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Detectives Books
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Murder on the Orient Express (Hercule Poirot, #10)
by (shelved 158 times as detectives)
avg rating 4.20 — 715,605 ratings — published 1934
A Study in Scarlet (Sherlock Holmes, #1)
by (shelved 138 times as detectives)
avg rating 4.13 — 488,008 ratings — published 1887
The Mysterious Affair at Styles (Hercule Poirot, #1)
by (shelved 119 times as detectives)
avg rating 4.00 — 494,610 ratings — published 1920
The Murder of Roger Ackroyd (Hercule Poirot, #4)
by (shelved 117 times as detectives)
avg rating 4.26 — 336,341 ratings — published 1926
And Then There Were None (Paperback)
by (shelved 116 times as detectives)
avg rating 4.27 — 1,575,994 ratings — published 1939
Death on the Nile (Hercule Poirot, #18)
by (shelved 103 times as detectives)
avg rating 4.12 — 299,902 ratings — published 1937
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (Sherlock Holmes, #3)
by (shelved 103 times as detectives)
avg rating 4.30 — 323,044 ratings — published 1892
The Hound of the Baskervilles (Sherlock Holmes, #5)
by (shelved 101 times as detectives)
avg rating 4.14 — 381,780 ratings — published 1902
The Cuckoo's Calling (Cormoran Strike, #1)
by (shelved 93 times as detectives)
avg rating 3.89 — 619,725 ratings — published 2013
The Sign of Four (Sherlock Holmes, #2)
by (shelved 90 times as detectives)
avg rating 3.89 — 174,996 ratings — published 1890
The Silkworm (Cormoran Strike, #2)
by (shelved 72 times as detectives)
avg rating 4.05 — 290,580 ratings — published 2014
In the Woods (Dublin Murder Squad #1)
by (shelved 71 times as detectives)
avg rating 3.78 — 434,507 ratings — published 2007
Murder at the Vicarage (Miss Marple, #1)
by (shelved 70 times as detectives)
avg rating 4.04 — 208,908 ratings — published 1930
The A.B.C. Murders (Hercule Poirot, #13)
by (shelved 70 times as detectives)
avg rating 4.03 — 194,641 ratings — published 1936
The Big Sleep (Philip Marlowe, #1)
by (shelved 70 times as detectives)
avg rating 3.94 — 166,542 ratings — published 1939
The Thursday Murder Club (Thursday Murder Club, #1)
by (shelved 65 times as detectives)
avg rating 3.86 — 726,695 ratings — published 2020
The Murder on the Links (Hercule Poirot, #2)
by (shelved 62 times as detectives)
avg rating 3.87 — 115,678 ratings — published 1923
The Maltese Falcon (Paperback)
by (shelved 58 times as detectives)
avg rating 3.87 — 114,300 ratings — published 1930
The Body in the Library (Miss Marple, #2)
by (shelved 58 times as detectives)
avg rating 3.82 — 124,801 ratings — published 1942
The Complete Sherlock Holmes (Paperback)
by (shelved 57 times as detectives)
avg rating 4.51 — 215,530 ratings — published
Career of Evil (Cormoran Strike, #3)
by (shelved 55 times as detectives)
avg rating 4.22 — 226,232 ratings — published 2015
The Mystery of the Blue Train (Hercule Poirot, #6)
by (shelved 55 times as detectives)
avg rating 3.88 — 80,670 ratings — published 1928
Hercule Poirot's Christmas (Hercule Poirot, #20)
by (shelved 55 times as detectives)
avg rating 3.98 — 99,560 ratings — published 1938
4:50 from Paddington (Miss Marple, #7)
by (shelved 54 times as detectives)
avg rating 3.97 — 74,911 ratings — published 1957
Peril at End House (Hercule Poirot, #8)
by (shelved 53 times as detectives)
avg rating 4.02 — 81,265 ratings — published 1932
Five Little Pigs (Hercule Poirot, #25)
by (shelved 53 times as detectives)
avg rating 4.03 — 90,343 ratings — published 1942
Murder in Mesopotamia (Hercule Poirot, #14)
by (shelved 53 times as detectives)
avg rating 3.94 — 68,812 ratings — published 1936
The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes (Sherlock Holmes, #4)
by (shelved 52 times as detectives)
avg rating 4.29 — 104,247 ratings — published 1893
The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo (Millennium, #1)
by (shelved 51 times as detectives)
avg rating 4.17 — 3,410,413 ratings — published 2005
The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency (No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency, #1)
by (shelved 48 times as detectives)
avg rating 3.81 — 274,461 ratings — published 1998
Cards on the Table (Hercule Poirot, #15)
by (shelved 47 times as detectives)
avg rating 3.96 — 70,790 ratings — published 1936
Evil Under the Sun (Hercule Poirot, #24)
by (shelved 47 times as detectives)
avg rating 3.98 — 86,855 ratings — published 1941
A Murder Is Announced (Miss Marple, #4)
by (shelved 47 times as detectives)
avg rating 4.01 — 84,085 ratings — published 1950
The Likeness (Paperback)
by (shelved 46 times as detectives)
avg rating 4.06 — 177,830 ratings — published 2008
Appointment with Death (Hercule Poirot, #19)
by (shelved 45 times as detectives)
avg rating 3.87 — 67,809 ratings — published 1938
Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency (Dirk Gently, #1)
by (shelved 45 times as detectives)
avg rating 3.97 — 147,637 ratings — published 1987
Lord Edgware Dies (Hercule Poirot, #9)
by (shelved 44 times as detectives)
avg rating 3.95 — 60,469 ratings — published 1933
Lethal White (Cormoran Strike, #4)
by (shelved 43 times as detectives)
avg rating 4.25 — 183,318 ratings — published 2018
The Moving Finger (Miss Marple, #3)
by (shelved 43 times as detectives)
avg rating 3.86 — 56,550 ratings — published 1942
Three Act Tragedy (Hercule Poirot, #11)
by (shelved 42 times as detectives)
avg rating 3.84 — 47,814 ratings — published 1934
Dumb Witness (Hercule Poirot, #17)
by (shelved 42 times as detectives)
avg rating 3.91 — 46,974 ratings — published 1937
Poirot Investigates (Hercule Poirot, #3)
by (shelved 42 times as detectives)
avg rating 3.89 — 73,454 ratings — published 1924
The Return of Sherlock Holmes (Sherlock Holmes, #6)
by (shelved 41 times as detectives)
avg rating 4.27 — 69,495 ratings — published 1905
The Hollow (Hercule Poirot, #26)
by (shelved 41 times as detectives)
avg rating 3.80 — 42,759 ratings — published 1946
Hallowe'en Party (Hercule Poirot, #41)
by (shelved 41 times as detectives)
avg rating 3.57 — 101,000 ratings — published 1969
The Valley of Fear (Sherlock Holmes, #7)
by (shelved 40 times as detectives)
avg rating 3.96 — 54,431 ratings — published 1914
At Bertram's Hotel (Miss Marple, #10)
by (shelved 40 times as detectives)
avg rating 3.71 — 45,556 ratings — published 1965
The Big Four (Hercule Poirot, #5)
by (shelved 40 times as detectives)
avg rating 3.57 — 72,336 ratings — published 1927
Magpie Murders (Susan Ryeland, #1)
by (shelved 39 times as detectives)
avg rating 3.95 — 161,828 ratings — published 2016
The Name of the Rose (Paperback)
by (shelved 38 times as detectives)
avg rating 4.14 — 391,342 ratings — published 1980
“Sorry, D'on didn't mention a dress code. Is a duster too revealing?”
― A Cult of Questionable Motives
― A Cult of Questionable Motives
“Perhaps this is the purpose of detective investigations, real and fictional -- to transform sensation, horror and grief into a puzzle, and then to solve the puzzle, to make it go away. 'The detective story,' observed Raymond Chandler in 1949, 'is a tragedy with a happy ending.' A storybook detective starts by confronting us with a murder and ends by absolving us of it. He clears us of guilt. He relieves us of uncertainty. He removes us from the presence of death.”
― The Suspicions of Mr. Whicher: Murder and the Undoing of a Great Victorian Detective
― The Suspicions of Mr. Whicher: Murder and the Undoing of a Great Victorian Detective
