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Description: Best Detective Stories

Rank Title Author Added

1

The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes

by Arthur Conan Doyle

15,716 members

249 reviews

4.1

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

2

The Cater Street Hangman

1,790 members

67 reviews

½ 3.7

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

3

by Mark Billingham

1,290 members

48 reviews

½ 3.6

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

4

10,265 members

583 reviews

3.8

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

5

Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?

by Philip K. Dick

19,317 members

475 reviews

4

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

6

Murder Must Advertise

by Dorothy L. Sayers

3,787 members

106 reviews

4.2

4 Members: rainpebble, rretzler, Luisali, ahef1963

7

by Raymond Chandler

10,307 members

284 reviews

4

4 Members: wokaid, rretzler, ahef1963, jcarroll133

8

by Michael Connelly

5,612 members

164 reviews

3.9

4 Members: rob80ert, rainpebble, Bluewolf0411, Luisali

9

by Michael Connelly

4,505 members

85 reviews

3.8

4 Members: rob80ert, rainpebble, Bluewolf0411, Luisali

10

The Mysterious Affair at Styles

by Agatha Christie

8,956 members

288 reviews

3.8

4 Members: rainpebble, rretzler, Luisali, ahef1963

11

by Charles Dickens

13,704 members

248 reviews

4.2

3 Members: rainpebble, ahef1963, jeffza

12

The Innocence of Father Brown

by G.K. Chesterton

1,934 members

59 reviews

½ 3.6

4 Members: rainpebble, rretzler, Luisali, ahef1963

13

The Man in the Queue

by Josephine Tey

1,673 members

61 reviews

½ 3.6

4 Members: MAJic, rainpebble, rretzler, ahef1963

14

The Chinese Gold Murders

by Robert van Gulik

638 members

11 reviews

4

3 Members: aulsmith, LisaMaria_C, Jarandel

15

The Concrete Blonde

by Michael Connelly

4,218 members

117 reviews

3.9

3 Members: rob80ert, rainpebble, Bluewolf0411

16

by Michael Connelly

4,179 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

1,834 members

35 reviews

4

2 Members: audreyj, Bluewolf0411

19

The Murder at the Vicarage

by Agatha Christie

6,184 members

191 reviews

3.8

4 Members: rainpebble, rretzler, Luisali, ahef1963,

20

The Yiddish Policemen's Union

by Michael Chabon

10,393 members

421 reviews

3.8

3 Members: aulsmith, MAJic, ahef1963,Luisali

21

by William Hjortsberg

789 members

30 reviews

3.9

2 Members: MAJic, Jarandel

22

by Robert Crais

1,966 members

46 reviews

3.9

2 Members: audreyj, Bluewolf0411

23

by Dervla McTiernan

922 members

55 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

1,958 members

62 reviews

½ 3.7

2 Members: audreyj, Bluewolf0411

26

Outsider in Amsterdam

by Janwillem van de Wetering

654 members

22 reviews

½ 3.6

2 Members: aulsmith, John_Vaughan

27

From Doon with Death

by Ruth Rendell

1,331 members

67 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

1,223 members

27 reviews

3.8

2 Members: audreyj, Bluewolf0411

31

Murder on the Yellow Brick Road

by Stuart M. Kaminsky

269 members

5 reviews

3.2

2 Members: MAJic, Luisali

32

Champagne for One

963 members

13 reviews

3.9

2 Members: aulsmith, rretzler

33

The Last Detective

by Peter Lovesey

852 members

47 reviews

½ 3.6

2 Members: MAJic, rretzler

34

by Janwillem van de Wetering

215 members

7 reviews

½ 3.6

2 Members: aulsmith, John_Vaughan

35

The Man with a Load of Mischief

by Martha Grimes

1,587 members

29 reviews

3.8

2 Members: rretzler, ahef1963

36

by Wilkie Collins

10,812 members

251 reviews

4

2 Members: rainpebble, ahef1963

37

A Darkness More Than Night

by Michael Connelly

4,269 members

77 reviews

3.8

2 Members: rainpebble, Bluewolf0411

38

The Killings at Badger's Drift

by Caroline Graham

911 members

38 reviews

3.8

2 Members: MAJic, rretzler

39

by Stuart MacBride

1,320 members

72 reviews

3.8

2 Members: MAJic, DeltaQueen50,Bluewolf0411

40

A Great Deliverance

by Elizabeth George

3,694 members

107 reviews

3.8

2 Members: rainpebble, rretzler

41

Unnatural Exposure

by Patricia Cornwell

5,185 members

51 reviews

½ 3.5

2 Members: rainpebble, ahef1963

42

3,305 members

89 reviews

½ 3.6

2 Members: rretzler, ahef1963

43

by James Patterson

8,138 members

213 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: dara85

44

by Louise Penny

6,669 members

426 reviews

3.8

Member: kara.shamy

45

Death in the Stocks

by Georgette Heyer

973 members

46 reviews

½ 3.6

2 Members: MAJic, rretzler

46

Death at the President's Lodging

by Michael Innes

683 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

532 members

6 reviews

3.9

Member: rretzler

49

The Mind-Murders

by Janwillem van de Wetering

249 members

5 reviews

½ 3.6

2 Members: aulsmith, John_Vaughan,Bluewolf0411

50

Just a Corpse at Twilight

by Janwillem van de Wetering

215 members

4 reviews

½ 3.6

2 Members: ijustgetbored, John_Vaughan,Bluewolf0411

51

by Nicolas Freeling

73 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

12,597 members

91 reviews

½ 4.4

Member: rainpebble

54

by Harlan Coben

4,612 members

154 reviews

3.8

Member: Bluewolf0411

55

1,406 members

51 reviews

½ 3.5

Member: rretzler

56

The Crime at Black Dudley

by Margery Allingham

1,221 members

43 reviews

½ 3.3

Member: rretzler

57

No Country for Old Men

by Cormac McCarthy

11,108 members

292 reviews

4

Member: ahef1963

58

by Dennis Lehane

5,892 members

138 reviews

4.1

Member: Luisali

59

The Hound of the Baskervilles

by Arthur Conan Doyle

15,379 members

301 reviews

3.9

Member: rainpebble

60

The Maltese Falcon

by Dashiell Hammett

9,172 members

279 reviews

3.9

Member: rretzler

61

by Robert Crais

1,191 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

21,288 members

538 reviews

4.2

Member: rainpebble

64

by Dashiell Hammett

4,273 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

982 members

31 reviews

3.9

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

2,359 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

5,467 members

150 reviews

½ 4.3

Member: rainpebble

71

by John Dickson Carr

378 members

9 reviews

3.8

Member: rretzler

72

by Jacqueline Winspear

4,834 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

1,200 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

53 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

12,559 members

140 reviews

4.1

81

by Thomas Harris

10,046 members

103 reviews

3.8

82

The Murder of Roger Ackroyd

by Agatha Christie

10,032 members

325 reviews

4.1

83

When We Were Orphans

by Kazuo Ishiguro

5,601 members

130 reviews

½ 3.5

84

The Last Policeman

by Ben H. Winters

2,124 members

185 reviews

3.8

85

by Percival Everett

167 members

20 reviews

½ 3.7

86

by Richard K. Morgan

6,989 members

217 reviews

4

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Started: John_Vaughan
February 2012
Type: Numbered and unnumbered

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