The Woman in White

Wilkie Collins

Crime and Punishment

Fyodor Dostoevsky

The Leavenworth Case (The Mr. Gryce Mysteries)

Anna Katharine Green

The Turn of the Screw

Henry James

The Hound of the Baskervilles

Arthur Conan Doyle

The Murder of Roger Ackroyd

Agatha Christie

The Crime at Black Dudley (Albert Campion Mystery, #1)

Margery Allingham

The Patient in Room 18 (Sarah Keate, #1)

Mignon G. Eberhart

The Maltese Falcon

Dashiell Hammett

The Conjure-Man Dies

Rudolph Fisher

A Man Lay Dead (Roderick Alleyn, #1)

Ngaio Marsh

Gaudy Night (Lord Peter Wimsey, #12)

Dorothy L. Sayers

The Three Coffins (Dr. Gideon Fell, #6)

John Dickson Carr

Rebecca

Daphne du Maurier

A Coffin for Dimitrios (Charles Latimer #1)

Eric Ambler

Double Indemnity

James M. Cain

If He Hollers Let Him Go

Chester Himes

In a Lonely Place

Dorothy B. Hughes

The Daughter of Time (Inspector Alan Grant, #5)

Josephine Tey

Beat Not The Bones

Charlotte Jay

Casino Royale (James Bond, #1)

Ian Fleming

A Kiss Before Dying

Ira Levin

The Long Goodbye (Philip Marlowe, #6)

Raymond Chandler

Beast In View

Margaret Millar

The Quiet American

Graham Greene

The Talented Mr. Ripley (Ripley, #1)

Patricia Highsmith

We Have Always Lived in the Castle

Shirley Jackson

The Spy Who Came In from the Cold (George Smiley, #3)

John le Carré

The Honjin Murders

Seishi Yokomizo

Where Are the Children? (Where Are the Children, #1)

Mary Higgins Clark