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Top Ten Mystery Books

The Top 100 ​Crime Novels of All Time​
The Top 100 ​Crime Novels of All Time​

Book awards: The Top 100 Mystery Novels of All Time Mystery Writers of America

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Murder on the ​Orient Express​
Murder on the ​Orient Express​

Murder on the Orient Express is one of Agatha Christie's most revered books for a reason. She uses the trope of the locked room mystery as a foundation and then further heightens the "impossible" crime by situating that locked room on a moving train.

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And Then ​There Were None​
And Then ​There Were None​

I really liked the book And Then There Were None as well as the movie/board game Clue. Are there any books similar to these? Thanks!

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The Maltese ​Falcon​
The Maltese ​Falcon​

Book Review 4 out of 5 stars to The Maltese Falcon, a classic mystery novel written in 1930 by Dashiell Hammett. If you ask a mystery fan when the genre started, a good chunk of them will say during the Golden Age (1920s & 30s) with authors like Dashiell Hammett, specifically with the creation of the Sam Spade character.

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The Girl With ​the Dragon Tattoo​
The Girl With ​the Dragon Tattoo​

Blomkvist accepts the business proposition that Vanger offers him: In return for trying to solve the mystery surrounding Harriet's disappearance, Vanger will provide Blomkvist generous financial compensation in addition to proof that Wennerstrom is a crook.

Gone Girl​
Gone Girl​

“Gone Girl” is what the critic Ted Gioia calls a “postmodern mystery”: it lets us luxuriate in the “reassuring heritage” of the traditional mystery, which feels like it’s building toward a tidy solution, even while we enjoy “the fun of toppling it over and watching the pieces fall where they may.”

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The Big Sleep​
The Big Sleep​

Books Music Art & design TV & radio Stage Classical Games More Raymond Chandler The 100 best novels ... But The Big Sleep transcends its genre, ...

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The Murder of ​Roger Ackroyd​
The Murder of ​Roger Ackroyd​

The Murder of Roger Ackroyd was Agatha Christie’s first book to be published by William Collins in the spring of 1926. William Collins became part of HarperCollins and are still Christie’s publishers today.

The Woman ​in White​
The Woman ​in White​

The Woman in White: Mystery Book [Wilkie Collins] on Amazon.com. *FREE* shipping on qualifying offers. This is the story of what a Woman's patience can endure, and what Man's resolution can achieve.

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Rebecca​
Rebecca​

Rebecca is a thriller novel by English author Dame Daphne du Maurier. A best-seller, Rebecca sold 2,829,313 copies between its publication in 1938 and 1965, and the book has never gone out of print.

In the Woods​
In the Woods​

In the Woods has 226,966 ratings and 16,861 reviews. Matt said: ... Best Crime & Mystery Books. 5,157 books — 12,703 voters Best Literary Mysteries.

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The ​Moonstone​
The ​Moonstone​

The Moonstone by Wilkie Collins is a 19th-century British epistolary novel. It is generally considered to be the first detective novel, and it established many of the ground rules of the modern detective novel. The story was originally serialised in Charles Dickens' magazine All the Year Round. The Moonstone and The Woman in White are widely considered to be Collins' best novels, and Collins adapted The Moonstone for the stage in 1877, although the production was performed for only two months.

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Sherlock ​Holmes: The Complete Collection (Book House)​
Sherlock ​Holmes: The Complete Collection (Book House)​

The Complete Sherlock Holmes (The Heirloom Collection) [Arthur Conan Doyle, Jacqui Oakley] on Amazon.com. *FREE* shipping on qualifying offers. Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s Sherlock Holmes tales are rightly ranked among the seminal works of mystery and detective fiction.

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The ​Mysterious Affair at Styles​
The ​Mysterious Affair at Styles​

The Mysterious Affair at Styles is a detective novel by Agatha Christie. It was written in the middle of the First World War, in 1916, and first published by John Lane in the United States in October 1920 and in the United Kingdom by The Bodley Head (John Lane's UK company) on 21 January 1921.

The Outsider​
The Outsider​

EW can exclusively reveal the cover for The Outsider, which should provide King fans hungry for details with a most satisfying tease of what to expect. Here, in all of its haunting, red-eyed, spooky glory, you can at last meet The Outsider. Check out the cover below, and let the guessing game for King’s newest mystery begin.

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The Dry​
The Dry​

Peter Robinson’s In a Dry Season revolves around crimes in both the present and distant past. It has all 10 qualities on this list, which is what makes it one of my favorite mysteries of all time. And what a great premise: A World War II murder is discovered when a dry lake exposes the ruins of a small town that was flooded years earlier.

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Bluebird, ​Bluebird​
Bluebird, ​Bluebird​

Attica Locke's mystery 'Bluebird, Bluebird' is the racially charged story of a black Texas Ranger investigating two murders. A 3.5 star book review.

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The ​Sweetness At the Bottom of the Pie​
The ​Sweetness At the Bottom of the Pie​

But the strength of "The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie" is not in the mystery. It is in the setting, an amusing cast of characters, and mainly - in its narrator. Flavia is a charming heroine with a very distinct "voice" that is a perfectly blended combination of childish innocence and book smarts.

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The Fallen​
The Fallen​

Share this:Ellen Lloyd - AncientPages.com - Little is known about the Watchers, the Fallen Angels who were the “sons of God”. The subject of the Watchers is controversial, and scholars think the Watchers deliberately ‘created’ the hybrid giants to destroy God’s creation as punishment for being cast out of heaven.

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Glass ​Houses: A Novel​
Glass ​Houses: A Novel​

'Glass Houses' is yet another excellent Louise Penny mystery Penny – whose books wind up on Best Novels of the Year lists, not 'just' Best Mysteries – is a one-woman argument against literary snobbery.

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The Magpie ​Murders​
The Magpie ​Murders​

"Magpie Murders" is a cleverly constructed double whodunit.....two mystery books in one. Here's how it works: Susan Ryeland, a fiction editor at London's 'Cloverleaf Books', is reading the manuscript of 'Magpie Murders' - the ninth book in Alan Conway's Atticus Pünd mystery series. Pünd - a fictional private detective inspired by Agatha Christie's Hercule Poirot - is a German Holocaust survivor who lives and works in England.

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The Name of ​the Rose​
The Name of ​the Rose​

The Name of the Rose (Italian: Il nome della rosa [il ˈnoːme della ˈrɔːza]) is the 1980 debut novel by Italian author Umberto Eco. It is a historical murder mystery set in an Italian monastery in the year 1327; an intellectual mystery combining semiotics in fiction, biblical analysis, medieval studies and literary theory.

The Da Vinci ​Code​
The Da Vinci ​Code​

The Da Vinci Code is a 2003 mystery thriller novel by Dan Brown. It follows "symbologist" Robert Langdon and cryptologist Sophie Neveu after a murder in the Louvre Museum in Paris causes them to become involved in a battle between the Priory of Sion and Opus Dei over the possibility of Jesus Christ having been a companion to Mary Magdalene.

The Postman ​Always Rings Twice​
The Postman ​Always Rings Twice​

First published in 1934 and banned in Boston for its explosive mixture of violence and eroticism, The Postman Always Rings Twice is a classic of the "roman noir. It established James M. Cain as a major novelist with an unsparing vision of America's bleak underside, and was acknowledged by Albert Camus as the model for "The Stranger.

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The Talented ​Mr
The Talented ​Mr

The Talented Mr. Ripley, Patricia Highsmith (1921 - 1994) The Talented Mr. Ripley is a 1955 psychological thriller novel by Patricia Highsmith. This novel introduced the character of Tom Ripley, who returns in four subsequent novels known collectively as the Ripliad.

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The 17th ​Suspect​
The 17th ​Suspect​

Books; Women's Murder Club: The 17th Suspect Women's Murder Club: The 17th Suspect ... Red Alert: An NYPD Red Mystery

Mystic River​
Mystic River​

Mystic River is a novel by Dennis Lehane that was published in 2001. It won the 2002 Dilys Award and was made into an Academy Award-winning film in 2003. Plot ...

The Daughter ​of Time​
The Daughter ​of Time​

The Daughter of Time is a 1951 detective novel by Josephine Tey, concerning a modern police officer's investigation into the alleged crimes of King Richard III of England. It was the last book Tey published in her lifetime, shortly before her death.

The Spy Who ​Came in From the Cold​
The Spy Who ​Came in From the Cold​

The Spy Who Came in from the Cold is a 1963 Cold War spy novel by the British author John le Carré. It depicts Alec Leamas, a British agent, being sent to East Germany as a faux defector to sow disinformation about a powerful East German intelligence officer.

The ​Adventures of Sherlock Holmes​
The ​Adventures of Sherlock Holmes​

The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes is a collection of twelve short stories by Arthur Conan Doyle, featuring his fictional detective Sherlock Holmes. It was first published on 14 October 1892; the individual stories had been serialised in The Strand Magazine between July 1891 and June 1892.

The Alienist​
The Alienist​

The Alienist is a crime novel by Caleb Carr first published in 1994 and is the first book in the Kreizler series. It takes place in New York City in 1896, and includes appearances by many famous figures of New York society in that era, including Theodore Roosevelt and J. P. Morgan. The sequel to the novel is The Angel of Darkness.

One for the ​Money​
One for the ​Money​

One for the Money is a wonderful book! (REPOSTING DUE TO MOVIE RELEASE!) I have always read psycho-thrillers, romance, paranormal romance etc. My momma told me, “You have to read Evanovich! You’ll laugh so hard!” So, I did. Stephanie Plum is a super cool character.

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Death on the ​Nile​
Death on the ​Nile​

What is the plot of Agatha Christie's Death on the Nile? ... Thousands of bestselling books and audiobooks, ... The mystery of the pearls is solved ...

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The Murders ​in the Rue Morgue​
The Murders ​in the Rue Morgue​

"The Murders in the Rue Morgue" is a short story by Edgar Allan Poe published in Graham's Magazine in 1841. It has been recognized as the first modern detective story; Poe referred to it as one of his "tales of ratiocination". C. Auguste Dupin is a man in Paris who solves the mystery of the brutal murder of two women. Numerous witnesses heard a suspect, though no one agrees on what language was spoken. At the murder scene, Dupin finds a hair that does not appear to be human.

Maisie Dobbs​
Maisie Dobbs​

Maisie Dobbs is a mystery by Jacqueline Winspear published in 2003. Set in England between 1910 and 1929, it features the title character Maisie Dobbs, a private investigator. Generally well received by critics, mostly because of Maisie's quirky character, the novel was nominated for several awards and received the 2003 Agatha Award for Best First Novel.

The Girl Who ​Played With Fire​
The Girl Who ​Played With Fire​

The Girl Who Played with Fire (Swedish: Flickan som lekte med elden) is the second novel in the best-selling Millennium series by Swedish writer Stieg Larsson. It was published posthumously in Swedish in 2006 and in English in January 2009.

"A" is for Alibi​
"A" is for Alibi​

A is for Alibi (The Kinsey Millhone Alphabet Mysteries, No 1) [Sue Grafton] ... #1054 in Books > Mystery, Thriller & Suspense > Mystery > Private Investigators

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The Hound of ​the Baskervilles​
The Hound of ​the Baskervilles​

Mystery literature involves a puzzling crime of some sort. This crime is often a murder or theft. What elevates such crimes to the realm of mystery is that they are seemingly impossible, or at least not readily understood by those not directly involved. The Hound of the Baskervilles is a great ...

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The Cuckoo's ​Calling​
The Cuckoo's ​Calling​

The Cuckoo's Calling is a 2013 crime fiction novel by J. K. Rowling, published under the pseudonym Robert Galbraith. A brilliant mystery in a classic vein: Detective Cormoran Strike investigates a supermodel's suicide.

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Gaudy Night​
Gaudy Night​

But Gaudy Night marks a significant gear-change for the series, in terms of Harriet’s move to centre stage and the fact that, having liberated herself from the point of view of her hero, Sayers is also free to shrug off the constraints of efficiency and emotional absence imposed by the detective genre itself.

Two Kinds of ​Truth​
Two Kinds of ​Truth​

Two Kinds of Truth by Michael Connelly - Book 22 in the Harry Bosch crime mystery series (2017)

Say You're ​Sorry​
Say You're ​Sorry​

The latest book by Michael Robotham, ‘Say You’re Sorry’, is a stark contrast in style and substance being more subdued and criminally contained than its predecessor, the grandiose action thriller ‘The Wreckage’.

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Killing Floor​
Killing Floor​

No wonder Lee Child is a bestselling author. Killing Floor is a good mystery-suspense book with lots of action and many twists and turns. The thing I liked most about this book was that there were plenty of fight scenes, which made my heart jump and my adrenaline pump.

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Dark Places​
Dark Places​

[[Mystery Story]] …‡ Dark Places. From The #1 New York Times Bestselling Author Of Gone GirlLibby Day was seven when her mother and two sisters were

Naked in ​Death​
Naked in ​Death​

"Naked In Death" is the first book in J. D. Robb's Eve Dallas mystery series. I have been hearing positive things about these books for a long time, and now, after reading this terrific novel, I understand why.

The Nine ​Tailors​
The Nine ​Tailors​

The Nine Tailors is the 11th book in the Lord Peter Wimsey Mysteries, but you may enjoy the series by reading the books in any order.

A Study in ​Scarlet​
A Study in ​Scarlet​

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The Thin Man​
The Thin Man​

The Thin Man (1934) is a detective novel by Dashiell Hammett, originally published in the December 1933 issue of Redbook.It appeared in book form the following month. ...

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Presumed ​Innocent​
Presumed ​Innocent​

Presumed Innocent has 97,239 ratings and 1,232 reviews. Supratim said: This is one of the best books that I have read recently. It is a great legal thril...

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Memory Man​
Memory Man​

Memory Man is the best serial killer mystery I have read after Silence of the Lambs, with which it shares common elements It has an excellent plot whose resolution I could not figure out until the end of the book.

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Devil in a ​Blue Dress​
Devil in a ​Blue Dress​

Devil in a Blue Dress is an excellent hard-boiled mystery. It is also a fascinating examination of race and masculinities in late-1940s Los Angeles. That it manages to do both these things at the same time, seamlessly, is little short of breathtaking.

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