title: Crime and Mystery: The 100 Best Books
author: Keating
description: H.R.F.Keating, well-known as a crime writer himself and critic for The Times, has done crime and mystery fans a great service in creating this book, his choice of the hundred best of the genre.
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  **OTHER BOOKS**
  
  **BY RIDLEY PEARSON**
  
    
    
    
  
  _**Peter and the Shadow Thieves**_
  
  (with Dave Barry)  
  
    
  
  _**The Kingdom Keepers**_
  
    
  
  _**Cut and Run**_
  
    
  
  _**The Body of David Hayes**_
  
    
  
  _**Peter and the Starcatchers**_
  
  (with Dave Barry)  
  
    
  
  _**The Art of Deception**_
  
    
  
  _**The Diary of Ellen Rimbauer**_
  
  (writing as Joyce Reardon)  
  
    
  
  _**Bey ond Recognition**_
  
    
  
  _**Probable Cause**_
  
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
  
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  _**Ridley Pearson**_
  
    
    
  
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