Ten of the greatest literary crime novels

Ten of the greatest literary crime novels

By IAN RANKIN, Journalist, author and television presenter

1. THE PRIVATE MEMOIRS AND CONFESSIONS OF A JUSTIFIED SINNER
James Hogg, 1824.

2. BLEAK HOUSE
Charles Dickens, 1853.

3. CRIME AND PUNISHMENT
Fyodor Dostoyevsky, 1866.

4. STRANGE CASE OF DR JEKYLL AND MR HYDE
Robert Louis Stevenson, 1886.

5. BRIGHTON ROCK
Graham Greene, 1938.

6. THE BIG SLEEP
Chandler, 1939.

7. ROSEANNA
Maj Sjöwall and Per Wahlöö, 1965.

8. THE DRIVER'S SEAT
Muriel Spark, 1970.

9. THE NAME OF THE ROSE
Umberto Eco, 1980.

10. LIVE FLESH
Ruth Rendell, 1986.

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