45 favourite Detective stories published in English

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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