Golden Age of Detection

Description
The Golden Age of Detection - roughly from 1920 to 1960. Select your ten favorites from this time frame. Any type of book is OK -- locked room, hard-boiled, country house, whatever.
1
The Complete Sherlock Holmes
by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
13,997 members
98 reviews
½ 4.4
4 Members
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2
The Big Sleep
by Raymond Chandler
11,519 members
314 reviews
4
4 Members
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3
And Then There Were None
by Agatha Christie
25,501 members
614 reviews
4.2
4 Members
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4
The Murder of Roger Ackroyd
by Agatha Christie
12,093 members
384 reviews
4.1
3 Members
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5
The Long Goodbye
by Raymond Chandler
5,856 members
126 reviews
4.2
3 Members
aulsmith, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda
6
The Maltese Falcon
by Dashiell Hammett
10,362 members
302 reviews
3.9
3 Members
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7
Farewell, My Lovely
by Raymond Chandler
5,055 members
113 reviews
4
3 Members
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8
Strong Poison
by Dorothy L. Sayers
4,869 members
140 reviews
4.1
3 Members
aulsmith, ahef1963, NinieB
9
The Horizontal Man
by Helen Eustis
195 members
5 reviews
½ 3.3
2 Members
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10
Murder Must Advertise
by Dorothy L. Sayers
4,124 members
112 reviews
4.2
2 Members
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11
And Be a Villain
by Rex Stout
1,159 members
31 reviews
4
2 Members
jburlinson, pec1309
12
The Silent Speaker
by Rex Stout
1,069 members
25 reviews
4
2 Members
aulsmith, pec1309
13
The Caves of Steel
by Isaac Asimov
8,764 members
167 reviews
4
2 Members
aulsmith, raperper
14
Three Coffins
by John Dickson Carr
981 members
41 reviews
3.8
2 Members
jburlinson, geitebukkeskjegg
15
Trial and Error
by Anthony Berkeley
202 members
6 reviews
4
2 Members
jburlinson, NinieB
16
The Five Red Herrings
by Dorothy L. Sayers
3,126 members
82 reviews
½ 3.6
2 Members
jburlinson, pec1309
17
Gaudy Night
by Dorothy L. Sayers
5,989 members
159 reviews
½ 4.3
2 Members
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18
What Mrs. McGillicuddy Saw!
by Agatha Christie
5,393 members
121 reviews
3.8
2 Members
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19
Minute for Murder
by Nicholas Blake
171 members
7 reviews
½ 3.7
2 Members
aulsmith, pec1309
20
Nine - and Death Makes Ten
by Carter Dickson
153 members
3 reviews
½ 3.7
2 Members
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21
The Barbarous Coast
by Ross Macdonald
468 members
13 reviews
3.8
2 Members
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22
The House without a Key
by Earl Derr Biggers
478 members
26 reviews
½ 3.7
2 Members
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23
Miss Pinkerton
by Mary Roberts Rinehart
279 members
6 reviews
½ 3.5
2 Members
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24
Trent's Last Case
by E. C. Bentley
1,025 members
35 reviews
½ 3.6
Member
jburlinson
25
The Burning Court
by John Dickson Carr
378 members
10 reviews
½ 3.6
Member
geitebukkeskjegg
26
The Tower Treasure
by Franklin W. Dixon
5,002 members
52 reviews
½ 3.6
Member
ManWithAnAgenda
27
The Nine Tailors
by Dorothy L. Sayers
4,848 members
124 reviews
4
Member
geitebukkeskjegg
28
The Secret of the Old Clock
by Carolyn Keene
7,383 members
90 reviews
3.8
Member
ManWithAnAgenda
29
Red Harvest
by Dashiell Hammett
3,396 members
100 reviews
3.9
Member
jburlinson
30
Death in the Blue Lake
by André Bjerke
90 members
4.2
Member
geitebukkeskjegg
31
By the Light of the Study Lamp
by Carolyn Keene
243 members
1 review
½ 3.4
Member
ManWithAnAgenda
32
The Daughter of Time
by Josephine Tey
6,667 members
250 reviews
3.9
Member
ManWithAnAgenda
33
The League of Frightened Men
by Rex Stout
1,141 members
37 reviews
3.8
Member
geitebukkeskjegg
34
Final Curtain
by Ngaio Marsh
866 members
7 reviews
3.8
Member
jburlinson
35
The Chocolate Cobweb
by Charlotte Armstrong
108 members
2 reviews
½ 3.6
Member
ManWithAnAgenda