The MWJ (Japan) Top 100 Western Mystery Novels (1985), As Ranked.

Tozai List. The Mystery Writers of Japan, 
Top 100 Western Mystery Novels (1985) by rank.

In 1985 Shukan Bunshun Magazine, together with the Mystery Writers of Japan put together a revised list of the Top 100 Mystery Novels. It is presented below in order of rank.
 

Rank  author name  book title  (year) 

1      Ellery Queen     The Tragedy of Y     (1932)
2      William Irish     Phantom Lady     (1942)
3      Raymond Chandler     The Long Goodbye     (1953)
4      Agatha Christie     And Then There Were None     (1939)
5      Jack Higgins     The Eagle Has Landed     (1975)
6      Gavin Lyall     Midnight Plus One     (1965)
7      Freeman Wills Crofts     The Cask   (1920)
8      Agatha Christie     The Murder of Roger Ackroyd  (1926)
9      S. S. Van Dine     The Bishop Murder Case     (1929)
10    Arthur Conan Doyle     The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (short stories)  (1892)
11    Alistair MacLean     HMS Ulysses     (1955)
12    Frederick Forsyth     The Day of the Jackal     (1971)
13    Raymond Chandler     Farewell, My Lovely     (1940)
14    John Dickson Carr     The Burning Court     (1937)
15    Lucien Nahum     Shadow 81     (1975)
16    Gaston Leroux     The Mystery of the Yellow Room     (1907)
17    Ira Levin     A Kiss Before Dying     (1953)
18    Eden Phillpotts     The Red Redmaynes     (1922)
19    Dick Francis     For Kicks     (1965)
19    Dashiell Hammett     The Maltese Falcon     (1930)
21    Desmond Bagley     High Citadel     (1965)
22    S. S. Van Dine     The Greene Murder Case     (1928)
23    Catherine Arley     Woman of Straw     (1956)
24    Ross Macdonald     The Chill     (1964)
24    G. K. Chesterton     The Innocence of Father Brown (short stories)   (1911)
26    John Dickson Carr     The Hollow Man aka The Three Coffins     (1935)
27    Ellery Queen     The Tragedy of X     (1932)
28    Robert B. Parker     Early Autumn    (1981)
29    Dashiell Hammett     Red Harvest     (1929)
30    Sjöwall & Wahlöö     The Laughing Policeman     (1968)
31    Ellery Queen     The Egyptian Cross Mystery     (1932)
32    Robert Ludlum     The Bourne Identity     (1980)
33    John le Carré     The Spy Who Came in from the Cold     (1963)
34    Agatha Christie     Murder on the Orient Express     (1934)
35    Carter Dickson     The Judas Window     (1938)
36    Edgar Allan Poe     The Murders in the Rue Morgue (short story)   (1841)
37    Roald Dahl     Someone Like You (short stories)     (1953)
38    Christianna Brand     Tour de Force     (1955)
39    Colin Dexter     Last Seen Wearing     (1976)
40    Edgar Allan Poe     The Gold-Bug (short story)     (1843)
41    Maurice Leblanc     813   (1910)
41    Brian Freemantle     Charlie Muffin aka Charlie M   (1977)
43    Raymond Chandler     The Big Sleep   (1939)
44    Josephine Tey     The Daughter of Time   (1951)
45    Arthur Conan Doyle     The Hound of the Baskervilles   (1902)
46    Anthony Berkeley Cox     The Poisoned Chocolates Case     (1929)
46    Cornell Woolrich     Rendezvous in Black     (1948)
48    Dick Francis     Whip Hand     (1979)
49    Craig Rice     Home Sweet Homicide     (1944)
49    Joyce Porter     Dover and the Unkindest Cut of All     (1967)
51    Wilkie Collins     The Moonstone     (1868)
52    Jeffrey Archer     Not a Penny More, Not a Penny Less     (1976)
53    Ellery Queen     Calamity Town     (1942)
54    Ross Macdonald     The Wycherly Woman     (1961)
54    Ellery Queen     The Greek Coffin Mystery     (1932)
56    James M. Cain     The Postman Always Rings Twice     (1934)
56    Jack Higgins     Storm Warning     (1976)
58    Nicholas Blake     The Beast Must Die     (1938)
59    Gavin Lyall     The Most Dangerous Game     (1964)
60    Jack Higgins     A Prayer for the Dying     (1973)
61    Isaac Asimov     Black Widowers (short stories)     (1974)
61    Anthony Berkeley Cox     Trial and Error     (1937)
63    Graham Greene     The Human Factor     (1978)
64    William L. DeAndrea     The HOG Murders     (1979)
64    Ed McBain     Cop Hater     (1956)
64    Edgar Allan Poe     The Purloined Letter (short story)     (1845)
67    Sébastien Japrisot     Trap for Cinderella     (1962)
68    Daphne du Maurier     Rebecca     (1932)
69    John Dickson Carr     The Emperor's Snuff-Box     (1942)
70    Frederick Forsyth     The Devil's Alternative     (1979)
71    Clive Cussler     Raise the Titanic!     (1976)
71    Eric Ambler     The Mask of Dimitrios aka A Coffin for Dimitrios   (1939)
73    Dick Francis     Odds Against     (1965)
74    Richard Jessup     Threat     (1981)
74    Edmund Clerihew Bentley     Trent's Last Case     (1913)
74    Eden Phillpotts     A Voice from the Dark     (1925)
77    Henry Denker     Outrage     (1982)
78    Brian Freemantle     Goodbye to an Old Friend     (1973)
79    John Thomas Sladek     Invisible Green     (1977)
80    Alistair MacLean     The Guns of Navarone     (1957)
81    Steven L. Thompson     Recovery     (1980)
82    Curt Cannon (aka Ed McBain)   I Like 'em Tough (short stories)     (1958)
83    Georges Simenon     A Man's Head     (1931)
84    W. Somerset Maugham     Ashenden: Or the British Agent     (1928)
85    Ken Follett     Eye of the Needle  (1978)
86    Harry Kemelman     The Nine Mile Walk (short stories)     (1967)
86    A. A. Milne     The Red House Mystery   (1922)
88    Dashiell Hammett     The Glass Key     (1931)
89    Tony Kenrick     Stealing Lillian     (1975)
90    Ellery Queen     The Dutch Shoe Mystery     (1931)
90    Christianna Brand     Death of Jezebel     (1948)
92    Bill S. Ballinger     The Tooth and the Nail     (1955)
93    A. J. Quinnell     Man on Fire     (1980)
94    A. J. Quinnell     Blood Ties     (1984)
94    Ellery Queen     Halfway House     (1936)
94    Edmund Crispin     Buried for Pleasure     (1948)
97    Freeman Wills Crofts  The 12.30 from Croydon aka Wilful and Premeditated  (1934)
98    Frederick Forsyth     The Odessa File  (1972)
99    Lawrence Sanders The First Deadly Sin   (1973)
100  James Crumley     The Wrong Case   (1975)

Repeat numbers indicate ties. Bold indicates collections. Italics indicates translation.

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