Thursday, April 2, 2015

The MWJ (Japan) Top 100 Western Mystery Novels (2012), By Author.

Tozai List. The Mystery Writers of Japan
Top 100 Western Mystery Novels (2012) by author

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, alphabetically, by author.
 

Rank  author name  book title  (year) 

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

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

via Wikipedia.

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