This is my selection of crime books 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.
1. David Goodis - Down There
2. Maurice Leblanc - Hollow Needle
3. William Lindsay Gresham - Nightmare Alley
4. Agatha Christie - Evil Under The Sun
5. Per Wahloo - The Abominable Man
6. Cornell Woolrich - I Married A Dead Man
7. James Ross - They Don't Dance Much
8. Charles Willeford - Pick Up
9. Kenneth Fearing - The Big Clock
10. Horace McCoy - They Shoot Horses, Don't They?
11. Jim Thompson - Killer Inside Me
12. Auguste Le Breton - Rififi in New York
13.John Franklin Bardin - Deadly Percheron
14. Marcel Allain - Fantomas
15. Colin Wilcox - Mankiller
16. Atillio Veraldi - La Mazzetta
17. Marie Belloc Lowndes - The Lodger
18. Edward Anderson - Thieves Like Us
19. Dashiell Hammett - Red Harvest
20. James M. Cain - Double Indemnity
21. Raymond Chandler - Long Goodbye
22. Elmore Leonard - Unknown Man No. 89
23. Joseph Hansen - Fadeout
24. George Simenon - Dirty Snow
25. Donald E. Westlake - 361
26. Josephine Tey - Singing Sands
27. Edmund Crispin - Moving Toyshop
28. Barbara Vine - Fatal Inversion
29. Truman Capote - In Cold Blood
30. Ross MacDonald - Way Some People Die
31. George V. Higgins - Cogan's Trade
32. Patricia Highsmith - Talented Mr. Ripley
33. William Bayer - Switch
34. Thomas Harris - Red Dragon
35. James Swain - Grift Sense
36. Margaret Millar - Beast in View
37. Dan J. Marlowe - Operation Deathmaker
38. Fredric Brown - Screaming Mimi
39. John Fowles - The Collector
40. Nicholas Blake - The Beast Must Die
41. Graham Greene - The Honorary Consul
42. Thiery Jonquet - Tarantula
43. Dick Francis - Danger
44. Ed McBain - King's Ransom
45. Colin Dexter - The Remorseful Day
46. Helen McCloy - The Long Body
47. Peter Lovesey - The False Inspector Dew
48. James Crumley - The Last Good Kiss
49. Martin Goldsmith - Detour
50. Charles Williams - Hot Spot
51. Lionel White - Too Young To Die
52. James Ellroy - The Big Nowhere
53. Sebastien Japrisot - One Deadly Summer
54. Charles Willeford - Sideswipe
55. Guy Cullingford - Post Mortem
56. Richard Hallas - You Play The Black And The Red Comes Up
57. Elliot Chaze - Black Wings Has My Angel
58. Boris Vian - I Spit On Your Graves
59. Gerald Kersh - Night And The City
60. Harry Stephen Keeler - Riddle Of The Travelling Skull
61. F. Jennyson Tesse - A Pin To See A Peepshow
62. Patrick Hamilton - Hangover Square
63. Cameron McCabbe - The Face On The Cutting Room Floor
64. John Townsley Rodgers - The Red Right Hand
65. Marc Behm - Eye Of The Beholder
66. Ethel Lina White - The Lady Vanishes
67. Francis Iles - Before The Act
68. C.H.B. Kitchin - Birthday Party
69. Kobo Abe - The Ruined Map
70. Elisabet Sanxay Holding - Lady Killer
71. Craig Rice - Big Midget Murders
72. Dennis Lynds - Freak
73. George Sims - The Last Best Friend
74. Derek Raymond - I Was Dora Suarez
75. Stanley Ellin - Specialty Of The House
76. Tony Hillerman - Skinwalkers
77. Arthur W. Upfield - Sands Of Windee
78. Peter Rabe - Anatomy Of A Killer
79. E.X. Ferrars - Murder Among Friends
80. Nicholas Freeling - Gun Before Butter
81. Colin Watson - Bump In The Night
82. Dorothy Unhak - Investigation
83. Freeman Wills Croft - 12. 30 From Croydon
84. William McIlvanney - Laidlaw
85. Joan Fleming - Kill Or Cure
86. Hillary Waugh - Pure Poison
87. Mary Roberts Rinehart - Circular Staircase
88. John Creasey - Gideon's March
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