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Murder on the Orient Express (Hercule Poirot, #10)
by (shelved 1161 times as detective)
avg rating 4.19 — 778,212 ratings — published 1934
A Study in Scarlet (Sherlock Holmes, #1)
by (shelved 991 times as detective)
avg rating 4.13 — 514,187 ratings — published 1887
The Cuckoo's Calling (Cormoran Strike, #1)
by (shelved 851 times as detective)
avg rating 3.89 — 643,155 ratings — published 2013
The Hound of the Baskervilles (Sherlock Holmes, #5)
by (shelved 847 times as detective)
avg rating 4.13 — 406,621 ratings — published 1902
And Then There Were None (Paperback)
by (shelved 832 times as detective)
avg rating 4.27 — 1,729,806 ratings — published 1939
The Murder of Roger Ackroyd (Hercule Poirot, #4)
by (shelved 831 times as detective)
avg rating 4.26 — 379,258 ratings — published 1926
The Mysterious Affair at Styles (Hercule Poirot, #1)
by (shelved 817 times as detective)
avg rating 4.00 — 540,954 ratings — published 1920
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (Sherlock Holmes, #3)
by (shelved 737 times as detective)
avg rating 4.30 — 335,867 ratings — published 1892
Death on the Nile (Hercule Poirot, #18)
by (shelved 670 times as detective)
avg rating 4.12 — 326,521 ratings — published 1937
The Sign of Four (Sherlock Holmes, #2)
by (shelved 664 times as detective)
avg rating 3.88 — 187,751 ratings — published 1890
The A.B.C. Murders (Hercule Poirot, #13)
by (shelved 614 times as detective)
avg rating 4.03 — 216,780 ratings — published 1936
The Silkworm (Cormoran Strike, #2)
by (shelved 588 times as detective)
avg rating 4.05 — 303,147 ratings — published 2014
The Big Sleep (Philip Marlowe, #1)
by (shelved 540 times as detective)
avg rating 3.93 — 174,527 ratings — published 1939
Career of Evil (Cormoran Strike, #3)
by (shelved 483 times as detective)
avg rating 4.22 — 236,651 ratings — published 2015
The Complete Sherlock Holmes (Leather Bound)
by (shelved 481 times as detective)
avg rating 4.51 — 221,121 ratings — published 1887
Storm Front (The Dresden Files, #1)
by (shelved 468 times as detective)
avg rating 3.96 — 393,276 ratings — published 2000
The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo (Millennium, #1)
by (shelved 430 times as detective)
avg rating 4.18 — 3,540,659 ratings — published 2005
The Murder on the Links (Hercule Poirot, #2)
by (shelved 413 times as detective)
avg rating 3.86 — 128,706 ratings — published 1923
The Thursday Murder Club (Thursday Murder Club, #1)
by (shelved 410 times as detective)
avg rating 3.85 — 876,491 ratings — published 2020
The Maltese Falcon (Paperback)
by (shelved 378 times as detective)
avg rating 3.86 — 119,788 ratings — published 1930
Murder at the Vicarage (Miss Marple, #1)
by (shelved 377 times as detective)
avg rating 4.03 — 227,229 ratings — published 1930
The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes (Sherlock Holmes, #4)
by (shelved 373 times as detective)
avg rating 4.29 — 108,739 ratings — published 1893
The Black Echo (Harry Bosch, #1; Harry Bosch Universe, #1)
by (shelved 373 times as detective)
avg rating 4.15 — 224,289 ratings — published 1992
Hercule Poirot's Christmas (Hercule Poirot, #20)
by (shelved 353 times as detective)
avg rating 3.98 — 113,319 ratings — published 1938
Lethal White (Cormoran Strike, #4)
by (shelved 348 times as detective)
avg rating 4.25 — 193,605 ratings — published 2018
The Return of Sherlock Holmes (Sherlock Holmes, #6)
by (shelved 347 times as detective)
avg rating 4.27 — 73,160 ratings — published 1904
Rivers of London (Rivers of London, #1)
by (shelved 343 times as detective)
avg rating 3.84 — 157,108 ratings — published 2011
Peril at End House (Hercule Poirot, #8)
by (shelved 329 times as detective)
avg rating 4.02 — 88,932 ratings — published 1932
Five Little Pigs (Hercule Poirot, #24)
by (shelved 328 times as detective)
avg rating 4.03 — 100,089 ratings — published 1942
The Da Vinci Code (Robert Langdon, #2)
by (shelved 323 times as detective)
avg rating 3.94 — 2,593,528 ratings — published 2003
The Mystery of the Blue Train (Hercule Poirot, #6)
by (shelved 323 times as detective)
avg rating 3.88 — 90,279 ratings — published 1928
Still Life (Chief Inspector Armand Gamache, #1)
by (shelved 322 times as detective)
avg rating 3.89 — 298,919 ratings — published 2005
The Body in the Library (Miss Marple, #2)
by (shelved 317 times as detective)
avg rating 3.81 — 137,193 ratings — published 1942
In the Woods (Dublin Murder Squad, #1)
by (shelved 311 times as detective)
avg rating 3.78 — 458,210 ratings — published 2007
Cards on the Table (Hercule Poirot, #15)
by (shelved 309 times as detective)
avg rating 3.95 — 77,804 ratings — published 1936
Evil Under the Sun (Hercule Poirot, #23)
by (shelved 304 times as detective)
avg rating 3.97 — 94,183 ratings — published 1941
Murder in Mesopotamia (Hercule Poirot, #14)
by (shelved 298 times as detective)
avg rating 3.94 — 74,777 ratings — published 1936
The Valley of Fear (Sherlock Holmes, #7)
by (shelved 296 times as detective)
avg rating 3.95 — 58,572 ratings — published 1914
The Big Four (Hercule Poirot, #5)
by (shelved 296 times as detective)
avg rating 3.56 — 80,092 ratings — published 1927
Lord Edgware Dies (Hercule Poirot, #9)
by (shelved 295 times as detective)
avg rating 3.94 — 66,597 ratings — published 1933
Poirot Investigates (Hercule Poirot, #3)
by (shelved 293 times as detective)
avg rating 3.87 — 79,074 ratings — published 1924
Flaggermusmannen (Harry Hole, #1)
by (shelved 291 times as detective)
avg rating 3.55 — 138,401 ratings — published 1997
The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency (No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency, #1)
by (shelved 290 times as detective)
avg rating 3.81 — 280,536 ratings — published 1998
The Girl Who Played with Fire (Millennium #2)
by (shelved 289 times as detective)
avg rating 4.26 — 1,009,936 ratings — published 2006
Hallowe'en Party (Hercule Poirot, #41)
by (shelved 288 times as detective)
avg rating 3.56 — 111,415 ratings — published 1969
Death in the Clouds (Hercule Poirot, #12)
by (shelved 285 times as detective)
avg rating 3.86 — 71,087 ratings — published 1935
Troubled Blood (Cormoran Strike, #5)
by (shelved 284 times as detective)
avg rating 4.39 — 154,728 ratings — published 2020
The Swan Lake Murders (Mary Wandwalker #4)
by (shelved 277 times as detective)
avg rating 4.32 — 18,045 ratings — published
Fool Moon (The Dresden Files, #2)
by (shelved 276 times as detective)
avg rating 3.97 — 219,500 ratings — published 2001
Appointment with Death (Hercule Poirot, #19)
by (shelved 273 times as detective)
avg rating 3.87 — 73,160 ratings — published 1938
“If the Agency could become a container for something neither Anna nor Mary had known before: a family. Now, without Caroline depending on her, Anna was alone. It did not taste good. There were voices inside: I am risking everything; I could lose everything.”
― The Alchemy Fire Murder
― The Alchemy Fire Murder
“It often seems to me that's all detective work is, wiping out your false starts and beginning again."
"Yes, it is very true, that. And it is just what some people will not do. They conceive a certain theory, and everything has to fit into that theory. If one little fact will not fit it, they throw it aside. But it is always the facts that will not fit in that are significant.”
― Death on the Nile
"Yes, it is very true, that. And it is just what some people will not do. They conceive a certain theory, and everything has to fit into that theory. If one little fact will not fit it, they throw it aside. But it is always the facts that will not fit in that are significant.”
― Death on the Nile
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