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The Murders in the Rue Morgue (C. Auguste Dupin, #1)
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avg rating 3.80 — 42,397 ratings — published 1841
Claire DeWitt and the City of the Dead (Claire DeWitt Mysteries, #1)
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avg rating 3.70 — 11,588 ratings — published 2011
The Complete Sherlock Holmes (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.51 — 215,630 ratings — published 1887
Killing the Mob: The Fight Against Organized Crime in America (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.25 — 14,176 ratings — published 2021
Death in Focus (Elena Standish, #1)
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avg rating 3.90 — 3,901 ratings — published 2019
Troubled Blood (Cormoran Strike, #5)
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avg rating 4.38 — 144,533 ratings — published 2020
The Infinite Blacktop (Claire DeWitt Mysteries, #3)
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avg rating 3.92 — 2,673 ratings — published 2018
Diamond Solitaire (Peter Diamond, #2)
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avg rating 3.88 — 2,956 ratings — published 1992
Murder on Union Square (Gaslight Mystery, #21)
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avg rating 3.85 — 3,592 ratings — published 2018
A Gladiator Dies Only Once (Roma Sub Rosa, #11)
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avg rating 3.98 — 2,175 ratings — published 2005
Knots and Crosses (Inspector Rebus, #1)
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avg rating 3.80 — 56,994 ratings — published 1987
The Snake Stone (Yashim the Eunuch, #2)
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avg rating 3.78 — 2,265 ratings — published 2007
The Janissary Tree (Yashim the Eunuch #1)
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avg rating 3.55 — 6,611 ratings — published 2006
A Death in Vienna (Liebermann Papers, #1)
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avg rating 3.84 — 3,810 ratings — published 2005
And Then There Were None (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.27 — 1,579,098 ratings — published 1939
The Hound of the Baskervilles (Sherlock Holmes, #5)
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avg rating 4.14 — 382,378 ratings — published 1902
The Cuckoo's Calling (Cormoran Strike, #1)
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avg rating 3.89 — 620,198 ratings — published 2013
The Winter Queen (Erast Fandorin Mysteries, #1)
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avg rating 3.91 — 14,228 ratings — published 1998
The Daughter of Time (Inspector Alan Grant, #5)
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avg rating 3.89 — 37,961 ratings — published 1951
The Naming of the Dead (Inspector Rebus, #16)
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avg rating 4.03 — 12,808 ratings — published 2006
Resurrection Men (Inspector Rebus, #13)
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avg rating 4.05 — 14,433 ratings — published 2002
Black and Blue (Inspector Rebus, #8)
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avg rating 4.09 — 18,587 ratings — published 1997
The Bellini Card (Yashim the Eunuch, #3)
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avg rating 3.75 — 1,652 ratings — published 2010
Liespotting: Proven Techniques to Detect Deception (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.51 — 2,207 ratings — published 2010
A Study in Scarlet (Sherlock Holmes, #1)
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avg rating 4.13 — 488,483 ratings — published 1887
Started Early, Took My Dog (Jackson Brodie, #4)
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avg rating 3.93 — 48,162 ratings — published 2010
The Eyre Affair (Thursday Next, #1)
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avg rating 3.88 — 136,704 ratings — published 2001
Homicide: A Year on the Killing Streets (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.36 — 20,040 ratings — published 1991
Remarkably Bright Creatures (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.36 — 1,150,052 ratings — published 2022
Jolly Foul Play (Murder Most Unladylike, #4)
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avg rating 4.28 — 9,983 ratings — published 2016
Drawn Daggers (Unknown Binding)
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avg rating 3.44 — 25 ratings — published
A Drop of Corruption (Shadow of the Leviathan, #2)
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avg rating 4.49 — 28,055 ratings — published 2025
Atonement Sky (Psy-Changeling Trinity, #9; Psy-Changeling, #24)
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avg rating 4.43 — 3,357 ratings — published 2025
Mord i Mørket (Mord Serien, #1)
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avg rating 3.41 — 497 ratings — published 1981
ROBERT E. HOWARD Ultimate Collection – 300+ Cult Classics: Adventure Novels, Western, Horror & Detective Stories, Historical Books (Including Poetry, Essays, Articles & Letters) - ALL in One Volume
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avg rating 4.04 — 67 ratings — published
My Name Is Jensen (Jensen #1)
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avg rating 3.72 — 568 ratings — published 2021
City of Jasmine (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.72 — 2,511 ratings — published 2013
The Adventure of the Copper Beeches - a Sherlock Holmes Short Story (The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes #12)
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avg rating 3.85 — 5,132 ratings — published 1892
None of This Is True (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.08 — 1,048,496 ratings — published 2023
Never Flinch (Holly Gibney, #4)
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avg rating 3.85 — 49,857 ratings — published 2025
A Dead Djinn in Cairo (Dead Djinn Universe, #0.1)
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avg rating 4.00 — 19,252 ratings — published 2016
Chocolate Chip Cookie Murder (Hannah Swensen, #1)
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avg rating 3.68 — 70,825 ratings — published 2000
El escarabajo de oro (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.57 — 6,008 ratings — published 1843
The Skeleton Road (Inspector Karen Pirie, #3)
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avg rating 4.00 — 11,723 ratings — published 2014
Los Tres Pequeños superpigs (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.74 — 550 ratings — published 2018
My Adventure At Chiselhurst (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.33 — 18 ratings — published
Mortina e l'amico fantasma (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.20 — 942 ratings — published 2018
The Stars Are the Styx (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.89 — 123 ratings — published 1979
Viewpoint (Kindle Edition)
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avg rating 2.40 — 20 ratings — published 2010
The House Sitter (Peter Diamond, #8; Inspector Henrietta Mallin .5)
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avg rating 4.09 — 2,005 ratings — published 2003
“The wave quality of light is the same as that of the electron. The wave determines the probable location of the photon of light when it is detected. The wave character of light is not vibrating stuff like a wave of water but rather a wavelike function encoding information about where you'll find the photon of light once it is detected. Until it reaches the detector plate, like the electron, it is seemingly passing through both slits simultaneously, making its mind up about its location only once it is observed [...].
It's this act of observation that is such a strange feature of quantum physics. Until I ask the detector to pick up where the electron is, the particle should be thought of as probabilistically distributed over space, with a probability described by a mathematical function that has wavelike characteristics. The effect of the two slits on this mathematical wave function alters it in such a way that the electron is forbidden from being located at some points on the detector plate. But when the particle is observed, the die is cast, probabilities disappear, and the particle must decide on a location.”
― The Great Unknown: Seven Journeys to the Frontiers of Science
It's this act of observation that is such a strange feature of quantum physics. Until I ask the detector to pick up where the electron is, the particle should be thought of as probabilistically distributed over space, with a probability described by a mathematical function that has wavelike characteristics. The effect of the two slits on this mathematical wave function alters it in such a way that the electron is forbidden from being located at some points on the detector plate. But when the particle is observed, the die is cast, probabilities disappear, and the particle must decide on a location.”
― The Great Unknown: Seven Journeys to the Frontiers of Science
“You have attempted to tinge detection with romanticism, which produces much the same effect as if you worked a love-story or an elopement into the fifth proposition of Euclid." - Holmes to Watson, The Sign of Four”
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