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the world's greatest mystery writers on the world's greatest mystery novels
1st Emily Bestler Books/Atria Books hardcover ed.
1841: Edgar Allan Poe, The Dupin Tales -- 1853: Charles Dickens, Bleak House -- 1859: Charles Dickens, A Tale of Two Cities -- 1867: Metta Fuller Victor, The Dead Letter -- 1868: Wilkie Collins, The Moonstone -- 1892: Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes -- 1902: Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, The Hound of the Baskervilles -- 1928: Liam O'Flaherty, The Assassin -- 1929: Erskine Caldwell, The Bastard -- 1930: Dashiell Hammett, The Maltese Falcon -- 1931: Dashiell Hammett, The Glass Key -- 1932: Dorothy L. Sayers, have his Carcase -- 1932: Leslie Charteris, The Holy Terror (aka the Saint v. Scotland Yard) -- 1933: Paul Cain, Fast One -- 1934: James M. Cain, The Postman Always Rings Twice -- 1934: Agatha Christie, Murder on the Orient Express (aka Murder on the Calis Coach) -- 1938: Daphne du Maurier, Rebecca -- 1938: Graham Greene, Brighton Rock -- 1938: Rex Stout, Too Many Cooks -- 1939: Geoffrey Household, Rogue Male -- 1940: Raymond Chandler, Farewell, My Lovely -- 1941: Patrick Hamilton, Hangover Square -- 1942: James M. Cain, Love's Lovely Counterfeit -- 1943: Léo Malet, 120, Rue de la Gare -- 1946: Edmund Crispin, The Moving Toyshop -- 1947: Dorothy B. Hughes, In a Lonely Place -- 1947: Georges Simenon, Act of Passion (Lettre àmon juge) -- 1947: Mickey Spillance, I, the Jury -- 1948: Carolyn Keene, The Ghost of Blackwood Hall -- 1948: Josephine Tey, The Franchise Affair -- 1949: Raymond Chandler, The Little Sister -- 1949: Josephine Tey, Brat Farror -- 1950: Patricia Highsmith, Strangers on a Train -- 1952: Margery Allingham, The Tiger in the Smoke -- 1953: Elliott Chaze, Black Wings has my Angel (aka One for the Money) -- 1953: William P. McGivern, The Big Heat -- 1958: John D. MacDonald, The Executioners (aka Cape Fear) -- 1958: Friedrich Dürrenmatt, The Pledge -- 1960: Clarence Cooper Jr., The Scene -- 1960: Margaret Millar, A Stranger in my Grave -- 1960: Harry Whittington, A Night for Screaming -- 1960: Charles Willeford, The Woman Chaser -- 1962: Eric Ambler, The Light of Day (aka Topkapi) -- 1962: P.D. James, Cover her Face -- 1962: Kenneth Orvis, The Damned and the Destroyed -- 1962: Richard Start, The Hunter (aka Point Blank and Payback) -- 1963: Nicolas Freeling, Gun Before Butter (aka Question of Loyalty) -- 1963: John le Carré, The Spy Who Came in from the Cold -- 1963: Ed McBain, Ten Plus One -- 1964: Ross Macdonald, The Chill -- 1964: Jim Thompson, Pop. 1280 -- 1965: Maj Sjöwall and Per Wahlöö, Roseanna -- 1966: Truman Capote, In Cold Blood -- 1967: Agatha Christie, Endless Night -- 1968: Peter Dickinson, Skin Deep (aka the Glass-Sided Ants' Nest) -- 1969: Ross Macdonald, The Goodbye Look -- 1970: Joseph Hansen, Fadeout -- 1970: George V. Higgins, The Friends of Eddie Coyle -- 1971: James McClure, The Steam Pig -- 1973: Tony Hillerman, Dance Hall of the Dead -- 1974: Donald Goines, Daddy Cool -- 1975: James Crumley, The Wrong Case -- 1975: Colin Dexter, Last Bus to Woodstock -- 1976: Jean-Patrick Manchette, 3 to Kill (Le petti bleu de la côte ouest) -- 1976: Mary Stewart, Touch not the Cat -- 1976: Newton Thornburg, Cutter and Bone -- 1976: Trevanian, The Main -- 1977: Edward Bunker, The Animal Factory -- 1977: John Gregory Dunne, True Confessions -- 1977: Ruth Rendell, A Judgement in Stone -- 1978: James Crumley, The Last Good Kiss -- 1979: Manuel Vázquez Montalbán, Southern Seas (Los mares del sur) -- 1980: Andreu Martín, Prótesis (Prosthesis) -- 1981: Robert B. Parker, Early Autumn -- 1981: Martin Cruz Smith, Gorky Park -- 1982: Sue Grafton, A is for Alibi -- 1982: Stephen King, Different Seasons -- 1982: Sara Paretsky, Indemnity Only -- 1983: Elmore Leonard, LaBrava -- 1984: Kem Nunn, Tapping the Source -- 1987: Douglas Adams, Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency -- 1988: Thomas Harris, The Silence of the Lambs -- 1988: Sara Paretsky, Toxic Shock (aka Blood Shot) -- 1990: A. S. Byatt, Possession -- 1990: Patricia Cornwell, Postmortem -- 1990: Derek Raymond, I was Dora Suarez -- 1991: Lawrence Block, A Dance at the Slaughterhouse -- 1992: Michael Connelly, The Black Echo -- 1992: Peter Høeg, Miss Smilla's Feeling for Snow (aka Smilla's Sense of Snow) -- 1992: Philip Kerr, A Philosophical Investigation -- 1992: Margaret Maron, Bootlegger's Daughter -- 1992: Richard Price, Clockers -- 1992: James Sallis, The Long-Legged Fly -- 1992: Donna Tartt, The Secret History -- 1993: Jill McGown, Murder... Now and then -- 1993: Scott Smith, A Simple Plan -- 1994: Peter Ackroyd, Dan Leno and the Limehouse Golem (aka the Trial of Elizabeth Cree) -- 1994: Caleb Carr, The Alienist -- 1994: Henning Mankell, The Man Who Smiled -- 1995: James Ellroy, American Tabloid -- 1996: George Pelecanos, The Big Blowdown -- 1997: Suzanne Berne, A Crime in the Neighborhood -- 1997: Natsuo Kirino, Out (Auto) -- 1997: Walter Mosley, Always Outnumbered, Always Outgunned -- 1997: Ian Rankin, Black and Blue -- 1997: Donald E. Westlake, The Ax -- 1998: Cara Black, Murder in the Marais -- 1998: Reginald Hill, On Beulah Height -- 1998: Daniel Woodrell, Tomato Red -- 1999: J. M. Coetzee, Disgrace -- 1999: Robert Wilson, A Small Death in Lisbon -- 2000: David Peace, Nineteen Seventy-Four -- 2000: Scott Phillips, The Ice Harvest -- 2001: Harlan Coben, Tell no One -- 2001: Dennis Lehane, Mystic River -- 2005: Peter Temple, The Broken Shore -- 2007: Gil Adamson, The Outlander -- 2007: James Lee Burke, The Tin Roof Blowdown -- 2007: Laura Lippman, What the Dead Know -- 2007: Perihan Magden, Escape -- 2008: Mark Gimenez, The Perk.
edited by John Connolly and Declan Burke.
Includes bibliographical references and index.