Reading Lists: My Ranking of H. R. F. Keating’s ‘Crime & Mystery: The 100 Best Books’ (WIP) • BookLikes

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FALSE INSPECTOR DEW

by Peter Lovesey

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The documents in the case

by Dorothy L. Sayers

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The Murder Of Roger Ackroyd

by Agatha Christie

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A Judgement In Stone

by Ruth Rendell

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The New Sonia Wayward

by Michael Innes

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The Hollow Man

by John Dickson Carr

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Smallbone Deceased: A London Mystery (Inspector Ha... - Michael Gilbert

Smallbone Deceased: A London Mystery (Inspector Hazlerigg #4)

by Michael Gilbert

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The Horizontal Man

by Helen Eustis

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Blue Hammer

by Ross Macdonald

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Green for Danger

by Christianna Brand

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The Beast Must Die

by Nicholas Blake

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Tremor of Forgery

by Patricia Highsmith

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Tragedy at Law

by Cyril Hare

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Young Man, I Think You're Dying

by Joan Fleming

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The Players and the Game

by Julian Symons

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A Death in the Life

by Dorothy Salisbury Davis

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Fletch

by Gregory Mcdonald

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The Stain On The Snow

by Georges Simenon

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The Man Who Killed Himself

by Julian Symons

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The Moving Toyshop (Classic Crime)

by Edmund Crispin

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Surfeit of Lampreys

by Ngaio Marsh

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The Poison Oracle

by Peter Dickinson

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The Cellar No. 5

by Shelley Smith;Shelley Smith

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Death Of My Aunt

by C.H.B. Kitchin

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Beyond This Point Are Monsters

by Margaret Millar

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Five Roundabouts to Heaven

by John Bingham

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The Mystery of Edwin Drood

by Charles Dickens, David Paroissien

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Before the Fact

by Francis Iles

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Glass Sided Ants Nest

by Peter Dickinson

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The Franchise Affair

by Josephine Tey

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Calamity Town

by Ellery Queen

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The Nine Tailors

by Dorothy L. Sayers, Elizabeth George

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Appleby's End

by Michael Innes

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Gun Before Butter

by Nicolas Freeling

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The Artful Egg

by James McClure

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The Case of the Sulky Girl

by Erle Stanley Gardner

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The High Window

by Raymond Chandler

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The Long Goodbye

by Raymond Chandler

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Murder Among Friends

by Elizabeth Ferrars

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More Work for the Undertaker (Albert Campion Myste... - Margery Allingham

More Work for the Undertaker (Albert Campion Mystery #13)

by Margery Allingham

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The Sands of Windee (Inspector Napoleon Bonaparte ... - Arthur W. Upfield

The Sands of Windee (Inspector Napoleon Bonaparte Mystery Series #2)

by Arthur W. Upfield

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Red Harvest

by Dashiell Hammett, Jeff Stone

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The Private Wound

by Nicholas Blake

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The Hound of the Baskervilles

by Arthur Conan Doyle

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The Moonstone

by Wilkie Collins

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Roseanna (Martin Beck #1)

by Lois Roth, Per Wahlöö, Maj Sjöwall

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The Daughter of Time

by Josephine Tey

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The Fabulous Clipjoint

by Fredric Brown

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The Asphalt Jungle

by W. R. Burnett

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The Talented Mr. Ripley (Ripley #1)

by Patricia Highsmith

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The Bride Wore Black

by Cornell Woolrich

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A Taste For Death

by P.D. James

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53.

To Make A Killing

by June Thomson

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The Postman Always Rings Twice

by James M. Cain

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Pop. 1280

by Jim Thompson

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Devil take the Blue-tail Fly

by John Franklin Bardin

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The Friends of Eddie Coyle: A Novel

by George V. Higgins

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My Friend Maigret (Inspector Maigret)

by Georges Simenon, Shaun Whiteside

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Blind Man with a Pistol

by Chester Himes

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Naked Nuns

by Colin Watson

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Last Seen Wearing (Pan Classic Crime)

by Hillary Waugh

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Skinflick

by Joseph Hansen

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The Maltese Falcon

by Dashiell Hammett

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The Expendable Man

by Dorothy B. Hughes

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The Circular Staircase

by Mary Roberts Rinehart

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Nobody's Perfect

by Donald E Westlake

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Quiet Horror

by Stanley Ellin

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All on a Summer's Day

by John Wainwright

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The Green Ripper

by John D. MacDonald

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Kill Claudio

by P. M. Hubbard

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The Glitter Dome

by Joseph Wambaugh

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The Tiger in the Smoke

by Margery Allingham

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Sleeping Murder: Miss Marple's Last Case

by Agatha Christie

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74.

Tales of Mystery and Imagination

by Edgar Allan Poe

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The Investigation: A Novel

by Dorothy Uhnak

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Laidlaw

by William McIlvanney

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Uncle Abner Master of Mysteries

by Melville Davisson Post

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The Last Best Friend

by George Sims

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The Black Tower

by P.D. James

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The Collected Raffles Stories (Oxford Popular Fict... - E. W. Hornung

The Collected Raffles Stories (Oxford Popular Fiction)

by E. W. Hornung

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Dance Hall of the Dead

by Tony Hillerman

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Maigret in Court (Maigret, #55)

by Georges Simenon, Ros Schwartz

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The League of Frightened Men

by Rex Stout, Robert Goldsborough

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84.

A Pinch Of Snuff

by Reginald Hill

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Gideon's Week

by J.J. Marrick, John Creasey

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Death in a Tenured Position (Kate Fansler Novels)

by Amanda Cross

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Sadie When She Died

by Ed McBain

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The Lady Vanishes

by Ethel Lina White

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Beast in View

by Margaret Millar

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Mirror Mirror on the Wall

by Stanley Ellin

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The Thinking Machine

by Jacques Futrelle, Harlan Ellison

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Mind of Mr. J.G.Reeder

by Edgar Wallace

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The Innocence of Father Brown

by G.K. Chesterton

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