Anthony Boucher's Best Crime Fiction of the Year

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Each year from 1949 through 1967, New York Times crime fiction critic Anthony Boucher published his list of about 12-15 best crime fiction books of the year. For the Times' best mysteries of the year show more starting in 1968, see the award New York Times Best Mysteries of the Year. show less
Years:
All, 1967 (13), 1966 (13), 1965 (13), 1964 (14), 1963 (14), 1962 (13), 1961 (13), 1960 (15), 1959 (19), 1958 (13), 1957 (12), 1956 (13), 1955 (13), 1954 (12), 1953 (11), 1952 (15), 1951 (18), 1950 (16), 1949 (12)
WorkYear
A Most Contagious Game by Catherine Aird
1967
Lemon in the Basket by Charlotte Armstrong
1967
A Parade of Cockeyed Creatures, or Did Someone Murder Our Wandering Boy? by George Baxt
1967
The Hochmann Miniatures by Robert L. Pike
1967
Flying Finish by Dick Francis
1967
The Walking Stick by Winston Graham
1967
Sly As a Serpent by Michael Halliday
1967
The Tower by P. M. Hubbard
1967
Murder Against the Grain by Emma Lathen
1967
Something wrong by Elizabeth Linington
1967
The Last One Left by John D. MacDonald
1967
Murder Fantastical by Patricia Moyes
1967
God Save the Mark by Donald E. Westlake
1967
The hands of innocence by Jeffrey Ashford
1966
At Bertram's Hotel by Agatha Christie
1966
Odds Against by Dick Francis
1966
The King of the Rainy Country by Nicolas Freeling
1966
The Crack in the Teacup by Michael Francis Gilbert
1966
Blind Spot by Joseph Harrington
1966
Saturday the Rabbi Went Hungry by Harry Kemelman
1966
The Pedestal by George Lanning
1966
Black Money by Ross Macdonald
1966
Killer Dolphin by Ngaio Marsh
1966
The Crimson Madness of Little Doom by Mark McShane
1966
The Night is a Time for Listening by Elliot West
1966
The Spy in the Ointment by Donald E. Westlake
1966
Funeral in Berlin by Len Deighton
1965
For Kicks by Dick Francis
1965
Double-Barrel by Nicolas Freeling
1965
The Jealous One by Celia Fremlin
1965
The Quiller Memorandum by Adam Hall
1965
Cunning as a Fox by Michael Halliday
1965
The Day the Call Came by Thomas Hinde
1965
The Perfect Murder by H. R. F. Keating
1965
Midnight Plus One by Gavin Lyall
1965
The Far Side of the Dollar by Ross Macdonald
1965
Petrovka 38 by Yulian Semyonov
1965
The Second Maigret Omnibus by Georges Simenon
1965
Airs Above the Ground by Mary Stewart
1965
A Kind of Anger by Eric Ambler
1964
The Clocks by Agatha Christie
1964
Gun Before Butter by Nicolas Freeling
1964
The Merry Hippo by Elspeth Huxley
1964
The Night of the Generals by Hans Hellmut Kirst
1964
The Spy Who Came in From the Cold by John le Carré
1964
Greenmask! by Elizabeth Linington
1964
The Chill by Ross Macdonald
1964
Gideon's Vote by J. J. Marric
1964
Burning is a Substitute for Loving by Jennie Melville
1964
The Fiend by Margaret Millar
1964
The Road to Hell by Hubert Monteilhet
1964
Five times Maigret by Georges Simenon
1964
This Rough Magic by Mary Stewart
1964
The Light of Day by Eric Ambler
1963
A Little Less Than Kind by Charlotte Armstrong
1963
It's Different Abroad by Henry Calvin
1963
The Mirror Crack'd from Side to Side by Agatha Christie
1963
Black Sister by Dagmar Edqvist
1963
The Trouble Makers by Celia Fremlin
1963
The Massingham Affair by Edward Grierson
1963
The Expendable Man (New York Review Books Classics) by Dorothy B. Hughes
1963
The Dead of Summer by Mary Kelly
1963
The Assassination Bureau, Ltd. by Jack London
1963
The Most Dangerous Game by Gavin Lyall
1963
Gideon's Ride by J. J. Marric
1963
Murder à la Mode by Patricia Moyes
1963
The Player on the Other Side by Ellery Queen
1963
Investigations Are Proceeding by Jeffrey Ashford
1962
The Demoniacs by John Dickson Carr
1962
The Pale Horse by Agatha Christie
1962
When I Grow Rich by Joan Fleming
1962
The Chinese Nail Murders by Robert van Gulik
1962
Murder By Proxy by Brett Halliday
1962
The Spoilt Kill by Mary Kelly
1962
The Zebra-Striped Hearse by Ross Macdonald
1962
Cormorant's Isle by Allan MacKinnon
1962
How Like an Angel by Margaret Millar
1962
The Killing of Francie Lake by Julian Symons
1962
361 by Donald E. Westlake
1962
Perfect Pigeon by Richard Wormser
1962
Counsel for the Defense by Jeffrey Ashford
1961
Seven Lean Years by Celia Fremlin
1961
The Case of the Spurious Spinster by Erle Stanley Gardner
1961
The House of Soldiers by Andrew Garve
1961
The Cipher by Alex Gordon
1961
The Red Pavilion by Robert van Gulik
1961
The Wrong Side of the Sky by Gavin Lyall
1961
The Wycherly Woman by Ross Macdonald
1961
Gideon's Fire by J. J. Marric
1961
The Eye of the Needle by Thomas Walsh
1961
That Night It Rained by Hillary Waugh
1961
Killing Time by Donald E. Westlake
1961
The Smartest Grave by Reginald James White
1961
Passage of Arms by Eric Ambler
1960
The Traces of Brillhart by Herbert Brean
1960
Cat Among the Pigeons by Agatha Christie
1960
The Little Wax Doll by Peter Curtis
1960
Uncle Paul by Celia Fremlin
1960
Strike for a Kingdom by Menna Gallie
1960
Watcher in the Shadows by Geoffrey Household
1960
End of the Night by John D. MacDonald
1960
The Ferguson Affair by Ross Macdonald
1960
Send Another Hearse by Harold Q. Masur
1960
Give the Boys a Great Big Hand by Ed McBain
1960
Dead Men Don't Ski by Patricia Moyes
1960
Versus Inspector Maigret; containing Maigret and the reluctant witnesses by Georges Simenon
1960
My Brother Michael by Mary Stewart
1960
The Progress of a Crime by Julian Symons
1960
Devil by the Sea by Nina Bawden
1959
The End of Violence by Ben Benson
1959
Seven Steps East by Ben Benson
1959
Lament for Four Brides by Evelyn Berckman
1959
The Foggy, Foggy Dew by Charity Blackstock
1959
Psycho by Robert Bloch
1959
No Grave for a Lady by John Bonett
1959
Scandal at High Chimneys by John Dickson Carr
1959
The Hours Before Dawn by Celia Fremlin
1959
Blood and Judgement by Michael Gilbert
1959
The Chinese Bell Murders by Robert van Gulik
1959
'Til Death by Ed McBain
1959
Killer's Wedge by Ed McBain
1959
King's Ransom by Ed McBain
1959
The Listening Walls by Margaret Millar
1959
The Twisted Ones by M. E. Kerr
1959
A Dream of Falling by Mary O. Rank
1959
Bony and the Mouse by Arthur Upfield
1959
The Sands Of Windee by Arthur William Upfield
1959
The Woman in the Woods by Charity Blackstock
1958
Agent of the Devil by Hans Habe
1958
Untimely Death by Cyril Hare
1958
Blind Date by Leigh Howard
1958
The Doomsters by Ross Macdonald
1958
A Stir of Echoes by Richard Matheson
1958
Killer's Choice by Ed McBain
1958
The Midnight Plumber by Maurice Procter
1958
The Finishing Stroke by Ellery Queen
1958
The April Robin Murders by Craig Rice
1958
The Stopped Clock by Joel Townsley Rogers
1958
The Colour of Murder by Julian Symons
1958
Heat Wave by Elleston Trevor
1958
The Tiger Among Us by Leigh Brackett
1957
The Night of the Good Children by Marjorie Carleton
1957
Fire, Burn! by John Dickson Carr
1957
Death of an Old Sinner by Dorothy Salisbury Davis
1957
Be Shot For Sixpence by Michael Gilbert
1957
Right You Are, Mr. Moto by John P. Marquand
1957
Gideon's Night by J. J. Marric
1957
The Con Man by Ed McBain
1957
An Air That Kills by Margaret Millar
1957
Bunny Lake Is Missing by Evelyn Piper
1957
What Rough Beast by John Trench
1957
Bony Buys a Woman by Arthur Upfield
1957
A Dram of Poison by Charlotte Armstrong
1956
The Man Who Didn't Fly by Margot Bennett
1956
A Tangled Web by Nicholas Blake
1956
The Lenient Beast by Fredric Brown
1956
A Capitol Offense by Jocelyn Davey
1956
The Second Man by Edward Grierson
1956
Compulsion by Meyer Levin
1956
The Barbarous Coast by Ross Macdonald
1956
Cop Hater by Ed McBain
1956
The Mugger by Ed McBain
1956
Harm intended by Richard Parker
1956
Inspector Queen's Own Case by Ellery Queen
1956
Murder in Haiti by John W. Vandercook
1956
Tour de Force by Christianna Brand
1955
The Tall Dark Man by Anne Chamberlain
1955
The Mean Streets by Thomas B. Dewey
1955
Room for Murder by Doris Miles Disney
1955
The rare adventure. by Bernard Fergusson
1955
F.O.B. Murder by Bert Hitchens
1955
The Yellow Turban by Charlotte Jay
1955
The Best That Ever Did It by Ed Lacy
1955
Scales of Justice by Ngaio Marsh
1955
All Through the Night by Whit Masterson
1955
Beast in View by Margaret Millar
1955
Hell Is a City by Maurice Procter
1955
The Evil of the Day by Thomas Sterling
1955
The Whisper in the Gloom by Nicholas Blake
1954
The time of the fire by Marc Brandel
1954
The Third Bullet and Other Stories by John Dickson Carr
1954
The Long Goodbye by Raymond Chandler
1954
A Pocket Full of Rye by Agatha Christie
1954
Appleby Talks by Michael Innes
1954
The Fugitive Eye by Charlotte Jay
1954
Find a Victim by Ross Macdonald
1954
Murder in Pastiche by Marion Mainwaring
1954
Rogue Cop by William P. McGivern
1954
Lucinda by Howard Rigsby
1954
A Shilling for Candles by Josephine Tey
1954
Their Nearest and Dearest by Bernice Carey
1953
Post Mortem by Guy Cullingford
1953
The Case of the Hesitant Hostess by Erle Stanley Gardner
1953
The Canvas Coffin by William Campbell Gault
1953
Fear to Tread by Michael Francis Gilbert
1953
Reputation for a Song by Edward Grierson
1953
Beat Not the Bones by Charlotte Jay
1953
A Kiss before Dying by Ira Levin
1953
Murder in the Mill-Race by E.C.R. Lorac
1953
Meet Me at the Morgue by Ross Macdonald
1953
The Singing Sands by Josephine Tey
1953
Epitaph for a Spy by Eric Ambler
1952
Barbary Hoard by John Appleby
1952
The Inward Eye by Peggy Bacon
1952
Catch a tiger by Owen Cameron
1952
Mrs. McGinty's Dead by Agatha Christie
1952
The Key to Nicholas Street by Stanley Ellin
1952
Deadlock by Ruth Fenisong
1952
The Bloody Bokhara by William Campbell Gault
1952
Death Has Deep Roots: A Second World War Mystery (British Library Crime Classics) by Michael Gilbert
1952
They Died Laughing by Alan Green
1952
The Ivory Grin by Ross Macdonald
1952
Vanish in an Instant by Margaret Millar
1952
Black Widow by Patrick Quentin
1952
The Long Green by Bart Spicer
1952
The Daughter of Time by Josephine Tey
1952
The Devil in Velvet by John Dickson Carr
1951
They Came to Baghdad by Agatha Christie
1951
A Gentle Murderer by Dorothy Salisbury Davis
1951
An English Murder by Cyril Hare
1951
A Rough Shoot by Geoffrey Household
1951
A Time to Kill by Geoffrey Household
1951
Operation Pax by Michael Innes
1951
Mr Byculla by Eric Linklater
1951
The Way Some People Die by Ross Macdonald
1951
Opening Night by Ngaio Marsh
1951
Shield for Murder by William P. McGivern
1951
Murder on the Left Bank by Elliot Paul
1951
The Origin of Evil by Ellery Queen
1951
Mr. Blessington's Imperialist Plot by John Sherwood
1951
Black Sheep, Run by Bart Spicer
1951
The Golden Door by Bart Spicer
1951
The 31st of February by Julian Symons
1951
Big Shot by Lawrence Treat
1951
Mischief by Charlotte Armstrong
1950
Diagnosis: Homicide by Lawrence G. Blochman
1950
The Bride of Newgate by John Dickson Carr
1950
The Simple Art of Murder by Raymond Chandler
1950
A Murder Is Announced by Agatha Christie
1950
The Case of the Negligent Nymph by Erle Stanley Gardner
1950
The Wind Blows Death by Cyril Hare
1950
Verdict in Dispute by Edgar Lustgarten
1950
The Drowning Pool by Ross Macdonald
1950
Through a Glass, Darkly by Helen McCloy
1950
The Motive by Evelyn Piper
1950
The Queen's Awards: Fifth Series by Ellery Queen
1950
Blues for the Prince by Bart Spicer
1950
Frightened Amazon by Aaron Marc Stein
1950
The Rim of Terror by Hildegarde Tolman Teilhet
1950
Brat Farrar by Josephine Tey
1950
Below Suspicion by John Dickson Carr
1949
Knight's Gambit by William Faulkner
1949
The Case of the Dubious Bridegroom by Erle Stanley Gardner
1949
What a Body! by Alan Green
1949
14 Great Detective Stories by Howard Haycraft
1949
The Cabinda Affair by Matthew Head
1949
The Journeying Boy by Michael Innes
1949
The Moving Target by Ross Macdonald
1949
The Innocent by Evelyn Piper
1949
Cat of Many Tails by Ellery Queen
1949
Blue Harpsichord by Francis Steegmuller
1949
The Franchise Affair by Josephine Tey
1949

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