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Murder on the Orient Express (Hercule Poirot, #10)
by (shelved 167 times as detectives)
avg rating 4.20 — 750,048 ratings — published 1934
A Study in Scarlet (Sherlock Holmes, #1)
by (shelved 139 times as detectives)
avg rating 4.13 — 502,429 ratings — published 1887
The Mysterious Affair at Styles (Hercule Poirot, #1)
by (shelved 124 times as detectives)
avg rating 4.00 — 520,986 ratings — published 1920
And Then There Were None (Paperback)
by (shelved 122 times as detectives)
avg rating 4.27 — 1,659,818 ratings — published 1939
The Murder of Roger Ackroyd (Hercule Poirot, #4)
by (shelved 122 times as detectives)
avg rating 4.26 — 360,074 ratings — published 1926
Death on the Nile (Hercule Poirot, #18)
by (shelved 108 times as detectives)
avg rating 4.12 — 314,705 ratings — published 1937
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (Sherlock Holmes, #3)
by (shelved 104 times as detectives)
avg rating 4.30 — 330,106 ratings — published 1892
The Hound of the Baskervilles (Sherlock Holmes, #5)
by (shelved 103 times as detectives)
avg rating 4.13 — 395,391 ratings — published 1902
The Cuckoo's Calling (Cormoran Strike, #1)
by (shelved 99 times as detectives)
avg rating 3.89 — 633,384 ratings — published 2013
The Sign of Four (Sherlock Holmes, #2)
by (shelved 90 times as detectives)
avg rating 3.88 — 181,832 ratings — published 1890
In the Woods (Dublin Murder Squad, #1)
by (shelved 77 times as detectives)
avg rating 3.78 — 445,391 ratings — published 2007
The Silkworm (Cormoran Strike, #2)
by (shelved 76 times as detectives)
avg rating 4.05 — 297,906 ratings — published 2014
Murder at the Vicarage (Miss Marple, #1)
by (shelved 76 times as detectives)
avg rating 4.04 — 218,534 ratings — published 1930
The A.B.C. Murders (Hercule Poirot, #13)
by (shelved 74 times as detectives)
avg rating 4.03 — 207,858 ratings — published 1936
The Big Sleep (Philip Marlowe, #1)
by (shelved 73 times as detectives)
avg rating 3.94 — 170,929 ratings — published 1939
The Thursday Murder Club (Thursday Murder Club, #1)
by (shelved 68 times as detectives)
avg rating 3.85 — 820,109 ratings — published 2020
The Murder on the Links (Hercule Poirot, #2)
by (shelved 63 times as detectives)
avg rating 3.86 — 122,969 ratings — published 1923
The Body in the Library (Miss Marple, #2)
by (shelved 62 times as detectives)
avg rating 3.81 — 131,812 ratings — published 1942
The Maltese Falcon (Paperback)
by (shelved 59 times as detectives)
avg rating 3.86 — 117,214 ratings — published 1930
The Complete Sherlock Holmes (Leather Bound)
by (shelved 58 times as detectives)
avg rating 4.51 — 218,526 ratings — published 1887
Career of Evil (Cormoran Strike, #3)
by (shelved 58 times as detectives)
avg rating 4.22 — 232,376 ratings — published 2015
4:50 from Paddington (Miss Marple, #7)
by (shelved 57 times as detectives)
avg rating 3.97 — 78,280 ratings — published 1957
Hercule Poirot's Christmas (Hercule Poirot, #20)
by (shelved 57 times as detectives)
avg rating 3.98 — 111,106 ratings — published 1938
The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo (Millennium, #1)
by (shelved 55 times as detectives)
avg rating 4.18 — 3,485,876 ratings — published 2005
The Mystery of the Blue Train (Hercule Poirot, #6)
by (shelved 55 times as detectives)
avg rating 3.88 — 86,027 ratings — published 1928
Five Little Pigs (Hercule Poirot, #25)
by (shelved 55 times as detectives)
avg rating 4.03 — 95,572 ratings — published 1942
The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes (Sherlock Holmes, #4)
by (shelved 53 times as detectives)
avg rating 4.29 — 106,865 ratings — published 1893
Peril at End House (Hercule Poirot, #8)
by (shelved 52 times as detectives)
avg rating 4.02 — 85,502 ratings — published 1932
Murder in Mesopotamia (Hercule Poirot, #14)
by (shelved 52 times as detectives)
avg rating 3.94 — 72,047 ratings — published 1936
A Murder Is Announced (Miss Marple, #4)
by (shelved 50 times as detectives)
avg rating 4.01 — 88,254 ratings — published 1950
The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency (No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency, #1)
by (shelved 50 times as detectives)
avg rating 3.81 — 277,674 ratings — published 1998
Cards on the Table (Hercule Poirot, #15)
by (shelved 49 times as detectives)
avg rating 3.96 — 74,604 ratings — published 1936
The Likeness (Dublin Murder Squad, #2)
by (shelved 48 times as detectives)
avg rating 4.06 — 183,092 ratings — published 2008
Evil Under the Sun (Hercule Poirot, #24)
by (shelved 48 times as detectives)
avg rating 3.98 — 90,519 ratings — published 1941
Dumb Witness (Hercule Poirot, #17)
by (shelved 47 times as detectives)
avg rating 3.92 — 50,051 ratings — published 1937
Appointment with Death (Hercule Poirot, #19)
by (shelved 46 times as detectives)
avg rating 3.87 — 70,914 ratings — published 1938
Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency (Dirk Gently, #1)
by (shelved 45 times as detectives)
avg rating 3.97 — 149,763 ratings — published 1987
Lethal White (Cormoran Strike, #4)
by (shelved 44 times as detectives)
avg rating 4.25 — 189,362 ratings — published 2018
Lord Edgware Dies (Hercule Poirot, #9)
by (shelved 44 times as detectives)
avg rating 3.95 — 63,933 ratings — published 1933
The Moving Finger (Miss Marple, #3)
by (shelved 44 times as detectives)
avg rating 3.85 — 59,768 ratings — published 1942
Poirot Investigates (Hercule Poirot, #3)
by (shelved 44 times as detectives)
avg rating 3.88 — 76,643 ratings — published 1924
Hallowe'en Party (Hercule Poirot, #41)
by (shelved 44 times as detectives)
avg rating 3.56 — 107,198 ratings — published 1969
Three Act Tragedy (Hercule Poirot, #11)
by (shelved 43 times as detectives)
avg rating 3.84 — 50,573 ratings — published 1935
The Return of Sherlock Holmes (Sherlock Holmes, #6)
by (shelved 43 times as detectives)
avg rating 4.27 — 71,723 ratings — published 1904
The Hollow (Hercule Poirot, #26)
by (shelved 42 times as detectives)
avg rating 3.80 — 45,081 ratings — published 1946
The Big Four (Hercule Poirot, #5)
by (shelved 42 times as detectives)
avg rating 3.57 — 76,671 ratings — published 1927
Still Life (Chief Inspector Armand Gamache, #1)
by (shelved 41 times as detectives)
avg rating 3.90 — 290,188 ratings — published 2005
The Valley of Fear (Sherlock Holmes, #7)
by (shelved 41 times as detectives)
avg rating 3.96 — 56,717 ratings — published 1914
Magpie Murders (Susan Ryeland, #1)
by (shelved 41 times as detectives)
avg rating 3.94 — 172,619 ratings — published 2016
The Name of the Rose (Paperback)
by (shelved 40 times as detectives)
avg rating 4.14 — 400,838 ratings — published 1980
“Thus, by science I mean, first of all, a worldview giving primacy to reason and observation and a methodology aimed at acquiring accurate knowledge of the natural and social world. This methodology is characterized, above all else, by the critical spirit: namely, the commitment to the incessant testing of assertions through observations and/or experiments — the more stringent the tests, the better — and to revising or discarding those theories that fail the test. One corollary of the critical spirit is fallibilism: namely, the understanding that all our empirical knowledge is tentative, incomplete and open to revision in the light of new evidence or cogent new arguments (though, of course, the most well-established aspects of scientific knowledge are unlikely to be discarded entirely).
. . . I stress that my use of the term 'science' is not limited to the natural sciences, but includes investigations aimed at acquiring accurate knowledge of factual matters relating to any aspect of the world by using rational empirical methods analogous to those employed in the natural sciences. (Please note the limitation to questions of fact. I intentionally exclude from my purview questions of ethics, aesthetics, ultimate purpose, and so forth.) Thus, 'science' (as I use the term) is routinely practiced not only by physicists, chemists and biologists, but also by historians, detectives, plumbers and indeed all human beings in (some aspects of) our daily lives. (Of course, the fact that we all practice science from time to time does not mean that we all practice it equally well, or that we practice it equally well in all areas of our lives.)”
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. . . I stress that my use of the term 'science' is not limited to the natural sciences, but includes investigations aimed at acquiring accurate knowledge of factual matters relating to any aspect of the world by using rational empirical methods analogous to those employed in the natural sciences. (Please note the limitation to questions of fact. I intentionally exclude from my purview questions of ethics, aesthetics, ultimate purpose, and so forth.) Thus, 'science' (as I use the term) is routinely practiced not only by physicists, chemists and biologists, but also by historians, detectives, plumbers and indeed all human beings in (some aspects of) our daily lives. (Of course, the fact that we all practice science from time to time does not mean that we all practice it equally well, or that we practice it equally well in all areas of our lives.)”
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“How about the wrong crowd," I said. "You getting in with them?"
"Not much luck," Paul said. "I'm trying like hell, but the wrong crowd doesn't seem to want me."
"Don't quit," I said. "You want something, you go after it. I was nearly thirty-five before I could get in with wrong crowd.”
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"Not much luck," Paul said. "I'm trying like hell, but the wrong crowd doesn't seem to want me."
"Don't quit," I said. "You want something, you go after it. I was nearly thirty-five before I could get in with wrong crowd.”
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