The 100 Favorite Mysteries of the 20th Century

As selected by International Mystery Booksellers Association online members

1 The Tiger in the Smoke - Margery Allingham
2 A Coffin for Dimitrios - Eric Ambler
3 A Dram of Poison - Charlotte Armstrong
4 Aunt Dimity's Death - Nancy Atherton
5 In the Heat of the Night - John Ball
6 Death by Sheer Torture - Robert Barnard
7 Track of the Cat - Nevada Barr
8 The Beast Must Die - Nicholas Blake
9 When the Sacred Ginmill Closes - Lawrence Block
10 Green for Danger - Christianna Brand
11 The Fabulous Clipjoint - Frederic Brown
12 The 39 Steps - John Buchan
13 Black Cherry Blues - James Lee Burke
14 The Postman Always Rings Twice - James M. Cain
15 The Thin Woman - Dorothy Cannell
16 The Three Coffins - John Dickson Carr
17 Thus Was Adonis Murdered - Sarah Caudwell
18 The Big Sleep - Raymond Chandler
19 The Murder of Roger Ackroyd - Agatha Christie
20 The Concrete Blonde - Michael Connelly
21 The Man Who Liked Slow Tomatoes - K.C. Constantine
22 The Monkey's Raincoat - Robert Crais
23 The Moving Toyshop - Edmund Crispin
24 Dreaming of the Bones - Deborah Crombie
25 The Last Good Kiss - James Crumley
26 The Yellow Room Conspiracy - Peter Dickinson
27 The Hound of the Baskervilles - Arthur Conan Doyle
28 Rebecca - Daphne DuMaurier
29 Booked to Die - John Dunning
30 Old Bones - Aaron Elkins
31 One for the Money - Janet Evanovich
32 Time and Again - Jack Finney
33 Who in Hell Is Wanda Fuca? - G.M. Ford
34 Whip Hand - Dick Francis
35 The Hours Before Dawn - Celia Fremlin
36 A Great Deliverance - Elizabeth George
37 Smallbone Deceased - Michael Gilbert
38 "A" is for Alibi - Sue Grafton
39 The Killings at Badger's Drift - Caroline Graham
40 The Man With the Load of Mischief - Martha Grimes
41 The Maltese Falcon - Dashiell Hammett
42 An English Murder - Cyril Hare
43 The Silence of the Lambs - Thomas Harris
44 Tourist Season - Carl Hiaasen
45 The Talented Mr. Ripley - Patricia Highsmith
46 On Beulah Height - Reginald Hill
47 A Thief of Time - Tony Hillerman
48 Cotton Comes to Harlem - Chester Himes
49 Hamlet, Revenge - Michael Innes
50 An Unsuitable Job for a Woman - P.D. James
51 The Ritual Bath - Faye Kellerman
52 When the Bough Break - Jonathan Kellerman
53 The Beekeeper's Apprentice - Laurie King
54 Dark Nantucket Noon - Jane Langton
55 The Spy Who Came in From The Cold - John le Carre
56 To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee
57 Darkness, Take My Hand - Dennie Lehane
58 Get Shorty - Elmore Leonard
59 Sleeping Dog - Dick Lochte
60 Rough Cider - Peter Lovesey
61 The Deep Blue Goodbye - John D. MacDonald
62 The List of Adrian Messenger - Philip MacDonald
63 The Chill - Ross Macdonald
64 Bootlegger's Daughter - Margaret Maron
65 Death of a Peer - Ngaio Marsh
66 Sadie When She Died - Ed McBain
67 The Sunday Hangman - James McClure
68 If Ever I Return, Pretty Peggy-O - Sharyn McCrumb
69 A Stranger in My Grave - Margaret Millar
70 Devil in a Blue Dress - Walter Mosley
71 Edwin of the Iron Shoes - Marcia Muller
72 Death's Bright Angel - Janet Neel
73 Mallory's Oracle - Carol O'Connell
74 Child of Silence - Abigail Padgett
75 Deadlock - Sara Paretsky
76 Looking for Rachel Wallace - Robert Parker
77 The Club Dumas - Arturo Perez-Reverte
78 Vanishing Act - Thomas Perry
79 Crocodile on the Sandbank - Elizabeth Peters
80 One Corpse Too Many - Ellis Peters
81 Blue Lonesome - Bill Pronzini
82 Cat of Many Tails - Ellery Queen
83 No More Dying Then - Ruth Rendell
84 The Wrong Murder - Craig Rice/a>
85 The Circular Staircase - Mary Roberts Rinehart
86 Blood at the Root - Peter Robinson
87 Strike Three You're Dead - Richard Rosen
88 A Broken Vessel - Kate Ross
89 Concourse - S.J. Rozan
90 Murder Must Advertise - Dorothy Sayers
91 The Laughing Policeman - Sjowall & Wahloo
92 Some Buried Caesar - Rex Stout
93 Brat Farrar - Josephine Tey
94 Chinaman's Chance - Ross Thomas
95 A Test of Wills - Charles Todd
96 Presumed Innocent - Scott Turow
97 The Sands of Windee - Arthur Upfield
98 The Ice House - Minette Walters
99 Sanibel Flats - Randy Wayne White
100 I Married a Dead Man - Cornell Woolrich