The Crime Writers' Association (England) 1990 List of 100 Best Mystery Novels by Rank.
In 1990 the Crime Writers' Association (England) put together a list of the Top 100 Mystery Novels. It is presented below in order of rank.
Rank author name book title (year)
1 Josephine Tey: The Daughter of Time (1951)2 Raymond Chandler: The Big Sleep (1939)
3 John le Carré: The Spy Who Came In From the Cold (1963)
4 Dorothy L. Sayers: Gaudy Night (1935)
5 Agatha Christie: The Murder of Roger Ackroyd (1926)
6 Daphne du Maurier: Rebecca (1938)
7 Raymond Chandler: Farewell My Lovely (1940)
8 Wilkie Collins: The Moonstone (1868)
9 Len Deighton: The IPCRESS File (1962)
10 Dashiell Hammett: The Maltese Falcon (1930)
11 Josephine Tey: The Franchise Affair (1948)
12 Hillary Waugh: Last Seen Wearing ... (1952)
13 Umberto Eco: The Name of the Rose (1980)
14 Geoffrey Household: Rogue Male (1939)
15 Raymond Chandler: The Long Goodbye (1953)
16 Francis Iles: Malice Aforethought (1931)
17 Frederick Forsyth: The Day of the Jackal (1971)
18 Dorothy L. Sayers: The Nine Tailors (1934)
19 Agatha Christie: And Then There Were None (1939)
20 John Buchan: The Thirty-Nine Steps (1915)
21 Arthur Conan Doyle: The Collected Sherlock Holmes Short Stories (1892-1927)
22 Dorothy L. Sayers: Murder Must Advertise (1933)
23 Edgar Allan Poe: Tales of Mystery & Imagination (1852)
24 Eric Ambler: The Mask of Dimitrios (1939)
25 Edmund Crispin: The Moving Toyshop (1946)
26 Margery Allingham: The Tiger in the Smoke (1952)
27 Peter Lovesey: The False Inspector Dew (1982)
28 Wilkie Collins: The Woman in White (1860)
29 Barbara Vine: A Dark-Adapted Eye (1986)
30 James M. Cain: The Postman Always Rings Twice (1934)
31 Dashiell Hammett: The Glass Key (1931)
32 Arthur Conan Doyle: The Hound of the Baskervilles (1902)
33 John le Carré: Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy (1974)
34 E. C. Bentley: Trent's Last Case (1913)
35 Ian Fleming: From Russia, with Love (1957)
36 Ed McBain: Cop Hater (1956)
36 Colin Dexter: The Dead of Jericho (1981)
38 Patricia Highsmith: Strangers on a Train (1950)
39 Ruth Rendell: A Judgement in Stone (1977)
40 John Dickson Carr: The Hollow Man (1935)
41 Anthony Berkeley: The Poisoned Chocolates Case (1929)
42 Ellis Peters: A Morbid Taste for Bones (1977)
42 Ellis Peters: The Leper of Saint Giles (1981)
44 Ira Levin: A Kiss Before Dying (1953)
45 Patricia Highsmith: The Talented Mr. Ripley (1955)
46 Graham Greene: Brighton Rock (1938)
47 Raymond Chandler: The Lady in the Lake (1943)
48 Scott Turow: Presumed Innocent (1987)
49 Ruth Rendell: A Demon in My View (1976)
50 John Dickson Carr: The Devil in Velvet (1951)
50 Barbara Vine: A Fatal Inversion (1987)
52 Michael Innes: The Journeying Boy (1949)
52 P. D. James: A Taste for Death (1986)
54 Jack Higgins: The Eagle Has Landed (1975)
55 Mary Stewart: My Brother Michael (1960)
56 Peter Lovesey: Bertie and the Tin Man (1987)
56 Susan Moody: Penny Black (1984)
58 Len Deighton: Game, Set & Match (1984-1986)
59 Dick Francis: The Danger (1983)
60 P. D. James: Devices and Desires (1989)
61 Reginald Hill: Underworld (1988)
62 Mary Stewart: Nine Coaches Waiting (1958)
63 Paula Gosling: A Running Duck (1978)
64 Michael Gilbert: Smallbone Deceased (1950)
65 Lionel Davidson: The Rose of Tibet (1962)
66 P. D. James: Innocent Blood (1980)
67 Dorothy L. Sayers: Strong Poison (1930)
68 Michael Innes: Hamlet, Revenge! (1937)
69 Tony Hillerman: A Thief of Time (1989)
70 Caryl Brahms & S. J. Simon: A Bullet in the Ballet (1937)
71 Reginald Hill: Dead Heads (1983)
72 Graham Greene: The Third Man (1950)
73 Anthony Price: The Labyrinth Makers (1974)
74 Adam Hall: The Quiller Memorandum (1965)
75 Margaret Millar: Beast in View (1955)
76 Sarah Caudwell: The Shortest Way to Hades (1984)
77 Desmond Bagley: Running Blind (1970)
78 Dick Francis: Twice Shy (1981)
79 Richard Condon: The Manchurian Candidate (1959)
80 Caroline Graham: The Killings at Badger's Drift (1987)
81 Nicholas Blake: The Beast Must Die (1938)
81 Martin Cruz Smith: Gorky Park (1981)
83 Agatha Christie: Death Comes at the End (1945)
84 Christianna Brand: Green for Danger (1945)
85 Cyril Hare: Tragedy at Law (1942)
86 John Fowles: The Collector (1963)
87 J. J. Marric: Gideon's Day (1955)
88 Lionel Davidson: The Sun Chemist (1976)
89 Alistair MacLean: The Guns of Navarone (1957)
90 Julian Symons: The Colour of Murder (1957)
91 John Buchan: Greenmantle (1916)
92 Erskine Childers: The Riddle of the Sands (1903)
93 Peter Lovesey: Wobble to Death (1970)
94 Dashiell Hammett: Red Harvest (1929)
95 Ken Follett: The Key to Rebecca (1980)
96 Ed McBain: Sadie When She Died (1972)
97 H. R. F. Keating: The Murder of the Maharajah (1980)
98 Simon Brett: What Bloody Man Is That? (1987)
99 Gavin Lyall: Shooting Script (1966)
100 Edgar Wallace: The Four Just Men (1906)
Repeat numbers indicate ties. Bold indicates collections. Italics indicates translation.
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Presented in:
The Hatchards Crime Companion. 100 Top Crime Novels Selected by the Crime Writers' Association, ed. Susan Moody (London, 1990) (ISBN 0-904030-02-4) (September 13, 1990)
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