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CLASSIC CRIME NOVELS |
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CLASSIC CRIME NOVELS |
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JACQUES BARZUN
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Jacques Barzun and Wendell Hertig Taylor in their A Catalogue of Crime (Rev. & Enl. Edition, 1989) include descriptions of works the authors consider Classics of Crime, 1900-1975. Ninety novels are selected by them and are listed below.
In the Preface to their indispensable book, the authors write:"...the novice eager to explore can by browsing through our pages discover examples of the type of story he might like. The brief comments give a glimpse of contents and quality, and by stressing certain points help to develop a critical taste. As for the collector who regularly scans dealers' catalogues, he can, by consulting the index and the entry, ascertain facts to guide his purchases. Finally, students of the literature - a growing body inside and outside the academy - will find here a storehouse of materials usable in teaching and research."
| 1900 | Anna Katharine Green | The Circular Study |
| 1902 | Arthur Conan Doyle | The Hound of the Baskervilles |
| 1912 | E.C. Bentley | Trent's Last Case |
| 1915 | Oliver Onion | In Accordance With the Evidence |
| 1922 | A.A. Milne | The Red House Mystery |
| 1926 | Agatha Christie | The Murder of Roger Ackroyd |
| 1927 | G.D.H. Cole & R. Postgate | The Murder at Crome House |
| 1929 | Freeman Wills Crofts | The Purple Sickle Murders (or The Box Office Murders) |
| 1929 | Thomas Kindon | Murder in the Moor |
| 1930 | Miles Burton | The Secret of High Eldersham |
| 1930 | Dorothy Sayers | Strong Poison |
| 1931 | Eden Phillpotts | Found Drowned |
| 1931 | Henry K. Webster | Who Is the Next? |
| 1932 | C.P. Snow | Death Under Sail |
| 1932 | Ellen Wilkinson | The Division Bell Mystery |
| 1933 | Dermot Morrah | The Mummy Case Mystery (or The Mummy Case) |
| 1935 | Gerald Bullett | The Jury |
| 1935 | James Hilton | Was It Murder? |
| 1937 | Margery Allingham | Dancers in Mourning |
| 1938 | Georgette Heyer | A Blunt Instrument |
| 1938 | Paul McGuire | A Funeral in Eden (or Burial Service) |
| 1938 | Rex Stout | Too Many Cooks |
| 1938 | Arthur Upfield | The Bone Is Pointed |
| 1939 | Elspeth Huxley | The African Poison Murders |
| 1940 | C.W. Grafton | Beyond a Reasonable Doubt |
| 1942 | Michael Innes | The Daffodil Affair |
| 1943 | Raymond Chandler | The Lady in the Lake |
| 1944 | Erle Stanley Gardner | The Case of the Crooked Candle |
| 1944 | Virginia Perdue | Alarum and Excursion |
| 1945 | Lewis Lange | The Birthday Murder |
| 1945 | Clifford Witting | Measure for Murder |
| 1946 | Helen Eustis | The Horizontal Man |
| 1946 | Kenneth Fearing | The Big Clock |
| 1946 | Patricia McGerr | Pick Your Victim |
| 1946 | Marco Page | The Shadowy Third |
| 1947 | Nicholas Blake | Minute for Murder |
| 1948 | Thomas Kyd | Blood on the Bosom Divine |
| 1949 | Philip Clark | The Dark River |
| 1949 | Edmund Crispin | Buried for Pleasure |
| 1949 | Cyril Hare | When the Wind Blows |
| 1949 | M. Heberden | Engaged to Murder |
| 1949 | Norman Longmate | Strip Death Naked |
| 1949 | Ngaio Marsh | A Wreath for Rivera |
| 1950 | Elizabeth Daly | Death and Letters |
| 1950 | Andrew Garve | No Tears for Hilda |
| 1950 | Matthew Head | The Congo Venus |
| 1950 | Michael Gilbert | Smallbone Deceased |
| 1950 | Ross Macdonald | The Drowning Pool |
| 1951 | John & Emery Bonett | A Banner for Pegasus (or Not in the Script) |
| 1952 | Frederick Brown | The Deep End |
| 1952 | Joanna Cannan | The Body in the Beck |
| 1952 | Stanley Ellin | The Key to Nicholas Street |
| 1952 | Michael Innes | One-Man Show |
| 1953 | John D. MacDonald | Dead Low Tide |
| 1953 | Josephine Tey | The Singing Sands |
| 1954 | Julian Symons | The Narrowing Circle |
| 1954 | Walter Tyrer | Such Friends Are Dangerous |
| 1955 | Alex H. Atkinson | Exit Charlie |
| 1955 | Christopher Landon | Stone Cold Dead in the Market |
| 1955 | William Mole | The Hammersmith Maggot (or Small Venom) |
| 1956 | Edward Grierson | The Second Man |
| 1956 | Maurice Proctor | The Pub Crawler |
| 1958 | Nigel Fitzgerald | Suffer a Witch |
| 1958 | Bruce Hamilton | Too Much of Water |
| 1958 | Henry Kuttner | Murder of a Wife |
| 1960 | Leo Bruce | Furious Old Women |
| 1960 | Helen Robertson | Swan Song (or The Chinese Goose) |
| 1961 | Glun Carr | Death Finds a Foothold |
| 1961 | Jean Scholey | The Dead Past |
| 1962 | Dick Francis | Dead Cert |
| 1962 | S.B. Hough | The Bronze Perseus (or The Tender Killer) |
| 1962 | P.D. James | Cover her Face |
| 1962 | Simon Nash | Killed by Scandal |
| 1963 | Thomas Blanchard Dewey | A sad Song Singing |
| 1964 | Amanda Cross | In the Last Analysis |
| 1954 | Hillary Waugh | The Missing Man |
| 1965 | Patricia Moyes | Johnny Under Ground |
| 1966 | Carlton Keith | The Crayfish Dinner (or The Elusive Epicure) |
| 1966 | Emma Lathen | Murder Makes the Wheels Go 'Round |
| 1966 | J.B. Priestley | Salt Is Leaving |
| 1968 | J.J. Marric | Gideon's River |
| 1969 | Simon Troy | Swift to Its Close |
| 1969 | Colin Watson | Just What the Doctor Ordered |
| 1970 | P.M. Hubbard | High Tide |
| 1970 | Frank Swinnerton | On the Shady Side |
| 1971 | A.H.Z. Carr | Finding Maubee |
| 1971 | Tony Hillerman | The Fly on the Wall |
| 1973 | K.C. Constantine | The Man Who Liked to Look at Himself |
| 1973 | John Miles | The Night Hunters |
| 1976 | Ellis Peters | Never Pick Up Hitch Hikers |
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