Top 25 Best Mystery Books

Rank 1

And Then There Were None

by Agatha Christie

And Then There Were None is a mystery novel by the English writer Agatha Christie, described by her as the most difficult of her books to write. It was first published in the United Kingdom by the Collins Crime Club on 6...

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Rank 2

The Hound of the Baskervilles

by Arthur Conan Doyle

The Hound of the Baskervilles is the third of the four crime novels by British writer Arthur Conan Doyle featuring the detective Sherlock Holmes. Originally serialised in The Strand Magazine from August 1901 to April 190...

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Rank 3

The Big Sleep

by Raymond Chandler

Philip Marlowe, a private eye who operates in Los Angeles's seamy underside during the 1930s, takes on his first case, which involves a paralyzed California millionaire, two psychotic daughters, blackmail, and murder

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Rank 4

The Maltese Falcon

by Dashiell Hammett

Classic noir. Private detective Sam Spade is hired to search for a valuable, gem-encrusted antique in the shape of a falcon. Sam Spade is hired by the fragrant Miss Wonderley to track down her sister, who has eloped with...

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Rank 5

Murder on the Orient Express

by Agatha Christie

***While en route from Syria to Paris, in the middle of a freezing winter's night, the Orient Express is stopped dead in its tracks by a snowdrift.*** Passengers awake to find the train still stranded and to discover tha...

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Rank 6

The Murder of Roger Ackroyd

by Agatha Christie

Belgian Inspector Hercule Poirot has retired to the countryside in the small English village of King's Abbot. Dr. Sheppard, observing his new neighbor, is sure that he must be a former hairdresser. But the brutal murder...

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Rank 7

Rebecca

by Daphne du Maurier

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 chilling events that transpired as she began her new life as the...

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Rank 8

The Name of the Rose

by Umberto Eco

In 1327, Brother William of Baskerville and his young novice arrive at a remote Italian abbey to find the monks being killed one by one. A medieval mystery and a novel of ideas by Umberto Eco.

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Rank 9

The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo

by Stieg Larsson

Journalist Mikael Blomkvist and the brilliant, damaged hacker Lisbeth Salander investigate a wealthy family's decades-old disappearance. The first book of the Millennium series.

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Rank 10

Gone Girl

by Gillian Flynn

Gone Girl is a 2012 crime thriller novel by American writer Gillian Flynn. It was published by Crown Publishing Group in June 2012. The novel became popular and made the New York Times Best Seller list. The sense of susp...

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Rank 11

In the Woods

by Tana French

A gorgeously written novel that marks the debut of an astonishing new voice in psychological suspenseAs dusk approaches a small Dublin suburb in the summer of 1984, mothers begin to call their children home. But on this...

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Rank 12

The Talented Mr. Ripley

by Patricia Highsmith

The first of the acclaimed Ripley novels, this clever psychological thriller introduces the reader to Tom Ripley and his extraordinary modus operandi. Accepting a commission from a wealthy businessman to travel to Italy...

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Rank 13

A Study in Scarlet

by Arthur Conan Doyle

A Study in Scarlet is an 1887 detective novel by British writer Arthur Conan Doyle. The story marks the first appearance of Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson, who would become the most famous detective duo in literature.

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Rank 14

Death on the Nile

by Agatha Christie

The tranquillity of a cruise along the Nile was shattered by the discovery that Linnet Ridgeway ( Linnet Doyle) had been shot through the head. She was young, stylish, rich and beautiful. A girl who had everything... unt...

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Rank 15

Gaudy Night

by Dorothy L. Sayers

Harriet Vane attends her Gaudy (reunion) at Oxford to find a mystery brewing. The first part of the book involves Harriet and the dons (professors) at her college. Lord Peter Wimsey also helps with the investigation by...

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Rank 16

The Moonstone

by Wilkie Collins

One of the first English detective novels, this mystery involves the disappearance of a valuable diamond, originally stolen from a Hindu idol, given to a young woman on her eighteenth birthday, and then stolen again. A c...

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Rank 17

The Black Echo

by Michael Connelly

LAPD detective Harry Bosch investigates the body of a man found in a drain below Mulholland Dam, and the case takes him back to his past as a tunnel rat in Vietnam. The first Harry Bosch novel.

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Rank 18

Still Life

by Louise Penny

Chief Inspector Armand Gamache of the Surete du Quebec and his team of investigators are called in to the scene of a suspicious death in a rural village south of Montreal. Jane Neal, a local fixture in the tiny hamlet of...

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Rank 19

The Cuckoo's Calling

by Robert Galbraith (JK Rowlings)

The apparent suicide of supermodel Lula Landry is not accepted by her brother, who hires private detective Cormoran Strike. The first Strike novel from Robert Galbraith, J. K. Rowling's pen name.

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Rank 20

The Spy Who Came in from the Cold

by John le Carre

Featuring an Introduction by the author, the crowning Cold War masterwork is once again available in a collector's trade edition.

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Rank 21

The Postman Always Rings Twice

by James M. Cain

Frank Chambers, un trotamundos sin empleo, narra en primera persona la atracción que siente por Cora Papadakis, la esposa de un emigrante de origen griego propietario de una taberna en California, y cómo se vuelven amant...

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