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Detective

Detective fiction is a sub-genre of crime and mystery fiction in which an investigator (often a detective), either professional or amateur, investigates a crime, often murder. ...more

New Releases Tagged "Detective"

Nobody’s Fool (Detective Sami Kierce #2)
Murder by Memory (Dorothy Gentleman, #1)
The Tomb of Dragons (The Cemeteries of Amalo, #3)
Lethal Prey (Lucas Davenport #35; Virgil Flowers #16)
Open Season (Alex Delaware, #40)
Other People's Houses
The Frozen People
The Wolf Tree
The Thursday Murder Club (Thursday Murder Club, #1)
Lethal Prey (Lucas Davenport #35; Virgil Flowers #16)
Now or Never (Stephanie Plum, #31)
The Amendment (The Arrangement, #2)
Those Empty Eyes
Pictures of You
Paranoia (Michael Bennett, #17)
Bonded in Death (In Death, #60)
The Spy Coast (The Martini Club, #1)
Nobody’s Fool (Detective Sami Kierce #2)
A Very Bad Thing
The Swimmer
Twenty Years Later
The Wrong Daughter
In Too Deep (Jack Reacher, #29)
The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo by Stieg LarssonThe Big Sleep by Raymond ChandlerMurder on the Orient Express by Agatha ChristieThe Maltese Falcon by Dashiell HammettThe Complete Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle
Detective Fiction
1,175 books — 1,069 voters
Gone with the Wind by Margaret MitchellThe Diary of a Young Girl by Anne FrankJane Eyre by Charlotte BrontëHarry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone by J.K. RowlingPride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
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Murder on the Orient Express (Hercule Poirot, #10)
The Cuckoo's Calling (Cormoran Strike, #1)
The A.B.C. Murders (Hercule Poirot, #13)
The Silkworm (Cormoran Strike, #2)
The Big Sleep (Philip Marlowe, #1)
The Complete Sherlock Holmes
Career of Evil (Cormoran Strike, #3)
The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo (Millennium #1)
Storm Front (The Dresden Files, #1)
The Murder on the Links (Hercule Poirot, #2)
The Maltese Falcon
Murder at the Vicarage (Miss Marple, #1)
The Black Echo (Harry Bosch, #1; Harry Bosch Universe, #1)
Hercule Poirot's Christmas (Hercule Poirot, #20)
Lethal White (Cormoran Strike, #4)

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Behcet Kaya
This is Detective Ashford Ishikawa. Who am I speaking with?� “My name is Jack Ludefance. I’m a private investigator from Santa Rosaria and I’ve been retained by Cindy Hastings through her lawyer, Mr. Hooks, to investigate her father’s murder. Is there way we can get together to talk?� “Why? What are we going to talk about, Mr. Ludefance?� “As I said, Detective Ishikawa, I’ve been hired to investigate the case. I’ve read the police reports. My hat is off to you. Very thorough work.� “Just doing m ...more
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Arthur Conan Doyle
Dr. Watson's summary list of Sherlock Holmes's strengths and weaknesses: "1. Knowledge of Literature: Nil. 2. Knowledge of Philosophy: Nil. 3. Knowledge of Astronomy: Nil. 4. Knowledge of Politics: Feeble. 5. Knowledge of Botany: Variable. Well up in belladonna, opium, and poisons generally. Knows nothing of practical gardening. 6. Knowledge of Geology: Practical but limited. Tells at a glance different soils from each other. After walks has shown me splashes upon his trousers, and told me by t ...more
Arthur Conan Doyle, A Study in Scarlet

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