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BOOKSELLERS’ 100 FAVORITE MYSTERIES OF THE TWENTIETH CENTURY

Members of the Independent Mystery Booksellers Association compiled a list released in January 2000 of their 100 Favorite Mysteries of the century. It was agreed that each author would appear on the list only once. The Association is a trade association for owners of businesses wholly or substantially devoted to the sale of mysteries. As of January 2000 the group represented 58 stores in the United States and Canada.

 

Allingham, Margery
Ambler, Eric
A Coffin for Demetrios
Armstrong, Charlotte
A Dram of Poison
Atherton, Nancy
Aunt Dimity's Death
Ball, John
In the Heat of the Night
Barnard, Robert
Death by Sheer Torture
Barr, Nevada
Track of the Cat
Blake, Nicholas
The Beast Must Die
Block, Lawrence
When the Sacred Ginmill Closes
Brand, Christianna
Green for Danger
Brown, Frederic
The Fabulous Clipjoint
Buchan, John
The 39 Steps
Burke, James Lee
Black Cherry Blues
Cain, James M.
The Postman Always Rings Twice
Cannell, Dorothy
The Thin Woman
Carr, John Dickson
The Three Coffins
Caudwell, Sarah
Thus Was Adonis Murdered
Chandler, Raymond
The Big Sleep
Christie, Agatha
The Murder of Roger Ackroyd
Connelly, Michael
The Concrete Blonde
Constantine, K. C.
The Man Who Liked Slow Tomatoes
Crais, Robert
The Monkey's Raincoat
Crispin, Edmund
The Moving Toyshop
Crombie, Deborah
Dreaming of the Bones
Crumley, James
The Last Good Kiss
Dickinson, Peter
The Yellow Room Conspiracy
Doyle, Arthur Conan
The Hound of the Baskervilles
DuMaurier, Daphne
Rebecca
Dunning, John
Booked to Die
Elkins, Aaron
Old Bones
Evanovich, Janet
One for the Money
Finney, Jack
Time and Again
Ford, G. M.
Who in Hell is Wanda Fuca?
Francis, Dick
Whip Hand
Fremlin, Celia
The Hours Before Dawn
George, Elizabeth
A Great Deliverance
Gilbert, Michael
Smallbone Deceased
Grafton, Sue
“A” is for Alibi
Graham, Caroline
The Killings at Badger's Drift
Grimes, Martha
The Man With the Load of Mischief
Hammett, Dashiell
The Maltese Falcon
Hare, Cyril
An English Murder
Harris, Thomas
The Silence of the Lambs
Hiaasen, Carl
Tourist Season
Highsmith, Patricia
The Talented Nr. Ripley
Hill, Reginald
On Beulah Height
Hillerman, Tony
The Thief of Time
Himes, Chester
Cotton Comes to Harlem
Innes, Michael
Hamlet, Revenge!
James, P. D.
An Unsuitable Job for a Woman
Kellerman, Faye
The Ritual Bath
Kellerman, Jonathan
When the Bough Breaks
King, Laurie
The Beekeeper's Apprentice
Langton, Jane
Dark Nantucket Noon
Le Carre, John
The Spy Who Came in from the Cold
Lee, Harper
To Kill a Mockingbird
Lehane, Dennis
Darkness, Take My Hand
Leonard, Elmore
Get Shorty
Lochte, Dick
Sleeping Dog
Lovesey, Peter
Rough Cider
MacDonald, John
The Deep Blue Good-bye
MacDonald, Philip
The List of Adrian Messenger
Macdonald, Ross
The Chill
Maron, Margaret
Bootlegger's Daughter
Marsh, Ngaio
Death of a Peer
McBain, Ed
Sadie When She Died
McClure, James
The Sunday Hangman
McCrumb, Sharyn
If I Ever Return, Pretty Peggy-O
Millar, Margaret
Stranger in My Grave
Mosley, Walter
Devil in a Blue Dress
Muller, Marcia
Edwin of the Iron Shoes
Neel, Janet
Death's Bright Angel
O'Connell, Carol
Mallory's Oracle
Padgett, Abigail
Child of Silence
Paretsky, Sara
Deadlock
Parker, Robert
Looking for Rachel Wallace
Perez-Reverte, Arturo
The Club Dumas
Perry, Thomas
Vanishing Act
Peters, Elizabeth
Crocodile on the Sandbank
Peters, Ellis
One Corpse Too Many
Pronzini, Bill
Blue Lonesome
Queen, Ellery
Cat of Many Tails
Rendell, Ruth
No More Dying Then
Rice, Craig
The Wrong Murder
Rinehart, Mary Roberts
The Circular Staircase
Robinson, Peter
Blood at the Root
Rosen, Richard
Strike Three You're Dead
Sayers, Dorothy
Murder Must Advertise
Sjowall & Wahloo
The Laughing Policeman
Stout, Rex
Some Buried Caesar
Tey, Josephine
Brat Farrar
Thomas, Ross
Chinaman's Chance
Todd, Charles
A Test of Wills
Turow, Scott
Presumed Innocent
Upfield, Arthur
The Sands of Windee
Walters, Minette
The Ice House
White, Randy Wayne
Sanibel Flats
Woolrich, Cornell
I Married a Dead Man