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Detective Books
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Murder on the Orient Express (Hercule Poirot, #10)
by (shelved 1136 times as detective)
avg rating 4.20 — 749,933 ratings — published 1934
A Study in Scarlet (Sherlock Holmes, #1)
by (shelved 969 times as detective)
avg rating 4.13 — 502,386 ratings — published 1887
The Cuckoo's Calling (Cormoran Strike, #1)
by (shelved 840 times as detective)
avg rating 3.89 — 633,349 ratings — published 2013
The Hound of the Baskervilles (Sherlock Holmes, #5)
by (shelved 830 times as detective)
avg rating 4.13 — 395,332 ratings — published 1902
And Then There Were None (Paperback)
by (shelved 820 times as detective)
avg rating 4.27 — 1,659,534 ratings — published 1939
The Murder of Roger Ackroyd (Hercule Poirot, #4)
by (shelved 803 times as detective)
avg rating 4.26 — 359,999 ratings — published 1926
The Mysterious Affair at Styles (Hercule Poirot, #1)
by (shelved 791 times as detective)
avg rating 4.00 — 520,893 ratings — published 1920
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (Sherlock Holmes, #3)
by (shelved 727 times as detective)
avg rating 4.30 — 330,089 ratings — published 1892
Death on the Nile (Hercule Poirot, #18)
by (shelved 656 times as detective)
avg rating 4.12 — 314,665 ratings — published 1937
The Sign of Four (Sherlock Holmes, #2)
by (shelved 643 times as detective)
avg rating 3.88 — 181,811 ratings — published 1890
The A.B.C. Murders (Hercule Poirot, #13)
by (shelved 592 times as detective)
avg rating 4.03 — 207,807 ratings — published 1936
The Silkworm (Cormoran Strike, #2)
by (shelved 573 times as detective)
avg rating 4.05 — 297,876 ratings — published 2014
The Big Sleep (Philip Marlowe, #1)
by (shelved 536 times as detective)
avg rating 3.94 — 170,915 ratings — published 1939
Career of Evil (Cormoran Strike, #3)
by (shelved 470 times as detective)
avg rating 4.22 — 232,359 ratings — published 2015
The Complete Sherlock Holmes (Leather Bound)
by (shelved 468 times as detective)
avg rating 4.51 — 218,514 ratings — published 1887
Storm Front (The Dresden Files, #1)
by (shelved 448 times as detective)
avg rating 3.97 — 385,129 ratings — published 2000
The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo (Millennium, #1)
by (shelved 425 times as detective)
avg rating 4.18 — 3,485,640 ratings — published 2005
The Murder on the Links (Hercule Poirot, #2)
by (shelved 404 times as detective)
avg rating 3.86 — 122,943 ratings — published 1923
The Thursday Murder Club (Thursday Murder Club, #1)
by (shelved 383 times as detective)
avg rating 3.85 — 819,870 ratings — published 2020
The Maltese Falcon (Paperback)
by (shelved 373 times as detective)
avg rating 3.86 — 117,201 ratings — published 1930
Murder at the Vicarage (Miss Marple, #1)
by (shelved 368 times as detective)
avg rating 4.04 — 218,505 ratings — published 1930
The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes (Sherlock Holmes, #4)
by (shelved 366 times as detective)
avg rating 4.29 — 106,855 ratings — published 1893
The Black Echo (Harry Bosch, #1; Harry Bosch Universe, #1)
by (shelved 358 times as detective)
avg rating 4.14 — 219,177 ratings — published 1992
Hercule Poirot's Christmas (Hercule Poirot, #20)
by (shelved 343 times as detective)
avg rating 3.98 — 111,096 ratings — published 1938
The Return of Sherlock Holmes (Sherlock Holmes, #6)
by (shelved 341 times as detective)
avg rating 4.27 — 71,714 ratings — published 1904
Lethal White (Cormoran Strike, #4)
by (shelved 340 times as detective)
avg rating 4.25 — 189,349 ratings — published 2018
Five Little Pigs (Hercule Poirot, #25)
by (shelved 324 times as detective)
avg rating 4.03 — 95,549 ratings — published 1942
Peril at End House (Hercule Poirot, #8)
by (shelved 320 times as detective)
avg rating 4.02 — 85,494 ratings — published 1932
The Body in the Library (Miss Marple, #2)
by (shelved 315 times as detective)
avg rating 3.81 — 131,791 ratings — published 1942
The Da Vinci Code (Robert Langdon, #2)
by (shelved 314 times as detective)
avg rating 3.94 — 2,553,873 ratings — published 2003
Rivers of London (Rivers of London, #1)
by (shelved 311 times as detective)
avg rating 3.85 — 152,403 ratings — published 2011
The Mystery of the Blue Train (Hercule Poirot, #6)
by (shelved 311 times as detective)
avg rating 3.88 — 86,002 ratings — published 1928
In the Woods (Dublin Murder Squad, #1)
by (shelved 300 times as detective)
avg rating 3.78 — 445,357 ratings — published 2007
Cards on the Table (Hercule Poirot, #15)
by (shelved 300 times as detective)
avg rating 3.96 — 74,594 ratings — published 1936
Evil Under the Sun (Hercule Poirot, #24)
by (shelved 298 times as detective)
avg rating 3.98 — 90,504 ratings — published 1941
Murder in Mesopotamia (Hercule Poirot, #14)
by (shelved 292 times as detective)
avg rating 3.94 — 72,038 ratings — published 1936
Still Life (Chief Inspector Armand Gamache, #1)
by (shelved 291 times as detective)
avg rating 3.90 — 290,147 ratings — published 2005
The Big Four (Hercule Poirot, #5)
by (shelved 290 times as detective)
avg rating 3.57 — 76,659 ratings — published 1927
The Valley of Fear (Sherlock Holmes, #7)
by (shelved 287 times as detective)
avg rating 3.96 — 56,710 ratings — published 1914
The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency (No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency, #1)
by (shelved 286 times as detective)
avg rating 3.81 — 277,662 ratings — published 1998
The Girl Who Played with Fire (Millennium #2)
by (shelved 285 times as detective)
avg rating 4.26 — 995,646 ratings — published 2006
Hallowe'en Party (Hercule Poirot, #41)
by (shelved 285 times as detective)
avg rating 3.56 — 107,183 ratings — published 1969
Lord Edgware Dies (Hercule Poirot, #9)
by (shelved 284 times as detective)
avg rating 3.95 — 63,924 ratings — published 1933
Poirot Investigates (Hercule Poirot, #3)
by (shelved 284 times as detective)
avg rating 3.88 — 76,630 ratings — published 1924
Troubled Blood (Cormoran Strike, #5)
by (shelved 278 times as detective)
avg rating 4.38 — 150,434 ratings — published 2020
Death in the Clouds (Hercule Poirot, #12)
by (shelved 275 times as detective)
avg rating 3.86 — 67,882 ratings — published 1935
Fool Moon (The Dresden Files, #2)
by (shelved 274 times as detective)
avg rating 3.97 — 214,949 ratings — published 2001
Flaggermusmannen (Harry Hole, #1)
by (shelved 270 times as detective)
avg rating 3.55 — 133,786 ratings — published 1997
Appointment with Death (Hercule Poirot, #19)
by (shelved 265 times as detective)
avg rating 3.87 — 70,902 ratings — published 1938
A Murder Is Announced (Miss Marple, #4)
by (shelved 258 times as detective)
avg rating 4.01 — 88,244 ratings — published 1950
“I stole a bit of a chopped vegetable and was about to put it in my mouth when Jae’s long fingers closed over my wrist. “What? You can’t eat this raw?”
“It’s bitter melon. You won’t like it.” He went into the fridge and came out with something that looked halfway familiar. “Here, leftover bao. There’s char siu inside.”
“The red pork stuff? Yeah, I like that. I thought it was Chinese.”
“It is. We also eat hamburgers and spaghetti.”
― Dirty Kiss
“It’s bitter melon. You won’t like it.” He went into the fridge and came out with something that looked halfway familiar. “Here, leftover bao. There’s char siu inside.”
“The red pork stuff? Yeah, I like that. I thought it was Chinese.”
“It is. We also eat hamburgers and spaghetti.”
― Dirty Kiss
“Beyond the obvious facts that he has at some time done manual labour, that he takes snuff, that he is a Freemason, that he has been in China, and that he has done a considerable amount of writing lately, I can deduce nothing else.”
― The Red-Headed League - a Sherlock Holmes Short Story
― The Red-Headed League - a Sherlock Holmes Short Story
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