Tozai List. The Mystery Writers of Japan
Top 100 Western Mystery Novels (2012) by rank.
In 2012 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 Agatha Christie And Then There Were None (1939)
2 Ellery Queen The Tragedy of Y (1932)
3 Arthur Conan Doyle The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (short stories) (1892)
4 William Irish Phantom Lady (1942)
5 Agatha Christie The Murder of Roger Ackroyd (1926)
6 Raymond Chandler The Long Goodbye (1953)
7 Umberto Eco The Name of the Rose (1980)
8 G. K. Chesterton The Innocence of Father Brown (short stories) (1911)
9 Thomas Harris The Silence of the Lambs (1988)
10 John Dickson Carr The Burning Court (1937)
11 Agatha Christie Murder on the Orient Express (1934)
12 Stieg Larsson Millennium series (three novels) (2005-2007)
13 Ira Levin A Kiss Before Dying (1953)
14 Ellery Queen The Tragedy of X (1932)
15 Ross Macdonald The Chill (1964)
16 John Dickson Carr The Hollow Man aka The Three Coffins (1935)
17 Frederick Forsyth The Day of the Jackal (1971)
18 S. S. Van Dine The Bishop Murder Case (1929)
19 Jack Higgins The Eagle Has Landed (1975)
20 Anthony Berkeley Cox The Poisoned Chocolates Case (1929)
21 Lawrence Block Eight Million Ways to Die (1982)
22 Jeffery Deaver The Bone Collector (1997)
23 Ellery Queen The Greek Coffin Mystery (1932)
24 Christianna Brand Death of Jezebel (1948)
25 Gavin Lyall Midnight Plus One (1965)
26 James P. Hogan Inherit the Stars (1977)
27 James Ellroy White Jazz (1992)
28 Gaston Leroux The Mystery of the Yellow Room (1907)
29 Scott Turow Presumed Innocent (1987)
30 Sjöwall & Wahlöö The Laughing Policeman (1968)
31 Anthony Berkeley Cox Trial and Error (1937)
32 Lucien Nahum Shadow 81 (1975)
33 Freeman Wills Crofts The Cask (1920)
34 Edgar Allan Poe The Murders in the Rue Morgue (short story) (1841)
35 Dick Francis For Kicks (1965)
36 Dashiell Hammett The Maltese Falcon (1930)
37 John Dickson Carr The Emperor's Snuff-Box (1942)
38 Dashiell Hammett Red Harvest (1929)
39 Josephine Tey The Daughter of Time (1951)
40 Stuart Woods Chiefs (1981)
41 Sébastien Japrisot Trap for Cinderella (1962)
42 Ellery Queen The Egyptian Cross Mystery (1932)
43 R. D. Wingfield Frost at Christmas (1984)
44 Carter Dickson The Judas Window (1938)
45 Dorothy L. Sayers The Nine Tailors (1934)
46 Dick Francis Whip Hand (1979)
47 Arthur Conan Doyle The Hound of the Baskervilles (1902)
48 Eden Phillpotts The Red Redmaynes (1922)
49 Anthony Berkeley Cox Jumping Jenny aka Dead Mrs. Stratton (1933)
50 John Thomas Sladek Invisible Green (1977)
51 Ruth Rendell A Judgement in Stone (1977)
52 Ferdinand von Schirach Crime (2009)
53 Catherine Arley Woman of Straw (1956)
54 Stephen Hunter Point of Impact (1993)
55 James Ellroy The Black Dahlia (1987)
56 Tom Rob Smith Child 44 (2008)
57 Ross Macdonald The Wycherly Woman (1961)
58 Carol O'Connell The Judas Child (1998)
59 Anthony Berkeley Cox The Second Shot (1930)
60 James Ellroy The Big Nowhere (1988)
61 Stephen King Misery (1987)
62 Agatha Christie The A.B.C. Murders (1936)
63 William L. DeAndrea The HOG Murders (1979)
64 Roald Dahl Someone Like You (short stories) (1953)
65 R. D. Wingfield A Touch of Frost (1987)
66 Isaac Asimov Black Widowers (short stories) (1974)
67 Wilkie Collins The Moonstone (1868)
68 Harry Kemelman The Nine Mile Walk (short stories) (1967)
69 Dan Brown The Da Vinci Code (2003)
70 Alistair MacLean HMS Ulysses (1955)
71 Trevanian Shibumi (1979)
72 Robert Goddard Past Caring (1986)
73 Jeffery Deaver The Cold Moon (2006)
74 Kazuo Ishiguro Never Let Me Go (2005)
75 Robert R. McCammon Boy's Life (1991)
76 Charlotte Armstrong A Dram of Poison (1956)
77 Don Winslow A Cool Breeze on the Underground (1991)
78 Ellery Queen Cat of Many Tails (1949)
79 Raymond Chandler Farewell, My Lovely (1940)
80 Colin Dexter Last Seen Wearing (1976)
81 Theodore Roszak Flicker (1991)
82 Sarah Waters Fingersmith (2002)
83 George Pelecanos The Big Blowdown (1996)
84 Scott Smith A Simple Plan (1993)
85 Thomas Harris Red Dragon (1981)
86 G. K. Chesterton The Poet and the Lunatics (short stories) (1929)
87 Don Winslow The Power of the Dog (2005)
88 Sarah Waters Affinity (1999)
89 Craig Rice Home Sweet Homicide (1944)
90 Ellery Queen Calamity Town (1942)
91 Desmond Bagley High Citadel (1965)
92 Maurice Leblanc The Hollow Needle (1909)
93 Robert B. Parker Early Autumn (1981)
94 Thomas H. Cook The Chatham School Affair (1996)
95 Jeffrey Archer Not a Penny More, Not a Penny Less (1976)
96 Arthur Conan Doyle A Study in Scarlet (1887)
97 Donald E. Westlake The Hot Rock (1970)
98 Richard Neely A Madness of the Heart (1976)
99 Agatha Christie Death on the Nile (1937)
100 Isaac Asimov The Caves of Steel (1954)
Repeat numbers indicate ties. Bold indicates collections. Italics indicates translation.
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