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LACHMAN'S ONE HUNDRED NOTABLE AMERICAN NOVELS OF DETECTION
In his A Reader's Guide to the American Novel of Detection (1993), Marvin Lachman includes a list of "One Hundred Notable Novels of Detection." He writes: "Though I did consider historical importance, my primary concern was quality... The detective plot and the ingenuity and fairness of the solution are also basic to the detective story, so certain writers of the Golden Age of Detection (Queen, Carr and Stout) appear frequently. Yet also included are many more recent writers, people who have substituted regional insights, humor and exploration of social problems for sheer brilliance of puzzle. Though this list is, of course, subjective, it is based on 50 years of reading mysteries and 25 years of reviewing them."
| Anthony Abbot | The Shudders |
| Earl Derr Biggers | Charlie Chan Carries On |
| Herbert Brean | Wilders Walk Away |
| Herbert Brean | Hardly a Man Is Stll Alive |
| Jon I. Breen | Triple Crown |
| Robert Campbell | The Junkyard Dog |
| John Dickson Carr | Hag's Nook |
| John Dickson Carr | The Three Coffins |
| Jojn Dickson Carr | The Crooked Hinge |
| John Dickson Carr | The Case of the Constant Suicides |
| John Dickson Carr | Patrick Butler for the Defense |
| John Dickson Carr | The Burning Court |
| Max Allan Collins | Kill Your Darlings |
| Amanda Cross | The James Joyce Murder |
| Amanda Cross | Death in a Tenured Position |
| Barbara D'Amato | The Hands of Healing Murder |
| Dorothy Salisbury Davis | A Gentle Murder |
| Carter Dickson | The Judas Window |
| Carter Dickson | The Reader Is Warned |
| Carter Dickson | The Gilded Man |
| Carter Dickson | She Died a Lady |
| Carter Dickson | He Wouldn't Kill Patience |
| Carter Dickson | Fear Is the Same |
| Doris Miles Disney | Method in Madness |
| Doris Miles Disney | Who Rides a Tiger |
| Aaron Elkins | Old Bones |
| Helen Eustis | The Horizontal Man |
| Erle Stanley Gardner | The Case of the Howling Dog |
| Erle Stanley Gardner | The Case of the Counterfeit Eye |
| Erle Stanley Gardner | The Case of the Lame Canary |
| Erle Stanley Gardner | The Case of the Perjured Parrot |
| Erle Stanley Gardner | The Case of the Crooked Candle |
| Erle Stanley Gardner | The Case of the Black-Eyed Blonde |
| Alan Green | What a Body! |
| Anna Katharine Green | The Leavenworth Case |
| Frances Noyes Hart | The Bellamy Trial |
| Matthew Head | The Devil in the Bush |
| Tony Hillerman | The Fly on the Wall |
| H. H. Holmes | Nine Times Nine |
| H. H. Holmes | Rocket to the Morgue |
| Jeffrey Hudson | A Case of Need |
| Harry Kemelman | Friday the Rabbi Slept Late |
| Harry Kemelman | Saturday the Rabbi Went Hungry |
| C. Daly King | Obelists Fly High |
| Jane Langton | Emily Dickinson Is Dead |
| Emma Lathen | Banking on Death |
| Emma Lathen | Accounting for Murder |
| Emma Lathen | Murder Makes the Wheels Go Round |
| Emma Lathen | Murder Against the Grain |
| Emma Lathen | When in Greece |
| Frances & Richard Lockridge | The Norths Meet Murder |
| Frances & Richard Lockridge | Murder Out of Turn |
| Frances & Richard Lockridge | The Dishonest Murder |
| Helen McCloy | Through a Glass, Darkly |
| Pat McGerr | Pick Your Victim |
| Charlotte MacLeod | Rest You Merry |
| Lynn Meyer | Paperback Thriller |
| Margaret Millar | The Iron Gates |
| Margaret Millar | Ask for Me Tomorrow |
| Margaret Millar | Vanish in an Instant |
| Margaret Millar | Beast in View |
| Richard A. Moore | Death in the Past |
| Haughton Murphy | Murder for Lunch |
| Francis M. Nevins, Jr. | The 120-Hour Clock |
| Katherine Hall Page | The Body in the Belfry |
| Stuart Palmer | The Puzzle of the Blue Banderilla |
| Hugh Pentecost | Remember to Kill Me |
| Nancy Pickard | Generous Death |
| Nancy Pickard | No Body |
| Marissa Piesman | Unorthodox Practices |
| Ellery Queen | The Roman Hat Mystery |
| Ellery Queen | The French Powder Mystery |
| Ellery Queen | The Greek Coffin Mystery |
| Ellery Queen | The Egyptian Cross Mystery |
| Ellery Queen | The Chinese Orange Mystery |
| Ellery Queen | Calamity Town |
| Ellery Queen | Cat of Many Tails |
| Patrick Quentin | Puzzle for Puppets |
| Clayton Rawson | Death from a Top Hat |
| Herbert Resnicow | The Gold Gamble |
| Craig Rice | 8 Faces at 3 |
| Richard D. Rosen | Strike Three You're Dead |
| Barnaby Ross | The Tragedy of X |
| Barnaby Ross | The Tragedy of Y |
| Henry Slesar | The Gray Flannel Shroud |
| Charles Merrill Smith | Reverand Randollph and the Wages of Sin |
| Jim Stinson | Double Exposure |
| David Stout | Carolina Skeletons |
| Rex Stout | Fer-de-Lance |
| Rex Stout | The Rubber Band |
| Rex Stout | Too Many Cooks |
| Rex Stout | Some Buried Caesar |
| Rex Stout | The Silent Speaker |
| Rex Stout | In the Best Families |
| Rex Stout | The Black Mountain |
| Rex Stout | The Doorbell Rang |
| Rex Stout | A Family Affair |
| Hake Talbot | Rim of the Pit |
| Alice Tilton | The Cut Direct |
| S. S. Van Dine | The Greene Murder Case |
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