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.

I have read books by 38 of the authors, including 29 books specifically named below.

Allingham, Margery - The Tiger in the Smoke
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