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items ᴍʏꜱᴛᴇʀɪᴇꜱ ᴀʀᴇ ᴡɪʟᴅʟʏ ᴇɴᴛᴇʀᴛᴀɪɴɪɴɢ ᴀɴᴅ ᴘʟᴀʏ ᴡɪᴛʜ ᴏᴜʀ ɴᴇᴇᴅ ᴛᴏ ᴋɴᴏᴡ ᴛʜᴀᴛ ᴡʜɪᴄʜ ᴡᴇ ɪɢɴᴏʀᴇ. ᴛʜᴀᴛ'ꜱ ᴡʜᴀᴛ ᴍᴀᴋᴇꜱ ᴛʜᴇᴍ ꜱᴏ ᴘᴏᴘᴜʟᴀʀ; ᴡᴇ ᴀʟᴡᴀʏꜱ ᴡᴀɴᴛ ᴛᴏ ᴄʀᴀᴄᴋ ᴛʜᴇ ᴄᴀꜱᴇ, ᴛᴏ ꜰɪɴᴅ ᴛʜᴇ ᴀɴꜱᴡᴇʀꜱ, ᴛᴏ ɢᴇᴛ ᴊᴜꜱᴛɪᴄᴇ, ᴛᴏ ᴋɴᴏᴡ ᴛʜᴇ ᴛʀᴜᴛʜ.
The reasons to rank Agatha Christie as our number one pick are myriad. Christie is a giant of the genre, influential around the world, and the best-selling novelist of all time. Christie, whose novels are only outsold by Shakespeare and the Bible, st...
So, why Murder on the Orient Express? Because this tale, in which Detective Hercule Poirot tries to solve a perfect “locked room” murder mystery in a train, was my introduction to mystery many, many years ago, and for that I am forever thankful. Al...
So, why Murder on the Orient Express? Because this tale, in which Detective Hercule Poirot tries to solve a perfect “locked room” murder mystery in a train, was my introduction to mystery many, many years ago, and for that I am forever thankful. Al...
Murder on the Orient Express a book by Agatha Christie
Poe invented the detective story, and while some might consider it cheating, no list of great mysteries is complete without the master’s stories. C. Auguste Dupin is an eccentric Frenchman who applies logical reasons to solve crimes. He’s also the bl...
The Murders in the Rue Morgue a book by Edgar Allan Poe, Matthew Pearl, and Matthew Pearl
The world of mysteries is just like the real world in that there are many different opinions, so asking readers where they rank Philip Marlowe on the list of best private investigators will get you different answers. That said, one thing is certain: ...
El Sueño Eterno / The Big Sleep a book by Raymond Chandler
How can the true account of a crime that’s already been solved be full of mystery? The answer to that question is well known by those who’ve read Capote’s masterpiece, which also invented the nonfiction crime novel in the process. Capote had been fol...
In Cold Blood a book by Truman Capote
Lionel Essrog is an orphan with Tourette’s syndrome who works in Brooklyn as a driver and detective for a local mobster. When his boss is killed, Lionel uses his detective skills to investigate the murder. Motherless Brooklyn, a novel that won the Na...
Motherless Brooklyn a book by Jonathan Lethem
Few novels have been as frequently listed or celebrated as widely as Mosley’s Devil in a Blue Dress, the first and perhaps the most well-known novel in Mosley’s bestselling Easy Rawlins mystery series. Set in Los Angeles in the late 1940s, Devil in a...
Devil in a Blue Dress (30th Anniversary Edition): An Easy Rawlins Novel (Reissue) a book by Walter Mosley
Yes, The Silence of the Lambs is also horror. So much so that it won the Bram Stoker Award for Novel in 1988. However, the core of this novel is also all mystery: to stay alive and find a deadly madman before he finds her, new FBI agent Clarice Starl...
The Silence of the Lambs a book by Thomas Harris