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
Death on the Nile (Hercule Poirot, #18)
The Sign of Four (Sherlock Holmes, #2)
The A.B.C. Murders (Hercule Poirot, #13)
The Arnolfini Art Mysteries
The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes (Sherlock Holmes, #4)
Devil in a Blue Dress by Walter MosleyBlanche on the Lam by Barbara NeelyA Red Death by Walter MosleyResurrection Bay by Emma ViskicFadeout by Joseph Hansen
#DiverseDetectives
211 books — 40 voters
A Story Of Bad by Edward M. KraussTatort Dangast by Gitte JurssenMurder in G Major by Alexia GordonDeath of an Officer by Mark   EllisA Day Dead Old by Carmen Martucci
Musical Mysteries
105 books — 36 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
The Black-Headed Pins by Constance LittleWho Killed the Curate? by Joan CogginThe Wooden Overcoat by Pamela BranchSmallbone Deceased by Michael    GilbertThe Danger Within by Michael    Gilbert
Rue Morgue Press
39 books — 4 voters

Anna   Lane
“ Well, you are my best friend, and I certainly hope I can be yours. You may regret saying that, Ellie. I'm not particularly good at friendship. In all honesty, I haven't even tried. ...more ”
― Anna Lane, Retribution

T.S. Eliot
“ The Moonstone is the first, the longest, and the best of modern English detective novels. But it is something more important than that; it is the best of all the novels written by that man who among the novelists of the nineteenth century was in every way the most closely associated with Charles Dickens. You cannot appreciate Collins without taking Dickens into account; and the work of Dickens after 1850 would not be what it is but for the reciprocal influence of Collins. ”
― Eliot, T.S.

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