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The Top 10

Submitted by Clara Maynard [1] on Fri, 04/09/2010 - 4:42pm

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I was looking at The Crown Crime Companion: The Top 100 Mystery Novels of all Time [2], selected by the Mystery Writers of America, and I thought it would be fun to
see how many of us have read the top 10. Take a look and see! If you haven’t read one, you know you can get it from your local library!
  1. 1. Arthur Conan Doyle: The Complete Sherlock Holmes [3]
  2. 2. Dashiell Hammett: The Maltese Falcon [4]
  3. 3. Edgar Allan Poe: Tales of Mystery and Imagination [5]
  4. 4. JosephineTey: The Daughter of Time [6]
  5. 5. Scott Turow: Presumed Innocent [7]
  6. 6. John Le Carre: The Spy Whom Came in From the Cold [8]
  7. 7. Wilkie Colllins: The Moonstone [9]
  8. 8. Raymond Chandler: The Big Sleep [10]
  9. 9. Daphne du Maurier: Rebecca [11]
  10. 10. Agatha Christie: And Then There Were None [12]

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