detective fiction

110 books

The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes [12 stories]

Arthur Conan Doyle

1892 ★ 4.2

The Murder of Roger Ackroyd

Agatha Christie

1926 ★ 4.2

The Complete Sherlock Holmes [4 novels, 56 stories]

Arthur Conan Doyle

1930 ★ 4.5

A Study in Scarlet

Arthur Conan Doyle

1892 ★ 4.0

The Hound of the Baskervilles

Arthur Conan Doyle

1902 ★ 4.0

Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes [11 stories]

Arthur Conan Doyle

1893 ★ 4.5

The Return of Sherlock Holmes

Arthur Conan Doyle

1905 ★ 4.3

Dirk Gently’s Holistic Detective Agency

Douglas Adams

1987 ★ 4.0

The Maltese Falcon

Dashiell Hammett

1930 ★ 3.4

The Nine Tailors

Dorothy L. Sayers

1934 ★ 3.8

The Oxford Book of Gothic Tales

Chris Baldick, Angela Carter, Isabel Allende et al.

1993

The Adventure of the Speckled Band

Arthur Conan Doyle

1987 ★ 4.7

Prentice Hall Literature--Timeless Voices, Timeless Themes--Gold Level

Maya Angelou, George Herzog, Lady Bird Johnson et al.

2002

The 50 Greatest Mysteries of All Time

O. Henry, Jacques Futrelle, Robert Barr et al.

1998

Detective stories

Tony Fletcher, Agatha Christie, Stephen Leacock et al.

1998

The Annotated Sherlock Holmes [1/2]

Arthur Conan Doyle

1968 ★ 3.9

Short Stories (Adventures of Sherlock Holmes / Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes [12 stories])

Arthur Conan Doyle

1975

65 Great Spine Chillers

Mary Danby, Ramsey Campbell, Ambrose Bierce et al.

1982

Great Short Tales of Mystery and Terror

Gilbert Keith Chesterton, Robert Barr, Montague Rhodes James et al.

1982

Works (Adventures of Sherlock Holmes / Hound of The Baskervilles / Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes [12 stories] / Return of Sherlock Holmes)

Arthur Conan Doyle

1970

Five Classic Murder Mysteries (Boomerang Clue / Death Comes as the End / Moving Finger / Murder of Roger Ackroyd / Secret Adversary)

Agatha Christie

1985

Prentice Hall Literature -- Gold

Isabel Allende, Richard Connell, O. Henry et al.

1994

Masterpieces of Murder (And Then There Were None / Death on the Nile / The Murder of Roger Ackroyd / Witness for the Prosecution)

Agatha Christie

1977

Sherlock Holmes (Hound of the Baskervilles / Sign of Four / Study in Scarlet / Valley of Fear)

Arthur Conan Doyle

1954

21 Great Stories

Ray Bradbury, Ambrose Bierce, Edgar Allan Poe et al.

1969

Prentice Hall Literature

Isabel Allende, Alan Axelrod, Richard Connell et al.

2007 ★ 4.1

Prentice Hall Literature--Silver

Arna Bontemps, O. Henry, Adrien Stoutenburg et al.

1995

Prentice Hall Literature--Timeless Voices, Timeless Themes--Silver Level

Maya Angelou, Alfred Lord Tennyson, Gary Paulsen et al.

2002

Novels (Congo / Eaters of the Dead / Sphere)

Michael Crichton

1994

The Red-Headed League

Arthur Conan Doyle

1990 ★ 3.7