The Crown Crime Companion
The Top 100 Mystery Novels Of All Time
Selected by the
Mystery Writers Of America
Annotated by 0tto Penzler and Compiled by Mickey Friedman
For The Crown Crime Companion, the Mystery Writers of America have compiled a list of the best 100 mystery novels of all time, as well as a list of favorites in ten categories.
Fully annotated and reviewed by Otto Penzler, this list of the top 100 mysteries will be a valuable resource to fans, introducing them to new novels and reminding them about books by favorite writers they may have missed.
Each of the ten category lists is introduced by a master of that category:
Classics:
Suspense:
Hardboiled/Private Eye:
Police Procedural:
Espionage/Thriller:
Criminal:
Cozy/Traditional:
Historical:
Humorous:
Legal/Courtroom:
H.R.F. Keating
Mary Higgins Clark
Sue Grafton
Joseph Wambaugh
John Gardner
Richard Condon
Margaret Maron
Peter Lovesey
Gregory Mcdonald
Scott Turow