Detective

Detective fiction is a sub-genre of crime and mystery fiction in which an investigator (often a detective), either professional or amateur, investigates a crime, often murder. ...more

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The Retired Assassin's Guide to Orchid Hunting
Murder at Martingale Manor (Chronicles of St. Mary's)
Turns of Fate (Isle of Wyrd, #1)
Mischance Creek (Hirsch series 5)
The Burning Grounds (Wyndham & Banerjee, #6)
No One Knew (Noelle Marshall #2)
The Proving Ground (The Lincoln Lawyer, #8)
Her First Mistake (Noelle Marshall, #1)
Exit Strategy (Jack Reacher, #30)
Return of the Spider (Alex Cross, #34)
Never Flinch (Holly Gibney, #4)
Un animal salvaje
Nobody’s Fool (Detective Sami Kierce, #2)
The Picasso Heist
The Amendment (The Arrangement, #2)
Call Me Anytime (The Protectors #1)
The Waiting (Harry Bosch, #25; Renée Ballard, #6; Harry Bosch Universe, #39)
The Ink Black Heart (Cormoran Strike, #6)
A Welcome Reunion
L'Affaire Alaska Sanders
Murder on the Orient Express (Hercule Poirot, #10)
A Study in Scarlet (Sherlock Holmes, #1)
The Cuckoo's Calling (Cormoran Strike, #1)
The Hound of the Baskervilles (Sherlock Holmes, #5)
And Then There Were None
The Murder of Roger Ackroyd (Hercule Poirot, #4)
The Mysterious Affair at Styles (Hercule Poirot, #1)
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (Sherlock Holmes, #3)
Death on the Nile (Hercule Poirot, #18)
The Sign of Four (Sherlock Holmes, #2)
The A.B.C. Murders (Hercule Poirot, #13)
The Silkworm (Cormoran Strike, #2)
The Big Sleep (Philip Marlowe, #1)
The Complete Sherlock Holmes
Career of Evil (Cormoran Strike, #3)
The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo by Stieg LarssonThe Big Sleep by Raymond ChandlerMurder on the Orient Express by Agatha ChristieThe Maltese Falcon by Dashiell HammettThe Complete Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle
Detective Fiction
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Murder
312 books — 87 voters
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Best YA Spy/Mystery Novels
626 books — 1,620 voters

Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? by Philip K. DickThe Caves of Steel by Isaac AsimovAltered Carbon by Richard K. MorganThe City & the City by China MiévilleThe Yiddish Policemen's Union by Michael Chabon
Science Fiction Detective Novels
230 books — 155 voters
Cat Scratch Murder by Karen McSpadeOne for the Money by Janet EvanovichDeath on the Nile by Agatha ChristieHard Eight by Janet EvanovichThe Unlikely Murder Club by Gina X.  Grant
Cozy Crimes
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Raymond Chandler
Dead men are heavier than broken hearts.
Raymond Chandler, The Big Sleep

Agatha Christie
You've a pretty good nerve," said Ratchett. "Will twenty thousand dollars tempt you?" It will not." If you're holding out for more, you won't get it. I know what a thing's worth to me." I, also M. Ratchett." What's wrong with my proposition?" Poirot rose. "If you will forgive me for being personal - I do not like your face, M. Ratchett," he said. ...more
Agatha Christie, Murder on the Orient Express

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