| 100% | MISTAKE | 7 | Crime novel by Dame Edith Ngaio Marsh: A Grave __ |
| 39% | AMANLAYDEAD | 11 | 1934 novel by Ngaio Marsh |
| 39% | PHOTOFINISH | 11 | 1980 novel by Ngaio Marsh |
| 39% | WHENINROME | 10 | 1970 novel by Ngaio Marsh |
| 39% | OFFWITH | 7 | & 4D 1957 novel by Ngaio Marsh |
| 37% | LAY | 3 | "A Man ___ Dead" (first Roderick Alleyn mystery novel by Ngaio Marsh) |
| 35% | OPENING | 7 | & 19A 1951 novel by Ngaio Marsh also published as Night at the Vulcan |
| 35% | DOCTORSYN | 9 | 1915 novel by Russell Thorndike subtitled A Smuggler Tale of the Romney Marsh |
| 33% | THEALIENIST | 11 | 1994 crime novel by 4-Down/48-Across made into a 2018 miniseries starring 18-Across and 29-Across (2 wds.) |
| 33% | COUNTRY | 7 | "No ___ for Old Men," 2005 novel by Cormac McCarthy that was adapted into a 2007 crime film |
| 32% | STRIP | 5 | 2010 crime novel by Thomas Perry |
| 32% | JACKPOT | 7 | 1995 crime novel by Alan Hunter |
| 32% | GRAVE | 5 | 2002 crime novel by Kathy Reichs |
| 32% | SKIN | 4 | 2009 crime novel by Mo Hayder |
| 31% | FREEZER | 7 | 1999 crime novel by Joe R Lansdale |
| 31% | ENTER | 5 | Ngaio Marsh's "______ a Murderer" |
| 31% | SILVERPIGS | 10 | The —, 1989 historical crime novel by Lindsey Davis |
| 30% | GORKY | 5 | __ Park, Cold War crime novel by Martin Cruz Smith |
| 30% | AGNESGREY | 9 | Novel by Anne Bronte about a governess |
| 30% | CHOCOLAT | 8 | Novel by Joanne Harris about a confectioner |
| 30% | ETHANFROME | 10 | 1911 novel by Edith Wharton |
| 30% | THEREEF | 7 | 1912 novel by Edith Wharton |
| 30% | ICCAADDUU | 9 | 1934 novel by Robert Graves |
| 30% | KING | 4 | 1946 novel by Robert Graves |
| 30% | ICLAUDIUS | 9 | 1934 novel by Robert Graves |
| 29% | PEOPLE | 6 | Novel by Chinua Achebe: A Man of the __ |