AsNotedIn: The Top 100 Mystery Novels of All Time

Mystery Writers of America

The Top 100 Mystery Novels of All Time is a book list published in 1995 by the Mystery Writers of America of their favorite mystery books. - AsNotedIn

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Works

Composition	Kind	Creator	AsNotedIn
Composition	Kind	Creator	AsNotedIn
"A" is for Alibi	Novel	Sue Grafton	MWA 100
A Judgement in Stone	Novel	Ruth Rendell	CWA 100 MWA 100 1000 Nv
A Morbid Taste for Bones	Novel	Edith Pargeter	CWA 100 MWA 100 1000 Nv
A Thief of Time	Novel	Tony Hillerman	CWA 100 MWA 100 1000 Nv
A Time to Kill: A Novel	Novel	John Grisham	MWA 100 1000 Nv
Anatomy of a Murder (book)	Novel	Robert Traver	MWA 100 1000 Nv
And Then There Were None (Christie book)	Novel	Agatha Christie	CWA 100 MWA 100 1000 Nv
Ashenden: Or the British Agent	Novel	W Somerset Maugham	MWA 100 1000 Nv
Bank Shot	Novel	Donald E Westlake	MWA 100 1000 Nv
Beast in View	Novel	Margaret Millar	CWA 100 MWA 100 1000 Nv
Brat Farrar	Novel	Josephine Tey	MWA 100 1000 Nv
Brighton Rock	Book	Graham Greene	1001 Book CWA 100 MWA 100 1000 Nv
Chinaman's Chance	Novel	Ross Thomas	MWA 100 1000 Nv
Clouds of Witness	Novel	Dorothy L Sayers	MWA 100 1000 Nv
Crime and Punishment (book)	Novel	Fyodor Dostoevsky	1001 Book MWA 100 1000 Nv
Crocodile on the Sandbank	Novel	Elizabeth Peters	MWA 100 1000 Nv
Dance Hall of the Dead	Novel	Tony Hillerman	MWA 100 1000 Nv
Devil in a Blue Dress	Novel	Walter Mosley	MWA 100 1000 Nv
Double Indemnity (book)	Novel	James M Cain	MWA 100 1000 Nv
Dracula (book)	Book	Bram Stoker	1001 Book MWA 100 1000 Nv
Eye of the Needle	Novel	Ken Follett	MWA 100 1000 Nv
Farewell My Lovely	Novel	Raymond Chandler	CWA 100 MWA 100 1000 Nv
Fletch	Novel	Gregory Mcdonald	MWA 100 1000 Nv
From Russia, with Love (book)	Novel	Ian Fleming	CWA 100 MWA 100 1000 Nv
Gaudy Night	Novel	Dorothy L Sayers	CWA 100 MWA 100 1000 Nv
God Save the Mark	Novel	Donald E Westlake	MWA 100 1000 Nv
Gorky Park	Novel	Martin Cruz Smith	CWA 100 MWA 100 1000 Nv
Home Sweet Homicide	Novel	Craig Rice	MWA 100 1000 Nv
I, the Jury	Novel	Mickey Spillane	MWA 100 1000 Nv
In Cold Blood (book)	Verfabula	Truman Capote	1001 Book MWA 100 1000 BHV
Last Seen Wearing ... (Waugh book)	Novel	Hillary Waugh	CWA 100 MWA 100 1000 Nv
Laura (book)	Novel	Vera Caspary	MWA 100 1000 Nv
Little Caesar (book)	Novel	William Riley Burnett	MWA 100 1000 Nv
Murder Must Advertise	Novel	Dorothy L Sayers	1001 Book CWA 100 MWA 100 1000 Nv
Murder on the Orient Express (book)	Novel	Agatha Christie	MWA 100 1000 Nv
Our Man in Havana	Book	Graham Greene	MWA 100 1000 Nv
Presumed Innocent	Novel	Scott Turow	CWA 100 MWA 100 1000 Nv
Prizzi's Honor (book)	Novel	Richard Condon	MWA 100 1000 Nv
Rebecca (book)	Book	Daphne Du Maurier	1001 Book CWA 100 MWA 100 1000 Nv
Red Dragon	Novel	Thomas Harris	MWA 100 1000 Nv
Red Harvest (book)	Novel	Dashiell Hammett	AT100N CWA 100 MWA 100 1000 Nv
Rogue Male (book)	Novel	Geoffrey Household	CWA 100 MWA 100 1000 Nv
Rosemary's Baby (book)	Novel	Ira Levin	MWA 100 1000 Nv
Rumpole of the Bailey (book)	Novel	John Mortimer	MWA 100 1000 Nv
Shroud for a Nightingale	Novel	P D James	MWA 100 1000 Nv
Smallbone Deceased	Novel	Michael Gilbert	CWA 100 MWA 100 1000 Nv
Smiley's People	Book	John le Carre	1001 Book MWA 100 1000 Nv
Stick	Novel	Elmore Leonard	MWA 100 1000 Nv
Strong Poison	Novel	Dorothy L Sayers	CWA 100 MWA 100 1000 Nv
Tales of Mystery and Imagination (collection)	Short Story Collection	Edgar Allan Poe	CWA 100 MWA 100
The Big Sleep (book)	Novel	Raymond Chandler	1001 Book AT100N LeM 100 CWA 100 MWA 100 1000 Nv
The Chill	Novel	Ross Macdonald	MWA 100 1000 Nv
The Choirboys	Novel	Joseph Wambaugh	MWA 100 1000 Nv
The Circular Staircase	Novel	Mary Roberts Rinehart	MWA 100 1000 Nv
The Complete Sherlock Holmes: All 4 Novels and 56 Short Stories	Omnibus	Arthur Conan Doyle	MWA 100
The Daughter of Time (book)	Novel	Josephine Tey	CWA 100 MWA 100 1000 Nv
The Day of the Jackal (book)	Novel	Frederick Forsyth	CWA 100 MWA 100 1000 Nv
The Doorbell Rang	Novel	Rex Stout	MWA 100 1000 Nv
The Dreadful Lemon Sky	Novel	John D MacDonald	MWA 100 1000 Nv
The Firm	Novel	John Grisham	MWA 100 1000 Nv
The First Deadly Sin	Novel	Lawrence Sanders	MWA 100 1000 Nv
The Franchise Affair	Novel	Josephine Tey	CWA 100 MWA 100 1000 Nv
The Friends of Eddie Coyle	Novel	George V Higgins	MWA 100 1000 Nv
The Glass Key	Book	Dashiell Hammett	CWA 100 MWA 100 1000 Nv
The Godfather	Book	Mario Puzo	1001 Book MWA 100 1000 Nv
The Hollow Man	Novel	John Dickson Carr	MWA 100 CWA 100 1000 Nv
The Hot Rock	Novel	Donald E Westlake	MWA 100 1000 Nv
The Hunt for Red October (book)	Novel	Tom Clancy	MWA 100 1000 Nv
The Innocence of Father Brown (story collection)	Short Story Collection	G K Chesterton	MWA 100
The IPCRESS File	Novel	Len Deighton	CWA 100 MWA 100 1000 Nv
The Killer Inside Me	Novel	Jim Thompson	MWA 100 1000 Nv
The Lady in the Lake	Novel	Raymond Chandler	CWA 100 MWA 100 1000 Nv
The Laughing Policeman	Novel	Maj Sjowall	MWA 100 1000 Nv
The Little Drummer Girl	Novel	John le Carre	MWA 100 1000 Nv
The Long Goodbye	Novel	Raymond Chandler	1001 Book CWA 100 MWA 100 1000 Nv
The Maltese Falcon	Book	Dashiell Hammett	1001 Book CWA 100 MWA 100 1000 Nv
The Mask of Dimitrios	Novel	Eric Ambler	CWA 100 MWA 100 1000 Nv
The Moonstone (book)	Novel	Wilkie Collins	1001 Book CWA 100 MWA 100 1000 Nv
The Moving Toyshop	Novel	Edmund Crispin	CWA 100 MWA 100 1000 Nv
The Murder of Roger Ackroyd	Novel	Agatha Christie	1001 Book LeM 100 CWA 100 MWA 100 1000 Nv
The Mystery of Edwin Drood	Novel	Charles Dickens	MWA 100 1000 Nv
The Name of the Rose (book)	Book	Umberto Eco	1001 Book LeM 100 CWA 100 MWA 100 1000 Nv
The Nine Tailors	Novel	Dorothy L Sayers	1001 Book CWA 100 MWA 100 1000 Nv
The Postman Always Rings Twice (book)	Book	James M Cain	1001 Book CWA 100 MWA 100 1000 Nv
The Secret Agent	Book	Joseph Conrad	1001 Book MWA 100 1000 Nv
The Seven Per-Cent Solution	Novel	Nicholas Meyer	MWA 100 1000 Nv
The Silence of the Lambs (book)	Novel	Thomas Harris	MWA 100 1000 Nv
The Spy Who Came in from the Cold	Book	John le Carre	1001 Book AT100N CWA 100 MWA 100 1000 Nv
The Steam Pig	Novel	James Howe McClure	MWA 100 1000 Nv
The Talented Mr Ripley	Novel	Patricia Highsmith	1001 Book CWA 100 MWA 100 1000 Nv
The Thin Man (book)	Book	Dashiell Hammett	1001 Book MWA 100 1000 Nv
The Third Man (novella)	Novel	Graham Greene	CWA 100 MWA 100 1000 Nv
The Thirty-Nine Steps (book)	Novel	John Buchan	1001 Book CWA 100 MWA 100 1000 Nv
The Witness for the Prosecution (short story)	Short Story	Agatha Christie	MWA 100 1000 SS
The Woman in White	Novel	Wilkie Collins	1001 Book CWA 100 MWA 100 1000 Nv
Time and Again (Finney book)	Novel	Jack Finney	MWA 100 1000 Nv
Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy (book)	Novel	John le Carre	CWA 100 MWA 100 1000 Nv
To Kill a Mockingbird (book)	Book	Nelle Harper Lee	1001 Book AT100N PPF 1001 Kid MWA 100 1000 Nv
Trent's Last Case	Novel	E C Bentley	CWA 100 MWA 100 1000 Nv
Where Are the Children?	Novel	Mary Higgins Clark	MWA 100 1000 Nv
Wobble to Death	Novel	Peter Lovesey	CWA 100 MWA 100 1000 Nv