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Murder on the Orient Express (Hercule Poirot, #10)
by (shelved 32 times as detective-novels)
avg rating 4.20 — 761,859 ratings — published 1934
And Then There Were None (Paperback)
by (shelved 29 times as detective-novels)
avg rating 4.27 — 1,691,131 ratings — published 1939
A Study in Scarlet (Sherlock Holmes, #1)
by (shelved 27 times as detective-novels)
avg rating 4.13 — 507,645 ratings — published 1887
The Mysterious Affair at Styles (Hercule Poirot, #1)
by (shelved 25 times as detective-novels)
avg rating 4.00 — 530,485 ratings — published 1920
The Murder of Roger Ackroyd (Hercule Poirot, #4)
by (shelved 21 times as detective-novels)
avg rating 4.26 — 368,233 ratings — published 1926
Death on the Nile (Hercule Poirot, #18)
by (shelved 18 times as detective-novels)
avg rating 4.12 — 320,107 ratings — published 1937
The Sign of Four (Sherlock Holmes, #2)
by (shelved 17 times as detective-novels)
avg rating 3.88 — 184,297 ratings — published 1890
The A.B.C. Murders (Hercule Poirot, #13)
by (shelved 17 times as detective-novels)
avg rating 4.03 — 212,152 ratings — published 1936
The Cuckoo's Calling (Cormoran Strike, #1)
by (shelved 16 times as detective-novels)
avg rating 3.89 — 637,767 ratings — published 2013
The Big Sleep (Philip Marlowe, #1)
by (shelved 16 times as detective-novels)
avg rating 3.94 — 172,630 ratings — published 1939
A Murder Is Announced (Miss Marple, #4)
by (shelved 16 times as detective-novels)
avg rating 4.01 — 89,827 ratings — published 1950
The Hound of the Baskervilles (Sherlock Holmes, #5)
by (shelved 15 times as detective-novels)
avg rating 4.13 — 400,488 ratings — published 1902
Troubled Blood (Cormoran Strike, #5)
by (shelved 13 times as detective-novels)
avg rating 4.38 — 152,550 ratings — published 2020
The Complete Sherlock Holmes (Leather Bound)
by (shelved 12 times as detective-novels)
avg rating 4.51 — 219,678 ratings — published 1887
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (Sherlock Holmes, #3)
by (shelved 12 times as detective-novels)
avg rating 4.30 — 332,600 ratings — published 1892
Lethal White (Cormoran Strike, #4)
by (shelved 12 times as detective-novels)
avg rating 4.25 — 191,355 ratings — published 2018
The Silkworm (Cormoran Strike, #2)
by (shelved 12 times as detective-novels)
avg rating 4.05 — 300,276 ratings — published 2014
The Body in the Library (Miss Marple, #2)
by (shelved 12 times as detective-novels)
avg rating 3.81 — 134,108 ratings — published 1942
Murder at the Vicarage (Miss Marple, #1)
by (shelved 12 times as detective-novels)
avg rating 4.04 — 221,406 ratings — published 1930
Evil Under the Sun (Hercule Poirot, #23)
by (shelved 12 times as detective-novels)
avg rating 3.97 — 92,249 ratings — published 1941
Career of Evil (Cormoran Strike, #3)
by (shelved 11 times as detective-novels)
avg rating 4.22 — 234,418 ratings — published 2015
Five Little Pigs (Hercule Poirot, #24)
by (shelved 11 times as detective-novels)
avg rating 4.03 — 97,758 ratings — published 1942
The Murder on the Links (Hercule Poirot, #2)
by (shelved 11 times as detective-novels)
avg rating 3.86 — 125,526 ratings — published 1923
In the Woods (Dublin Murder Squad, #1)
by (shelved 11 times as detective-novels)
avg rating 3.78 — 450,287 ratings — published 2007
Hallowe'en Party (Hercule Poirot, #41)
by (shelved 11 times as detective-novels)
avg rating 3.56 — 108,551 ratings — published 1969
The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo (Millennium, #1)
by (shelved 11 times as detective-novels)
avg rating 4.18 — 3,511,227 ratings — published 2005
Elephants Can Remember (Hercule Poirot, #42)
by (shelved 11 times as detective-novels)
avg rating 3.66 — 51,231 ratings — published 1972
4:50 from Paddington (Miss Marple, #7)
by (shelved 10 times as detective-novels)
avg rating 3.96 — 79,420 ratings — published 1957
The Big Four (Hercule Poirot, #5)
by (shelved 10 times as detective-novels)
avg rating 3.56 — 78,333 ratings — published 1927
Hercule Poirot's Christmas (Hercule Poirot, #20)
by (shelved 10 times as detective-novels)
avg rating 3.98 — 112,152 ratings — published 1938
Appointment with Death (Hercule Poirot, #19)
by (shelved 9 times as detective-novels)
avg rating 3.87 — 72,116 ratings — published 1938
Lord Edgware Dies (Hercule Poirot, #9)
by (shelved 9 times as detective-novels)
avg rating 3.94 — 65,220 ratings — published 1933
Cards on the Table (Hercule Poirot, #15)
by (shelved 9 times as detective-novels)
avg rating 3.96 — 76,107 ratings — published 1936
The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes (Sherlock Holmes, #4)
by (shelved 9 times as detective-novels)
avg rating 4.29 — 107,789 ratings — published 1893
Step on a Crack (Michael Bennett, #1)
by (shelved 9 times as detective-novels)
avg rating 4.08 — 61,290 ratings — published 2007
The Black Echo (Harry Bosch, #1; Harry Bosch Universe, #1)
by (shelved 9 times as detective-novels)
avg rating 4.15 — 221,329 ratings — published 1992
Dead Man's Folly (Hercule Poirot, #35)
by (shelved 9 times as detective-novels)
avg rating 3.82 — 39,463 ratings — published 1956
The Thin Man (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as detective-novels)
avg rating 3.89 — 39,299 ratings — published 1934
Still Life (Chief Inspector Armand Gamache, #1)
by (shelved 8 times as detective-novels)
avg rating 3.89 — 294,372 ratings — published 2005
The Thursday Murder Club (Thursday Murder Club, #1)
by (shelved 8 times as detective-novels)
avg rating 3.85 — 848,266 ratings — published 2020
Death in the Clouds (Hercule Poirot, #12)
by (shelved 8 times as detective-novels)
avg rating 3.86 — 69,388 ratings — published 1935
The Devotion of Suspect X (Detective Galileo, #1)
by (shelved 8 times as detective-novels)
avg rating 4.16 — 83,867 ratings — published 2005
The Likeness (Dublin Murder Squad, #2)
by (shelved 8 times as detective-novels)
avg rating 4.06 — 185,358 ratings — published 2008
The Concrete Blonde (Harry Bosch, #3; Harry Bosch Universe, #3)
by (shelved 8 times as detective-novels)
avg rating 4.24 — 82,490 ratings — published 1994
The Mystery of the Blue Train (Hercule Poirot, #6)
by (shelved 8 times as detective-novels)
avg rating 3.88 — 88,153 ratings — published 1928
Peril at End House (Hercule Poirot, #8)
by (shelved 8 times as detective-novels)
avg rating 4.02 — 87,183 ratings — published 1932
The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency (No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency, #1)
by (shelved 8 times as detective-novels)
avg rating 3.81 — 279,022 ratings — published 1998
Crooked House (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as detective-novels)
avg rating 4.08 — 96,484 ratings — published 1949
The Labours of Hercules (Hercule Poirot, #26)
by (shelved 7 times as detective-novels)
avg rating 3.75 — 33,563 ratings — published 1947
Sad Cypress (Hercule Poirot, #21)
by (shelved 7 times as detective-novels)
avg rating 3.94 — 49,465 ratings — published 1940
“What was Dr. Mera's motive for murder? I don't need to tell that to a writer of detective novels such as yourself. You know well enough yourself that even without a motive, a murderer lives to kill.”
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“I was so high, I needed a stepladder to scratch my own ass.”
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