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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