Wednesday 11 January 2017

Guardian 1000 Novels Everyone Must Read - Crime

The Man with the Golden Arm by Nelson Algren
Fantomas by Marcel   Allain & Pierre Souvestre
Epitaph for a Spy by Eric Ambler
Journey into Fear by Eric Ambler
The Mask of Dimitrios by Eric Ambler
The New York Trilogy by Paul Auster
Trent's Last Case by EC Bentley
The Poisoned Chocolates Case by Anthony Berkeley
The Beast Must Die by Nicholas Blake (Cecil Day-Lewis)
Lady Audley's Secret by Mary E Braddon
Greenmantle by John Buchan
The Thirty-Nine Steps by John Buchan
The Neon Rain by James Lee Burke
The Tin Roof Blowdown by James Lee Burke
The Asphalt Jungle by WR Burnett
Double Indemnity by James M Cain
The Postman Always Rings Twice by James M Cain
True History of the Kelly Gang by Peter Carey
The Hollow Man by John Dickson Carr
The Big Sleep by Raymond Chandler
The Long Goodbye by Raymond Chandler
No Orchids for Miss Blandish by James Hadley Chase
The Riddle of the Sands by Erskine Childers
And Then There Were None by Agatha Christie
The Murder at the Vicarage by Agatha Christie
The Murder of Roger Ackroyd by Agatha Christie
The Mysterious Affair at Styles by Agatha Christie
The Secret Adversary by Agatha Christie
The Moonstone by Wilkie Collins
The Woman in White by Wilkie Collins
A Study in Scarlet by Arthur Conan Doyle
The Hound of the Baskervilles by Arthur Conan Doyle
The Sign of Four by Arthur Conan Doyle
The Manchurian Candidate by Richard Condon
The Secret Agent by Joseph Conrad
Under Western Eyes by Joseph Conrad
Postmortem by Patricia Cornwell
Jurassic Park by Michael Crichton
The Andromeda Strain by Michael Crichton
Poetic Justice by Amanda Cross
The Crime of Father Amaro by José Maria de Eça de Queiroz
The Ipcress File by Len Deighton
Last Seen Wearing by Colin Dexter
The Remorseful Day by Colin Dexter
A Rich Full Death by Michael Dibdin
Dead Lagoon by Michael Dibdin
Dirty Tricks by Michael Dibdin
Ratking by Michael Dibdin
Vendetta by Michael Dibdin
Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
An American Tragedy by Theodor Dreiser
My Cousin Rachel by Daphne du Maurier
The Count Of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas
The Pledge by Friedrich Durrenmatt
The Name of the Rose by Umberto Eco
American Psycho by Bret Easton Ellis
A Quiet Belief in Angels by RJ Ellory
LA Confidential by James Ellroy
The Big Nowhere by James Ellroy
Sanctuary by William Faulkner
Casino Royale by Ian Fleming
Goldfinger by Ian Fleming
You Only Live Twice by Ian Fleming
The Day of the Jackal by Frederick Forsyth
A Gun for Sale by Graham Greene
Brighton Rock by Graham Greene
The Ministry of Fear by Graham Greene
The Third Man by Graham Greene
A Time to Kill by John Grisham
The King of Torts by John Grisham
Hangover Square by Patrick Hamilton
Red Harvest by Dashiell Hammett
The Glass Key by Dashiell Hammett
The Maltese Falcon by Dashiell Hammett
The Thin Man by Dashiell Hammett
Fatherland by Robert Harris
Black Sunday by Thomas Harris
Red Dragon by Thomas Harris
Tourist Season by Carl Hiaasen
The Friends of Eddie Coyle by George V Higgins
Strangers on a Train by Patricia Highsmith
The Talented Mr Ripley by Patricia Highsmith
Bones and Silence by Reginald Hill
A Rage in Harlem by Chester Himes
Miss Smilla's Feeling for Snow by Peter Hoeg
Rogue Male by Geoffrey Household
Malice Aforethought by Francis Iles
Silence of the Grave by Arnadur Indriðason
Death at the President's Lodging by Michael Innes
A Taste for Death by PD James
Cover Her Face by PD James
Friday the Rabbi Slept Late by Harry Kemelman
Dolores Claiborne by Stephen King
Misery by Stephen King
Kim by Rudyard Kipling
The Constant Gardener by John le Carré
The Spy Who Came in from the Cold by John le Carré
Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy by John le Carré
To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
52 Pick-up by Elmore Leonard
Get Shorty by Elmore Leonard
Motherless Brooklyn by Jonathan Lethem
The Bourne Identity by Robert Ludlum
Sidetracked by Henning Mankell
Cop Hater by Ed McBain
No Country for Old Men by Cormac McCarthy
Enduring Love by Ian McEwan
Devil in a Blue Dress by Walter Mosley
The Great Impersonation by E Phillips Oppenheim
The Strange Borders of Palace Crescent by E Phillips Oppenheim
My Name Is Red by Orhan Pamuk
Blacklist by Sara Paretsky
Toxic Shock by Sara Paretsky
Nineteen Seventy Four by David Peace
Nineteen Seventy Seven by David Peace
Hard Revolution by George Pelecanos
The Big Blowdown by George Pelecanos
Lush Life by Richard Price
The Godfather by Mario Puzo
The Crying of Lot 49 by Thomas Pynchon
V by Thomas Pynchon
Black and Blue by Ian Rankin
Exit Music by Ian Rankin
The Hanging Gardens by Ian Rankin
A Judgment in Stone by Ruth Rendell
Live Flesh by Ruth Rendell
Dissolution by CJ Sansom
Murder Must Advertise by Dorothy L Sayers
Whose Body? by Dorothy L Sayers
The Blue Room by Georges Simenon
The Madman of Bergerac by Georges Simenon
The Laughing Policeman by Maj Sjöwall & Per Wahlöö
Gorky Park by Martin Cruz Smith
Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck
The League of Frightened Men by Rex Stout
Perfume by Patrick Süskind
The Daughter of Time by Josephine Tey
The Getaway by Jim Thompson
Pudd'nhead Wilson by Mark Twain
A Dark-Adapted Eye by Barbara Vine
A Fatal inversion by Barbara Vine
King Solomon's Carpet by Barbara Vine
The Four Just Men by Edgar Wallace
Fingersmith by Sarah Waters
Native Son by Richard Wright
Therese Raquin by Emile Zola

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