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Cover
Introduction
1841: Edgar Allan Poe, The Dupin Tales
1853: Charles Dickens, Bleak House
1859: Charles Dickens, A Tale of Two Cities
1867: Metta Fuller Victor, The Dead Letter
1868: Wilkie Collins, The Moonstone
1892: Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes
1902: Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, The Hound of the Baskervilles
1928: Liam O’ Flaherty,The Assassin
1929: Erskine Caldwell, The Bastard
1930: Dashiell Hammett, The Maltese Falcon
1931: Dashiell Hammett, The Glass Key
1932: Dorothy L. Sayers, Have His Carcase
1932: Leslie Charteris, The Holy Terror (aka The Saint v. Scotland Yard)
1933: Paul Cain, Fast One
1934: James M. Cain, The Postman Always Rings Twice
1934: Agatha Christie, Murder on the Orient Express (aka Murder on the Calais Coach)
1938: Daphne du Maurier, Rebecca
1938: Graham Greene, Brighton Rock
1938: Rex Stout, Too Many Cooks
1939: Geoffrey Household, Rogue Male
1940: Raymond Chandler, Farewell, My Lovely
1941: Patrick Hamilton, Hangover Square
1942: James M. Cain, Love’s Lovely Counterfeit
1943: Léo Malet, 120, Rue de la Gare
1946: Edmund Crispin, The Moving Toyshop
1947: Dorothy B. Hughes, In a Lonely Place
1947: Georges Simenon, Act of Passion (Lettre à mon juge)
1947: Mickey Spillane, I, the Jury
1948: Carolyn Keene, The Ghost of Blackwood Hall
1948: Josephine Tey, The Franchise Affair
1949: Raymond Chandler, The Little Sister
1949: Josephine Tey, Brat Farrar
1950: Patricia Highsmith, Strangers on a Train
1952: Margery Allingham, The Tiger in the Smoke
1953: Elliott Chaze, Black Wings Has My Angel (aka One for the Money)
1953: William P. McGivern, The Big Heat
1958: John D. MacDonald, The Executioners (aka Cape Fear)
1958: Friedrich Dürrenmatt, The Pledge
1960: Clarence Cooper Jr., The Scene
1960: Margaret Millar, A Stranger in My Grave
1960: Harry Whittington, A Night for Screaming
1960: Charles Willeford, The Woman Chaser
1962: Eric Ambler, The Light of Day (aka Topkapi)
1962: P. D. James, Cover Her Face
1962: Kenneth Orvis, The Damned and the Destroyed
1962: Richard Stark, The Hunter (aka Point Blank and Payback)
1963: Nicolas Freeling, Gun Before Butter (aka Question of Loyalty)
1963: John le Carré, The Spy Who Came in from the Cold
1963: Ed McBain, Ten Plus One
1964: Ross Macdonald, The Chill
1964: Jim Thompson, Pop. 1280
1965: Maj Sjöwall and Per Wahlöö, Roseanna
1966: Truman Capote, In Cold Blood
1967: Agatha Christie, Endless Night
1968: Peter Dickinson, Skin Deep (aka The Glass-Sided Ants’ Nest)
1969: Ross Macdonald, The Goodbye Look
1970: Joseph Hansen, Fadeout
1970: George V. Higgins, The Friends of Eddie Coyle
1971: James McClure, The Steam Pig
1973: Tony Hillerman, Dance Hall of the Dead
1974: Donald Goines, Daddy Cool
1975: James Crumley, The Wrong Case
1975: Colin Dexter, Last Bus to Woodstock
1976: Jean-Patrick Manchette , 3 to Kill (Le petit bleu de la côte ouest)
1976: Mary Stewart, Touch Not the Cat
1976: Newton Thornburg, Cutter and Bone
1976: Trevanian, The Main
1977: Edward Bunker, The Animal Factory
1977: John Gregory Dunne, True Confessions
1977: Ruth Rendell, A Judgement in Stone
1978: James Crumley, The Last Good Kiss
1979: Manuel Vázquez Montalbán, Southern Seas (Los mares del sur)
1980: Andreu Martín, Prótesis (Prosthesis)
1981: Robert B. Parker , Early Autumn
1981: Martin Cruz Smith, Gorky Park
1982: Sue Grafton, A Is for Alibi
1982: Stephen King, Different Seasons
1982: Sara Paretsky, Indemnity Only
1983: Elmore Leonard, LaBrava
1984: Kem Nunn, Tapping the Source
1987: Douglas Adams, Dirk Gently’s Holistic Detective Agency
1988: Thomas Harris, The Silence of the Lambs
1988: Sara Paretsky, Toxic Shock (aka Blood Shot)
1990: A. S. Byatt, Possession
1990: Patricia Cornwell, Postmortem
1990: Derek Raymond, I Was Dora Suarez
1991: Lawrence Block, A Dance at the Slaughterhouse
1992: Michael Connelly, The Black Echo
1992: Peter Høeg, Miss Smilla’s Feeling for Snow (aka Smilla’s Sense of Snow)
1992: Philip Kerr, A Philosophical Investigation
1992: Margaret Maron, Bootlegger’s Daughter
1992: Richard Price, Clockers
1992: James Sallis , The Long-Legged Fly
1992: Donna Tartt, The Secret History
1993: Jill McGown, Murder . . . Now and Then
1993: Scott Smith, A Simple Plan
1994: Peter Ackroyd, Dan Leno and the Limehouse Golem (aka The Trial of Elizabeth Cree)
1994: Caleb Carr, The Alienist
1994: Henning Mankell, The Man Who Smiled
1995: James Ellroy, American Tabloid
1996: George Pelecanos, The Big Blowdown
1997: Suzanne Berne, A Crime in the Neighborhood
1997: Natsuo Kirino , Out (Auto)
1997: Walter Mosley, Always Outnumbered, Always Outgunned
1997: Ian Rankin, Black and Blue
1997: Donald E. Westlake, The Ax
1998: Cara Black , Murder in the Marais
1998: Reginald Hill, On Beulah Height
1998: Daniel Woodrell, Tomato Red
1999: J. M. Coetzee, Disgrace
1999: Robert Wilson, A Small Death in Lisbon
2000: David Peace, Nineteen Seventy-Four
2000: Scott Phillips, The Ice Harvest
2001: Harlan Coben, Tell No One
2001: Dennis Lehane, Mystic River
2005: Peter Temple, The Broken Shore
2007: Gil Adamson, The Outlander
2007: James Lee Burke, The Tin Roof Blowdown
2007: Laura Lippman, What the Dead Know
2007: Perihan Mağden, Escape
2008: Mark Gimenez, The Perk
Acknowledgments
Credits
About John Connolly and Declan Burke
Endnotes
Index of Contributing and Subject Authors
Copyright
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