Top 100 Mystery Novels of All Time

Based on bookaward
The Top 100 Mystery Novels of All Time Mystery Writers of America
1
To Kill a Mockingbird
by Harper Lee
78,928 members
1,434 reviews
½ 4.4
8 Members
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3
Gaudy Night
by Dorothy L. Sayers
5,480 members
150 reviews
½ 4.3
7 Members
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4
Rebecca
by Daphne Du Maurier
20,857 members
616 reviews
4.2
7 Members
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5
Murder on the Orient Express
by Agatha Christie
17,280 members
424 reviews
4.1
6 Members
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6
And Then There Were None
by Agatha Christie
21,410 members
539 reviews
4.2
7 Members
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7
The Daughter of Time
by Josephine Tey
5,931 members
227 reviews
3.9
6 Members
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8
The Big Sleep
by Raymond Chandler
10,343 members
285 reviews
4
7 Members
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9
The Woman in White
by Wilkie Collins
12,860 members
338 reviews
4.1
6 Members
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10
Murder Must Advertise
by Dorothy L. Sayers
3,799 members
106 reviews
4.2
5 Members
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11
The Maltese Falcon
by Dashiell Hammett
9,195 members
280 reviews
3.9
6 Members
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12
The Murder of Roger Ackroyd
by Agatha Christie
10,097 members
326 reviews
4.1
6 Members
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13
The Long Goodbye
by Raymond Chandler
5,254 members
114 reviews
4.2
5 Members
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14
The Moonstone
by Wilkie Collins
10,855 members
251 reviews
4
6 Members
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15
Time and Again
by Jack Finney
4,150 members
140 reviews
3.9
5 Members
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16
The Nine Tailors
by Dorothy L. Sayers
4,417 members
116 reviews
4
5 Members
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17
The Postman Always Rings Twice
by James M. Cain
3,486 members
133 reviews
½ 3.7
5 Members
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18
A Morbid Taste for Bones
by Ellis Peters
3,953 members
105 reviews
3.8
5 Members
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19
Dracula
by Bram Stoker
35,706 members
630 reviews
4
4 Members
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20
The Name of the Rose
by Umberto Eco
19,608 members
315 reviews
4.2
4 Members
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21
Clouds of Witness
by Dorothy L. Sayers
3,674 members
102 reviews
3.8
4 Members
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22
The Hunt for Red October
by Tom Clancy
11,331 members
117 reviews
4
4 Members
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23
The Laughing Policeman
by Maj Sjöwall
1,851 members
66 reviews
3.9
4 Members
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24
In Cold Blood
by Truman Capote
23,862 members
467 reviews
4.1
4 Members
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25
Strong Poison
by Dorothy L. Sayers
4,492 members
121 reviews
4.1
4 Members
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26
Rosemary's Baby
by Ira Levin
4,660 members
139 reviews
3.8
4 Members
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27
The Mystery of Edwin Drood
by Charles Dickens
3,161 members
59 reviews
½ 3.6
4 Members
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28
Farewell, My Lovely
by Raymond Chandler
4,528 members
103 reviews
4.1
4 Members
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29
The Thin Man
by Dashiell Hammett
4,288 members
143 reviews
3.8
4 Members
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30
The Talented Mr. Ripley
by Patricia Highsmith
6,249 members
199 reviews
3.9
4 Members
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31
Presumed Innocent
by Scott Turow
4,331 members
76 reviews
3.8
4 Members
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32
The Thirty-Nine Steps
by John Buchan
5,420 members
190 reviews
½ 3.5
4 Members
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33
Rumpole of the Bailey
by John Mortimer
747 members
14 reviews
4.1
3 Members
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34
The Lady in the Lake
by Raymond Chandler
3,329 members
66 reviews
4
3 Members
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35
A Time to Kill
by John Grisham
12,232 members
153 reviews
3.8
3 Members
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36
Tales of Mystery and Imagination
by Edgar Allan Poe
4,230 members
38 reviews
4
3 Members
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37
The Seven-Per-Cent Solution
by Nicholas Meyer
1,827 members
47 reviews
½ 3.7
3 Members
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38
The Day of the Jackal
by Frederick Forsyth
5,318 members
90 reviews
4
3 Members
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39
Crime and Punishment
by Fyodor Dostoevsky
44,453 members
496 reviews
4.2
3 Members
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40
Gorky Park
by Martin Cruz Smith
3,814 members
78 reviews
3.9
3 Members
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41
A Thief of Time
by Tony Hillerman
2,485 members
45 reviews
3.9
3 Members
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42
The Firm
by John Grisham
11,575 members
114 reviews
3.8
4 Members
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43
The Secret Agent
by Joseph Conrad
6,601 members
101 reviews
½ 3.6
3 Members
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44
Devil in a Blue Dress
by Walter Mosley
2,609 members
99 reviews
3.8
3 Members
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45
The Witness for the Prosecution and Other Stories
by Agatha Christie
226 members
5 reviews
½ 3.7
3 Members
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46
Dance Hall of the Dead
by Tony Hillerman
1,999 members
56 reviews
3.8
3 Members
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47
Shroud for a Nightingale
by P. D. James
2,191 members
43 reviews
3.8
3 Members
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48
Eye of the Needle
by Ken Follett
5,376 members
93 reviews
4
3 Members
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49
A is for Alibi
by Sue Grafton
6,631 members
219 reviews
½ 3.5
3 Members
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50
A Judgement in Stone
by Ruth Rendell
1,058 members
32 reviews
4
3 Members
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51
Rogue Male
by Geoffrey Household
1,119 members
42 reviews
4
2 Members
leslie.98, ManWithAnAgenda
52
The Glass Key
by Dashiell Hammett
2,069 members
45 reviews
½ 3.7
2 Members
leslie.98, ManWithAnAgenda
53
Laura
by Vera Caspary
569 members
25 reviews
3.9
2 Members
sturlington, leslie.98
54
Our Man in Havana
by Graham Greene
5,384 members
140 reviews
3.9
2 Members
ahef1963, leslie.98
55
Brighton Rock
by Graham Greene
5,170 members
116 reviews
½ 3.7
2 Members
ahef1963, leslie.98
56
The Doorbell Rang
by Rex Stout
1,380 members
30 reviews
4
2 Members
ahef1963, leslie.98
57
From Russia with Love
by Ian Fleming
3,797 members
64 reviews
3.8
2 Members
leslie.98, NinieB
58
Red Harvest
by Dashiell Hammett
3,028 members
89 reviews
3.8
2 Members
leslie.98, NinieB
59
Trent's Last Case
by E. C. Bentley
949 members
35 reviews
½ 3.6
2 Members
leslie.98, NinieB
60
Wobble to Death
by Peter Lovesey
342 members
14 reviews
½ 3.6
2 Members
leslie.98, NinieB
61
Crocodile on the Sandbank
by Elizabeth Peters
4,607 members
227 reviews
3.9
2 Members
leslie.98, NinieB
62
The Circular Staircase
by Mary Roberts Rinehart
963 members
42 reviews
½ 3.4
3 Members
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63
The Chill
by Ross Macdonald
738 members
22 reviews
4
2 Members
leslie.98, NinieB
64
Beast in View
by Margaret Millar
406 members
22 reviews
½ 3.5
2 Members
leslie.98, NinieB
65
Smallbone Deceased
by Michael Gilbert
444 members
18 reviews
3.9
2 Members
leslie.98, NinieB
66
Last Seen Wearing...
by Hillary Waugh
174 members
11 reviews
4
2 Members
leslie.98, NinieB
67
The Spy Who Came in From the Cold
by John le Carré
8,650 members
240 reviews
4
3 Members
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68
The Franchise Affair
by Josephine Tey
2,152 members
84 reviews
3.9
3 Members
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69
Brat Farrar
by Josephine Tey
1,904 members
77 reviews
4
3 Members
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70
The Silence of the Lambs
by Thomas Harris
12,601 members
140 reviews
4.1
Member
sturlington
71
Red Dragon
by Thomas Harris
10,096 members
103 reviews
3.8
Member
sturlington
72
The Killer Inside Me
by Jim Thompson
2,417 members
87 reviews
3.9
Member
sturlington
73
Stick
by Elmore Leonard
684 members
7 reviews
½ 3.7
Member
ahef1963
74
Fletch
by Gregory Mcdonald
1,089 members
19 reviews
3.8
Member
leslie.98
75
The Dreadful Lemon Sky
by John D. MacDonald
883 members
20 reviews
3.8
Member
leslie.98
76
The First Deadly Sin
by Lawrence Sanders
739 members
6 reviews
½ 3.7
Member
NinieB
77
Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy
by John le Carré
8,500 members
232 reviews
4
Member
leslie.98
78
Smiley's People
by John le Carré
4,517 members
66 reviews
4.2
Member
leslie.98
79
The Ipcress File
by Len Deighton
1,339 members
39 reviews
½ 3.7
Member
leslie.98
80
Ashenden, or, The British Agent
by W. Somerset Maugham
1,032 members
34 reviews
½ 3.7
Member
leslie.98
81
Home Sweet Homicide
by Craig Rice
179 members
8 reviews
½ 3.7
Member
leslie.98
82
The Third Man
by Graham Greene
2,118 members
68 reviews
3.8
Member
leslie.98
83
Double Indemnity
by James M. Cain
1,965 members
67 reviews
4
Member
leslie.98
84
The Mask of Dimitrios
by Eric Ambler
1,848 members
50 reviews
3.8
Member
leslie.98
85
The Moving Toyshop
by Edmund Crispin
1,448 members
62 reviews
3.8
Member
leslie.98
86
The Three Coffins
by John Dickson Carr
802 members
33 reviews
3.8
Member
leslie.98
87
Bank Shot
by Donald E. Westlake
495 members
19 reviews
4
Member
leslie.98
88
I, the Jury
by Mickey Spillane
713 members
29 reviews
½ 3.4
Member
leslie.98
89
The Godfather
by Mario Puzo
11,044 members
184 reviews
4.2
90
The Little Drummer Girl
by John le Carré
3,410 members
47 reviews
3.8
91
Where Are the Children?
by Mary Higgins Clark
2,313 members
34 reviews
½ 3.6
92
The Choirboys
by Joseph Wambaugh
803 members
13 reviews
½ 3.7
93
God Save the Mark
by Donald E. Westlake
404 members
17 reviews
½ 3.6
94
The Steam Pig
by James McClure
235 members
9 reviews
½ 3.5
95
Little Caesar
by W. R. Burnett
174 members
5 reviews
3.1
96
The Friends of Eddie Coyle
by George V. Higgins
943 members
44 reviews
4
97
The Witness for the Prosecution [short story]
by Agatha Christie
932 members
18 reviews
3.8
98
The Hot Rock
by Donald E. Westlake
912 members
31 reviews
3.9
99
Anatomy of a Murder
by Robert Traver
899 members
21 reviews
4
100
Chinaman's Chance
by Ross Thomas
337 members
8 reviews
3.9