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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  ALSO BY RIDLEY PEARSON
  
  
  _The Risk Agent_
  
  
  _In Harm’s Way_
  
  
  _Killer Summer_
  
  
  _Killer View_
  
  
  _Killer Weekend_
  
  
  _Cut and Run_
  
  
  _The Art of Deception_
  
  
  _The Diary of Ellen Rimbauer_
  
  
  (writing as Joyce Reardon)
  
  
  _The Pied Piper_
  
  
  _Beyond Recognition_
  
  
  _Undercurrents_
  
  
  BOOKS FOR YOUNG READERS
  
  
  _Peter and the Starcatchers_ series
  
  
  (with Dave Barry)
  
  
  _The Kingdom Keepers_ series
  
  
  _Never Land_ series
  
  
  (with Dave Barry)
  
  
  _Steel Trapp_ series
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
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  _Publishers Since 1838_
  
  
  Published by the Penguin Group
  
  
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