| 1. | Crime and Punishment, Fyodor Dostoevski |
| 2. | To Kill a Mockingbird, Harper Lee |
| 3. | Dracula, Bram Stoker |
| 4. | The Complete Sherlock Holmes, Arthur Conan Doyle. |
| 5. | The Maltese Falcon, Dashiell Hammett |
| 6. | Tales of Mystery and Imagination, Edgar Allan Poe |
| 7. | Devil in a Blue Dress, Walter Mosley |
| 8. | The Choirboys, Joseph Wambaugh |
| 9. | An Then There Were None,Agatha Christie |
| 10. | Anatomy of a Murder, Robert Traver |
| 11. | The Murder of Roger Ackroyd, Agatha Christie |
| 12. | The Long Goodbye, Raymond Chandler |
| 13. | The Postman Always Rings Twice, James M. Cain |
| 14. | The Godfather, Mario Puzo |
| 15. | The Silence of the Lambs, Thomas Harris |
| 16. | From Russia, With Love, Ian Fleming |
| 17. | A Coffin for Dimitrios, Eric Ambler |
| 18. | Gaudy Night, Dorothy L. Sayers |
| 19. | Witness for the Prosecution, Agatha Christie |
| 20. | The Day of the Jackal, Frederick Forsyth |
| 21. | Farewell, My Lovely, Raymond Chandler |
| 22. | The Thirty-Nine Steps, John Buchan |
| 23. | The Name of the Rose, Umberto Eco |
| 24. | The Daughter of Time, Josephine Tey |
| 25. | Presumed Innocent, Scott Turow |
| 26. | The Spy Who Came in from the Cold, John le Carré |
| 27. | The Moonstone, Wilkie Collins |
| 28. | The Big Sleep, Raymond Chandler |
| 29. | Eye of the Needle, Ken Follett |
| 30. | Rumpole of the Bailey, John Mortimer |
| 31. | Red Dragon, Thomas Harris |
| 32. | The Nine Tailors, Dorothy L. Sayers |
| 33. | Fletch, Gregory Mcdonald |
| 34. | Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy, John le Carré |
| 35. | The Thin Man, Dashiell Hammett |
| 36. | The Woman in White, Wilkie Collins |
| 37. | Trent’s Last Case, E.C. Bentley |
| 38. | Double Indemnity, James M. Cain |
| 39. | Gorky Park, Martin Cruz Smith |
| 40. | Strong Poison, Dorothy L. Sayers |
| 41. | Dance Hall of the Dead, Tony Hillerman |
| 42. | The Hot Rock, Donald E. Westlake |
| 43. | Red Harvest, Dashiell Hammett |
| 44. | The Circular Staircase, Mary Roberts Rinehart |
| 45. | Murder on the Orient Express, Agatha Christie |
| 46. | The Firm, John Grisham |
| 47. | The Ipcress File, Len Deighton |
| 48. | Laura, Vera Caspary |
| 49. | I, The Jury, Mickey Spillane |
| 50. | The Laughing Policeman, Maj Sjöwall and Per Wahlöö |
| 51. | Bank Shot, Donald E. Westlake |
| 52. | The Third Man, Graham Greene |
| 53. | The Killer Inside Me, Jim Thompson |
| 54. | Where Are The Children?, Mary Higgins Clark |
| 55. | “A” is for Alibi, Sue Grafton |
| 56. | The First Deadly Sin, Lawrence Sanders |
| 57. | A Thief of Time, Tony Hillerman |
| 58. | In Cold Blood, Truman Capote |
| 59. | Rogue Male, Geoffrey Household |
| 60. | Murder Must Advertise, Dorothy L. Sayers |
| 61. | The Innocence of Father Brown, G.K. Chesterton |
| 62. | Smiley’s People, John le Carré |
| 63. | The Lady in the Lake, Raymond Chandler |
| 64. | Rebecca, Daphne du Maurier |
| 65. | Our Man in Havana, Graham Greene |
| 66. | The Mystery of Edwin Drood, Charles Dickens |
| 67. | Wobble to Death, Peter Lovesey |
| 68. | Ashenden, W. Somerset Maugham |
| 69. | The Seven Per-Cent Solution, Nicholas Meyer |
| 70. | The Doorbell Rang, Rex Stout |
| 71. | Stick, Elmore Leonard |
| 72. | The Little Drummer Girl, John le Carré |
| 73. | Brighton Rock, Graham Greene |
| 74. | The Talented Mr. Ripley, Patricia Highsmith |
| 75. | The Moving Toyshop, Edmund Crispin |
| 76. | A Time to Kill, John Grisham |
| 77. | Last Seen Wearing, Hillary Waugh |
| 78. | Little Caesar, W.R. Burnett |
| 79. | The Friends of Eddie Coyle, George V. Higgins |
| 80. | Clouds of Witness, Dorothy L. Sayers |
| 81. | Beast in View, Margaret Millar |
| 82. | Smallbone Deceased, Michael Gilbert |
| 83. | The Franchise Affair, Josephine Tey |
| 84. | Crocodile on the Sandbank, Elizabeth Peters |
| 85. | Shroud for a Nightingale, P.D. James |
| 86. | The Hunt for Red October, Tom Clancy |
| 87. | Chinaman’s Chance, Ross Thomas |
| 88. | The Secret Agent, Joseph Conrad |
| 89. | The Dreadful Lemon Sky, John D. MacDonald |
| 90. | The Glass Key, Dashiell Hammett |
| 91. | Judgment in Stone, Ruth Rendell |
| 92. | Brat Farrar, Josephine Tey |
| 93. | The Chill, Ross Macdonald |
| 94. | God Save the Mark, Donald E.Westlake |
| 95. | Home Sweet Homicide, Craig Rice |
| 96. | The Three Coffins |
| 97. | Prizzi’s Honor, Richard Condon |
| 98. | The Steam Pig, James McClure |
| 99. | Time and Again, Jack Finney |
| 100. | A Morbid Taste for Bones, Ellis Peters, an |