Tozai Mystery Best 100 (2012 Revision)

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Shūkan Bunshun (Japanese Newspaper), 100 Books

Tozai Mystery Best 100 (東西ミステリーベスト100, Tozai Misuteri Besuto 100, lit. The Top 100 Mystery Novels of the East and the West) is a list published in the Japanese magazine Shūkan Bunshun (the Weekly Bunshun) in 1985 by Bungeishunjū. This list was also published in book form in 1986.
508 people who love mystery novels, including the 123 members of Mystery Writers of Japan, took part in the survey.
This revised edition came out in 2012.

This list was originally published in 2012 and was added to this site over 2 years ago.

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Rank Book Authors Year Country Language Actions
189 And Then There Were None Agatha Christie 1939 British English
2879 The Tragedy Of Y Ellery Queen 1932 American English
205 The Complete Sherlock Holmes Arthur Conan Doyle 1927 British English
4064 Phantom Lady Cornell Woolrich 1942 American English
251 The Murder of Roger Ackroyd Agatha Christie 1926 British English
161 The Long Goodbye Raymond Chandler 1953 American English
114 The Name of the Rose Umberto Eco 1980 Italian Italian
581 The Innocence of Father Brown G. K. Chesterton 1911 British English
578 The Silence of the Lambs Thomas Harris 1988 American English
4155 The Burning Court John Dickson Carr 1937 American English
421 Murder on the Orient Express Agatha Christie 1934 British English
3221 Millennium Trilogy Stieg Larsson 2005 Swedish Swedish
1268 A Kiss Before Dying Ira Levin 1953 American English
2997 The Tragedy Of X Ellery Queen 1932 American English
1103 The Chill Ross Macdonald 1964 American English
456 The Hollow Man John Dickson Carr 1935 British English
412 The Day of the Jackal Frederick Forsyth 1971 British English
4384 The Bishop Murder Case S. S. Van Dine 1929 American English
2790 The Eagle Has Landed Jack Higgins 1975 British English
947 The Poisoned Chocolates Case Anthony Berkeley 1929 British English
4264 Eight Million Ways To Die Lawrence Block 1982 American English
4167 The Bone Collector Jeffery Deaver 1997 American English
4442 The Greek Coffin Mystery Ellery Queen 1932 American English
4452 Death Of Jezebel Christianna Brand 1948 British English
4636 Midnight Plus One Gavin Lyall 1965 British English
5467 Inherit The Stars James P. Hogan 1977 American English
5359 White Jazz James Ellroy 1992 American English
2526 The Mystery Of The Yellow Room Gaston Leroux 1907 French French
1490 Presumed Innocent Scott Turow 1987 American English
1275 The Laughing Policeman Maj Sjöwall, Per Wahlöö 1968 Swedish Swedish
2578 Trial And Error Anthony Berkeley 1937 British English
5607 Shadow 81 Lucien Nahum 1978 American English
3138 The Cask Freeman Wills Crofts 1920 British English
1782 The Murders in the Rue Morgue Edgar Allan Poe 1841 American English
4752 For Kicks Dick Francis 1965 British English
143 The Maltese Falcon Dashiell Hammett 1930 American English
4608 The Emperor's Snuff Box John Dickson Carr 1942 American English
536 Red Harvest Dashiell Hammett 1929 American English
416 The Daughter of Time Josephine Tey 1951 British English
5969 Chiefs Stuart Woods 1981 American English
3197 Trap For Cinderella Sebastien Japrisot 1963 French French
4648 The Egyptian Cross Mystery Ellery Queen 1932 American English
6262 Frost At Christmas R. D. Wingfield 1984 British English
3183 The Judas Window Carter Dickson 1938 British English
624 The Nine Tailors Dorothy L. Sayers 1934 British English
5759 Whip Hand Dick Francis 1979 British English
163 The Hound of the Baskervilles Arthur Conan Doyle 1902 British English
4696 The Red Redmaynes Eden Phillpotts 1922 British English
4706 Jumping Jenny Anthony Berkeley 1933 British English
5654 Invisible Green John Sladek 1977 American English
1322 A Judgement In Stone Ruth Rendell 1977 British English
9721 Crime Ferdinand Von Schirach 2009 German German
4725 Woman Of Straw Catherine Arley 1956 French French
7052 Point Of Impact Stephen Hunter 1993 American English
2063 The Black Dahlia James Ellroy 1987 American English
5456 Child 44 Tom Rob Smith 2008 Russian English
4741 The Wycherly Woman Ross Macdonald 1961 American English
7916 The Judas Child Carol O'Connell 1998 American English
4747 The Second Shot Anthony Berkeley 1930 British English
2284 The Big Nowhere James Ellroy 1988 American English
1084 Misery Stephen King 1987 American English
4756 The Abc Murders Agatha Christie 1936 British English
5950 The Hog Murders William L. Deandrea 1979 American English
2098 Someone Like You Roald Dahl 1953 British English
6579 A Touch Of Frost R. D. Wingfield 1987 British English
5519 Tales Of The Black Widowers Isaac Asimov 1974 American English
393 The Moonstone Wilkie Collins 1868 British English
5135 The Nine Mile Walk Harry Kemelman 1967 American English
1071 The Da Vinci Code Dan Brown 2003 American English
3233 Hms Ulysses Alistair MacLean 1955 Scottish English
4444 Shibumi Trevanian 1979 American English
5081 Past Caring Robert Goddard 1986 British English
7762 The Cold Moon Jeffrey Deaver 2006 American English
267 Never Let Me Go Kazuo Ishiguro 2005 British English
4279 Boy's Life Robert R. McCammon 1991 American English
4806 A Dram Of Poison Charlotte Armstrong 1956 American English
6934 A Cool Breeze On The Underground Don Winslow 1991 American English
4809 Cat Of Many Tails Ellery Queen 1949 American English
595 Farewell, My Lovely Raymond Chandler 1940 American English
2394 Last Seen Wearing Colin Dexter 1976 British English
3178 Flicker Theodore Roszak 1991 American English
1007 Fingersmith Sarah Waters 2002 British English
3500 The Big Blowdown George P. Pelecanos 1996 American English
3141 A Simple Plan Scott Smith 1993 American English
1000 Red Dragon Thomas Harris 1981 American English
4812 The Poet And The Lunatics G. K. Chesterton 1929 British English
6071 The Power Of The Dog Don Winslow 2005 American English
3108 Affinity Sarah Waters 1999 British English
2131 Home Sweet Homicide Craig Rice 1944 American English
2680 Calamity Town Ellery Queen 1942 American English
5005 High Citadel Desmond Bagley 1965 British English
4816 The Hollow Needle Maurice Leblanc 1909 French French
2658 Early Autumn Robert B. Parker 1980 American English
7772 Chatham School Affair Thomas Cook 1996 American English
5686 Not A Penny More,Not A Penny Less Jeffrey Archer 1976 British English
982 A Study In Scarlet Arthur Conan Doyle 1887 British English
2147 The Hot Rock Donald E. Westlake 1970 American English
5687 A Madness Of The Heart Richard Neely 1976 American English
3244 Death On The Nile Agatha Christie 1937 British English
2564 The Caves Of Steel Isaac Asimov 1954 American English