ROB'S CLASSIC CRIME FICTION CURRICULUM CHALLENGE

Rob's challenge over at The View From The Blue House is to choose ten pre-1970 classic crime books for someone who has only read contemporary crime fiction. I covered some of this ground with my Dartmoor Dozen choices [click and scroll down for all the posts on this subject] last year but decided to slightly vary my choices this time, although of course there are some authors and some books you just cannot ignore in making a classic crime fiction selection.

1] The Moonstone: Wilkie Collins 1868

2] The Hound of the Baskervilles: Arthur Conan Doyle 1902

3] The Murder of Roger Ackroyd: Agatha Christie 1926

4] The Maltese Falcon: Dashiell Hammett 1930

5] Gaudy Night: Dorothy L. Sayers 1935

6] Farewell, My Lovely: Raymond Chandler 1940

7] The ABC Murders: Agatha Christie 1936

8] The Talented Mr Ripley: Patricia Highsmith 1957

9] From Doon With Death: Ruth Rendell 1964

10] Roseanna: Maj Sjowall and Per Wahloo 1965

No apologies for choosing two books by Agatha Christie after my multiple visits to Greenway last year I had to restrain myself from choosing more.