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Detective Stories


Detective Stories Books

Murder on the Orient Express (Hercule Poirot, #10)
A Study in Scarlet (Sherlock Holmes, #1)
The Hound of the Baskervilles (Sherlock Holmes, #5)
And Then There Were None
The Mysterious Affair at Styles (Hercule Poirot, #1)
Death on the Nile (Hercule Poirot, #18)
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (Sherlock Holmes, #3)
The A.B.C. Murders (Hercule Poirot, #13)
The Murder of Roger Ackroyd (Hercule Poirot, #4)
The Sign of Four (Sherlock Holmes, #2)
Murder at the Vicarage (Miss Marple, #1)
The Body in the Library (Miss Marple, #2)
The Cuckoo's Calling (Cormoran Strike, #1)
Hercule Poirot's Christmas (Hercule Poirot, #20)
Five Little Pigs (Hercule Poirot, #24)
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The Blue Bar by Damyanti BiswasThe Maltese Falcon by Dashiell HammettThe Big Sleep by Raymond ChandlerThe Interview by Joseph Sultana27 Days by Patrick H. Moore
Great crime fiction of all kinds through the years
34 books — 22 voters
The Black Angel by Cornell WoolrichLe carte segrete della Serenissima by Paolo LanzottiIf I Die Before I Wake by Sherwood KingI guardiani della laguna by Paolo LanzottiFarewell, My Lovely by Raymond Chandler
The Apotheosis of Noir (Novels & Films)
66 books — 2 voters

The Fairfax Fix by Dorothy May MercerDeadly Secrets by Angel SeferSpellbound in His Arms by Angel SeferTHE ECHOING GUN by Yasmin ChinoyDeadly Thyme by R.L. Nolen
Mystery & Suspense
218 books — 255 voters
Horn-Horn by A.D.T. McLellanDead Low Tide by Eddie JonesSkull Creek Stakeout by Eddie JonesDead Man's Hand by Eddie JonesRumor of a Werewolf by Eddie Jones
Teen & YA Detective Mysteries
114 books — 40 voters

Quotes Tagged “Detective Stories”

Rupert Hart-Davis
“ To me, detective stories are a great solace, a sort of mental knitting, where it doesn't matter if you drop a stitch." [From a letter to George Lyttelton] ...more ”
― Rupert Hart-Davis, Man of Letters: The Extraordinary Life and Times of Literary Impresario Rupert Hart-Davis
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Philip Guedalla
“ The detective story is the normal recreation of noble minds. ”
― Philip Guedalla, The Omnibus of Crime
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