The Begetters

1. William Godwin, Caleb Williams, 1794

2. Edgar Allan Poe, Tales of Mystery and Imagination, 1845

3. Wilkie Collins, The Woman in White, 1860

4. Sheridan Le Fanu, Uncle Silas, 1864

5. Wilkie Collins, The Moonstone, 1868

6. Charles Dickens, The Mystery of Edwin Drood, 1870

7. Robert Louis Stevenson, The New Arabian Nights, 1882

8. Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Crime and Punishment, 1886

9. Emile Gaboriau, The Mystery of Orcival, 1887

10. Fergus Hume, The Mystery of a Hansom Cab, 1887

11. A. Conan Doyle, The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, 1894

12. Arthur Machen, The Three Impostors, 1895

13. E. W. Hornung, Raffles, 1899

14. A. Conan Doyle, The Hound of the Baskervilles, 1902

15. Jacąues Futrelle, The Thinking Machine, 1907

16. Maurice Leblanc, The Seven of Hearts, 1907

17. Gaston Leroux, The Mystery of the Yellow Room, 1909

18. Baroness Orczy, The Old Man in the Corner, 1909

19. A. E. W. Mason, At the Villa Rosa, 1910

20. G. K. Chesterton, The Innocence of Father Brown, 1911

21. R. Austin Freeman, The Singing Bone, 1912

22. E. C. Bentley, Trent's Last Case, 1913

23. Ernest Bramah, Max Carrados, 1914

The Age of the Great Detective

24. Edgar Wallace, The Crimson Circle, 1922

25. A. A. Milne, The Red House Mystery, 1922

26. Freeman Wills Crofts, The Pit-Prop Syndicate, 1922

27. A. E. W. Mason, The House of the Arrow, 1924

28. Agatha Christie, The Murder of Roger Ackroyd, 1926

29. C. S. Forester, Payment Deferred, 1926

30. S. S. Van Dine, The Greene Murder Case, 1928

31. Frances Noyes Hart, The Bellamy Trial, 1928

32. Anthony Berkeley, The Poisoned Chocolates Case, 1929

33. H. C. Bailey, Mr. Fortune Speaking, 1929

34. Ellery Queen, The Greek Coffin Mystery, 1932

35. Dorothy L. Sayers, Murder Must Advertise, 1933

36. Margery Allingham, Death of a Ghost, 1934

37. Rex Stout, Fer-De-Lance, 1934

38. Ellery Queen, The Adventures of Ellery Queen, 1935

39. Dorothy L. Sayers, Gaudy Night, 1935

40. John Dickson Carr, The Hollow Man, 1935

41. Erie Stanley Gardner, The Case of the Sleepwalker's Niece, 1936

42. Michael Innes, Hamlet, Revenged!, 1937

43. Philip MacDonald, The Nursemaid Who Disappeared, 1938

44. Ngaio Marsh, Overture to Death, 1939

45 Cyril Hare, Tragedy At Law, 1942

46. Agatha Christie, Death Comes as the End, 1945

47. Edmund Crispin, The Moving Toyshop, 1946

48. Georges Simenon, Maigret in Montmartre, 1951

Novels of Action

49. Dashiell Hammett, The Glass Key, 1931

50. William Faulkner, Sanctuary, 1931

51. James M. Cain, The Postman Always Rings Twice, 1934

52. Jonathan Latimer, The Lady in the Morgue, 1937

53. Raymond Chandler, The High Window, 1943

54. William Irish, Phantom Lady, 1945

55. W R. Burnett, The Asphalt Jungle, 1950

56. Raymond Chandler, The Long Goodbye, 1953

57. John Ross Macdonald, The Ivory Grin, 1953

58. Hillary Waugh, Last Seen Wearing, 1953

The English School

59. John Buchan, The Thirty-Nine Steps, 1915

60. "Sapper," Bull-Dog Drummond, 1920

61. W. Somerset Maugham, Ashenden, 1928

62. Thomas Burkę, The Pleasantries of Old Quong, 1931

63. Ethel Lina White, The Wheel Spins, 1933

64. Daphne du Maurier, Rebecca, 1938

65. Erie Ambler, The Mask of Dimitrios, 1939

66. Geoffrey Household, Rogue Male, 1939

67. John Mair, Never Come Back, 1941

68. Georges Simenon, The Lodger, 1943

69. Victor Canning, Venetian Bird, 1951

70. Michael Innes, The Man From the Sea, 1955

71. Ian Fleming, From Russia With Love, 1957

The Modern Crime Novel

72. Francis Iles, Malice Aforethought, 1931

73. Hugh Walpole, Above the Dark Circus, 1931

74. F. Tennyson Jesse, A Pin to See the Peep-Show, 1934

75. Ernest Raymond, We, the Accused, 1935

76. Graham Greene, A Gun for Sale, 1936 (U.S.: This Gun for Hire)

77. Raymond Postgate, Verdict of Twelve, 1940

78. Patrick Hamilton, Hangover Square, 1941

79. Vera Caspary, Laura, 1944

80. Helen Eustis, The Horizontal Man, 1946

81. Kenneth Fearing, The Big Clock, 1947

82. Edgar Lustgarten, A Case TO Answer, 1947

83. Roy Fuller, With My Little Eye, 1948

84. John Franklin Bardin, Devil Take the Blue-Tail Fly, 1948

85. Roy Vickers, The Department of Dead Ends, 1949

86. Michael Gilbert, Smallbone Deceased, 1950

87. Christianna Brand, Cat and Mouse, 1950

88. Charlotte Armstrong, Mischief, 1950

89. Josephine Tey, The Daughter of Time, 1951

90. John Bingham, My Name Is Michael Sibley, 1952

91. Edward Grierson, Reputation for a Song, 1952

92. Ira Levin, A Kiss Before Dying, 1954

93. Margot Bennett, The Man Who Didn't Fly, 1955

94. Margaret Millar, A Beast in View, 1955

95. Patrick Quentin, The Man with Two Wives, 1955

96. Shelley Smith, The Lord Have Mercy, 1956

97. Nicholas Blake, A Tangled Web, 1956

98. Patricia Highsmith, The Blunderer, 1956

99. Stanley Ellin, Mystery Stories, 1957

100. Meyer Levin, Compulsion, 1957