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I try to be fair and choose as many authors as I can, but Patricia Highsmith is just irreplacable. Some writers produce so many quality work that it is hard to choose from.
Classics
  • Tales of Mystery and Imagination by Edgar Allen Poe
  • The Complete Collection of Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyles
  • The Murder of Roger Ackroyd by Agatha Christie
  • The Maltese Falcon by Dashiell Hammett
  • Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky
Comedy
  • Death At the President's Lodging by Michael Innes
  • Appleby's End by Michael Innes
  • The Footsteps at the Lock by Ronald Knox
  • The Moving Toyshop by Edmund Crispin
  • Hot Rock by Donal E. Westlake
Cozy
  • Murder must Advertise by Doroth L. Sayers
  • The League of Frightened Men by Rex Stout
  • Best Man to Die by Ruth Rendell
  • Last Seen Wearing by Colin Dexter
  • The Black Tower by P. D. James
Criminal Stories
  • God Father by Mario Puzo
  • The Complete Adventures of Raffles Gentleman Thief by EW Hornung
  • Lamb to the Slaughter by Roald Dahl
  • The Ransom of Red Chief by O. Henry
  • Trial and Error by Anthony Berkeley
Hardboiled Detectives
  • The Glass Key by Dashiell Hammett
  • The Long Goodbye by Raymond Chandler
  • Indemnity Only by Sara Paretsky
  • M is for Malice by Sue Grafton
  • Eight Million Ways to Die by Lawrence Block
Historical
  • Daughter of Time by Josephine Tey
  • The Blackheath Poisonings by Julian Symons
  • Judge Dee mysteries by Robert van Gulik
  • The Silver Pigs by Lindsey Davis
  • Benim Adım Kırmızı aka My Name Is Red by Orhan Pamuk
Police Procedural
  • Big Bad City by Ed McBain
  • Cotton Comes to Harlem by Chester Himes
  • The Locked Room by Maj Sjowall & Per Wahloo
  • Double Barrel by Nicolas Freeling
  • Choirboys by Joseph Wambaugh
Psychological Thriller
  • Strangers in a Train by Patricia Highsmith
  • Talented Mr. Ripley by Patricia Highsmith
  • Eye of the Beholder by Marc Behm
  • Beast in View by Margaret Millar
  • Dirty Snow by Georges Simenon
Spy
  • Our Man In Havana by Graham Greene
  • From Russia with Love by Ian Fleming
  • The Spy Who Came in from the Cold by John le Carre
  • The Man who Knew Too Much by G. K. Chesterton
  • The Mask of Dimitrios by Eric Ambler

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