Books to die for : the world's greatest mystery writers on the world's greatest mystery novels /
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| Language: | English |
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New York :
Emily Bestler Books/Atria,
2012.
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| Edition: | 1st Emily Bestler Books/Atria Books hardcover ed. |
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Table of Contents:
- 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.