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December 26, 2017
Experts' Experts: Top 15 mystery novels of all time
Arthur Conan Doyle: "The Complete Sherlock Holmes" (1887-1927)
Dashiell Hammett: "The Maltese Falcon" (1930)
Edgar Allan Poe: "Tales of Mystery and Imagination" (1852)
Josephine Tey: "The Daughter of Time" (1951)
Scott Turow: "Presumed Innocent" (1987)
John le Carré: "The Spy Who Came In From the Cold" (1963)
Wilkie Collins: "The Moonstone" (1868)
Raymond Chandler: "The Big Sleep" (1939)
Daphne du Maurier: "Rebecca" (1938)
Agatha Christie: "And Then There Were None" (1939)
Robert Traver: "Anatomy of a Murder" (1958)
Agatha Christie: "The Murder of Roger Ackroyd" (1926)
Raymond Chandler: "The Long Goodbye" (1953)
James M. Cain: "The Postman Always Rings Twice" (1934)
Mario Puzo: "The Godfather" (1969)
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The Mystery Guild of America in 2006 created a list of the top 15 mystery novels ever written; it appears above.
The list does not appear to be in any particular order.
How many have you read?
I've read five: "Presumed Innocent"; "The Spy Who Came In From the Cold"; "Rebecca"; "Anatomy of a Murder"; and "The Godfather."
Pictured at the top of this post is the cover of the 1926 first edition of Agatha Christie's novel.
December 26, 2017 at 10:01 AM | Permalink
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My list:
Arthur Conan Doyle: "The Complete Sherlock Holmes" (1887-1927) -- read
Dashiell Hammett: "The Maltese Falcon" (1930) -- TBR
Edgar Allan Poe: "Tales of Mystery and Imagination" (1852) -- read 7 of the 13 short stories in this volume
Josephine Tey: "The Daughter of Time" (1951) -- read
Scott Turow: "Presumed Innocent" (1987) -- TBR
John le Carré: "The Spy Who Came In From the Cold" (1963) -- TBR
Wilkie Collins: "The Moonstone" (1868) -- TBR
Raymond Chandler: "The Big Sleep" (1939) -- TBR
Daphne du Maurier: "Rebecca" (1938) -- TBR
Agatha Christie: "And Then There Were None" (1939) -- TBR
Robert Traver: "Anatomy of a Murder" (1958) --TBR
Agatha Christie: "The Murder of Roger Ackroyd" (1926) -- TBR
Raymond Chandler: "The Long Goodbye" (1953) -- TBR
James M. Cain: "The Postman Always Rings Twice" (1934) -- TBR
Mario Puzo: "The Godfather" (1969) -- read
Posted by: antares | Dec 26, 2017 6:54:32 PM
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