AsNotedIn: The Top 100 Crime Novels of All Time

Crime Writers' Association

The Top 100 Crime Novels of All Time is a book list published in 1990 by the British-based Crime Writers' Association of their favorite crime books. - AsNotedIn

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Works

Composition	Kind	Creator	AsNotedIn
Composition	Kind	Creator	AsNotedIn
A Bullet in the Ballet (book)	Novel	S J Simon Caryl Brahms	CWA 100 1000 Nv
A Dark-Adapted Eye	Novel	Ruth Rendell	CWA 100 1000 Nv
A Demon in My View	Novel	Ruth Rendell	CWA 100 1000 Nv
A Fatal Inversion	Novel	Ruth Rendell	CWA 100 1000 Nv
A Judgement in Stone	Novel	Ruth Rendell	CWA 100 MWA 100 1000 Nv
A Kiss Before Dying	Novel	Ira Levin	CWA 100 1000 Nv
A Morbid Taste for Bones	Novel	Edith Pargeter	CWA 100 MWA 100 1000 Nv
A Running Duck	Novel	Paula Gosling	CWA 100 1000 Nv
A Taste for Death	Novel	P D James	CWA 100 1000 Nv
A Thief of Time	Novel	Tony Hillerman	CWA 100 MWA 100 1000 Nv
And Then There Were None (Christie book)	Novel	Agatha Christie	CWA 100 MWA 100 1000 Nv
Beast in View	Novel	Margaret Millar	CWA 100 MWA 100 1000 Nv
Bertie and the Tin Man	Novel	Peter Lovesey	CWA 100 1000 Nv
Brighton Rock	Book	Graham Greene	1001 Book CWA 100 MWA 100 1000 Nv
Cop Hater	Novel	Ed McBain	CWA 100 1000 Nv
Dead Heads	Novel	Reginald Hill	CWA 100 1000 Nv
Death Comes as the End	Novel	Agatha Christie	CWA 100 1000 Nv
Devices and Desires	Novel	P D James	CWA 100 1000 Nv
Farewell My Lovely	Novel	Raymond Chandler	CWA 100 MWA 100 1000 Nv
From Russia, with Love (book)	Novel	Ian Fleming	CWA 100 MWA 100 1000 Nv
Game, Set and Match	Novel	Len Deighton	CWA 100 1000 Nv
Gaudy Night	Novel	Dorothy L Sayers	CWA 100 MWA 100 1000 Nv
Gideon's Day	Novel	J J Marric	CWA 100 1000 Nv
Gorky Park	Novel	Martin Cruz Smith	CWA 100 MWA 100 1000 Nv
Green for Danger	Novel	Christiana Brand	CWA 100 1000 Nv
Greenmantle	Novel	John Buchan	CWA 100 1000 Nv
Hamlet, Revenge!	Novel	Michael Innes	CWA 100 1000 Nv
His Last Bow: Some Later Reminiscences of Sherlock Holmes	Short Story Collection	Arthur Conan Doyle	CWA 100
Innocent Blood	Novel	P D James	CWA 100 1000 Nv
Last Seen Wearing ...	Novel	Hillary Waugh	CWA 100 MWA 100 1000 Nv
Malice Aforethought	Novel	Francis Iles	CWA 100 1000 Nv
Murder Must Advertise	Novel	Dorothy L Sayers	1001 Book CWA 100 MWA 100 1000 Nv
My Brother Michael	Novel	Mary Stewart	CWA 100 1000 Nv
Nine Coaches Waiting	Novel	Mary Stewart	CWA 100 1000 Nv
Penny Black	Novel	Susan Moody	CWA 100 1000 Nv
Presumed Innocent	Novel	Scott Turow	CWA 100 MWA 100 1000 Nv
Rebecca (book)	Book	Daphne Du Maurier	1001 Book CWA 100 MWA 100 1000 Nv
Red Harvest	Book	Dashiell Hammett	AT100N CWA 100 MWA 100 1000 Nv
Rogue Male (book)	Novel	Geoffrey Household	CWA 100 MWA 100 1000 Nv
Running Blind	Novel	Desmond Bagley	CWA 100 1000 Nv
Sadie When She Died	Novel	Ed McBain	CWA 100 1000 Nv
Shooting Script	Novel	Gavin Lyall	CWA 100 1000 Nv
Smallbone Deceased	Novel	Michael Gilbert	CWA 100 MWA 100 1000 Nv
Strangers on a Train (book)	Novel	Patricia Highsmith	CWA 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 Adventures of Sherlock Holmes	Short Story Collection	Arthur Conan Doyle	1001 Book CWA 100
The Beast Must Die	Novel	Cecil Day-Lewis	CWA 100 1000 Nv
The Berlin Memorandum	Novel	Elleston Trevor	CWA 100 1000 Nv
The Big Sleep (book)	Novel	Raymond Chandler	1001 Book AT100N LeM 100 CWA 100 MWA 100 1000 Nv
The Case-Book of Sherlock Holmes	Short Story Collection	Arthur Conan Doyle	CWA 100
The Collector	Novel	John Fowles	CWA 100 1000 Nv
The Colour of Murder	Novel	Julian Symons	CWA 100 1000 Nv
The Danger	Novel	Dick Francis	CWA 100 1000 Nv
The Daughter of Time	Novel	Josephine Tey	CWA 100 MWA 100 1000 Nv
The Day of the Jackal	Novel	Frederick Forsyth	CWA 100 MWA 100 1000 Nv
The Dead of Jericho (book)	Novel	Colin Dexter	CWA 100 1000 Nv
The Devil in Velvet	Novel	John Dickson Carr	CWA 100 1000 Nv
The Eagle Has Landed	Novel	Jack Higgins	CWA 100 1000 Nv
The False Inspector Dew	Novel	Peter Lovesey	CWA 100 1000 Nv
The Four Just Men	Novel	Edgar Wallace	CWA 100 1000 Nv
The Franchise Affair	Novel	Josephine Tey	CWA 100 MWA 100 1000 Nv
The Glass Key	Book	Dashiell Hammett	CWA 100 MWA 100 1000 Nv
The Guns of Navarone	Novel	Alistair MacLean	CWA 100 1000 Nv
The Hollow Man	Novel	John Dickson Carr	MWA 100 CWA 100 1000 Nv
The Hound of the Baskervilles (book)	Novel	Arthur Conan Doyle	1001 Book LeM 100 1001 Kid CWA 100 1000 Nv
The IPCRESS File	Novel	Len Deighton	CWA 100 MWA 100 1000 Nv
The Journeying Boy	Novel	Michael Innes	CWA 100 1000 Nv
The Key to Rebecca (book)	Novel	Ken Follett	CWA 100 1000 Nv
The Killings at Badger's Drift	Novel	Caroline Graham	CWA 100 1000 Nv
The Labyrinth Makers	Novel	Anthony Price	CWA 100 1000 Nv
The Lady in the Lake	Novel	Raymond Chandler	CWA 100 MWA 100 1000 Nv
The Leper of Saint Giles	Novel	Edith Pargeter	CWA 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 Manchurian Candidate (book)	Novel	Richard Condon	CWA 100 1000 Nv
The Mask of Dimitrios	Novel	Eric Ambler	CWA 100 MWA 100 1000 Nv
The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes	Short Story Collection	Arthur Conan Doyle	CWA 100
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 Murder of the Maharajah	Novel	H R F Keating	CWA 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 Poisoned Chocolates Case (book)	Novel	Anthony Berkeley Cox	CWA 100 1000 Nv
The Postman Always Rings Twice (book)	Book	James M Cain	1001 Book CWA 100 MWA 100 1000 Nv
The Return of Sherlock Holmes	Short Story Collection	Arthur Conan Doyle	CWA 100
The Riddle of the Sands	Book	Erskine Childers	1001 Book CWA 100 1000 Nv
The Rose of Tibet	Novel	Lionel Davidson	CWA 100 1000 Nv
The Shortest Way to Hades	Novel	Sarah Caudwell	CWA 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 Sun Chemist	Novel	Lionel Davidson	CWA 100 1000 Nv
The Talented Mr Ripley	Novel	Patricia Highsmith	1001 Book CWA 100 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 Tiger in the Smoke	Novel	Margery Allingham	CWA 100 1000 Nv
The Woman in White	Novel	Wilkie Collins	1001 Book CWA 100 MWA 100 1000 Nv
Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy (book)	Novel	John le Carre	CWA 100 MWA 100 1000 Nv
Tragedy at Law (book)	Novel	Alfred Gordon Clark	CWA 100 1000 Nv
Trent's Last Case	Novel	E C Bentley	CWA 100 MWA 100 1000 Nv
Twice Shy	Novel	Dick Francis	CWA 100 1000 Nv
Underworld	Novel	Reginald Hill	CWA 100 1000 Nv
What Bloody Man Is That?	Novel	Simon Brett	CWA 100 1000 Nv
Wobble to Death	Novel	Peter Lovesey	CWA 100 MWA 100 1000 Nv