Recommended Reading
Noted author, reviewer and acknowledged detective fiction expert H.R.F. Keating composed
this list of what he considered to be the 100 Best Crime & Mystery Books.
This provides not only a guide for recommended books for readers but a quality list for collectors
If you are interested in buying any of these titles we have programmed a dedicated link by each book
This will take you to specific search results for book for sale on abebooks
From reading copies to collectible first editions
Buy Copies of these Classic Books
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1845 – Edgar Allan Poe – Tales of Mystery and Imagination
1868 – Wilkie Collins – The Moonstone 1870 – Charles Dickens – The Mystery of Edwin Drood 1892 – Arthur Conan Doyle 1899 – EW Hornung 1902 – Arthur Conan Doyle – The Hound of the Baskervilles 1907 – Jacques Futrelle 1908 – Mary Roberts Rinehart – The Circular Staircase 1911 – GK Chesterton 1918 – Melville Davisson Post – Uncle Abner 1926 – Agatha Christie 1929 – Dashiell Hammett 1929 – CHB Kitchin 1930 – Dashiell Hammett – The Maltese Falcon 1931 – Arthur W Upfield – The Sands of Windee 1932 – Francis Iles 1933 – Erle Stanley Gardner 1934 – Agatha Christie 1934 – James M Cain 1934 – Dorothy L Sayers – The Nine Tailors 1935 – John Dickson Carr 1935 – Rex Stout 1936 – Ethel Lina White 1938 – Nicholas Blake 1940 – Cornell Woolrich 1940 – Ngaio Marsh 1942 – Ellery Queen 1942 – Raymond Chandler 1944 – Christianna Brand 1945 – Michael Innes 1946 – Elizabeth Ferrars – Murder Among Friends 1946 – Edmund Crispin 1947 – Frederic Brown – The Fabulous Clipjoint 1948 – Josephine Tey – The Franchise Affair 1948 – John Franklin Bardin – Devil Take the Blue-Tail Fly 1948 – Margery Allingham 1949 – WR Burnett 1950 – Michael Gilbert – Smallbone 1950 – Georges Simenon 1951 – Josephine Tey 1952 – Hillary Waugh – Last Seen Wearing 1953 – John Bingham – Five Roundabouts to Heaven 1953 – Raymond Chandler 1953 – Guy Cullingford 1954 – Shelley Smith 1955 – Patricia Highsmith 1955 – Margaret Millar – The Beast in View 1956 – JJ Marric (John Creasey) 1956 – Stanley Ellin – Mystery Stories 1960 – Georges Simenon 1960 – Michael Innes 1963 – Nicholas Freeling – Gun Before Butter 1963 – Dorothy Hughes – The Expendable Man 1964 – Jim Thompson – Pop. 1280 1966 – EB Eberhart – R.S.V.P. Murder 1967 – Julian Symons 1967 – Sjowall & Wahloo – Roseanna 1967 – George Sims – The Last Best Friend 1968 – Peter Dickinson 1968 – Helen McCloy – Mr. Splitfoot 1968 – Nicholas Blake 1969 – Patricia Highsmith – The Tremor of Forgery 1969 – Chester Himes – Blind Man With a Pistol 1970 – Joan Fleming 1970 – Margaret Millar – Beyond This Point are Monsters 1972 – Ed McBain – Sadie When She Died 1972 – George V Higgins – The Friends of Eddie Coyle 1972 – Julian Symons – The Players and the Game 1972 – Stanley Ellin – Mirror, Mirror on the Wall 1973 – Tony Hillerman 1974 – Peter Dickinson 1974 – Gregory McDonald – Fletch 1975 – PD James 1975 – Celia Fremlin – The Long Shadow 1976 – Ross Macdonald 1976 – Agatha Christie 1976 – Dorothy Salisbury Davis – A Death in the Life 1976 – Dorothy Uhnak – The Investigation 1977 – Ruth Rendell 1977 – William McIlvanney – Laidlaw 1977 – Donald Westlake – Nobody’s Perfect 1978 – Reginald Hill 1979 – PM Hubbard – Kill Claudio 1979 – John D MacDonald – The Green Ripper 1981 – John Wainwright – All On a Summers Day 1982 – June Thomson 1982 – Peter Lovesey 1984 – James McClure – The Artful Egg 1986 – PD James – A Taste for Death
Page Layout © 2004 R.D. Collins see also HRF Keating Bibliography
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