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The Murders in the Rue Morgue (C. Auguste Dupin, #1)
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avg rating 3.79 — 45,897 ratings — published 1841
Claire DeWitt and the City of the Dead (Claire DeWitt Mysteries, #1)
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avg rating 3.69 — 12,020 ratings — published 2011
The Complete Sherlock Holmes (Leather Bound)
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avg rating 4.51 — 221,277 ratings — published 1887
Killing the Mob: The Fight Against Organized Crime in America (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.24 — 15,233 ratings — published 2021
Death in Focus (Elena Standish, #1)
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avg rating 3.90 — 4,072 ratings — published 2019
Troubled Blood (Cormoran Strike, #5)
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avg rating 4.39 — 154,953 ratings — published 2020
The Infinite Blacktop (Claire DeWitt Mysteries, #3)
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avg rating 3.91 — 2,771 ratings — published 2018
Diamond Solitaire (Peter Diamond, #2)
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avg rating 3.87 — 3,117 ratings — published 1992
Murder on Union Square (Gaslight Mystery, #21)
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avg rating 3.85 — 3,787 ratings — published 2018
A Gladiator Dies Only Once (Roma Sub Rosa, #11)
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avg rating 3.98 — 2,234 ratings — published 2005
Knots and Crosses (Inspector Rebus, #1)
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avg rating 3.80 — 59,451 ratings — published 1987
The Snake Stone (Yashim the Eunuch, #2)
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avg rating 3.78 — 2,312 ratings — published 2007
The Janissary Tree (Yashim the Eunuch #1)
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avg rating 3.55 — 6,760 ratings — published 2006
A Death in Vienna (Liebermann Papers, #1)
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avg rating 3.84 — 3,994 ratings — published 2005
And Then There Were None (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.27 — 1,733,482 ratings — published 1939
Murder on the Orient Express (Hercule Poirot, #10)
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avg rating 4.19 — 779,874 ratings — published 1934
The Hound of the Baskervilles (Sherlock Holmes, #5)
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avg rating 4.13 — 407,323 ratings — published 1902
The Cuckoo's Calling (Cormoran Strike, #1)
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avg rating 3.89 — 643,664 ratings — published 2013
The Winter Queen (Erast Fandorin Mysteries, #1)
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avg rating 3.91 — 14,981 ratings — published 1998
The Daughter of Time (Inspector Alan Grant, #5)
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avg rating 3.89 — 41,012 ratings — published 1951
The Naming of the Dead (Inspector Rebus, #16)
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avg rating 4.03 — 13,637 ratings — published 2006
Resurrection Men (Inspector Rebus, #13)
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avg rating 4.05 — 15,239 ratings — published 2002
Black and Blue (Inspector Rebus, #8)
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avg rating 4.09 — 19,596 ratings — published 1997
The Bellini Card (Yashim the Eunuch, #3)
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avg rating 3.75 — 1,689 ratings — published 2010
Liespotting: Proven Techniques to Detect Deception (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.51 — 2,252 ratings — published 2010
A Study in Scarlet (Sherlock Holmes, #1)
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avg rating 4.13 — 514,844 ratings — published 1887
Started Early, Took My Dog (Jackson Brodie, #4)
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avg rating 3.93 — 50,229 ratings — published 2010
The Eyre Affair (Thursday Next, #1)
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avg rating 3.88 — 139,701 ratings — published 2001
Homicide: A Year on the Killing Streets (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.35 — 20,984 ratings — published 1991
A Trade of Blood (Ana and Din Mysteries, #3)
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avg rating 4.53 — 25,775 ratings — published 2026
Murder in G Major (Gethsemane Brown Mysteries, #1)
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avg rating 3.78 — 3,373 ratings — published 2016
The Hallmarked Man (Cormoran Strike, #8)
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avg rating 4.20 — 81,262 ratings — published 2025
Kẻ tình nghi hoàn mỹ (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.06 — 115 ratings — published 2020
Green City Wars (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.92 — 3,383 ratings — published 2026
Sunnyside Plaza (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.59 — 670 ratings — published 2020
Oddity Woods (Oddity Woods, #1)
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avg rating 4.07 — 507 ratings — published 2025
The Neon Rain (Dave Robicheaux, #1)
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avg rating 3.90 — 29,515 ratings — published 1987
Corbow's Theory (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.00 — 2 ratings — published
The Missing Half (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.79 — 154,499 ratings — published 2025
Listen for the Lie (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.06 — 654,975 ratings — published 2024
Home Before Dark (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.03 — 357,072 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 3.70 — 8,656 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 4.27 — 4,336,374 ratings — published 2018
City of Destruction (Malabar House #5)
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avg rating 4.32 — 1,622 ratings — published 2024
Death of a Lesser God (Malabar House, #4)
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avg rating 4.20 — 2,330 ratings — published 2023
The Dying Day (Malabar House #2)
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avg rating 4.19 — 3,583 ratings — published 2021
The Edge of Darkness (Malabar House, #6)
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avg rating 4.41 — 893 ratings — published 2026
The Lost Man of Bombay (Malabar House #3)
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avg rating 4.24 — 2,996 ratings — published 2022
“Ionizing smoke detectors unnaturally raise the background radiation levels in the human environment.”
― Electrical Forensics
― Electrical Forensics
“Generally he knew by instinct the likely length of an investigation, but on this occasion he did not: as he fought to get his breath he suddenly saw himself as others must see him, and he was struck by the impossibility of his task. The event of the boy's death was not simple because it was not unique and if he traced it backwards, running the time slowly in the opposite direction (but did it have a direction?), it became no clearer. The chain of causality might extend as far back as the boy's birth, in a particular place and on a particular date, or even further into the darkness beyond that. And what of the murderer, for what sequence of events had drawn him to wander by this old church? All these events were random and yet connected, part of a pattern so large that it remained inexplicable. He might, then, have to invent a past from the evidence available - and, in that case, would not the future also be an invention? It was as if he were staring at one of those puzzle drawings in which foreground and background create entirely different images: you could not look at such a thing for long.”
― Hawksmoor
― Hawksmoor
