IMBA's 100 Favorite Mysteries of the 20th Century

Given by Independent Mystery Booksellers Association

100 Works 309,000 Livros 8,075 Críticas 4.0
As selected by the Independent Mystery Booksellers Association, and cataloged here.
Obra
The Tiger in the Smoke (1952) por Margery Allingham
The Mask of Dimitrios (1939) por Eric Ambler
A Dram of Poison (1956) por Charlotte Armstrong
Aunt Dimity's Death (1992) por Nancy Atherton
In the Heat of the Night (1965) por John Ball
Death by Sheer Torture (1981) por Robert Barnard
Track of the Cat (1993) por Nevada Barr
The Case of the Abominable Snowman (1941) por Nicholas Blake
When the Sacred Ginmill Closes (1986) por Lawrence Block
Green for Danger (1944) por Christianna Brand
The Fabulous Clipjoint (1947) por Fredric Brown
The Thirty-Nine Steps (1915) por John Buchan
Black Cherry Blues (1989) por James Lee Burke
The Postman Always Rings Twice (1934) por James M. Cain
The Thin Woman (1984) por Dorothy Cannell
The Three Coffins (1935) por John Dickson Carr
Thus Was Adonis Murdered (1981) por Sarah Caudwell
The Big Sleep (1939) por Raymond Chandler
The Murder of Roger Ackroyd (1926) por Agatha Christie
The Concrete Blonde (1994) por Michael Connelly
The Man Who Liked Slow Tomatoes (1982) por K. C. Constantine
The Monkey's Raincoat (1987) por Robert Crais
The Moving Toyshop (1946) por Edmund Crispin
Dreaming of the Bones (1997) por Deborah Crombie
The Last Good Kiss (1978) por James Crumley
The Yellow Room Conspiracy (1994) por Peter Dickinson
The Hound of the Baskervilles (1902) por Arthur Conan Doyle
Rebecca (1938) por Daphne Du Maurier
Booked to Die (1992) por John Dunning
Old Bones (1987) por Aaron Elkins
One for the Money (1994) por Janet Evanovich
Time and Again (1970) por Jack Finney
Who the Hell is Wanda Fuca? (1995) por G. M. Ford
Whip Hand (1979) por Dick Francis
The Hours Before Dawn (1958) por Celia Fremlin
A Great Deliverance (1988) por Elizabeth George
Smallbone Deceased (1950) por Michael Gilbert
A is for Alibi (1982) por Sue Grafton
The Killings at Badger's Drift (1987) por Caroline Graham
The Man with a Load of Mischief (1981) por Martha Grimes
The Maltese Falcon (1930) por Dashiell Hammett
An English Murder (1951) por Cyril Hare
The Silence of the Lambs (1991) por Thomas Harris
Tourist Season (1986) por Carl Hiaasen
The Talented Mr. Ripley (1955) por Patricia Highsmith
A Thief of Time (1988) por Tony Hillerman
On Beulah Height (1998) por Reginald Hill
Cotton Comes to Harlem (1964) por Chester Himes
Hamlet, Revenge! (1937) por Michael Innes
An Unsuitable Job for a Woman (1972) por P. D. James
The Ritual Bath (1986) por Faye Kellerman
When the Bough Breaks (1985) por Jonathan Kellerman
The Beekeeper's Apprentice (1994) por Laurie R. King
Dark Nantucket Noon (1975) por Jane Langton
The Spy Who Came in From the Cold (1963) por John le Carré
To Kill a Mockingbird (1960) por Harper Lee
A caminho das trevas (1996) por Dennis Lehane
Get Shorty (1990) por Elmore Leonard
Sleeping Dog (1985) por Dick Lochte
Rough Cider (1986) por Peter Lovesey
The Deep Blue Good-by (1964) por John D. MacDonald
The List of Adrian Messenger (1959) por Philip MacDonald
The Chill (1964) por Ross Macdonald
Bootlegger's Daughter (1992) por Margaret Maron
Surfeit of Lampreys (1940) por Ngaio Marsh
Sadie When She Died (1972) por Ed McBain
The Sunday Hangman (1977) por James McClure
If Ever I Return, Pretty Peggy-O (1990) por Sharyn McCrumb
A Stranger in My Grave (1960) por Margaret Millar
Devil in a Blue Dress (1990) por Walter Mosley
Edwin of the Iron Shoes (1977) por Marcia Muller
Death's Bright Angel (1988) por Janet Neel
Mallory's Oracle (1994) por Carol O'Connell
Child of Silence (1993) por Abigail Padgett
Deadlock (1984) por Sara Paretsky
Looking for Rachel Wallace (1980) por Robert B. Parker
Vanishing Act (1995) por Thomas Perry
Um crocodilo na duna (1975) por Elizabeth Peters
Um corpo a mais (1979) por Ellis Peters
The Fencing Master (1988) por Arturo Pérez-Reverte
Blue Lonesome (1995) por Bill Pronzini
Cat of Many Tails (1949) por Ellery Queen
No More Dying Then (1971) por Ruth Rendell
The Wrong Murder (1940) por Craig Rice
The Circular Staircase (1908) por Mary Roberts Rinehart
Dead Right (1997) por Peter Robinson
Strike Three You're Dead (1984) por Richard D. Rosen
A Broken Vessel (1994) por Kate Ross
Concourse (1995) por S. J. Rozan
O crime exige propaganda (1933) por Dorothy L. Sayers
The Laughing Policeman (1970) por Maj Sjöwall
Some Buried Caesar (1939) por Rex Stout
Brat Farrar (1949) por Josephine Tey
Chinaman's Chance (1978) por Ross Thomas
A Test of Wills (1996) por Charles Todd
Presumed Innocent (1987) por Scott Turow
The Sands Of Windee (1931) por Arthur William Upfield
The Ice House (1992) por Minette Walters
Sanibel Flats (1990) por Randy Wayne White
I Married a Dead Man (1948) por Cornell Woolrich

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