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Description: Best Detective Stories

Rank Title Author Added

1

The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes

by Arthur Conan Doyle

15,785 members

251 reviews

4.1

8 Members: lahochstetler, aulsmith, rainpebble, LisaMaria_C, rretzler, Jarandel, Luisali, ahef1963

2

The Cater Street Hangman

1,792 members

67 reviews

½ 3.7

5 Members: lahochstetler, Samantha_kathy, Luisali, carlyrose, ahef1963

3

by Mark Billingham

1,298 members

48 reviews

½ 3.6

5 Members: ijustgetbored, MAJic, DeltaQueen50, ahef1963, kara.shamy

4

10,314 members

583 reviews

3.8

5 Members: ijustgetbored, KimarieBee, MAJic, rainpebble, DeltaQueen50

5

Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?

by Philip K. Dick

19,418 members

476 reviews

4

5 Members: ijustgetbored, aulsmith, Bluewolf0411, rretzler, Jarandel

6

Murder Must Advertise

by Dorothy L. Sayers

3,798 members

106 reviews

4.2

4 Members: rainpebble, rretzler, Luisali, ahef1963

7

by Raymond Chandler

10,343 members

285 reviews

4

4 Members: wokaid, rretzler, ahef1963, jcarroll133

8

by Michael Connelly

5,630 members

165 reviews

3.9

4 Members: rob80ert, rainpebble, Bluewolf0411, Luisali

9

by Michael Connelly

4,515 members

86 reviews

3.8

4 Members: rob80ert, rainpebble, Bluewolf0411, Luisali

10

The Mysterious Affair at Styles

by Agatha Christie

9,039 members

293 reviews

3.8

4 Members: rainpebble, rretzler, Luisali, ahef1963

11

by Charles Dickens

13,727 members

249 reviews

4.2

3 Members: rainpebble, ahef1963, jeffza

12

The Innocence of Father Brown

by G.K. Chesterton

1,946 members

59 reviews

½ 3.6

4 Members: rainpebble, rretzler, Luisali, ahef1963

13

The Man in the Queue

by Josephine Tey

1,675 members

61 reviews

½ 3.6

4 Members: MAJic, rainpebble, rretzler, ahef1963

14

The Chinese Gold Murders

by Robert van Gulik

642 members

11 reviews

4

3 Members: aulsmith, LisaMaria_C, Jarandel

15

The Concrete Blonde

by Michael Connelly

4,221 members

117 reviews

3.9

3 Members: rob80ert, rainpebble, Bluewolf0411

16

by Michael Connelly

4,184 members

87 reviews

3.9

3 Members: rob80ert, rainpebble, Bluewolf0411

17

Frost at Christmas

by R. D. Wingfield

484 members

19 reviews

3.9

3 Members: MAJic, DeltaQueen50, ahef1963

18

by Robert Crais

1,839 members

35 reviews

4

2 Members: audreyj, Bluewolf0411

19

The Murder at the Vicarage

by Agatha Christie

6,230 members

192 reviews

3.8

4 Members: rainpebble, rretzler, Luisali, ahef1963,

20

The Yiddish Policemen's Union

by Michael Chabon

10,422 members

423 reviews

3.8

3 Members: aulsmith, MAJic, ahef1963,Luisali

21

by William Hjortsberg

793 members

30 reviews

3.9

2 Members: MAJic, Jarandel

22

by Robert Crais

1,971 members

46 reviews

3.9

2 Members: audreyj, Bluewolf0411

23

by Dervla McTiernan

935 members

58 reviews

3.9

2 Members: KimarieBee, MAJic

24

by Sean Chercover

183 members

12 reviews

4

2 Members: MAJic, Bluewolf0411

25

The Monkey's Raincoat

by Robert Crais

1,964 members

63 reviews

½ 3.7

2 Members: audreyj, Bluewolf0411

26

Outsider in Amsterdam

by Janwillem van de Wetering

657 members

22 reviews

½ 3.6

2 Members: aulsmith, John_Vaughan

27

From Doon with Death

by Ruth Rendell

1,334 members

68 reviews

½ 3.4

2 Members: rretzler, Luisali

28

The Corpse on the Dike

by Janwillem van de Wetering

328 members

8 reviews

½ 3.7

2 Members: aulsmith, John_Vaughan

29

by Janwillem van de Wetering

237 members

4 reviews

3.8

2 Members: aulsmith, John_Vaughan

30

by Robert Crais

1,225 members

27 reviews

3.8

2 Members: audreyj, Bluewolf0411

31

Murder on the Yellow Brick Road

by Stuart M. Kaminsky

270 members

5 reviews

3.2

2 Members: MAJic, Luisali

32

Champagne for One

966 members

13 reviews

3.9

2 Members: aulsmith, rretzler

33

The Last Detective

by Peter Lovesey

851 members

47 reviews

½ 3.6

2 Members: MAJic, rretzler

34

by Janwillem van de Wetering

216 members

7 reviews

½ 3.6

2 Members: aulsmith, John_Vaughan

35

The Man with a Load of Mischief

by Martha Grimes

1,590 members

29 reviews

3.8

2 Members: rretzler, ahef1963

36

by Wilkie Collins

10,851 members

251 reviews

4

2 Members: rainpebble, ahef1963

37

A Darkness More Than Night

by Michael Connelly

4,280 members

77 reviews

3.8

2 Members: rainpebble, Bluewolf0411

38

The Killings at Badger's Drift

by Caroline Graham

916 members

38 reviews

3.8

2 Members: MAJic, rretzler

39

by Stuart MacBride

1,327 members

72 reviews

3.8

2 Members: MAJic, DeltaQueen50,Bluewolf0411

40

A Great Deliverance

by Elizabeth George

3,698 members

107 reviews

3.8

2 Members: rainpebble, rretzler

41

Unnatural Exposure

by Patricia Cornwell

5,204 members

51 reviews

½ 3.5

2 Members: rainpebble, ahef1963

42

3,313 members

89 reviews

½ 3.6

2 Members: rretzler, ahef1963

43

by James Patterson

8,173 members

220 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: dara85

44

by Louise Penny

6,714 members

427 reviews

3.8

Member: kara.shamy

45

Death in the Stocks

by Georgette Heyer

980 members

46 reviews

½ 3.6

2 Members: MAJic, rretzler

46

Death at the President's Lodging

by Michael Innes

684 members

29 reviews

½ 3.5

2 Members: MAJic, rretzler

47

Dressing of Diamond

by Nicolas Freeling

65 members

1 review

4

Member: John_Vaughan

48

by Reginald Hill

534 members

6 reviews

3.9

Member: rretzler

49

The Mind-Murders

by Janwillem van de Wetering

250 members

5 reviews

½ 3.6

2 Members: aulsmith, John_Vaughan,Bluewolf0411

50

Just a Corpse at Twilight

by Janwillem van de Wetering

216 members

4 reviews

½ 3.6

2 Members: ijustgetbored, John_Vaughan,Bluewolf0411

51

by Nicolas Freeling

74 members

1 review

4.1

Member: John_Vaughan

52

Black Knight in Red Square

by Stuart M. Kaminsky

168 members

3 reviews

3.8

Member: Luisali

53

The Complete Sherlock Holmes: All 4 Novels and 56 Short Stories

by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

12,637 members

91 reviews

½ 4.4

Member: rainpebble

54

by Harlan Coben

4,625 members

155 reviews

3.8

Member: Bluewolf0411

55

1,409 members

52 reviews

½ 3.5

Member: rretzler

56

The Crime at Black Dudley

by Margery Allingham

1,227 members

43 reviews

½ 3.3

Member: rretzler

57

No Country for Old Men

by Cormac McCarthy

11,161 members

292 reviews

4

Member: ahef1963

58

by Dennis Lehane

5,911 members

138 reviews

4.1

Member: Luisali

59

The Hound of the Baskervilles

by Arthur Conan Doyle

15,430 members

303 reviews

3.9

Member: rainpebble

60

The Maltese Falcon

by Dashiell Hammett

9,195 members

280 reviews

3.9

Member: rretzler

61

by Robert Crais

1,193 members

28 reviews

3.8

Member: Bluewolf0411

62

by Janwillem van de Wetering

323 members

10 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: John_Vaughan

63

And Then There Were None

by Agatha Christie

21,419 members

539 reviews

4.2

Member: rainpebble

64

by Dashiell Hammett

4,287 members

143 reviews

3.8

Member: rretzler

65

The Blond Baboon

by Janwillem van de Wetering

247 members

3 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: John_Vaughan

66

Dreaming of the Bones

by Deborah Crombie

981 members

31 reviews

4

Member: rretzler

67

Love in Amsterdam

by Nicolas Freeling

217 members

8 reviews

½ 3.6

Member: John_Vaughan,Bluewolf0411

68

A Murder of Quality

by John le Carré

2,372 members

57 reviews

½ 3.6

2 Members: MAJic, John_Vaughan,Bluewolf0411

69

by Janwillem van de Wetering

227 members

5 reviews

3.8

Member: John_Vaughan

70

by Dorothy L. Sayers

5,478 members

150 reviews

½ 4.3

Member: rainpebble

71

by John Dickson Carr

382 members

10 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: rretzler

72

by Jacqueline Winspear

4,840 members

272 reviews

3.8

2 Members: lahochstetler, rainpebble,audreyj ,LisaMaria_C

73

The King of the Rainy Country

by Nicolas Freeling

171 members

4 reviews

½ 3.6

Member: John_Vaughan,Bluewolf0411

74

Death of a Gossip

by M. C. Beaton

1,202 members

63 reviews

½ 3.4

2 Members: lahochstetler, rretzler,aulsmith ,Bluewolf0411

75

The Bone Is Pointed

by Arthur William Upfield

326 members

7 reviews

3.8

Member: Jarandel,Bluewolf0411

76

by Nicolas Freeling

54 members

3 reviews

½ 3.3

Member: John_Vaughan,Bluewolf0411

77

by Nicolas Freeling

47 members

2 reviews

3.1

Member: John_Vaughan,Bluewolf0411

78

Because of the Cats

by Nicolas Freeling

174 members

2 reviews

3.9

Member: John_Vaughan,Bluewolf0411

79

Death of a Hawker

by Janwillem van de Wetering

246 members

6 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: John_Vaughan,Bluewolf0411

80

The Silence of the Lambs

by Thomas Harris

12,599 members

140 reviews

4.1

81

by Thomas Harris

10,093 members

103 reviews

3.8

82

The Murder of Roger Ackroyd

by Agatha Christie

10,092 members

326 reviews

4.1

83

When We Were Orphans

by Kazuo Ishiguro

5,623 members

132 reviews

½ 3.5

84

The Last Policeman

by Ben H. Winters

2,126 members

185 reviews

3.8

85

by Percival Everett

168 members

20 reviews

½ 3.7

86

by Richard K. Morgan

6,996 members

217 reviews

4

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Started: John_Vaughan
February 2012
Type: Numbered and unnumbered

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