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Murder on the Orient Express (Hercule Poirot, #10)
by (shelved 68 times as detective-stories)
avg rating 4.19 — 779,407 ratings — published 1934
A Study in Scarlet (Sherlock Holmes, #1)
by (shelved 63 times as detective-stories)
avg rating 4.13 — 514,634 ratings — published 1887
The Hound of the Baskervilles (Sherlock Holmes, #5)
by (shelved 59 times as detective-stories)
avg rating 4.14 — 407,118 ratings — published 1902
And Then There Were None (Paperback)
by (shelved 57 times as detective-stories)
avg rating 4.27 — 1,732,463 ratings — published 1939
The Mysterious Affair at Styles (Hercule Poirot, #1)
by (shelved 51 times as detective-stories)
avg rating 4.00 — 541,658 ratings — published 1920
Death on the Nile (Hercule Poirot, #18)
by (shelved 49 times as detective-stories)
avg rating 4.12 — 326,944 ratings — published 1937
The A.B.C. Murders (Hercule Poirot, #13)
by (shelved 48 times as detective-stories)
avg rating 4.03 — 217,098 ratings — published 1936
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (Sherlock Holmes, #3)
by (shelved 47 times as detective-stories)
avg rating 4.30 — 336,111 ratings — published 1892
The Murder of Roger Ackroyd (Hercule Poirot, #4)
by (shelved 42 times as detective-stories)
avg rating 4.26 — 380,063 ratings — published 1926
The Sign of Four (Sherlock Holmes, #2)
by (shelved 41 times as detective-stories)
avg rating 3.88 — 188,006 ratings — published 1890
Murder at the Vicarage (Miss Marple, #1)
by (shelved 37 times as detective-stories)
avg rating 4.03 — 227,734 ratings — published 1930
The Body in the Library (Miss Marple, #2)
by (shelved 37 times as detective-stories)
avg rating 3.81 — 137,447 ratings — published 1942
The Cuckoo's Calling (Cormoran Strike, #1)
by (shelved 33 times as detective-stories)
avg rating 3.89 — 643,505 ratings — published 2013
Hercule Poirot's Christmas (Hercule Poirot, #20)
by (shelved 32 times as detective-stories)
avg rating 3.98 — 113,412 ratings — published 1938
Five Little Pigs (Hercule Poirot, #24)
by (shelved 31 times as detective-stories)
avg rating 4.03 — 100,261 ratings — published 1942
The Silkworm (Cormoran Strike, #2)
by (shelved 30 times as detective-stories)
avg rating 4.05 — 303,394 ratings — published 2014
4:50 From Paddington (Miss Marple, #7)
by (shelved 30 times as detective-stories)
avg rating 3.96 — 80,777 ratings — published 1957
The Complete Sherlock Holmes (Leather Bound)
by (shelved 29 times as detective-stories)
avg rating 4.51 — 221,246 ratings — published 1887
Evil Under the Sun (Hercule Poirot, #23)
by (shelved 29 times as detective-stories)
avg rating 3.97 — 94,300 ratings — published 1941
Appointment with Death (Hercule Poirot, #19)
by (shelved 28 times as detective-stories)
avg rating 3.87 — 73,257 ratings — published 1938
The Big Four (Hercule Poirot, #5)
by (shelved 27 times as detective-stories)
avg rating 3.56 — 80,251 ratings — published 1927
Murder in Mesopotamia (Hercule Poirot, #14)
by (shelved 27 times as detective-stories)
avg rating 3.94 — 74,874 ratings — published 1936
The Murder on the Links (Hercule Poirot, #2)
by (shelved 26 times as detective-stories)
avg rating 3.86 — 128,985 ratings — published 1923
The Mystery of the Blue Train (Hercule Poirot, #6)
by (shelved 25 times as detective-stories)
avg rating 3.88 — 90,443 ratings — published 1928
A Murder Is Announced (Miss Marple, #4)
by (shelved 25 times as detective-stories)
avg rating 4.01 — 91,882 ratings — published 1950
The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes (Sherlock Holmes, #4)
by (shelved 25 times as detective-stories)
avg rating 4.29 — 108,826 ratings — published 1893
Cards on the Table (Hercule Poirot, #15)
by (shelved 25 times as detective-stories)
avg rating 3.95 — 77,909 ratings — published 1936
The Da Vinci Code (Robert Langdon, #2)
by (shelved 24 times as detective-stories)
avg rating 3.94 — 2,594,726 ratings — published 2003
Cat Among the Pigeons (Hercule Poirot, #36)
by (shelved 24 times as detective-stories)
avg rating 3.86 — 54,135 ratings — published 1959
The Moving Finger (Miss Marple, #3)
by (shelved 24 times as detective-stories)
avg rating 3.85 — 62,415 ratings — published 1942
The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo (Millennium, #1)
by (shelved 24 times as detective-stories)
avg rating 4.18 — 3,542,367 ratings — published 2005
At Bertram's Hotel (Miss Marple, #10)
by (shelved 24 times as detective-stories)
avg rating 3.71 — 49,603 ratings — published 1965
Career of Evil (Cormoran Strike, #3)
by (shelved 23 times as detective-stories)
avg rating 4.22 — 236,821 ratings — published 2015
The Man in the Brown Suit (Colonel Race, #1)
by (shelved 23 times as detective-stories)
avg rating 3.95 — 129,566 ratings — published 1924
The Clocks (Hercule Poirot, #39)
by (shelved 23 times as detective-stories)
avg rating 3.73 — 44,884 ratings — published 1963
Lethal White (Cormoran Strike, #4)
by (shelved 22 times as detective-stories)
avg rating 4.25 — 193,768 ratings — published 2018
The Return of Sherlock Holmes (Sherlock Holmes, #6)
by (shelved 21 times as detective-stories)
avg rating 4.27 — 73,204 ratings — published 1904
A Caribbean Mystery (Miss Marple, #9)
by (shelved 21 times as detective-stories)
avg rating 3.86 — 56,959 ratings — published 1964
Peril at End House (Hercule Poirot, #8)
by (shelved 21 times as detective-stories)
avg rating 4.02 — 89,045 ratings — published 1932
Curtain (Hercule Poirot, #44)
by (shelved 21 times as detective-stories)
avg rating 4.10 — 52,600 ratings — published 1975
A Pocket Full of Rye (Miss Marple, #6)
by (shelved 21 times as detective-stories)
avg rating 3.94 — 57,006 ratings — published 1953
Hallowe'en Party (Hercule Poirot, #41)
by (shelved 21 times as detective-stories)
avg rating 3.56 — 112,157 ratings — published 1969
Lord Edgware Dies (Hercule Poirot, #9)
by (shelved 20 times as detective-stories)
avg rating 3.94 — 66,717 ratings — published 1933
Death in the Clouds (Hercule Poirot, #12)
by (shelved 20 times as detective-stories)
avg rating 3.86 — 71,189 ratings — published 1935
After the Funeral (Hercule Poirot, #30)
by (shelved 20 times as detective-stories)
avg rating 3.92 — 53,189 ratings — published 1953
Sleeping Murder (Miss Marple, #12)
by (shelved 20 times as detective-stories)
avg rating 4.00 — 56,226 ratings — published 1976
Nemesis (Miss Marple, #11)
by (shelved 20 times as detective-stories)
avg rating 3.87 — 47,703 ratings — published 1971
The Valley of Fear (Sherlock Holmes, #7)
by (shelved 19 times as detective-stories)
avg rating 3.95 — 58,651 ratings — published 1914
Poirot Investigates (Hercule Poirot, #3)
by (shelved 19 times as detective-stories)
avg rating 3.87 — 79,178 ratings — published 1924
Sad Cypress (Hercule Poirot, #21)
by (shelved 19 times as detective-stories)
avg rating 3.94 — 50,516 ratings — published 1940
“And there are still a number of people around who say that Hammett didn't write detective stories at all-merely hard-boiled chronicles of mean streets with a perfunctory mystery element dropped in like the olive in a martini. (The Simple Art of Murder)”
― The Simple Art of Murder
― The Simple Art of Murder
“Style, you either have it or you don't, and if you have it, you have it all the time.”
― The Lovable Rogue Mysteries: Thirteen Tales Of Crime From The City
― The Lovable Rogue Mysteries: Thirteen Tales Of Crime From The City