Mystery Books

Dead Beat: A Kate Brannigan Mystery
“Kate Brannigan is a breath of fresh air.”—Publishers Weekly Dead Beat introduces Kate

Locked In (Sharon McCone Mysteries)
Shot in the head by an unknown assailant, San Francisco private eye Sharon McCone finds herself trapped by locked-in syndrome: alm

The Body in the Snowdrift: A Faith Fairchild Mystery (Faith Fairchild Mysteries)
Caterer Faith Fairchild has a bad feeling about her father-in-law's decision to celebrate his seventieth birthday with a family

Creature
A powerful high-tech company. A postcard-pretty company town. Families. Children. Sunshine. Happiness. A high school footbal

The Cat Who Moved a Mountain
Qwill's on top of the world when he rents a house on Big Potato Mountain. The owner, J.J. Hawkinfield, brought real estate de

Finger Lickin' Fifteen (Stephanie Plum Novels)
New Jersey bail-bonds office worker Lula is a witness to celebrity chef, Stanley Chipotle, losing his head, literally. Now Lula an

Hot Blooded
New Orleans is beginning to be afraid . . . A prostitute lies strangled in a seedy French Quarter hotel room. Miles away, in a ra

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Mystery Movies

Primal Fear
DVD

The Arrival
Calling this 1996 science fiction thriller "a glorified B movie," isn't a criticism. Writer-director David Twohy managed to get in

Sunshine
Chris Evans, Cillian Murphy, and Michelle Yeoh star in this sci-fi film from Danny Boyle. Extras included deleted scenes, alternat

Fallen (Snap Case Packaging)
Homicide detective Denzel Washington must track down a serial killer he caught once before...and who was already put to death! Was

Phone Booth
A single phone call can change a man's life…or possibly end it. Colin Farrell delivers a captivating, off-the-hook performance a

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Mystery Authors

The Best Mystery Books - Top 100

HAYCRAFT-QUEEN CORNERSTONES, A DEFINITIVE LIBRARY OF DETECTIVE, CRIME AND MYSTERY FICTION 1748-1952

In 1941, Howard Haycraft compiled a list of detective stories for a book entitled Murder for Pleasure: The Life and Times of the Detective Story. The list was prepared for Ã¢â‚¬Å“unpretentious detective story fans who may care to assemble for their own pleasure Ã¢â‚¬ËœcornerstoneÃ¢â‚¬â„¢ libraries of the best and most influential writing in the medium.Ã¢â‚¬Â Ellery Queen (the writing team of Frederic Dannay and Manfred B. Lee) revised the Haycraft list several times expanding it to include a broader range of crime and mystery fiction. The list below is the final revision and includes books from 1748 to 1952. Any entry followed by an * indicates it was added by Ellery Queen.

Title	Author	Detective	Genre	Year	Rating
The Little Tales Of Smethers	Lord Dunsany			1952	1 2 3 4 5
A Gentle Murderer	Dorothy Salisbury Davis			1951	1 2 3 4 5
Mischief	Charlotte Armstrong			1950	1 2 3 4 5
The Simple Art Of Murder	Raymond Chandler			1950	1 2 3 4 5
The People Against Ohara	Eleazar Lipsky			1950	1 2 3 4 5
Through A Glass Darkly	Helen McCloy			1950	1 2 3 4 5
The Motive	Evelyn Piper			1950	1 2 3 4 5
Blues For The Prince	Bart Spicer			1950	1 2 3 4 5
Nightmare In Manhattan	Thomas Walsh			1950	1 2 3 4 5
The Department Of Dead Ends	Roy Vickers			1949	1 2 3 4 5
The Moving Target	Ross Macdonald	Lew Archer	novels	1949	1 2 3 4 5
Love Lies Bleeding	Edmund Crispin		novel	1948	1 2 3 4 5
Dreadful Summit	Stanley Ellin			1948	1 2 3 4 5
The Franchise Affair	Josephine Tey		novels	1948	1 2 3 4 5
Intruder In The Dust	William Faulkner			1948	1 2 3 4 5
A Case To Answer	Edgar Lustgarten			1947	1 2 3 4 5
The Moving Toyshop	Edmund Crispin		novel	1946	1 2 3 4 5
The Horizontal Man	Helen Eustis			1946	1 2 3 4 5
The Unsuspected	Charlotte Armstrong			1946	1 2 3 4 5
Dr Sam Johnson Detector	Lilian De la Torre			1946	1 2 3 4 5
The Curse of the Bronze Lamp (UK Title: Lord of the Sorcerers)	John Dickson Carr	Sir Henry Merrivale	novel as carter dickson	1946	1 2 3 4 5
Blood Upon The Snow	Hilda Lawrence			1944	1 2 3 4 5
The Adventures Of Sam Spade	Dashiell Hammett			1944	1 2 3 4 5
Payment Deferred	C.S. Forester			1942	1 2 3 4 5
Rocket To The Morgue	Anthony Boucher			1942	1 2 3 4 5
The Just And The Unjust	James Gould Cozzens			1942	1 2 3 4 5
Laura	Vera Gaspary			1942	1 2 3 4 5
Calamity Town	Ellery Queen	Ellery Queen	novel	1942	1 2 3 4 5
A Taste For Honey	H.F.A. Heard			1941	1 2 3 4 5
Farewell, My Lovely	Raymond Chandler	Philip Marlowe	novel	1940	1 2 3 4 5
Drink To Yesterday	Manning Coles			1940	1 2 3 4 5
Pray Silence	Manning Coles			1940	1 2 3 4 5
The So Blue Marble	Dorothy Hughes			1940	1 2 3 4 5
The Norths Meet Murder	Richard & Francis Lockridge			1940	1 2 3 4 5
Verdict Of Twelve	Raymond Postgate			1940	1 2 3 4 5
The Patience Of Maigret	Georges Simenon			1940	1 2 3 4 5
The Bride Wore Black	Cornell Woolrich		novel	1940	1 2 3 4 5
The Mask of Dimitrios	Eric Ambler		novel	1939	1 2 3 4 5
The Big Sleep	Raymond Chandler	Philip Marlowe	novel	1939	1 2 3 4 5
The Mysterious Mickey Finn	Eliot Paul			1939	1 2 3 4 5
The Beast Must Die	Nicholas Blake			1938	1 2 3 4 5
The Crooked Hinge	John Dickson Carr	Dr. Gideon Fell'	novel	1938	1 2 3 4 5
The Judas Window (Also published as: The Crossbow Murder)	John Dickson Carr	Sir Henry Merrivale	novel as carter dickson	1938	1 2 3 4 5
LAMENT FOR A MAKER	Michael Innes		novel	1938	1 2 3 4 5
The Listening House	Mabel Seely			1938	1 2 3 4 5
Brighton Rock	Graham Greene			1938	1 2 3 4 5
The Nursemaid Who Disappeared	Philip MacDonald			1938	1 2 3 4 5
Death From A Top Hat	Clayton Rawson			1938	1 2 3 4 5
Trial and Error	Anthony Berkeley		novels	1937	1 2 3 4 5
Overture To Death	Ngaio Marsh			1936	1 2 3 4 5