Tozai Mystery Best 100

Tozai Mystery Best 100 (東西ミステリーベスト100, Tozai Misuteri Besuto 100, lit. The Top 100 Mystery Novels of the East and the West) is a list published in the Japanese magazine Shūkan Bunshun (the Weekly Bunshun) in 1985 by Bungeishunjū. This list was also published in book form in 1986.

508 people who love mystery novels, including the 123 members of Mystery Writers of Japan, took part in the survey.

The revised edition came out in 2012.

See also

• Kono Mystery ga Sugoi!
• Honkaku Mystery Best 10
• Japanese detective fiction
• The Top 100 Crime Novels of All Time

References

• Tozai Mistery Best 100 (in Japanese). Bungeishunjū. December 1986. ISBN 978-4167217136.
• Tozai Mistery Best 100 (Revised Edition 2012) (in Japanese). Bungeishunjū. November 2012.
• Tozai Mistery Best 100 (Revised Edition 2012) (in Japanese). Bungeishunjū. November 2013. ISBN 978-4167217976.
• Tozai Mystery Best 100 (Revised Edition 2012), The Top 50 Translated Mystery Novels (in Japanese)
• Tozai Mystery Best 100 (Revised Edition 2012), The Top 50 Japanese Mystery Novels (in Japanese)

External links

• Blogpost listing original 1985 Best 100 translated mystery novels and revised 2012 Best 50 translated mystery novels
• Blogpost listing revised 2012 Best 10 Japanese mystery novels, also listing others in Best 100 Japanese mystery novels which have been translated into English