third Man by Graham Greene 49 The Killer Inside Me by Jim Thompson 50 Where Are the Children? by Mary Higgins Clark 51 A is for Alibi by Sue Grafton 52 The First Deadly Sin by Lawrence Sanders 53 A Thief of Time by Tony Hillerman 54 In Cold Blood by Truman Capote 55 Rogue Male by Geoffrey Household 56 Murder Must Advertise by Dorothy L Sayers 57 The Innocence of Father Brown by GK Chesterton 58 Smiley's People by John le Carré 59 The Lady in the Lake by Raymond Chandler 60 To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee 61 Our Man in Havana by Graham Greene 62 The Mystery of Edwin Drood by Charles Dickens 63 Wobble to Death by Peter Lovesey 64 Ashenden by W Somerset Maugham 65 The Seven-Per-Cent Solution by Nicholas Meyer 66 The Doorbell Rang by Rex Stout 67 Stick by Elmore Leonard 68 The Little Drummer Girl by John le Carré 69 Brighton Rock by Graham Greene 70 Dracula by Bram Stoker 71 The Talented Mr Ripley by Patricia Highsmith 72 The Moving Toyshop by Edmund Crispin 73 A Time to Kill by John Grisham 74 Last Seen Wearing ... by Hillary Waugh 75 Little Caesar by WR Burnett 76 The Friends of Eddie Coyle by George V Higgins 77 Clouds of Witness by Dorothy L Sayers 78 From Russia, with Love by Ian Fleming 79 Beast in View by Margaret Millar 80 Smallbone Deceased by Michael Gilbert 81 The Franchise Affair by Josephine Tey 82 Crocodile on the Sandbank by Elizabeth Peters 83 Shroud for a Nightingale by PD James 84 The Hunt for Red October by Tom Clancy 85 Chinaman's Chance by Ross Thomas 86 The Secret Agent by Joseph Conrad 87 The Dreadful Lemon Sky by John D MacDonald 88 The Glass Key by Dashiell Hammett 89 A Judgment in Stone by Ruth Rendell 90 Brat Farrar by Josephine Tey 91 The Chill by Ross Macdonald 92 Devil in a Blue Dress by Walter Mosley 93 The Choirboys by Joseph Wambaugh 94 God Save the Mark by Donald E Westlake 95 Home Sweet Homicide by Craig Rice 96 The Three Coffins by John Dickson Carr 97 Prizzi's Honor by Richard Condon 98 The Steam Pig by James H McClure 99 Time and Again by Jack Finney 100 Rosemary's Baby by Ira Levin 100 A Morbid Taste for Bones by Ellis Peters