New York Times Best Mysteries of the Year

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New York Times Best Mysteries of the Year
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Nemesis
by Agatha Christie
3,496 members
77 reviews
½ 3.7
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An Unsuitable Job for a Woman
by P. D. James
2,538 members
53 reviews
½ 3.7
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Picture Miss Seeton
by Heron Carvic
288 members
17 reviews
½ 3.6
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Shroud for a Nightingale
by P. D. James
2,130 members
41 reviews
3.8
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Dance Hall of the Dead
by Tony Hillerman
1,932 members
54 reviews
3.8
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Murder Being Once Done
by Ruth Rendell
592 members
10 reviews
½ 3.6
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No More Dying Then
by Ruth Rendell
570 members
13 reviews
½ 3.6
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Fuzz
by Ed McBain
323 members
8 reviews
½ 3.5
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Hail to the Chief
by Ed McBain
307 members
3 reviews
½ 3.4
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Death Claims
by Joseph Hansen
282 members
12 reviews
3.8
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The Open House
by Michael Innes
138 members
9 reviews
3.9
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The Rocksburg Railroad Murders
by K. C. Constantine
95 members
1 review
4
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The Man Who Liked to Look at Himself
by K. C. Constantine
84 members
1 review
½ 3.5
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Final Notice
by Joe Gores
75 members
4 reviews
4.1
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A Time of Predators
by Joe Gores
46 members
1 review
4
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Murder Among Children
by Tucker Coe
57 members
1 review
½ 3.3
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Appleby's Answer
by Michael Innes
172 members
6 reviews
½ 3.5
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Appleby's Other Story
by Michael Innes
155 members
6 reviews
3.8
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A Case of Need
by Michael Crichton
3,160 members
46 reviews
½ 3.4
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The Laughing Policeman
by Maj Sjöwall
1,789 members
64 reviews
3.9
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Trevayne
by Robert Ludlum
1,202 members
9 reviews
½ 3.3
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The Locked Room
by Maj Sjöwall
1,139 members
33 reviews
½ 3.7
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Murder at the Savoy
by Maj Sjöwall
1,095 members
27 reviews
½ 3.7
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Blood Sport
by Dick Francis
1,044 members
20 reviews
½ 3.6
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The Abominable Man
by Maj Sjöwall
1,040 members
25 reviews
3.8
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Slay Ride
by Dick Francis
1,040 members
17 reviews
½ 3.6
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Forfeit
by Dick Francis
1,017 members
17 reviews
½ 3.7
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The Friends of Eddie Coyle
by George V. Higgins
908 members
44 reviews
4
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The Hot Rock
by Donald E. Westlake
874 members
31 reviews
3.9
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The Girl in the Plain Brown Wrapper
by John D. MacDonald
868 members
11 reviews
3.9
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The Eiger Sanction
by Trevanian
817 members
12 reviews
½ 3.7
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The Turquoise Lament
by John D. MacDonald
747 members
11 reviews
3.9
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Please Pass the Guilt
by Rex Stout
640 members
8 reviews
½ 3.7
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Sunday the Rabbi Stayed Home
by Harry Kemelman
609 members
12 reviews
½ 3.6
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Tuesday The Rabbi Saw Red
by Harry Kemelman
602 members
7 reviews
½ 3.7
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Binary
by Michael Crichton
481 members
5 reviews
3.2
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Bank Shot
by Donald E. Westlake
479 members
19 reviews
4
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Henrietta Who?
by Catherine Aird
348 members
12 reviews
½ 3.7
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The Levanter
by Eric Ambler
319 members
8 reviews
½ 3.7
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The Steam Pig
by James McClure
230 members
9 reviews
½ 3.5
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When in Greece
by Emma Lathen
187 members
3 reviews
4.2
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The Old English Peep Show
by Peter Dickinson
185 members
4 reviews
½ 3.4
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The Savage Day
by Jack Higgins
180 members
3 reviews
½ 3.4
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Sweet and Low
by Emma Lathen
170 members
2 reviews
3.9
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The Poison Oracle
by Peter Dickinson
168 members
3 reviews
½ 3.5
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Canto for a Gypsy
by Martin Cruz Smith
147 members
3 reviews
½ 3.6
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Colonel Butler's Wolf
by Anthony Price
139 members
2 reviews
4
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The Billion Dollar Sure Thing
by Paul E. Erdman
133 members
1 review
½ 3.5
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11 Harrowhouse
by Gerald A. Browne
130 members
6 reviews
3.2
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The Caterpillar Cop
by James McClure
101 members
4 reviews
½ 3.7
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The Lizard in the Cup
by Peter Dickinson
88 members
4.1
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The Porkchoppers
by Ross Thomas
86 members
1 review
3.9
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Gideon's River
by J. J. Marric
73 members
2 reviews
½ 3.7
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The Rainbird Pattern
by Victor Canning
69 members
½ 3.5
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The Plot against Roger Rider
by Julian Symons
65 members
4.1
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The Highbinders
by Oliver Bleeck
64 members
4
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A Raft of Swords
by Duncan Kyle
60 members
2.8
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Gently with the Innocents
by Alan Hunter
56 members
1 review
4
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Snowball
by Ted Allbeury
55 members
3
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Mirror Mirror on the Wall
by Stanley Ellin
53 members
1 review
½ 3.5
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The Yermakov Transfer
by Derek Lambert
51 members
2 reviews
½ 3.3
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Last Man at Arlington
by Joseph DiMona
47 members
1 review
½ 3.6
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The Bait
by Dorothy Uhnak
46 members
3.8
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The Valentine Estate
by Stanley Ellin
45 members
½ 4.6
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A Choice of Enemies
by Ted Allbeury
43 members
2 reviews
3.8
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Wax Apple
by Tucker Coe
43 members
½ 2.6
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The Wilby Conspiracy
by Peter Driscoll
39 members
3.2
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Epitaph for a Lobbyist
by R. B. Dominic
38 members
1 review
½ 3.4
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The Captors
by John Farris
34 members
2
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A Time for Scandal
by Hans Hellmut Kirst
33 members
4.2
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Dover Goes to Pott
by Joyce Porter
33 members
1 review
3.9
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Interface
by Joe Gores
33 members
½ 3.4
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Penelope
by William C. Anderson
30 members
½ 2.3
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Blackstone
by Richard Falkirk
28 members
1 review
3
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The Threepersons Hunt
by Brian Garfield
28 members
3
77
They Love Not Poison
by Sara Woods
28 members
3
78
Yet She Must Die
by Sara Woods
26 members
1 review
½ 4.5
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The Nixon Recession Caper
by Ralph Maloney
24 members
½ 2.5
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They've Shot the President's Daughter!
by Edward Stewart
23 members
1 review
½ 3.3
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The Spy Who Died of Boredom
by George Mikes
20 members
2 reviews
3
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This Suitcase is Going to Explode
by Tom Ardies
19 members
½ 3.5
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The Kiriov Tapes
by Owen Sela
18 members
2
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The Queen of America
by Russell H. Greenan
17 members
½ 4.5
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The Medusa Touch
by Peter Van Greenaway
17 members
½ 4.3
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The Ross Forgery
by William H. Hallahan
16 members
1 review
½ 2.5
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On the Prime Minister's Account
by Olle Högstrand
16 members
88
The Todd Dossier
by Collier Young
15 members
½ 3.3
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Shadow of a Tiger
by Michael Collins
15 members
½ 2.5
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The Man with the Tiny Head
by Ivor Drummond
15 members
2
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The Last Doorbell
by Joseph Harrington
14 members
3.9
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The Silent Scream
by Michael Collins
14 members
93
The White Room
by L. P. Davies
13 members
1 review
½ 3.5
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The Girl Who Passed for Normal
by Hugh Fleetwood
13 members
1 review
3
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Rotten with honour
by Derek Robinson
12 members
4
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The Thief-Taker
by Ben Healey
12 members
2.8
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Death in the Snow
by Richard Martin Stern
12 members
98
Box 100
by Frank Leonard
12 members
99
Location Shots
by J. F. Burke
10 members
2
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The girl in cabin B54
by Lucille Fletcher
10 members