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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
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        • UKTV Drama 20 Classic Books You Must Read Before You Die
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