Best Bumbling Detective Mystery Books

Cold Steal

by Alice Tilton

The Columbo Collection

by William Link

Dover Two

by Joyce Porter.Dover is one of the most unlikable, rude, slovenly men around, and he also solves crimes – or allows his assistant to do so

The Spellman Files

by Lisa Lutz

The first novel of a comic mystery series. Meet Isabel "Izzy" Spellman, private investigator. This twenty-eight-year-old may have a checkered past littered with romantic mistakes, excessive drinking, and creative vandali...

The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie

by Alan Bradley

In his wickedly brilliant first novel, Debut Dagger Award winner Alan Bradley introduces one of the most singular and engaging heroines in recent fiction: eleven-year-old Flavia de Luce, an aspiring chemist with a passio...

Armadillos and Old Lace

by Kinky Friedman.A series of novels written by Friedman, which star Friedman as well as the humorous and bumbling sleuth

One for the Money

by Janet Evanovich

Welcome to Trenton, New Jersey, home to wiseguys, average Joes, and Stephanie Plum, who sports a big attitude and even bigger money problems (since losing her job as a lingerie buyer for a department store). Stephanie ne...

Crocodile on the Sandbank

by Elizabeth Peters

Thirty-one-year-old Victorian gentlewoman Amelia Peabody has not only inherited her father's fortune, but she is also blessed with his strong will as well. Now she's headed for Cairo, accompanied by a girl with a tarnish...

Heat Wave

by Richard Castle

Tough and sexy New York police detective Nikki Heat leads the investigation into the death of a New York real estate tycoon who plunged to his death on a Manhattan sidewalk. She's hit with an unexpected challenge when th...

The Burglar Who Like to Quote Kipling

by Lawrence Block

Bookseller and thief Bernie Rhodenbarr can’t resist the lure of a long lost Kipling poem, even if it is locked inside a millionaire’s high security library. So Bernie goes browsing and sure enough he liberates the object...

Detective

by Parnell Hall

Poor Stanley Hastings! All his detective pursuits end in FAILURE. So when Martin Albrecht comes to him with a case for a real detective, Stanley turns him away. Unfortunately, Stanley’s accursed path leads to his finding...