IMBA's 100 Favorite Mysteries of the 20th Century

Given by Independent Mystery Booksellers Association

100 Works 306,611 Books 7,991 Reviews 4.0
As selected by the Independent Mystery Booksellers Association, and cataloged here.
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En morder går amok (1952) af Margery Allingham
En kiste til Dimitrios (1939) af Eric Ambler
A Dram of Poison (1956) af Charlotte Armstrong
Aunt Dimity's Death (1992) af Nancy Atherton
Natten var hed (1965) af John Ball
Death by Sheer Torture (1981) af Robert Barnard
Spor : roman (1993) af Nevada Barr
The Case of the Abominable Snowman (1941) af Nicholas Blake
Når det hellige værtshus lukker (1986) af Lawrence Block
Green for Danger (1944) af Christianna Brand
The Fabulous Clipjoint (1947) af Fredric Brown
De 39 trin (1915) af John Buchan
Black cherry blues (1989) af James Lee Burke
Postbudet ringer altid to gange (1934) af James M. Cain
The Thin Woman (1984) af Dorothy Cannell
The Three Coffins (1935) af John Dickson Carr
Thus Was Adonis Murdered (1981) af Sarah Caudwell
(Big Sleep, The) Det byder man ikke Carmen (1939) af Raymond Chandler
Hvem dræbte? (1926) af Agatha Christie
Det tolvte offer : spændingsroman (1994) af Michael Connelly
The Man Who Liked Slow Tomatoes (1982) af K. C. Constantine
The Monkey's Raincoat (1987) af Robert Crais
Liget i legetøjsbutikken (1946) af Edmund Crispin
Dreaming of the Bones (1997) af Deborah Crombie
Det sidste gode kys (1978) af James Crumley
The Yellow Room Conspiracy (1994) af Peter Dickinson
Baskervilles hund (1902) af Arthur Conan Doyle
Rebecca (1938) af Daphne Du Maurier
Booked to Die (1992) af John Dunning
Old Bones (1987) af Aaron Elkins
En hund efter penge (1994) af Janet Evanovich
Time and Again (1970) af Jack Finney
Who the Hell is Wanda Fuca? (1995) af G. M. Ford
Om kap med døden (1979) af Dick Francis
The Hours Before Dawn (1958) af Celia Fremlin
En fars begær (1988) af Elizabeth George
Død og dokumenter (1950) af Michael Gilbert
A for alibi (1982) af Sue Grafton
En kær veninde (1987) af Caroline Graham
The Man with a Load of Mischief (1981) af Martha Grimes
The Maltese Falcon (1930) af Dashiell Hammett
Døden på Warbeck Hall (1951) af Cyril Hare
Ondskabens øjne (1991) af Thomas Harris
Tourist Season (1986) af Carl Hiaasen
The Talented Mr. Ripley (1955) af Patricia Highsmith
A Thief of Time (1988) af Tony Hillerman
Døde børns sange (1998) af Reginald Hill
Cotton Comes to Harlem (1964) af Chester Himes
Hamlet, Revenge! (1937) af Michael Innes
Et job uegnet for kvinder (1972) af P. D. James
Det rituelle bad (1986) af Faye Kellerman
Slet intet ondt - : kriminalroman (1985) af Jonathan Kellerman
Biavlerens lærling eller Om dronningens udskilning (1994) af Laurie R. King
Dark Nantucket Noon (1975) af Jane Langton
Spionen der kom ind fra kulden (1963) af John le Carré
Dræb ikke en sangfugl (1960) af Harper Lee
Darkness, Take My Hand (1996) af Dennis Lehane
Get Shorty (1990) af Elmore Leonard
Sleeping Dog (1985) af Dick Lochte
Rough Cider (1986) af Peter Lovesey
The Deep Blue Good-by (1964) af John D. MacDonald
The List of Adrian Messenger (1959) af Philip MacDonald
Bruden, der løb bort (1964) af Ross Macdonald
Bootlegger's Daughter (1992) af Margaret Maron
Mordet i elevatoren (1940) af Ngaio Marsh
Dødens håndlanger (1972) af Ed McBain
Søndagsbødlen (1977) af James McClure
If Ever I Return, Pretty Peggy-O (1990) af Sharyn McCrumb
A Stranger in My Grave (1960) af Margaret Millar
Djævel i blåt (1990) af Walter Mosley
Edwin of the Iron Shoes (1977) af Marcia Muller
Death's Bright Angel (1988) af Janet Neel
Mallory's Oracle (1994) af Carol O'Connell
Child of Silence (1993) af Abigail Padgett
Deadlock (1984) af Sara Paretsky
Looking for Rachel Wallace (1980) af Robert B. Parker
Vanishing Act (1995) af Thomas Perry
Crocodile on the Sandbank (1975) af Elizabeth Peters
Et lig for meget (1979) af Ellis Peters
The Fencing Master (1988) af Arturo Pérez-Reverte
Blue Lonesome (1995) af Bill Pronzini
Cat of Many Tails (1949) af Ellery Queen
No More Dying Then (1971) af Ruth Rendell
The Wrong Murder (1940) af Craig Rice
The Circular Staircase (1908) af Mary Roberts Rinehart
Dead Right (1997) af Peter Robinson
Strike Three You're Dead (1984) af Richard D. Rosen
A Broken Vessel (1994) af Kate Ross
Concourse (1995) af S. J. Rozan
Annoncer der dræbte (1933) af Dorothy L. Sayers
Endestation mord (1970) af Maj Sjöwall
Var det "Cæsar"? (1939) af Rex Stout
Brat Farrar (1949) af Josephine Tey
Chinaman's Chance (1978) af Ross Thomas
A Test of Wills (1996) af Charles Todd
Måske uskyldig (1987) af Scott Turow
The Sands Of Windee (1931) af Arthur William Upfield
En velbevaret hemmelighed (1992) af Minette Walters
Sanibel Flats (1990) af Randy Wayne White
I Married a Dead Man (1948) af Cornell Woolrich

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