These were the vintage pop fiction novels that most impressed me in the past year, with links to my reviews.
First off the best detective novels I read in 2016:
Freeman Wills Crofts, Mystery in the Channel (1931)
J.J. Connington, The Boat-House Riddle (1931)
Anthony Abbot, About the Murder of Geraldine Foster (1931)
John Rhode, Dead Men at the Folly (1932)
Christopher Bush, The Body in the Bonfire (1936)
Carter Dickson, The Judas Window (1938)
Miles Burton, Death at Low Tide (1938)
Rex Stout, Some Buried Caesar (1939)
Clayton Rawson, The Headless Lady (1940)
Erle Stanley Gardner, The Case of the Baited Hook (1940)
Hake Talbot, Rim of the Pit (1944)
And then my favourite non-crime reads of the year:
F. Van Wyck Mason, The Branded Spy Murders (1932)
Hammond Innes, The Blue Ice (1948)
Donald Hamilton, The Removers (1961)
Alistair MacLean, Ice Station Zebra (1963)
John le Carré, The Looking Glass War (1965)
Gavin Lyall, Shooting Script (1966)
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