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

New Releases Tagged "Detective"

A Deadly Episode (Hawthorne & Horowitz, #6)
The Detective
A Present Mistake (Deadly Mistakes, #3)
Nobody's Baby (Dorothy Gentleman, #2)
The Star from Calcutta (Perveen Mistry, #5)
The Harvey Girl
Living Dead (PsyCop, #15)
Revenge Prey (Lucas Davenport #36)
A Deadly Episode (Hawthorne & Horowitz, #6)
The Proving Ground (The Lincoln Lawyer, #8; Harry Bosch Universe, #40)
Her First Mistake (Noelle Marshall, #1)
The Ex-Wives Club (Alibis Collection, #2)
No One Knew (Noelle Marshall #2)
Cross and Sampson (Alex Cross #35)
Exit Strategy (Jack Reacher, #30)
A Welcome Reunion
Bloodlust (Blood, #2)
The Invisible Woman
Berwick (DCI Ryan Mysteries #24)
Jigsaw (Alex Delaware #41)
Twelve Months (The Dresden Files, #18)
Nobody’s Fool (Detective Sami Kierce, #2)
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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
1,237 books — 1,137 voters

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)
Career of Evil (Cormoran Strike, #3)
The Complete Sherlock Holmes

Agatha Christie
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. ...more
Agatha Christie, Death on the Nile

Raymond Chandler
Dead men are heavier than broken hearts.
Raymond Chandler, The Big Sleep

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