Mystery Books

  1. When the Wind Blows
  2. State of Fear
  3. Manhattan Is My Beat
  4. Foreign Body
  5. Cat and Mouse
  6. Southern Cross
  7. Memories of Midnight
  8. The Virgin of Small Plains
  9. More...

Mystery Movies

  1. 12 Monkeys
  2. Apocalypto
  3. Moon
  4. The Negotiator
  5. Orphan
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Mystery Authors

  1. Edward D. Hoch
  2. Linda Barnes
  3. Michael Gilbert
  4. Laurie King
  5. Hammond Innes
  6. Edgar Allan Poe
  7. Francis Beeding
  8. More...

The Best Mystery Books - Top 100

ELLERY QUEEN'S TWELVE BEST DETECTIVE STORIES


In 1950, Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine took a vote of 11 experts, among them Vincent Starrett, Charles Honce, and Lew D. Feldman asking for the experts' pick of the best detective stories ever written. There were 83 detective stories nominated. The final selection of the best was as shown below. The results were published in the July 1950 issue of the magazine.

cover Title Author Detective Genre Year
1 The Purloined Letter Edgar Allan Poe :Poe Tales 1844 *mystery
2 Suspicion Dorothy Sayers 0
3 The Invisible Man G. K. Chesterton 0
4 The Gioconda Smile Aldous Huxley 0
5 The Avenging Chance Anthony Berkeley 0
6 The Genuine Tabard E. C. Bentley 0
7 The Problem Of Cell 13 Jacques Futrelle 0
8 The Hands Of Mr Ottermole Thomas Burke 0
9 Naboths Nineyard Melville Davisson Post 0
10 The Redheaded League Arthur Conan Doyle 0
11 The Yellow Slugs H. C. Bailey 0
12 The Absentminded Coterie Robert Barr 0