100 Best Mystery Novels - The Mystery Writers' Association (MWA) 1995

Okay, here's another list to target.The Mystery Writers' Association (MWA)'s 1995 list of best mystery novels.

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

2.   Dashiell Hammett: The Maltese Falcon (1930)

3.   Edgar Allan Poe: Tales of Mystery & Imagination (1852)

4.   Josephine Tey: The Daughter of Time (1951)

5.   Scott Turow: Presumed Innocent (1987)

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

7.   Wilkie Collins: The Moonstone (1868)

8.   Raymond Chandler: The Big Sleep (1939)

9.   Daphne du Maurier: Rebecca (1938)

10. Agatha Christie: And Then There Were None (1939)

11. Robert Traver: Anatomy of a Murder (1958)

12. Agatha Christie: The Murder of Roger Ackroyd (1926)

13. Raymond Chandler: The Long Goodbye (1953)

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

15. Mario Puzo: The Godfather (1969)

16. Thomas Harris: The Silence of the Lambs (1988)

17. Eric Ambler: A Coffin for Dimitrios (1939)

18. Dorothy L. Sayers: Gaudy Night (1935)

19. Agatha Christie: The Witness for the Prosecution (1948)

20. Frederick Forsyth: The Day of the Jackal (1971)

21. Raymond Chandler: Farewell My Lovely (1940)

22. John Buchan: The Thirty-Nine Steps (1915)

23. Umberto Eco: The Name of the Rose (1980)

24. Fyodor Dostoyevsky: Crime and Punishment (1866)

25. Ken Follett: Eye of the Needle (1978)

26. John Mortimer: Rumpole of the Bailey (1978)

27. Thomas Harris: Red Dragon (1981)

28. Dorothy L. Sayers: The Nine Tailors (1934)

29. Gregory Mcdonald: Fletch (1974)

30. John Le Carré: Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy (1974)

31. Dashiell Hammett: The Thin Man (1934)

32. Wilkie Collins: The Woman in White (1860)

33. E. C. Bentley: Trent's Last Case (1913)

34. James M. Cain: Double Indemnity (1943)

35. Martin Cruz Smith: Gorky Park (1981)

36. Dorothy L. Sayers: Strong Poison (1930)

37. Tony Hillerman: Dance Hall of the Dead (1973)

38. Donald E. Westlake: The Hot Rock (1970)

39. Dashiell Hammett: Red Harvest (1929)

40. Mary Roberts Rinehart: The Circular Staircase (1908)

41. Agatha Christie: Murder on the Orient Express (1934)

42. John Grisham: The Firm (1991)

43. Len Deighton: The IPCRESS File (1962)

44. Vera Caspary: Laura (1942)

45. Mickey Spillane: I, the Jury (1947)

46. Maj Sjöwall & Per Wahlöö: The Laughing Policeman (1968)

47. Donald E. Westlake: Bank Shot (1972)

48. Graham Greene: The Third Man (1950)

49. Jim Thompson: The Killer Inside Me (1952)

50. Mary Higgins Clark: Where Are the Children? (1975)

51. Sue Grafton: "A" is for Alibi (1982)

52. Lawrence Sanders: The First Deadly Sin (1973)

53. Tony Hillerman: A Thief of Time (1989)

54. Truman Capote: In Cold Blood (1966)

55. Geoffrey Household: Rogue Male (1939)

56. Dorothy L. Sayers: Murder Must Advertise (1933)

57. G. K. Chesterton: The Innocence of Father Brown (1911)

58. John le Carré: Smiley's People (1979)

59. Raymond Chandler: The Lady in the Lake (1943)

60. Harper Lee: To Kill a Mockingbird (1960)

61. Graham Greene: Our Man in Havana (1958)

62. Charles Dickens: The Mystery of Edwin Drood (1870)

63. Peter Lovesey: Wobble to Death (1970)

64. W. Somerset Maugham: Ashenden (1928)

65. Nicholas Meyer: The Seven Per-Cent Solution (1974)

66. Rex Stout: The Doorbell Rang (1965)

67. Elmore Leonard: Stick (1983)

68. John le Carré: The Little Drummer Girl (1983)

69. Graham Greene: Brighton Rock (1938)

70. Bram Stoker: Dracula (1897)

71. Patricia Highsmith: The Talented Mr. Ripley (1955)

72. Edmund Crispin: The Moving Toyshop (1946)

73. John Grisham: A Time to Kill (1989)

74. Hillary Waugh: Last Seen Wearing ... (1952)

75. W. R. Burnett: Little Caesar (1929)

76. George V. Higgins: The Friends of Eddie Coyle (1972)

77. Dorothy L. Sayers: Clouds of Witness (1927)

78. Ian Fleming: From Russia, with Love (1957)

79. Margaret Millar: Beast in View (1955)

80. Michael Gilbert: Smallbone Deceased (1950)

81. Josephine Tey: The Franchise Affair (1948)

82. Elizabeth Peters: Crocodile on the Sandbank (1975)

83. P. D. James: Shroud for a Nightingale (1971)

84. Tom Clancy: The Hunt for Red October (1984)

85. Ross Thomas: Chinaman's Chance (1978)

86. Joseph Conrad: The Secret Agent (1907)

87. John D. MacDonald: The Dreadful Lemon Sky (1975)

88. Dashiell Hammett: The Glass Key (1931)

89. Ruth Rendell: A Judgement in Stone (1977)

90. Josephine Tey: Brat Farrar (1950)

91. Ross Macdonald: The Chill (1963)

92. Walter Mosley: Devil in a Blue Dress (1990)

93. Joseph Wambaugh: The Choirboys (1975)

94. Donald E. Westlake: God Save the Mark (1967)

95. Craig Rice: Home Sweet Homicide (1944)

96. John Dickson Carr: The Three Coffins (1935)

97. Richard Condon: Prizzi's Honor (1982)

98. James McClure: The Steam Pig (1974)

99. Jack Finney: Time and Again (1970)

100.  Ellis Peters: A Morbid Taste for Bones (1977) and Ira Levin: Rosemary's Baby (1967) (tie)