New York Times Best Mysteries of the Year

152 Works 37,294 Books 821 Reviews ½ 3.7
This list includes mysteries highlighted in year-end roundups in the New York Times. For best mysteries in the Times 1949-1968, see the award Anthony Boucher's Best Crime Fiction of the Year.
Years:
All, 1974 (30), 1973 (46), 1972 (40), 1970 (8), 1969 (15), 1968 (13)
WorkYear
Snowball by Ted Allbeury
1974
Penelope by William C. Anderson
1974
Kosygin is Coming by Tom Ardies
1974
The Highbinders by Oliver Bleeck
1974
Location Shots by J. F. Burke
1974
The Fear Dealers by Robin Cade
1974
The Man Who Liked to Look at Himself by K. C. Constantine
1974
The Poison Oracle by Peter Dickinson
1974
Epitaph for a Lobbyist by R. B. Dominic
1974
Slay Ride by Dick Francis
1974
The Threepersons Hunt by Brian Garfield
1974
Interface by Joe Gores
1974
The Platinum Bullet by Richard L Graves
1974
The Ross Forgery by William H. Hallahan
1974
The Poison Summer by Joe L. Hensley
1974
Gently with the Innocents by Alan Hunter
1974
Appleby's Other Story by Michael Innes
1974
Tuesday The Rabbi Saw Red by Harry Kemelman
1974
A Raft of Swords by Duncan Kyle
1974
The Yermakov Transfer by Derek Lambert
1974
Sweet and Low by Emma Lathen
1974
The adversaries by Edward Linn
1974
The Turquoise Lament by John D. MacDonald
1974
Hostage by Colin Mason
1974
The Spy Who Died of Boredom by George Mikes
1974
No More Dying Then by Ruth Rendell
1974
The manipulators by John Rossiter
1974
The Kiriov Tapes by Owen Sela
1974
The Plot against Roger Rider by Julian Symons
1974
Yet She Must Die by Sara Woods
1974
A Choice of Enemies by Ted Allbeury
1973
The Cat's Eye by Claude Aveline
1973
Fair Game by George Bartram
1973
Spy in Chancery by Kenneth Benton
1973
The Avima Affair by Ned Calmer
1973
The Rainbird Pattern by Victor Canning
1973
The Silent Scream by Michael Collins
1973
The Rocksburg Railroad Murders by K. C. Constantine
1973
Last Man at Arlington by Joseph DiMona
1973
The Billion Dollar Sure Thing by Paul E. Erdman
1973
Blackstone by Richard Falkirk
1973
The Girl Who Passed for Normal by Hugh Fleetwood
1973
A File on Death by Kenneth Giles
1973
Final Notice by Joe Gores
1973
The Medusa Touch by Peter Van Greenaway
1973
Death Claims by Joseph Hansen
1973
Mister Target by William Harrington
1973
Life sentence by Olga Hesky
1973
Dance Hall of the Dead by Tony Hillerman
1973
Appleby's Answer by Michael Innes
1973
An Unsuitable Job for a Woman by P. D. James
1973
The Thief-Taker by Ben Healey
1973
A Time for Scandal by Hans Hellmut Kirst
1973
The Boondocks by Desmond Lowden
1973
Trevayne by Robert Ludlum
1973
The Vacancy by Patrick Mann
1973
Hail to the Chief by Ed McBain
1973
The Caterpillar Cop by James McClure
1973
Just Sheaffer : Or, Storms in the troubled heir by Ian Mowatt
1973
Any War Will Do by Eric Pace
1973
Colonel Butler's Wolf by Anthony Price
1973
Trip Trap by Julian Rathbone
1973
Rotten with honour by Derek Robinson
1973
The Mushroom Cave by Robert Rosenblum
1973
Circle Of Fire by Mark Sadler
1973
A Maigret Trio [Maigret's Failure / Maigret in Society / Maigret and the Lazy Burglar] by Georges Simenon
1973
The Locked Room by Maj Sjöwall
1973
Canto for a Gypsy by Martin Cruz Smith
1973
Death in the Snow by Richard Martin Stern
1973
They've Shot the President's Daughter! by Edward Stewart
1973
Please Pass the Guilt by Rex Stout
1973
The tooth merchant;: A novel, by C. L. Sulzberger
1973
The Serpent Under It by Edith Taylor
1973
Year of the yahoo,: A novel by Victor Wartofsky
1973
They Love Not Poison by Sara Woods
1973
The overlords by William Woolfolk
1973
The Levanter by Eric Ambler
1972
This Suitcase is Going to Explode by Tom Ardies
1972
11 Harrowhouse by Gerald A. Browne
1972
Nemesis by Agatha Christie
1972
Shadow of a Tiger by Michael Collins
1972
If you want to see your wife again ... a novel of suspense. by John Craig
1972
Binary by Michael Crichton
1972
A touch of darkness by John Crowe
1972
Shock Wave by Dorothy Salisbury Davis
1972
The Lizard in the Cup by Peter Dickinson
1972
The Wilby Conspiracy by Peter Driscoll
1972
Henry in a Silver Frame by James Eastwood
1972
The gilt-edged traitor by Matthew Eden
1972
Mirror Mirror on the Wall by Stanley Ellin
1972
The chickens in the airshaft by Steve Franklin
1972
The Listener by John Gill
1972
The Queen of America by Russell H. Greenan
1972
Through the Dark and Hairy Wood by Shaun Herron
1972
On the Prime Minister's Account by Olle Högstrand
1972
The Friends of Eddie Coyle by George V. Higgins
1972
The Savage Day by Jack Higgins
1972
Father Pig by Burt Hirschfeld
1972
The Open House by Michael Innes
1972
Shroud for a Nightingale by P. D. James
1972
The Probability Factor by Walter Kempley
1972
Box 100 by Frank Leonard
1972
The Night is a Child by Richard Llewellyn
1972
The Nixon Recession Caper by Ralph Maloney
1972
The Steam Pig by James McClure
1972
A missing person by Oscar Millard
1972
Murder Being Once Done by Ruth Rendell
1972
Davis Doesn't Live Here Any More by Jack Ripley
1972
Folio Forty-One. by Michael Sinclair
1972
The Abominable Man by Maj Sjöwall
1972
Murder at the Savoy by Maj Sjöwall
1972
The Porkchoppers by Ross Thomas
1972
The apartment on K Street by Robert J. Travers
1972
The Eiger Sanction by Trevanian
1972
The Judas Gospel by Peter Van Greenway
1972
Bank Shot by Donald E. Westlake
1972
Murder Among Thieves by Peter Alding
1970
Incident at 125th Street by John Edward Brown
1970
A Murder of Crows by Patrick Buchanan
1970
Wax Apple by Tucker Coe
1970
The Man with the Tiny Head by Ivor Drummond
1970
The Hound and the Fox and the Harper by Shaun Herron
1970
The Laughing Policeman by Maj Sjöwall
1970
The Hot Rock by Donald E. Westlake
1970
The White Room by L. P. Davies
1969
The Old English Peep Show by Peter Dickinson
1969
The wave hangs dark by Alan Dipper
1969
The Captors by John Farris
1969
Forfeit by Dick Francis
1969
Colonel Blessington by Pamela Frankau
1969
A Time of Predators by Joe Gores
1969
The Last Doorbell by Joseph Harrington
1969
The bellringer by Lawrence Kamarck
1969
Sunday the Rabbi Stayed Home by Harry Kemelman
1969
When in Greece by Emma Lathen
1969
The Girl in the Plain Brown Wrapper by John D. MacDonald
1969
Hot Summer Killing by Judson Philips
1969
Kellogg junction by Bart Spicer
1969
The Todd Dossier by Collier Young
1969
Henrietta Who? by Catherine Aird
1968
Picture Miss Seeton by Heron Carvic
1968
Murder Among Children by Tucker Coe
1968
Murder's Burning by S. H. Courtier
1968
A Case of Need by Michael Crichton
1968
The Valentine Estate by Stanley Ellin
1968
The girl in cabin B54 by Lucille Fletcher
1968
Blood Sport by Dick Francis
1968
Gideon's River by J. J. Marric
1968
Fuzz by Ed McBain
1968
Dover Goes to Pott by Joyce Porter
1968
The Nazi Hunter by Bynum Shaw
1968
The Bait by Dorothy Uhnak
1968

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