Mystery Books

  1. The Mermaids Singing
  2. Alma Mater
  3. Forever Odd
  4. Dark Descent, the
  5. THE APPLEBY FILE
  6. Nighttime Is My Time
  7. In the Moon of Red Ponies
  8. Maximum Ride The Angel Experiment
  9. More...

Mystery Movies

  1. Orphan
  2. Fight Club
  3. Flight Plan
  4. Contact
  5. Inception
  6. More...

Mystery Authors

  1. P. D. James
  2. Cornell Woolrich
  3. Ken Bruen
  4. Randall Garrett
  5. Donald Westlake
  6. Stephen King
  7. Colin Dexter
  8. More...

The Best Mystery Books - Top 100

ELLERY QUEEN'S TWELVE BEST DETECTIVE STORIES


In 1950, Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine took a vote of 11 experts, among them Vincent Starrett, Charles Honce, and Lew D. Feldman asking for the experts' pick of the best detective stories ever written. There were 83 detective stories nominated. The final selection of the best was as shown below. The results were published in the July 1950 issue of the magazine.

cover Title Author Detective Genre Year
1 The Purloined Letter Edgar Allan Poe :Poe Tales 1844 *mystery
2 The Gioconda Smile Aldous Huxley 0
3 The Avenging Chance Anthony Berkeley 0
4 The Genuine Tabard E. C. Bentley 0
5 The Problem Of Cell 13 Jacques Futrelle 0
6 The Hands Of Mr Ottermole Thomas Burke 0
7 Naboths Nineyard Melville Davisson Post 0
8 The Redheaded League Arthur Conan Doyle 0
9 The Yellow Slugs H. C. Bailey 0
10 The Absentminded Coterie Robert Barr 0
11 Suspicion Dorothy Sayers 0
12 The Invisible Man G. K. Chesterton 0