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Murder on the Orient Express (Hercule Poirot, #10)
by (shelved 167 times as detectives)
avg rating 4.19 — 779,746 ratings — published 1934
A Study in Scarlet (Sherlock Holmes, #1)
by (shelved 138 times as detectives)
avg rating 4.13 — 514,789 ratings — published 1887
The Murder of Roger Ackroyd (Hercule Poirot, #4)
by (shelved 124 times as detectives)
avg rating 4.26 — 380,294 ratings — published 1926
And Then There Were None (Paperback)
by (shelved 123 times as detectives)
avg rating 4.27 — 1,733,194 ratings — published 1939
The Mysterious Affair at Styles (Hercule Poirot, #1)
by (shelved 122 times as detectives)
avg rating 4.00 — 541,894 ratings — published 1920
Death on the Nile (Hercule Poirot, #18)
by (shelved 107 times as detectives)
avg rating 4.12 — 327,082 ratings — published 1937
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (Sherlock Holmes, #3)
by (shelved 102 times as detectives)
avg rating 4.30 — 336,187 ratings — published 1892
The Hound of the Baskervilles (Sherlock Holmes, #5)
by (shelved 101 times as detectives)
avg rating 4.14 — 407,263 ratings — published 1902
The Cuckoo's Calling (Cormoran Strike, #1)
by (shelved 100 times as detectives)
avg rating 3.89 — 643,614 ratings — published 2013
The Sign of Four (Sherlock Holmes, #2)
by (shelved 88 times as detectives)
avg rating 3.88 — 188,054 ratings — published 1890
The Silkworm (Cormoran Strike, #2)
by (shelved 77 times as detectives)
avg rating 4.05 — 303,447 ratings — published 2014
The A.B.C. Murders (Hercule Poirot, #13)
by (shelved 76 times as detectives)
avg rating 4.03 — 217,304 ratings — published 1936
In the Woods (Dublin Murder Squad, #1)
by (shelved 76 times as detectives)
avg rating 3.78 — 458,929 ratings — published 2007
Murder at the Vicarage (Miss Marple, #1)
by (shelved 75 times as detectives)
avg rating 4.03 — 227,863 ratings — published 1930
The Big Sleep (Philip Marlowe, #1)
by (shelved 73 times as detectives)
avg rating 3.93 — 174,731 ratings — published 1939
The Thursday Murder Club (Thursday Murder Club, #1)
by (shelved 71 times as detectives)
avg rating 3.85 — 879,079 ratings — published 2020
The Murder on the Links (Hercule Poirot, #2)
by (shelved 61 times as detectives)
avg rating 3.86 — 129,056 ratings — published 1923
The Body in the Library (Miss Marple, #2)
by (shelved 61 times as detectives)
avg rating 3.81 — 137,501 ratings — published 1942
The Complete Sherlock Holmes (Leather Bound)
by (shelved 58 times as detectives)
avg rating 4.51 — 221,270 ratings — published 1887
Career of Evil (Cormoran Strike, #3)
by (shelved 58 times as detectives)
avg rating 4.22 — 236,869 ratings — published 2015
4:50 From Paddington (Miss Marple, #7)
by (shelved 58 times as detectives)
avg rating 3.96 — 80,801 ratings — published 1957
The Maltese Falcon (Paperback)
by (shelved 57 times as detectives)
avg rating 3.86 — 119,931 ratings — published 1930
Five Little Pigs (Hercule Poirot, #24)
by (shelved 55 times as detectives)
avg rating 4.03 — 100,294 ratings — published 1942
Hercule Poirot's Christmas (Hercule Poirot, #20)
by (shelved 55 times as detectives)
avg rating 3.98 — 113,451 ratings — published 1938
The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes (Sherlock Holmes, #4)
by (shelved 53 times as detectives)
avg rating 4.29 — 108,847 ratings — published 1893
The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo (Millennium, #1)
by (shelved 53 times as detectives)
avg rating 4.18 — 3,542,880 ratings — published 2005
The Mystery of the Blue Train (Hercule Poirot, #6)
by (shelved 53 times as detectives)
avg rating 3.88 — 90,492 ratings — published 1928
Peril at End House (Hercule Poirot, #8)
by (shelved 51 times as detectives)
avg rating 4.02 — 89,085 ratings — published 1932
Murder in Mesopotamia (Hercule Poirot, #14)
by (shelved 51 times as detectives)
avg rating 3.94 — 74,906 ratings — published 1936
Evil Under the Sun (Hercule Poirot, #23)
by (shelved 49 times as detectives)
avg rating 3.97 — 94,330 ratings — published 1941
A Murder Is Announced (Miss Marple, #4)
by (shelved 49 times as detectives)
avg rating 4.00 — 91,938 ratings — published 1950
The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency (No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency, #1)
by (shelved 49 times as detectives)
avg rating 3.81 — 280,679 ratings — published 1998
The Likeness (Dublin Murder Squad, #2)
by (shelved 48 times as detectives)
avg rating 4.06 — 188,727 ratings — published 2008
Cards on the Table (Hercule Poirot, #15)
by (shelved 48 times as detectives)
avg rating 3.95 — 77,933 ratings — published 1936
Dumb Witness (Hercule Poirot, #17)
by (shelved 47 times as detectives)
avg rating 3.92 — 52,466 ratings — published 1937
Lethal White (Cormoran Strike, #4)
by (shelved 46 times as detectives)
avg rating 4.25 — 193,820 ratings — published 2018
Appointment with Death (Hercule Poirot, #19)
by (shelved 46 times as detectives)
avg rating 3.87 — 73,293 ratings — published 1938
Magpie Murders (Susan Ryeland, #1)
by (shelved 45 times as detectives)
avg rating 3.94 — 182,358 ratings — published 2016
Lord Edgware Dies (Hercule Poirot, #9)
by (shelved 44 times as detectives)
avg rating 3.94 — 66,743 ratings — published 1933
Hallowe'en Party (Hercule Poirot, #41)
by (shelved 44 times as detectives)
avg rating 3.56 — 112,306 ratings — published 1969
The Moving Finger (Miss Marple, #3)
by (shelved 43 times as detectives)
avg rating 3.85 — 62,451 ratings — published 1942
Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency (Dirk Gently, #1)
by (shelved 43 times as detectives)
avg rating 3.97 — 151,539 ratings — published 1987
Three Act Tragedy (Hercule Poirot, #11)
by (shelved 42 times as detectives)
avg rating 3.84 — 52,926 ratings — published 1935
Poirot Investigates (Hercule Poirot, #3)
by (shelved 42 times as detectives)
avg rating 3.87 — 79,208 ratings — published 1924
Still Life (Chief Inspector Armand Gamache, #1)
by (shelved 41 times as detectives)
avg rating 3.89 — 299,419 ratings — published 2005
The Name of the Rose (Paperback)
by (shelved 41 times as detectives)
avg rating 4.14 — 409,680 ratings — published 1980
The Return of Sherlock Holmes (Sherlock Holmes, #6)
by (shelved 41 times as detectives)
avg rating 4.27 — 73,130 ratings — published 1904
The Hollow (Hercule Poirot, #25)
by (shelved 41 times as detectives)
avg rating 3.80 — 47,264 ratings — published 1946
The Big Four (Hercule Poirot, #5)
by (shelved 41 times as detectives)
avg rating 3.56 — 80,290 ratings — published 1927
Troubled Blood (Cormoran Strike, #5)
by (shelved 40 times as detectives)
avg rating 4.39 — 154,940 ratings — published 2020
“I pulled the MG in beside him at the curb and he got in.
"This thing ain't big enough for either one of us," he said. "When you getting something that fits?"
"It goes with my preppy look," I said. "You get one of these, they let you drive around the north shore, watch polo, anything you want."
I let the clutch in and turned right on Dartmouth.
"How you get laid in one of these?" Hawk said.
"You just don't understand preppy," I said. "I know it's not your fault. You're only a couple generations out of the jungle. I realize that. But if you're preppy you don't get laid in a car."
"Where do you get laid if you preppy?"
I sniffed. "One doesn't," I said.
"Preppies gonna be outnumbered in a while," Hawk said.”
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"This thing ain't big enough for either one of us," he said. "When you getting something that fits?"
"It goes with my preppy look," I said. "You get one of these, they let you drive around the north shore, watch polo, anything you want."
I let the clutch in and turned right on Dartmouth.
"How you get laid in one of these?" Hawk said.
"You just don't understand preppy," I said. "I know it's not your fault. You're only a couple generations out of the jungle. I realize that. But if you're preppy you don't get laid in a car."
"Where do you get laid if you preppy?"
I sniffed. "One doesn't," I said.
"Preppies gonna be outnumbered in a while," Hawk said.”
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“Down these mean streets a man must go who is not himself mean, who is neither tarnished nor afraid. The detective must be a complete man and a common man and yet an unusual man. He must be, to use a rather weathered phrase, a man of honor.”
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