Top 15 Mystery Novels [According to the Mystery Guild of America]

Arthur Conan Doyle:The Complete Sherlock Holmes (1887-1927)

Dashiell Hammett: The Maltese Falcon (1930)

Edgar Allan Poe: Tales of Mystery and Imagination (1852)

Josephine Tey: The Daughter of Time (1951)

Scott Turow: Presumed Innocent (1987)

John le Carré:The Spy Who Came In From the Cold (1963)

Wilkie Collins: The Moonstone (1868)

Raymond Chandler: The Big Sleep (1939)

Daphne du Maurier: Rebecca (1938)

Agatha Christie: And Then There Were None (1939)

Robert Traver: Anatomy of a Murder (1958)

Agatha Christie: The Murder of Roger Ackroyd (1926)

Raymond Chandler: The Long Goodbye (1953)

James M. Cain: The Postman Always Rings Twice (1934)

Mario Puzo: The Godfather (1969)