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The Murders in the Rue Morgue (C. Auguste Dupin, #1)
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avg rating 3.79 — 45,494 ratings — published 1841
Claire DeWitt and the City of the Dead (Claire DeWitt Mysteries, #1)
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avg rating 3.69 — 11,992 ratings — published 2011
The Complete Sherlock Holmes (Leather Bound)
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avg rating 4.51 — 220,466 ratings — published 1887
Killing the Mob: The Fight Against Organized Crime in America (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.24 — 15,141 ratings — published 2021
Death in Focus (Elena Standish, #1)
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avg rating 3.90 — 4,057 ratings — published 2019
Troubled Blood (Cormoran Strike, #5)
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avg rating 4.39 — 153,938 ratings — published 2020
The Infinite Blacktop (Claire DeWitt Mysteries, #3)
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avg rating 3.91 — 2,762 ratings — published 2018
Diamond Solitaire (Peter Diamond, #2)
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avg rating 3.87 — 3,100 ratings — published 1992
Murder on Union Square (Gaslight Mystery, #21)
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avg rating 3.85 — 3,773 ratings — published 2018
A Gladiator Dies Only Once (Roma Sub Rosa, #11)
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avg rating 3.98 — 2,228 ratings — published 2005
Knots and Crosses (Inspector Rebus, #1)
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avg rating 3.80 — 59,186 ratings — published 1987
The Snake Stone (Yashim the Eunuch, #2)
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avg rating 3.78 — 2,308 ratings — published 2007
The Janissary Tree (Yashim the Eunuch #1)
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avg rating 3.55 — 6,746 ratings — published 2006
A Death in Vienna (Liebermann Papers, #1)
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avg rating 3.84 — 3,982 ratings — published 2005
And Then There Were None (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.27 — 1,714,078 ratings — published 1939
Murder on the Orient Express (Hercule Poirot, #10)
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avg rating 4.20 — 770,685 ratings — published 1934
The Hound of the Baskervilles (Sherlock Holmes, #5)
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avg rating 4.14 — 404,002 ratings — published 1902
The Cuckoo's Calling (Cormoran Strike, #1)
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avg rating 3.89 — 640,857 ratings — published 2013
The Winter Queen (Erast Fandorin Mysteries, #1)
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avg rating 3.91 — 14,919 ratings — published 1998
The Daughter of Time (Inspector Alan Grant, #5)
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avg rating 3.89 — 40,627 ratings — published 1951
The Naming of the Dead (Inspector Rebus, #16)
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avg rating 4.03 — 13,545 ratings — published 2006
Resurrection Men (Inspector Rebus, #13)
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avg rating 4.05 — 15,174 ratings — published 2002
Black and Blue (Inspector Rebus, #8)
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avg rating 4.09 — 19,501 ratings — published 1997
The Bellini Card (Yashim the Eunuch, #3)
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avg rating 3.75 — 1,685 ratings — published 2010
Liespotting: Proven Techniques to Detect Deception (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.51 — 2,246 ratings — published 2010
A Study in Scarlet (Sherlock Holmes, #1)
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avg rating 4.13 — 511,498 ratings — published 1887
Started Early, Took My Dog (Jackson Brodie, #4)
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avg rating 3.93 — 49,996 ratings — published 2010
The Eyre Affair (Thursday Next, #1)
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avg rating 3.88 — 139,293 ratings — published 2001
Homicide: A Year on the Killing Streets (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.35 — 20,908 ratings — published 1991
The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.28 — 83,256 ratings — published 1995
Kẻ tình nghi hoàn mỹ (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.05 — 104 ratings — published 2020
Green City Wars (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.95 — 2,674 ratings — published 2026
Sunnyside Plaza (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.59 — 668 ratings — published 2020
Oddity Woods (Oddity Woods, #1)
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avg rating 4.06 — 476 ratings — published 2025
The Neon Rain (Dave Robicheaux, #1)
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avg rating 3.90 — 29,408 ratings — published 1987
Corbow's Theory (Kindle Edition)
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avg rating 4.00 — 2 ratings — published
The Missing Half (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.79 — 151,211 ratings — published 2025
Listen for the Lie (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.06 — 639,893 ratings — published 2024
Home Before Dark (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.03 — 345,640 ratings — published 2020
The Fate of the Poseidonia (ebook)
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avg rating 3.14 — 70 ratings — published 1927
The Proof of My Innocence (Kindle Edition)
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avg rating 3.71 — 8,406 ratings — published 2024
Blueberry Pie and Other Stories (Hardcover)
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avg rating 0.0 — 0 ratings — published 1932
Verity (ebook)
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avg rating 4.28 — 4,186,833 ratings — published 2018
City of Destruction (Malabar House #5)
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avg rating 4.33 — 1,578 ratings — published 2024
Death of a Lesser God (Malabar House, #4)
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avg rating 4.20 — 2,295 ratings — published 2023
The Dying Day (Malabar House #2)
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avg rating 4.19 — 3,546 ratings — published 2021
The Edge of Darkness (Malabar House, #6)
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avg rating 4.42 — 815 ratings — published 2026
The Lost Man of Bombay (Malabar House #3)
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avg rating 4.24 — 2,954 ratings — published 2022
Last Victim of the Monsoon Express (Baby Ganesh Agency Investigation, #4.5)
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avg rating 4.14 — 847 ratings — published 2019
Midnight at Malabar House (Malabar House #1)
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avg rating 4.00 — 6,288 ratings — published 2020
“It is a pity he did not write in pencil. As you have no doubt frequently observed, the impression usually goes through -- a fact which has dissolved many a happy marriage.”
― The Return of Sherlock Holmes
― The Return of Sherlock Holmes
“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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