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Description: Best Detective Stories

Rank Title Author Added

1

The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes

by Arthur Conan Doyle

16,235 members

253 reviews

4.1

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

2

The Cater Street Hangman

1,811 members

65 reviews

½ 3.7

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

3

by Mark Billingham

1,320 members

49 reviews

½ 3.6

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

4

10,544 members

594 reviews

3.8

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

5

Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?

by Philip K. Dick

19,907 members

477 reviews

4

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

6

Murder Must Advertise

by Dorothy L. Sayers

3,861 members

106 reviews

4.2

4 Members: rainpebble, rretzler, Luisali, ahef1963

7

by Raymond Chandler

10,567 members

287 reviews

4

4 Members: wokaid, rretzler, ahef1963, jcarroll133

8

by Michael Connelly

5,718 members

165 reviews

3.9

4 Members: rob80ert, rainpebble, Bluewolf0411, Luisali

9

by Michael Connelly

4,597 members

86 reviews

3.8

4 Members: rob80ert, rainpebble, Bluewolf0411, Luisali

10

The Mysterious Affair at Styles

by Agatha Christie

9,371 members

297 reviews

3.8

4 Members: rainpebble, rretzler, Luisali, ahef1963

11

by Charles Dickens

14,038 members

253 reviews

4.2

3 Members: rainpebble, ahef1963, jeffza

12

The Innocence of Father Brown

by G. K. Chesterton

1,987 members

55 reviews

½ 3.6

4 Members: rainpebble, rretzler, Luisali, ahef1963

13

The Man in the Queue

by Josephine Tey

1,721 members

63 reviews

½ 3.6

4 Members: MAJic, rainpebble, rretzler, ahef1963

14

The Chinese Gold Murders

by Robert van Gulik

660 members

11 reviews

4

3 Members: aulsmith, LisaMaria_C, Jarandel

15

The Concrete Blonde

by Michael Connelly

4,282 members

117 reviews

3.9

3 Members: rob80ert, rainpebble, Bluewolf0411

16

by Michael Connelly

4,238 members

88 reviews

3.9

3 Members: rob80ert, rainpebble, Bluewolf0411

17

Frost at Christmas

by R. D. Wingfield

486 members

19 reviews

3.9

3 Members: MAJic, DeltaQueen50, ahef1963

18

by Robert Crais

1,859 members

36 reviews

4

2 Members: audreyj, Bluewolf0411

19

The Murder at the Vicarage

by Agatha Christie

6,374 members

192 reviews

3.8

4 Members: rainpebble, rretzler, Luisali, ahef1963,

20

The Yiddish Policemen's Union

by Michael Chabon

10,568 members

429 reviews

3.8

3 Members: aulsmith, MAJic, ahef1963,Luisali

21

by William Hjortsberg

805 members

30 reviews

3.9

2 Members: MAJic, Jarandel

22

by Robert Crais

1,998 members

46 reviews

3.9

2 Members: audreyj, Bluewolf0411

23

by Dervla McTiernan

980 members

61 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

2,000 members

63 reviews

½ 3.7

2 Members: audreyj, Bluewolf0411

26

Outsider in Amsterdam

by Janwillem van de Wetering

663 members

22 reviews

½ 3.6

2 Members: aulsmith, John_Vaughan

27

From Doon with Death

by Ruth Rendell

1,345 members

67 reviews

½ 3.4

2 Members: rretzler, Luisali

28

The Corpse on the Dike

by Janwillem van de Wetering

331 members

8 reviews

½ 3.7

2 Members: aulsmith, John_Vaughan

29

by Janwillem van de Wetering

240 members

4 reviews

3.8

2 Members: aulsmith, John_Vaughan

30

by Robert Crais

1,242 members

27 reviews

3.8

2 Members: audreyj, Bluewolf0411

31

Murder on the Yellow Brick Road

by Stuart M. Kaminsky

277 members

8 reviews

3.2

2 Members: MAJic, Luisali

32

Champagne for One

984 members

14 reviews

3.9

2 Members: aulsmith, rretzler

33

The Last Detective

by Peter Lovesey

870 members

46 reviews

½ 3.6

2 Members: MAJic, rretzler

34

by Janwillem van de Wetering

218 members

7 reviews

½ 3.6

2 Members: aulsmith, John_Vaughan

35

The Man with a Load of Mischief

by Martha Grimes

1,610 members

30 reviews

3.8

2 Members: rretzler, ahef1963

36

by Wilkie Collins

11,094 members

253 reviews

4

2 Members: rainpebble, ahef1963

37

A Darkness More Than Night

by Michael Connelly

4,360 members

80 reviews

3.8

2 Members: rainpebble, Bluewolf0411

38

The Killings at Badger's Drift

by Caroline Graham

943 members

39 reviews

3.8

2 Members: MAJic, rretzler

39

by Stuart MacBride

1,343 members

70 reviews

3.8

2 Members: MAJic, DeltaQueen50,Bluewolf0411

40

A Great Deliverance

by Elizabeth George

3,757 members

107 reviews

3.8

2 Members: rainpebble, rretzler

41

Unnatural Exposure

by Patricia Cornwell

5,269 members

51 reviews

½ 3.5

2 Members: rainpebble, ahef1963

42

3,387 members

88 reviews

½ 3.6

2 Members: rretzler, ahef1963

43

by James Patterson

8,314 members

185 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: dara85

44

by Louise Penny

6,906 members

430 reviews

3.8

Member: kara.shamy

45

Death in the Stocks

by Georgette Heyer

1,002 members

45 reviews

½ 3.6

2 Members: MAJic, rretzler

46

Death at the President's Lodging

by Michael Innes

712 members

30 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

544 members

6 reviews

3.9

Member: rretzler

49

The Mind-Murders

by Janwillem van de Wetering

254 members

5 reviews

½ 3.6

2 Members: aulsmith, John_Vaughan,Bluewolf0411

50

Just a Corpse at Twilight

by Janwillem van de Wetering

218 members

4 reviews

½ 3.7

2 Members: ijustgetbored, John_Vaughan,Bluewolf0411

51

by Nicolas Freeling

75 members

1 review

4.1

Member: John_Vaughan

52

Black Knight in Red Square

by Stuart M. Kaminsky

169 members

3 reviews

3.8

Member: Luisali

53

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

by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

12,932 members

93 reviews

½ 4.4

Member: rainpebble

54

by Harlan Coben

4,736 members

156 reviews

3.8

Member: Bluewolf0411

55

1,434 members

53 reviews

½ 3.5

Member: rretzler

56

The Crime at Black Dudley

by Margery Allingham

1,256 members

43 reviews

½ 3.3

Member: rretzler

57

No Country for Old Men

by Cormac McCarthy

11,411 members

297 reviews

4

Member: ahef1963

58

by Dennis Lehane

5,955 members

138 reviews

4.1

Member: Luisali

59

The Hound of the Baskervilles

by Arthur Conan Doyle

15,870 members

308 reviews

3.9

Member: rainpebble

60

The Maltese Falcon

by Dashiell Hammett

9,358 members

280 reviews

3.9

Member: rretzler

61

by Robert Crais

1,207 members

25 reviews

3.8

Member: Bluewolf0411

62

by Janwillem van de Wetering

332 members

10 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: John_Vaughan

63

And Then There Were None

by Agatha Christie

22,191 members

549 reviews

4.2

Member: rainpebble

64

by Dashiell Hammett

4,361 members

142 reviews

3.8

Member: rretzler

65

The Blond Baboon

by Janwillem van de Wetering

253 members

3 reviews

3.8

Member: John_Vaughan

66

Dreaming of the Bones

by Deborah Crombie

993 members

30 reviews

3.9

Member: rretzler

67

Love in Amsterdam

by Nicolas Freeling

219 members

8 reviews

½ 3.6

Member: John_Vaughan,Bluewolf0411

68

A Murder of Quality

by John le Carré

2,438 members

58 reviews

½ 3.6

2 Members: MAJic, John_Vaughan,Bluewolf0411

69

by Janwillem van de Wetering

231 members

5 reviews

3.8

Member: John_Vaughan

70

by Dorothy L. Sayers

5,590 members

150 reviews

½ 4.3

Member: rainpebble

71

by John Dickson Carr

390 members

10 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: rretzler

72

by Jacqueline Winspear

4,971 members

278 reviews

3.8

2 Members: lahochstetler, rainpebble,audreyj ,LisaMaria_C

73

The King of the Rainy Country

by Nicolas Freeling

173 members

4 reviews

½ 3.6

Member: John_Vaughan,Bluewolf0411

74

Death of a Gossip

by M. C. Beaton

1,221 members

64 reviews

½ 3.4

2 Members: lahochstetler, rretzler,aulsmith ,Bluewolf0411

75

The Bone Is Pointed

by Arthur William Upfield

327 members

7 reviews

3.8

Member: Jarandel,Bluewolf0411

76

by Nicolas Freeling

55 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

176 members

2 reviews

3.9

Member: John_Vaughan,Bluewolf0411

79

Death of a Hawker

by Janwillem van de Wetering

250 members

6 reviews

3.8

Member: John_Vaughan,Bluewolf0411

80

The Silence of the Lambs

by Thomas Harris

12,819 members

140 reviews

4.1

81

The Murder of Roger Ackroyd

by Agatha Christie

10,468 members

334 reviews

4.1

82

by Thomas Harris

10,311 members

104 reviews

3.8

83

When We Were Orphans

by Kazuo Ishiguro

5,764 members

132 reviews

½ 3.5

84

The Last Policeman

by Ben H. Winters

2,168 members

185 reviews

3.8

85

by Percival Everett

182 members

20 reviews

½ 3.7

86

by Richard K. Morgan

7,150 members

215 reviews

4

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Started: John_Vaughan
February 2012
Type: Numbered and unnumbered

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