Best Whodunit Mystery Books

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...

A Study in Scarlet

by Sir 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.

A Certain Justice

by PD James, Adam Dagliesh

The Leavenworth Case

by Anna Katherine Green

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

The Moving Toyshop

by Edmund Crispin

Named by P.D. James as one of the best five mysteries of all time. Richard Cadogan is at loose ends in Oxford, very late at night. Charmed by the window display of an old-fashioned toyshop, he is worried to find the door...

The Siamese Twin Mystery

by Ellery Queen

Ellery Queen and his father are driving through a mountainous area of the United States on vacation when they are forced by a forest fire to seek shelter in a private home on the top of a mountain. The home soon becomes...

Green for Danger

by Christianna Brand

A murder takes place in a make-shift hospital during the second world war. Inspector Cockrill is asked to investigate even as the murderer strikes again. A nice twist in the end makes this worth a read.

Trent's Last Case

by EC Bentley

TRENT's LAST CASE: THE WOMAN IN BLACKBy Edmund Clerihew *E.C.) BentleyE.C. Bentley's shrewd detective Philip Trent seems to get everything correct except for the motive in the murder of a high flying financier. There are...

The Red House Mystery

by AA Milne