Mystery Novels

Updated August 25, 2025
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The big sleep
Chandler, Raymond
Paper Book
Published in 1939, this is Raymond Chandler's first novel and features Philip Marlowe, the neat, clean, shaved and sober man who was everything the well-dressed detective should be. Raymond Chandler wrote three other classic novels- Farewell my Lovely, The Lady in the Lakeand The Long...
The curious incident of the dog in the night-time
Haddon, Mark.
Paper Book
Foreign rights have been sold to the UK, Italy, France, Sweden, Norway, Spain, Japan, Greece, Finland, Denmark, Holland and Brazil. Film rights have been bought by Hey Day (the makers of Harry Potter) together with Brad Grey (producer of The Sopranos) and Brad Pitt in their first acquisition for...
Death and the dancing footman
Marsh, Ngaio
Paper Book
With the notion of bringing together the most bitter of enemies for his own amusement, a bored, mischievous millionaire throws a house party. As a brutal snowstorm strands the unhappy guests, the party receives a most unwelcome visitor: death. Now the brilliant inspector Roderick Alleyn must step in...
Gaudy night
Sayers, Dorothy L.
Paper Book
"Gaudy Night stands out even among Miss Sayers's novels. And Miss Sayers has long stood in a class by herself." --Times Literary Supplement The great Dorothy L. Sayers is considered by many to be the premier detective novelist of the Golden Age, and her dashing sleuth, Lord Peter Wimsey,...
Knots & crosses
Rankin, Ian.
Paper Book
The Maltese falcon
Anobile, Richard J.
Paper Book
The murder of Roger Ackroyd
Christie, Agatha
Paper Book
Agatha Christie's genius for detective fiction is unparalleled. Her worldwide popularity is phenomenal. her characters engaging, her plots spellbinding. No one knows the human heart-or the dark passions that can stop it-better than Agathe Christie. She is truly the one and only Queen of Crime. Book...
Rebecca
Du Maurier, Daphne
Paper Book
Now a Netflix film starring Lily James and Kristin Scott Thomas "Last Night I Dreamt I went to Manderley Again..." With these words, the reader is ushered into an isolated gray stone mansion on the windswept Cornish coast, as the second Mrs. Maxim de Winter recalls the...
A study in scarlet
Doyle, Arthur Conan
Paper Book
The unpleasantness at the Bellona Club
Sayers, Dorothy L.
Paper Book
The elegant, intelligent amateur sleuth Lord Peter Wimsey is one of detective literature's most popular creations. Ian Carmichael is the personification of Dorothy L. Sayers' charming investigator in this BBC Radio full-cast dramatization. The dignified calm of the Bellona Club is shattered when...

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