1000 Novels Everybody Must Read - Crime

[drasecretcampus]

Some perverse choices here - and because it's novels, it's hardly the best Sherlock Holmes. Read, unfinished, hated.  I make 45 of about 145/146.

Nelson Algren, The Man with the Golden Arm (1949)
Marcel Allain and Pierre Souvestre, Fantômas (1911)
Eric Ambler, Epitaph for a Spy (1938)
Eric Ambler, Journey into Fear (1940)
Eric Ambler, The Mask of

Comments

[nwhyte]

Thanks once again for posting the list!

[drasecretcampus]

My pleasure!

[iansales]

And I've read more than twice as many of these (28) than I have the Love selection. And seen 42 of them as films.

[drasecretcampus]

I count 36 screen adaptations - counting 39 Steps as one not three, and so forth.

[iansales]

I included a couple of TV adaptations - the Christies and James, for example.

[drasecretcampus]

Maybe they'll show up in a later list (I find it hard to see V fitting at all here).

[maryread]

Oh I see. I'm coming at these posts backards.

Twenty of these, and I read a completely different James M Cain but I forget the title. And a different load of Dorothy Sayers. And no Elizabeth Goudge (?Inspector Lynley).