Honkaku Mystery Best 10
Honkaku Mystery Best 10 is an annual mystery fiction guide book published by Hara Shobo. The guide book publishes a list of the top ten honkaku mystery books published in Japan in the previous year.
2001
2001 Honkaku Mystery Best 10| Rank | Author | Title |
| 1 | H. Bustos Domecq | Six Problems for Don Isidro Parodi |
| 2 | Edward D. Hoch | |
| 3 | Cyril Hare | Suicide Excepted |
| 4 | Thomas H. Cook | Instruments of Night |
| 5 | Leo Bruce | Case Without a Corpse |
| 6 | Edmund Crispin | Swan Song |
| 7 | Elizabeth Ferrars | The Wandering Widows |
| 8 | Charles Daly King | The Curious Mr. Tarrant |
| 8 | Stanley Hyland | Who goes hang? |
| 10 | Reginald Hill | On Beulah Height |
| 10 | Ellis Peters | A Nice Derangement of Epitaphs |
| 10 | Hillary Waugh | End of a Party |
| Rank | Author | Title |
| 1 | Tsumao Awasaka | |
| 2 | Kaju Koizumi | |
| 3 | Jun Kurachi | |
| 4 | Yutaka Maya | |
| 5 | Masayuki Shuno | |
| 6 | Seiji Kodokoro | |
| 7 | Yasuhiko Nishizawa | |
| 8 | Alice Arisugawa | |
| 9 | Ichi Orihara | |
| 10 | Taku Ashibe |
2002
2002 Honkaku Mystery Best 10| Rank | Author | Title |
| 1 | Anthony Berkeley Cox | Jumping Jenny |
| 2 | Jill McGown | The Stalking Horse |
| 3 | Anthony Berkeley Cox | Top Storey Murder |
| 3 | Dorothy L. Sayers | Gaudy Night |
| 5 | - | |
| 6 | G. K. Chesterton | Four Faultless Felons |
| 7 | Carter Dickson | The Third Bullet |
| 8 | Nicholas Blake | Thou Shell of Death |
| 9 | Sarah Caldwell | The Sibyl in Her Grave |
| 10 | Richard Hull | Keep It Quiet |
| 10 | Hake Talbot | Rim of the Pit |
| Rank | Author | Title |
| 1 | Masaki Yamada | |
| 2 | Taku Ashibe | |
| 3 | Fuyumi Ono | |
| 4 | Seiji Kodokoro | |
| 5 | Kenji Kuroda | |
| 6 | Takahiro Okura | |
| 7 | Soji Shimada | |
| 8 | Alice Arisugawa | |
| 9 | Miyuki Miyabe | English translation: Puppet Master |
| 9 | Akira Aikawa |
2003
2003 Honkaku Mystery Best 10| Rank | Author | Title |
| 1 | Paul Halter | The Fourth Door |
| 2 | Anthony Berkeley Cox | The Layton Court Mystery |
| 3 | Helen McCloy | Cue for Murder |
| 4 | Jill McGown | Death of a Dancer |
| 5 | Edward D. Hoch | |
| 6 | Anthony Berkeley Cox | The Wychford Poisoning Case |
| 7 | Robert J. Sawyer | Illegal Alien |
| 8 | Fred Vargas | The Three Evangelists |
| 9 | Michael Slade | Ripper |
| 10 | Minette Walters | The Echo |
| Rank | Author | Title |
| 1 | Kiyoshi Kasai | |
| 2 | Rintaro Norizuki | An Urban Legend Puzzle and other stories |
| 3 | Alice Arisugawa | |
| 4 | Masayuki Shuno | |
| 5 | Otsuichi | English translation: Goth: A Novel of Horror |
| 6 | Masaki Yamada | |
| 7 | Taku Ashibe | |
| 8 | Masaya Yamaguchi | |
| 9 | Yasuhiko Nishizawa | |
| 10 | Soji Shimada |
2004
2004 Honkaku Mystery Best 10| Rank | Author | Title |
| 1 | Paul Halter | La Mort Vous Invite |
| 2 | Michael Gilbert | Death in Captivity |
| 3 | Anthony Berkeley Cox | Roger Sheringham and the Vane Mystery |
| 4 | Helen McCloy | The Singing Diamonds and Other Stories |
| 5 | Max Afford | Death's Mannikins |
| 6 | Percival Wilde | P. Moran, Operative |
| 7 | Harrington Hext | The Thing at Their Heels |
| 8 | Michael Slade | Zombie |
| 9 | Thomas H. Cook | Interrogation |
| 10 | Sarah Waters | Affinity |
| Rank | Author | Title |
| 1 | Shogo Utano | |
| 2 | Alice Arisugawa | |
| 3 | Asami Ishimochi | |
| 4 | Takahiro Okura | |
| 5 | Natsuhiko Kyogoku | |
| 6 | Yasuhiko Nishizawa | |
| 7 | Fuyumi Ono | |
| 8 | Kenji Kodama | |
| 8 | Hajime Tsukato | |
| 10 | Soji Shimada |
2005
2005 Honkaku Mystery Best 10| Rank | Author | Title |
| 1 | Paul Halter | The Crimson Fog |
| 2 | Edward D. Hoch | |
| 3 | Minette Walters | The Shape of Snakes |
| 4 | Anthony Berkeley Cox | The Silk Stocking Murders |
| 5 | Edmund Crispin | Holy Disorders |
| 6 | Ronald Knox | The Footsteps at the Lock |
| 7 | José Carlos Somoza | The Athenian Murders |
| 8 | John Franklin Bardin | The Last of Philip Banter |
| 8 | Sarah Waters | Fingersmith |
| 10 | Charles Daly King | Obelists at Sea |
| 10 | A. H. Z. Carr | The Trial of John Nobody and other stories |
| Rank | Author | Title |
| 1 | Rintaro Norizuki | |
| 2 | Yukito Ayatsuji | |
| 3 | Yutaka Maya | |
| 4 | Taku Ashibe | English translation: Murder in the Red Chamber |
| 5 | Yusuke Kishi | |
| 6 | Kurumi Inui | |
| 7 | Asami Ishimochi | |
| 8 | Seiichiro Oyama | |
| 9 | Hajime Amagi | |
| 10 | Masayuki Shuno |
2006
2006 Honkaku Mystery Best 10| Rank | Author | Title |
| 1 | Leo Bruce | A Bone and a Hank of Hair |
| 2 | Patrick Quentin | Puzzle for Wantons |
| 3 | Paul Halter | La mort derrière les rideaux |
| 4 | Michael Innes | Stop Press |
| 5 | Hillary Waugh | A Rag and a Bone |
| 6 | Michael Slade | Shrink |
| 7 | Jack Ritchie | The Crime Machine and other stories |
| 8 | Aaron Elkins | Good Blood |
| 9 | Leo Perutz | Master of the Day of Judgment |
| 10 | Robert van Gulik | The Willow Pattern |
| Rank | Author | Title |
| 1 | Keigo Higashino | English translation: The Devotion of Suspect X |
| 2 | Asami Ishimochi | |
| 3 | Takemaru Abiko | |
| 4 | Kaoru Kitamura | The Japanese Nickel Mystery |
| 5 | Yutaka Maya | |
| 6 | Soji Shimada | |
| 6 | Tokuya Higashigawa | |
| 8 | Taku Ashibe | |
| 9 | Hajime Tsukato | |
| 10 | Shunsuke Sasaki |
2007
2007 Honkaku Mystery Best 10| Rank | Author | Title |
| 1 | Norman Berrow | The Footprints of Satan |
| 2 | Ellery Queen | The Tragedy of Errors |
| 3 | Paul Halter | La Malédiction de Barberousse |
| 4 | Guillermo Martínez | The Oxford Murders |
| 5 | John Dickson Carr | Papa La-Bas |
| 6 | Elizabeth Ferrars | Your Neck in a Noose |
| 7 | Richard Matheson | Now You See It... |
| 8 | R. Austin Freeman | As A Thief in the Night |
| 9 | Roger Scarlett | In the First Degree |
| 10 | Paul C. Doherty | The Nightingale Gallery |
| Rank | Author | Title |
| 1 | Alice Arisugawa | |
| 2 | Asami Ishimochi | |
| 3 | Shinzo Mitsuda | |
| 4 | Honobu Yonezawa | |
| 5 | Natsuhiko Kyogoku | |
| 6 | Shusuke Michio | |
| 7 | Shusuke Michio | |
| 8 | Takahiro Okura | |
| 9 | Shusuke Michio | |
| 10 | Seiichiro Oyama |
2008
2008 Honkaku Mystery Best 10| Rank | Author | Title |
| 1 | Paul Halter | La Chambre du Fou |
| 2 | D. M. Devine | Devil at Your Elbow |
| 3 | Theodore Roscoe | Murder on the Way! |
| 4 | James Anderson | The Affair of the Mutilated Mink |
| 5 | William Brittain | The Man Who Read John Dickson Carr and other stories |
| 6 | Ann Cleeves | Raven Black |
| 7 | Clayton Rawson | Death Out of Thin Air |
| 8 | Boris Akunin | Murder on the Leviathan |
| 9 | Edward D. Hoch | |
| 9 | Henry Wade | The Dying Alderman |
| Rank | Author | Title |
| 1 | Alice Arisugawa | |
| 2 | Shinzo Mitsuda | |
| 3 | Hajime Tsukato | |
| 4 | Honobu Yonezawa | |
| 5 | Haruo Yamazawa | |
| 6 | Shogo Utano | |
| 7 | Yasuhiko Nishizawa | |
| 8 | Ryuichi Kasumi | |
| 9 | Soji Shimada | |
| 10 | Asami Ishimochi |
2009
2009 Honkaku Mystery Best 10| Rank | Author | Title |
| 1 | D. M. Devine | This Is Your Death |
| 2 | Michael Innes | There Came Both Mist and Snow |
| 3 | Paul Halter | The Seventh Hypothesis |
| 4 | Ellery Queen | The Adventure of the Murdered Moths and Other Radio Mysteries 1 |
| 5 | Gilbert Adair | The Act of Roger Murgatroyd |
| 6 | Glyn Daniel | The Cambridge Murders |
| 7 | R. Austin Freeman | Mr. Pottermack's Oversight |
| 8 | James Powell | A Dirge for Clowntown and other stories |
| 9 | Percival Wilde | Inquest |
| 10 | Hake Talbot | The Hangman's Handyman |
| Rank | Author | Title |
| 1 | Shinzo Mitsuda | |
| 2 | Shusuke Michio | |
| 3 | Masaki Tsuji | |
| 4 | Keigo Higashino | English translation: Salvation of a Saint |
| 5 | Kiyoshi Kasai | |
| 6 | Taku Ashibe | |
| 7 | Alice Arisugawa | |
| 8 | Hajime Tsukato | |
| 9 | Reiichiro Fukami | |
| 10 | Yusuke Kishi | |
| 10 | Hiu Torikai |
2010
2010 Honkaku Mystery Best 10| Rank | Author | Title |
| 1 | D. M. Devine | Dead Trouble |
| 2 | Percival Wilde | Tinsley's Bones |
| 3 | Paul Halter | The Tiger's Head |
| 4 | Jim Kelly | The Water Clock |
| 5 | Edward D. Hoch | |
| 6 | Ellery Queen | The Adventure of the Murdered Moths and Other Radio Mysteries 2 |
| 7 | Marcel F. Lanteaume | Trompe-l'oeil |
| 8 | Anthony Lejeune | Mr. Diabolo |
| 9 | Helen McCloy | Two-Thirds of a Ghost |
| 10 | T. S. Stribling | Best Dr. Poggioli Detective Stories |
| Rank | Author | Title |
| 1 | Shogo Utano | |
| 2 | Yasuhiko Nishizawa | |
| 3 | Yukito Ayatsuji | English translation: Another |
| 4 | Honobu Yonezawa | |
| 5 | Keigo Higashino | |
| 6 | Kaoru Kitamura | |
| 7 | Koji Yanagi | |
| 8 | Tokuya Higashigawa | |
| 9 | Koji Kitakuni | |
| 9 | Tokuro Nukui |
2011
2011 Honkaku Mystery Best 10| Rank | Author | Title |
| 1 | Peter Antony | How Doth the Little Crocodile? |
| 2 | Louis Bayard | The Pale Blue Eye |
| 3 | William Brittain | Mr.Strang Gives a Lecture and other stories |
| 4 | Rupert Penny | Policeman's Evidence |
| 5 | Anthony Berkeley | Panic Party |
| 6 | Paul Halter | La Lettre Qui Tue |
| 6 | Patrick Quentin | Puzzle for Fiends |
| 8 | Carol O'Connell | Bone by Bone |
| 9 | Jeffery Deaver | Roadside Crosses |
| 10 | Freeman Wills Crofts | Antidote to Venom |
| 10 | Peter Tremayne | Hemlock at Vespers and other stories |
| Rank | Author | Title |
| 1 | Yutaka Maya | |
| 2 | Yu Shizaki | |
| 3 | Shinzo Mitsuda | |
| 4 | Taku Ashibe | |
| 5 | NANAKAWA Kanan | |
| 6 | Yutaka Maya | |
| 7 | Soji Shimada | |
| 8 | Ban Madoi | |
| 9 | Tokuya Higashigawa | |
| 10 | Jun Kurachi |
2012
2012 Honkaku Mystery Best 10| Rank | Author | Title |
| 1 | D. M. Devine | Three Green Bottles |
| 2 | Jack Kerley | Blood Brother |
| 3 | Thomas W. Hanshew | Cleek: the Man of the Forty Faces |
| 4 | Ann Cleeves | Red Bones |
| 5 | Hal White | The Mysteries of Reverend Dean |
| 6 | Edward D. Hoch | |
| 7 | Georgette Heyer | Death in the Stocks |
| 8 | David Gordon | The Serialist |
| 9 | Michael Connelly | The Overlook |
| 10 | Helen McCloy | Through a Glass, Darkly |
| Rank | Author | Title |
| 1 | Honobu Yonezawa | |
| 2 | Yutaka Maya | |
| 3 | Hiroko Minagawa | |
| 4 | Kyo Shirodaira | |
| 5 | Yusuke Kishi | |
| 6 | Itsuki Nagasawa | |
| 7 | Kiyoshi Kasai | |
| 8 | Shogo Utano | |
| 9 | Tokuya Higashigawa | |
| 10 | Yasuhiko Nishizawa |
2013
2013 Honkaku Mystery Best 10| Rank | Author | Title |
| 1 | Patrick Quentin | Puzzle for Pilgrims |
| 2 | Leo Bruce | At Death's Door |
| 3 | Jim Kelly | The Fire Baby |
| 4 | Patrick Quentin | A Puzzle for Fools |
| 5 | Jeffery Deaver | The Burning Wire |
| 6 | Patrick Quentin | Puzzle for Players |
| 7 | Georgette Heyer | Behold, Here's Poison |
| 8 | Edward D. Hoch | |
| 8 | Roy Vickers | The Exploits of Fidelity Dove |
| 10 | Fred Vargas | Sans feu ni lieu |
| Rank | Author | Title |
| 1 | Rintaro Norizuki | |
| 2 | Seiichiro Oyama | |
| 3 | Yukito Ayatsuji | |
| 4 | Shinzo Mitsuda | |
| 5 | Yugo Aosaki | |
| 6 | Alice Arisugawa | |
| 7 | Ryo Amane | |
| 8 | Soji Shimada | |
| 9 | Taku Ashibe | |
| 10 | Sei Hatsuno |
2014
2014 Honkaku Mystery Best 10| Rank | Author | Title |
| 1 | Edmund Crispin | Beware of the Trains |
| 2 | Max Afford | Blood on His Hands! |
| 3 | Jack Kerley | In the Blood |
| 4 | D. M. Devine | Sunk Without Trace |
| 5 | Jeffery Deaver | More Twisted |
| 6 | Helen McCloy | The Goblin Market |
| 7 | Patrick Quentin | Puzzle for Puppets |
| 8 | Eric Keith | Nine Man's Murder |
| 9 | Edward D. Hoch | |
| 10 | Rupert Penny | Policeman in Armour |
| Rank | Author | Title |
| 1 | Yutaka Maya | |
| 2 | Yugo Aosaki | |
| 3 | Yu Shizaki | |
| 4 | Rintaro Norizuki | |
| 5 | Rintaro Norizuki | |
| 6 | Yasumi Kobayashi | |
| 6 | Masaki Tsuji | |
| 8 | Shogo Utano | |
| 9 | Soji Shimada | |
| 10 | Honobu Yonezawa |
2015
2015 Honkaku Mystery Best 10| Rank | Author | Title |
| 1 | Helen McCloy | The One That Got Away |
| 2 | Anthony Berkeley Cox | Not to Be Taken |
| 3 | Leo Bruce | Dead for a Ducat |
| 4 | Patrick Quentin | Black Widow |
| 5 | Jim Kelly | The Moon Tunnel |
| 6 | Minette Walters | Chickenfeed and The Tinder Box |
| 6 | Margery Allingham | The Case of the Old Man in the Window and other stories |
| 8 | Kate Morton | The Secret Keeper |
| 9 | Stuart Palmer & Craig Rice | People vs. Withers and Malone |
| 10 | Pierre Lemaitre | Alex |
| Rank | Author | Title |
| 1 | Yutaka Maya | |
| 2 | Honobu Yonezawa | |
| 3 | Mikihiko Renjo | |
| 4 | Taku Ashibe | |
| 5 | Hidefumi Okada | |
| 6 | Yabusaka Hayasaka | |
| 7 | Hajime Tsukato | |
| 8 | Yugo Aosaki | |
| 9 | Akiko Miki | |
| 10 | Takaki Hiraishi |