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The British Crime Writers Association produced a list of the top 100 best selling mysteries of all time in 1990.
The top 5 were:
Josephine Tey: The Daughter of Time (1951)
Raymond Chandler: The Big Sleep (1939)
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∙ 10y agoThe British Crime Writers Association produced a list of the top 100 best selling mysteries of all time in 1990.
The top 5 were:
Josephine Tey: The Daughter of Time (1951)
Raymond Chandler: The Big Sleep (1939)
John le Carré: The Spy Who Came In From the Cold (1963)
Dorothy L. Sayers: Gaudy Night (1935)
Agatha Christie: The Murder of Roger Ackroyd (1926)
Five years later, The American Mystery Writers of Americaproduced their top 100; the top 5 on this list were:
Arthur Conan Doyle: The Complete Sherlock Holmes (1887-1927)
Dashiell Hammett: The Maltese Falcon (1930)
Edgar Allan Poe: Tales of Mystery & Imagination (1852)
Josephine Tey: The Daughter of Time (1951)
Scott Turow: Presumed Innocent (1987)
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