Sunday 30 April 2017

The Top 20 Crime Novels of All Time

Hello :)
Today I have another list for you. It's The Top 20 Crime Novels of All Time made by Crime Writers' Association in 1990. Have you ever read some of them? If not, I hope you'll try although one of them.





  1. The Doughter of Time by Josephine Tey (1951)
  2. The Big Sleep by Raymond Chandler (1939)
  3.  The Spy Who Came In From the Cold by John le Carre (1963)
  4. Gaudy Night by Dorothy L. Sayers (1935)
  5. The Murder of Roger Ackroyd by Agatha Christie (1926)
  6. Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier (1938)
  7. Farewell My Lovely by Raymond Chandler (1940)
  8. The Moonstone by Wilkie Collins (1868)
  9. The IPCRESS File by Len Deighton (1962)
  10. The Maltese Falcon by Dashiell Hammet (1930)
  11. The Franchise Affair by Josephine Tey (1948)
  12. Last Seen Wearing... by Hillary Waugh (1952)
  13. The Name of The Rose by Umberto Eco (1980)
  14. Rogue Male by Geoffrey Household (1939)
  15. The Long Goodbye by Raymond Chandler (1953)
  16. Malice Aforethought by Francis Iles (1931)
  17. The Day of the Jackal by Frederick Forsyth (1971)
  18. The Nine Tailors by Dorothy Ll. Sayers (1934)
  19. Ten Little Niggers (or And Then There Were None) by Agatha Christie (1939)
  20. The Thirty-Nine Steps by John Buchan (1915)

See you in next post!
/Zuzia

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