Overlooked mysteries

ZUI this post from The Rap Sheet:

I e-mailed invitations to more than 100 crime novelists, book critics, and bloggers from all over the English-speaking world, asking them to choose the one crime/mystery/thriller novel they thought had been “most unjustly overlooked, criminally forgotten, or underappreciated over the years.”

The result was a list of 115 books, viz:
• About the Author (2001), by John Colapinto
• Anatomy of a Murder (1958), by Robert Traver
• Any Cold Jordan (1987), by David Bottoms
• Before I Die (1954), by Lionel White
• Big City, Bad Blood (2007), by Sean Chercover
• Blackburn (1993), by Bradley Denton
• The Black Mass of Brother Springer (1958), by Charles Willeford
• Blood Marks (1991), by Bill Crider
• Bodies Are Dust (1931), by P.J. Wolfson
• Bodies Electric (1993), by Colin Harrison
• The Bridge of Sighs (2003), by Olen Steinhauer
• The Burnt Orange Heresy (1971), by Charles Willeford
• California Fire and Life (1999), by Don Winslow
• Castles Burning (1979), by Arthur Lyons
• The Caves of Steel (1954), by Isaac Asimov
• The Chill (1964), by Ross Macdonald
• Citizen Vince (2005), by Jess Walter
• A Clod of Wayward Marl (2001), by Rick DeMarinis
• Coffin’s Got the Dead Guy on the Inside (1998), by Keith Snyder
• Cotton Comes to Harlem (1965), by Chester Himes
• Crow In Stolen Colors (2000), by Marcia Simpson
• Daddy Cool (1974), by Donald Goines
• A Darker Place (1999), by Laurie R. King
• The Dark Fields (2002), by Alan Glynn
• The Dark Ride (1996), by Kent Harrington
• The Deadly Percheron (1946), by John Franklin Bardin
• The Depths of the Forest (2002), by Eugenio Fuentes
• The Distance (2002), by Eddie Muller
• Don’t Cry for Me (1952), by William Campbell Gault
• The Doorbell Rang (1965), by Rex Stout [my favourite book from the Nero Wolfe series]
• Dover Beach (1987), by Richard Bowker
• Drama City (2005), by George Pelecanos
• Early Autumn (1981), by Robert B. Parker
• Eight Million Ways to Die (1982), by Lawrence Block [a good book, but my favourite Matt Scudder tale is When the Sacred Gin Mill Closes]
• An Embarrassment of Corpses (1997), by Alan Beechey
• Every Dead Thing (1999), by John Connolly
• Fast One (1933), by Paul Cain
• The Fiend in Human (2002), by John MacLachlan Gray
• Finding Maubee (1972), by A.H.Z. Carr
• The Franchise Affair (1948), by Josephine Tey
• Fugitive Moon (1995), by Ron Faust
• Funeral in Berlin (1964), by Len Deighton
• Get Carter (1970, originally Jack’s Return Home), by Ted Lewis
• Gramercy Park (2002), by Paula Cohen
• The Guards (2001), by Ken Bruen
• Gun Before Butter (1982), by Nicholas Freeling
• Gun with Occasional Music (1994), by Jonathan Lethem
• Hard Rain Falling (1966), by Don Carpenter
• The Havana Room (2004), by Colin Harrison
• High Tide (1970), by P.M. Hubbard
• The Holm Oaks (1965), by P.M. Hubbard
• Home Sweet Homicide (1944), by Craig Rice
• How Like an Angel (1962), by Margaret Millar
• The Human Stain (2000), by Philip Roth
• Intent to Kill (1957), by Brian Moore
• Interface (1974), by Joe Gores
• Israel Rank (1907), by Roy Horniman
• The Janissary Tree (2006), by Jason Goodwin
• The Jugger (1965), by Richard Stark
• A Killing Smile (2004), by Christopher G. Moore
• Killing the Second Dog (1990), by Marek Hłasko
• Kiss Tomorrow Goodbye (1948), by Horace McCoy
• Land of the Blind (2003), by Jess Walter
• The Last Witness (2004), by K.J. Erickson
• The Late Man (1993), by James Preston Girard
• Legion (1983), by William Peter Blatty
• The Lime Pit (1980), by Jonathan Valin
• Lovely Mover (1998), by Bill James
• The Lowlife (2001), by Alexander Baron
• Madeline’s Ghost (1996), by Robert Girardi
• The Manchurian Candidate (1959), by Richard Condon
• Miami Blues (1984), by Charles Willeford
• Miami Purity (1995), by Vicki Hendricks
• The Misfortunes of Mr. Teal (1934), by Leslie Charteris
• Money to Burn (1999), by Katy Munger
• Murder Draws a Line (1940), by Willetta Ann Barber and R. F. Schabelitz
• Never Come Back (1941), by John Mair
• Night Dogs (1996), by Kent Anderson
• Night of the Jabberwock (1951), by Fredric Brown
• Night’s Black Agents (1933), by David Armstrong
• No Highway (1948), by Nevil Shute
• Obsession (1973), by Miles Tripp
• The Old Dick (1981), by L.A. Morse
• One for Hell (1952), by Jada M. Davis
• The Pew Group (1980), by Anthony Oliver
• The Red Right Hand (1978), by Joel Townsley Rogers
• The Revenge of Kali-Ra (1999), by K.K. Beck
• River of Darkness (1999), by Rennie Airth
• Roseanna (1965), by Maj Sjöwall and Per Wahlöö
• The Rose of Tibet (1962), by Lionel Davidson
• Run (2001), by Douglas E. Winter
• Senseless (2001), by Stona Fitch
• Seven Keys to Baldpate (1913), by Earl Derr Biggers
• The Singapore Wink (1969), by Ross Thomas
• Sleeping Dogs (1993), by Thomas Perry
• The Small Back Room (1943), by Nigel Balchin
• Sob Story (2007), by Carol Anne Davis
• Solomon’s Vineyard (1941), by Jonathan Latimer
• Spiral (1999), by Jeremiah Healy
• Stamboul Train (1932), by Graham Greene
• Still River (2005), by Harry Hunsicker
• Stone City (1990), by Mitchell Smith
• The Strangler (2007), by William Landay
• Suspects (1985), by David Thomson
• Swan Boats at Four (1995), by George V. Higgins
• Texas by the Tail (1965), by Jim Thompson
• The Thin Man (1934), by Dashiell Hammett
• To Catch a Forger (1988), by Robert Wallace
• Tomato Red (1998), by Daniel Woodrell
• A Town of Masks (1952), by Dorothy Salisbury Davis
• The Tropic of Night (2003), by Michael Gruber
• True Grit (1968), by Charles Portis [yes, this is the book the John Wayne movie was based on; after seeing the movie, I just had to read the book]
• The Underground Man (1971), by Ross Macdonald
• Wild Horses (1999), by Brian Hodge
• The Woman Who Married a Bear (1992), by John Straley

I've highlighted the titles of the five I've read. If I've read other books by the author, but not the one listed, I've highlighted the author's name.

No, I really haven't read anything by Ross MacDonald or Dashiell Hammett - at least, not that I remember. My own addition to this list would be one of the Asey Mayo books, by Phoebe Atwood Taylor, though I'm not sure which one. Or maybe Metzger's Dog, by Thomas Perry.

I'd say H/T to whoever it was that pointed me to The Rap Sheet, but unfortunately I've forgotten who it was. Sorry about that....