The Mystery Guild of America has listed the top mystery novels of all time. Below are the top 15 on the list. There are the predictable favorites and a few surprises.
The Mystery Guild of America has listed the top mystery novels of all time. Below are the top 15 on the list. There are the predictable favorites and a few surprises. I've actually read 12 of them. How many have you read?
- 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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