This is my selection of crime novels that I consider best of them all. I don't care much for top lists of best crime novels that are spread around like shit in mental hospital, and I particularly don't like spy novels or political thrillers and courtroom novels, because I don't like myself to be spied upon. I don't know why people enjoy reading this no nonsense literature, but maybe it's because they're feeling guilty in some way. You won't find contemporary crime novel in this list, because oldies are goldies in my opinion.
David Goodis - Down There
Maurice Leblanc - Hollow Needle
William Lindsay Gresham - Nightmare Alley
Agatha Christie - Evil Under The Sun
Per Wahloo - The Abominable Man
Cornell Woolrich - I Married A Dead Man
James Ross - They Don't Dance Much
Charles Willeford - Pick Up
Kenneth Fearing - The Big Clock
Horace McCoy - They Shoot Horses, Don't They?
Jim Thompson - Killer Inside Me
Auguste Le Breton - Rififi in New York
John Franklin Bardin - Deadly Percheron
Marcel Allain - Fantomas
Colin Wilcox - Mankiller
Atillio Veraldi - La Mazzetta
Marie Belloc Lowndes - The Lodger
Edward Anderson - Thieves Like Us
Dashiell Hammett - Red Harvest
James M. Cain - Double Indemnity
Raymond Chandler - Long Goodbye
Elmore Leonard - Unknown Man No. 89
Joseph Hansen - Fadeout
George Simenon - Dirty Snow
Donald E. Westlake - 361
Josephine Tey - Singing Sands
Edmund Crispin - Moving Toyshop
Barbara Vine - Fatal Inversion
Truman Capote - In Cold Blood
Ross MacDonald - Way Some People Die
George V. Higgins - Cogan's Trade
Patricia Highsmith - Talented Mr. Ripley
William Bayer - Switch
Thomas Harris - Red Dragon
James Swain - Grift Sense
Margaret Millar - Beast in View
Dan J. Marlowe - Operation Deathmaker
Fredric Brown - Screaming Mimi
John Fowles - The Collector
Nicholas Blake - The Beast Must Die
Graham Greene - The Honorary Consul
Thiery Jonquet - Tarantula
Dick Francis - Danger
Ed McBain - King's Ransom
Colin Dexter - The Remorseful Day
Helen McCloy - The Long Body
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