Detective Fiction


Murder on the Orient Express (Hercule Poirot, #10)
A Study in Scarlet (Sherlock Holmes, #1)
The Murder of Roger Ackroyd (Hercule Poirot, #4)
The Mysterious Affair at Styles (Hercule Poirot, #1)
The Hound of the Baskervilles (Sherlock Holmes, #5)
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (Sherlock Holmes, #3)
And Then There Were None
The Big Sleep (Philip Marlowe, #1)
The Cuckoo's Calling (Cormoran Strike, #1)
The Maltese Falcon
The Sign of Four (Sherlock Holmes, #2)
Death on the Nile (Hercule Poirot, #18)
The A.B.C. Murders (Hercule Poirot, #13)
The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes (Sherlock Holmes, #4)
Murder at the Vicarage (Miss Marple, #1)
She Rides Shotgun by Jordan HarperThe Fabulous Clip Joint by Fredric BrownThe Cold War Swap by Ross ThomasIn the Heat of the Night by John Dudley BallFletch by Gregory McDonald
Edgar Award Winners - Debuts
80 books — 7 voters
Farewell, My Lovely by Raymond ChandlerThe High Window by Raymond ChandlerThe Long Goodbye by Raymond ChandlerThe Big Sleep by Raymond ChandlerThe Lady in the Lake by Raymond Chandler
Top Raymond Chandler books
21 books — 13 voters

Silent in the Grave by Deanna RaybournCocaine Blues by Kerry GreenwoodCrocodile on the Sandbank by Elizabeth PetersHer Royal Spyness by Rhys BowenThe Beekeeper's Apprentice by Laurie R. King
Sleuths in Silks
256 books — 78 voters
Final Exam by Lou PuglieseThe Alienist by Caleb CarrThe Adventures of Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan DoyleMistress of the Art of Death by Ariana FranklinA Morbid Taste for Bones by Ellis Peters
Best historical-fiction mysteries
399 books — 206 voters


W.H. Auden
In the detective story, as in its mirror image, the Quest for the Grail, maps (the ritual of space) and timetables (the ritual of time) are desirable. Nature should reflect its human inhabitants, i.e., it should be the Great Good Place; for the more Eden-like it is, the greater the contradiction of murder. The country is preferable to the town, a well-to-do neighborhood (but not too well-to-do-or there will be a suspicion of ill-gotten gains) better than a slum. The corpse must shock not only be ...more
W.H. Auden

S.K. Waters
Headstones, they aren’t for the dead, they’re for the living.
S.K. Waters, The Dead Won't Tell

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