The 100 Favorite Mysteries of the 20th Century
As selected by The Independent Mystery Booksellers Association
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First Name |
Birth/Death |
Book & Date of Publication |
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Margery |
(1904 - 1966) |
The Tiger in the Smoke (1952) |
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Eric |
(1909 - 1998) |
A Coffin for Dimitrios (1937) |
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Charlotte |
(1905 - 1969) |
A Dram of Poison (1956) |
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John |
(1911 - 1988) |
In the Heat of the Night (1965) |
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Robert |
(1936 -) |
Death by Sheer Torture (1981) |
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Nevada |
(1952 -) |
Track of the Cat (1993) |
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Nicholas |
(1904 - 1972) |
The Beast Must Die (1938) |
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Christianna |
(1907 - 1988) |
Green for Danger (1944) |
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Fredric |
(1906 - 1972 |
The Fabulous Clipjoint (1947) |
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John |
(1875 - 1940) |
The 39 Steps (1915) |
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James Lee |
(1936 -) |
Black Cherry Blues (1989) |
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James M. |
(1892 - 1977) |
The Postman Always Rings Twice (1934) |
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Dorothy |
(1943 -) |
The Thin Woman (1984) |
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John Dickson |
(1906 - 1970) |
The Three Coffins (1935) |
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Sarah |
(1939 - 2000) |
Thus Was Adonis Murdered (1981) |
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Raymond |
(1888 - 1959) |
The Big Sleep (1939) |
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Agatha |
(1890 - 1976) |
The Murder of Roger Ackroyd (1926) |
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K.C. |
(1934 -) |
The Man Who Liked Slow Tomatoes (1982) |
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Edmund |
(1921 - 1978) |
The Moving Toyshop (1946) |
Dreaming of the Bones (1997) |
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James |
(1939 -) |
The Last Good Kiss (1978) |
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Peter |
(1927 -) |
The Yellow Room Conspiracy (1994) |
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Arthur Conan |
(1859 - 1930) |
The Hound of the Baskervilles (1902) |
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Daphne |
(1907 - 1989) |
Rebecca (1938) |
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Jack |
(1911 - 1995) |
Time and Again (1970) |
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G.M. |
(1945 -) |
Who in Hell Is Wanda Fuca? (1995) |
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Dick |
(1920 -) |
Whip Hand (1979) |
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Celia |
(1914 -) |
The Hours Before Dawn (1958) |
A Great Deliverance (1988) |
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Michael |
(1912 - 2006) |
Smallbone Deceased (1950) |
"A" is for Alibi (1982) |
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Caroline |
(1931 -) |
The Killings at Badger's Drift (1987) |
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Martha |
(Unknown) |
The Man With the Load of Mischief (1981) |
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Dashiell |
(1894 - 1961) |
The Maltese Falcon (1930) |
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Cyril |
(1900 - 1958) |
An English Murder (1951) |
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Thomas |
(1940 -) |
The Silence of the Lambs (1988) |
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Carl |
(1953 -) |
Tourist Season (1986) |
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Patricia |
(1921 - 1995) |
The Talented Mr. Ripley (1955) |
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Reginald |
(1936 -) |
On Beulah Height (1998) |
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Tony |
(1925 -) |
A Thief of Time (1988) |
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Chester |
(1909 - 1984) |
Cotton Comes to Harlem (1965) |
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Michael |
(1906 - 1994) |
Hamlet, Revenge (1937) |
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P.D. |
(1920 -) |
An Unsuitable Job for a Woman (1972) |
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Faye |
(1952 -) |
The Ritual Bath (1986) |
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Jonathan |
(1949 -) |
When the Bough Breaks (1985) |
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Jane |
(1922 -) |
Dark Nantucket Noon (1975) |
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John |
(1931 -) |
The Spy Who Came in From The Cold (1963) |
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Harper |
(1926 -) |
To Kill a Mockingbird (1960) |
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Dennie |
(1965 -) |
Darkness, Take My Hand (1996) |
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Elmore |
(1925 -) |
Get Shorty (1990) |
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Dick |
??? |
Sleeping Dog (1985) |
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Peter |
(1936 -) |
Rough Cider (1986) |
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John D. |
(1916 - 1986) |
The Deep Blue Good-by (1965) |
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Philip |
(1899 - 1981) |
The List of Adrian Messenger (1960 |
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Ross |
(1915 - 1983) |
The Chill (1964) |
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Ngaio |
(1895 - 1982) |
Death of a Peer (1940) |
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Ed |
(1926 - 2005) |
Sadie When She Died (1972) |
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James |
(1939 - 2006) |
The Sunday Hangman (1977) |
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Sharyn |
(1948 -) |
If Ever I Return, Pretty Peggy-O (1991) |
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Margaret |
(1915 - 1994) |
Stranger in My Grave (1960) |
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Marcia |
(1944 -) |
Edwin of the Iron Shoes (1977) |
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Janet |
(1940 -) |
Death's Bright Angel (1988) |
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Carol |
(1947 -) |
Mallory's Oracle (1994) |
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Abigail |
(1942 -) |
Child of Silence (1993) |
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Arturo |
(1951 -) |
The Club Dumas (1993) |
Vanishing Act (1994) |
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Elizabeth |
(1927 -) |
Crocodile on the Sandbank (1975) |
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Ellis |
(1943 -) |
One Corpse Too Many (1979) |
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Bill |
(1943 -) |
Blue Lonesome (1995) |
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Ellery
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Unknown
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Cat of Many Tails (1949) Ellery Queen is the pseudonym of cousins Frederic Dannay and Manfred B. Lee. Aka Barnaby Ross
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Ruth |
(1930 -) |
No More Dying Then (1971) |
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Craig |
(1908 - 1957) |
The Wrong Murder (1940) ) |
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Mary Roberts |
(1876 - 1958) |
The Circular Staircase (1908) |
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Peter |
(1950 -) |
Blood at the Root (1997) aka Dead Right |
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Richard |
Unknown |
Strike Three You're Dead (1984) |
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Kate |
(1956 - 1998) |
A Broken Vessel (1994) |
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Dorothy |
(1893 - 1957) |
Murder Must Advertise (1933) |
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Per Wahlöö |
(1926 - 1975) |
The Laughing Policeman (1968) |
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(1935 -)
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ten mysteries featuring Martin Beck. |
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Rex |
(1886 - 1975) |
Some Buried Caesar (1939) |
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Josephine |
(1896 - 1952) |
Brat Farrar (1949) |
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Ross |
(1926 - 1995) |
Chinaman's Chance (1978) |
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Charles |
(1949 -) |
A Test of Wills (1996) |
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Scott |
(1949 -) |
Presumed Innocent (1987) |
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Arthur |
(1888 - 1964) |
The Sands of Windee (1931) |
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Minette |
(1949 -) |
The Ice House (1991) |
Sanibel Flats (1990) |
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Cornell |
(1903 - 1968) |
I Married a Dead Man (1948) |
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