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
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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
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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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