Friday, July 22, 2022

Read the 50 Essential Mystery Novels That Everyone Should Read

 Hound of the Baskervilles, Arthur Conan Doyle

Gaudy Night, Dorothy L. Sayers

Murder on the Orient Express, Agatha Christie

An Unsuitable Job for a Woman, P.D. James

The Complete Auguste Dupin Stories, Edgar Allan Poe

Rebecca, Daphne du Maurier

The Alienist, Caleb Carr

The Intuitionist, Colson Whitehead

The Yiddish Policemen’s Union, Michael Chabon

When We Were Orphans, Kazuo Ishiguro

A Rage in Harlem, Chester Himes

The Woman in White, Wilkie Collins

Dust and Shadow, Lyndsay Faye

The New York Trilogy, Paul Auster

Devil in a Blue Dress, Walter Mosley

The Postman Always Rings Twice, James M. Cain

The Spy Who Came in From the Cold, John le Carré

Fadeout, Joseph Hansen

The Name of the Rose, Umberto Eco

The Circular Staircase, Mary Roberts Rinehart

True Confessions, John Gregory Dunne

Beast in View, Margaret Millar

The Daughter of Time, Josephine Tey

From Russia, With Love, Ian Fleming

The Talented Mr. Ripley, Patricia Highsmith

Presumed Innocent, Scott Turow

The Day of the Jackal, Frederick Forsyth

Mystic River, Dennis Lehane

Sneaky People, Thomas Berger

In The Woods, Tana French

A Dark-Adapted Eye, Barbara Vine

Anatomy of a Murder, Robert Traver

The Thirty-Nine Steps, John Buchan

Eye of the Needle, Ken Follett

I, The Jury, Mickey Spillane

The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo, Stieg Larsson

Blanche on the Lam, Barbara Neely

Miss Smilla’s Feeling for Snow, Peter Høeg

The Secret Agent, Joseph Conrad

The Third Man, Graham Greene

The Black Dahlia, James Ellroy

The Snowman, Jo Nesbø

Laura, Vera Caspary

LaBrava, Elmore Leonard

The No.1 Ladies’ Detective Agency, Alexander McCall Smith

The Blue Hammer, Ross MacDonald

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