IMBA's 100 Favorite Mysteries of the 20th Century

Given by Independent Mystery Booksellers Association

100 Works 319,841 Books 8,279 Reviews 4.0
As selected by the Independent Mystery Booksellers Association, and cataloged here.
Work
The Tiger in the Smoke (1952) by Margery Allingham
The Mask of Dimitrios (1939) by Eric Ambler
A Dram of Poison (1956) by Charlotte Armstrong
Aunt Dimity's Death (1992) by Nancy Atherton
In the Heat of the Night (1965) by John Ball
Death by Sheer Torture (1981) by Robert Barnard
Track of the Cat (1993) by Nevada Barr
The Case of the Abominable Snowman (1941) by Nicholas Blake
When the Sacred Ginmill Closes (1986) by Lawrence Block
Green for Danger (1944) by Christianna Brand
The Fabulous Clipjoint (1947) by Fredric Brown
The Thirty-Nine Steps (1915) by John Buchan
Black Cherry Blues (1989) by James Lee Burke
The Postman Always Rings Twice (1934) by James M. Cain
The Thin Woman (1984) by Dorothy Cannell
The Three Coffins (1935) by John Dickson Carr
Thus Was Adonis Murdered (1981) by Sarah Caudwell
The Big Sleep (1939) by Raymond Chandler
The Murder of Roger Ackroyd (1926) by Agatha Christie
The Concrete Blonde (1994) by Michael Connelly
The Man Who Liked Slow Tomatoes (1982) by K. C. Constantine
The Monkey's Raincoat (1987) by Robert Crais
The Moving Toyshop (1946) by Edmund Crispin
Dreaming of the Bones (1997) by Deborah Crombie
The Last Good Kiss (1978) by James Crumley
The Yellow Room Conspiracy (1994) by Peter Dickinson
The Hound of the Baskervilles (1902) by Arthur Conan Doyle
Rebecca (1938) by Daphne Du Maurier
Booked to Die (1992) by John Dunning
Old Bones (1987) by Aaron Elkins
One for the Money (1994) by Janet Evanovich
Time and Again (1970) by Jack Finney
Who the Hell is Wanda Fuca? (1995) by G. M. Ford
Whip Hand (1979) by Dick Francis
The Hours Before Dawn (1958) by Celia Fremlin
A Great Deliverance (1988) by Elizabeth George
Smallbone Deceased (1950) by Michael Gilbert
A is for Alibi (1982) by Sue Grafton
The Killings at Badger's Drift (1987) by Caroline Graham
The Man with a Load of Mischief (1981) by Martha Grimes
The Maltese Falcon (1930) by Dashiell Hammett
An English Murder (1951) by Cyril Hare
The Silence of the Lambs (1988) by Thomas Harris
Tourist Season (1986) by Carl Hiaasen
The Talented Mr. Ripley (1955) by Patricia Highsmith
A Thief of Time (1988) by Tony Hillerman
On Beulah Height (1998) by Reginald Hill
Cotton Comes to Harlem (1964) by Chester Himes
Hamlet, Revenge! (1937) by Michael Innes
An Unsuitable Job for a Woman (1972) by P. D. James
The Ritual Bath (1986) by Faye Kellerman
When the Bough Breaks (1985) by Jonathan Kellerman
The Beekeeper's Apprentice (1994) by Laurie R. King
Dark Nantucket Noon (1975) by Jane Langton
The Spy Who Came in From the Cold (1963) by John le Carré
To Kill a Mockingbird (1960) by Harper Lee
Darkness, Take My Hand (1996) by Dennis Lehane
Get Shorty (1990) by Elmore Leonard
Sleeping Dog (1985) by Dick Lochte
Rough Cider (1986) by Peter Lovesey
The Deep Blue Good-by (1964) by John D. MacDonald
The List of Adrian Messenger (1959) by Philip MacDonald
The Chill (1964) by Ross Macdonald
Bootlegger's Daughter (1992) by Margaret Maron
Death of a Peer (1940) by Ngaio Marsh
Sadie When She Died (1972) by Ed McBain
The Sunday Hangman (1977) by James McClure
If Ever I Return, Pretty Peggy-O (1990) by Sharyn McCrumb
A Stranger in My Grave (1960) by Margaret Millar
Devil in a Blue Dress (1990) by Walter Mosley
Edwin of the Iron Shoes (1977) by Marcia Muller
Death's Bright Angel (1988) by Janet Neel
Mallory's Oracle (1994) by Carol O'Connell
Child of Silence (1993) by Abigail Padgett
Deadlock (1984) by Sara Paretsky
Looking for Rachel Wallace (1980) by Robert B. Parker
Vanishing Act (1995) by Thomas Perry
Crocodile on the Sandbank (1975) by Elizabeth Peters
One Corpse Too Many (1979) by Ellis Peters
The Club Dumas (1993) by Arturo Pérez-Reverte
Blue Lonesome (1995) by Bill Pronzini
Cat of Many Tails (1949) by Ellery Queen
No More Dying Then (1971) by Ruth Rendell
The Wrong Murder (1940) by Craig Rice
The Circular Staircase (1908) by Mary Roberts Rinehart
Dead Right (1997) by Peter Robinson
Strike Three You're Dead (1984) by Richard D. Rosen
A Broken Vessel (1994) by Kate Ross
Concourse (1995) by S. J. Rozan
Murder Must Advertise (1933) by Dorothy L. Sayers
The Laughing Policeman (1968) by Maj Sjöwall
Some Buried Caesar (1939) by Rex Stout
Brat Farrar (1949) by Josephine Tey
Chinaman's Chance (1978) by Ross Thomas
A Test of Wills (1996) by Charles Todd
Presumed Innocent (1987) by Scott Turow
The Sands Of Windee (1931) by Arthur William Upfield
The Ice House (1992) by Minette Walters
Sanibel Flats (1990) by Randy Wayne White
I Married a Dead Man (1948) by Cornell Woolrich

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