title: The Crown Crime Companion: The Top 100 Mystery Novels of All Time
author: Inc. Mystery Writers Of America
description: This handy guide to mysteries, chosen by those who should know, provides a short synopsis of included titles, as well as dates of publication. Short essays then introduce top-ten lists for various categories, such as historical and humorous. The work concludes with a list of Edgar Award winners.<br />Copyright 1995 Reed Business Information, Inc.
zlib_text: ## ABOUT THE AUTHOR
  
  
  
  
  
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  A former U.S. Senate staffer and political campaign aide, Hank Phillippi Ryan
  is the investigative reporter for Boston’s NBC affiliate, and has won twenty-
  eight Emmys and ten Edward R. Murrow Awards for her reporting. A bestselling
  author of four mystery novels, Ryan has won the Agatha, Anthony, and Macavity
  awards. She is on the national board of directors of Mystery Writers of
  America and Sisters in Crime. Visit her on the Web at
  [www.hankphillippiryan.com](http://www.hankphillippiryan.com).
  
  
  
  
  
  ## ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
  
  
  
  
  
  Unending gratitude to:
  
  
  Kristin Sevick, my brilliant, hilarious, and gracious editor. Thank you. The
  remarkable team at Forge Books: the incomparable Linda Quinton, indefatigable
  Alexis Saarela, and Seth Lerner for the cover of all covers (and I know I’ll
  never beat you in Scrabble). Copy editor Eliani Torres, who had me laughing
  all the way through the copyediting with her yellow highlights. (Sometimes, I
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