We are all quite different both outside and inside. And our hobbies are also very different. Also with books: someone is fond of romance novels, while someone loves mysterious and mysterious detective stories. Admit, reading a detective story, you imagine yourself a real Sherlock Holmes and trying to find the culprit of the crime yourself? Everyone does it ... Let’s take a look today and see which novels are on the list of the best detectives of our time and not only.
Agatha Christie: Ten Little Indians
Agatha Christie, the Queen of the 21st century detective genre, has repeatedly been included in the lists of the most widely read authors. Her popular detective novel entitled "Ten Little Indians" fell in love with readers with its intricate plot and unexpected denouement. Ten completely different people end up on a mysterious island, having received invitations to stay in an old castle. At first everything was fine, but then as in the old room: the guests began to disappear one by one, and then they began to be found killed nearby. Only one will remain alive, that is, the killer himself. Who will it be?
Arthur Conan Doyle: Notes on Sherlock Holmes
These funny detective stories about the eccentric detective and the gallant Dr. Watson are known even by a schoolboy, and not even a lazy one has read them. Sherlock Holmes’s new search technique, logic, and constructive thinking are exciting and surprising, and at the end of the story no one is surprised how he manages to quickly recognize and then catch a real criminal.
Edgar Allan Poe: “Murder on Morgue Street”
This story with a truly terrifying name is considered one of the first detective stories in the history of literature. Everything happens in the most romantic city in the world, Paris, the murder of two women excited and frightened the whole public. Now, a young and inexperienced detective amateur Auguste Dupin must solve this case and find a brutal criminal. Do you think he will succeed or not? Do not know? Then we read together ...
Deshil Hammett: The Maltese Falcon
The story of a private detective, Sam Spade, who, it would seem, took on a hopeless case and hit the customer with a brilliant result, finding the one he was entrusted with to find. But at first there were many obstacles, lies and failures. This is a series of stories, the main character of which is the detective himself and his assistants, because in order to solve a complicated crime, they themselves sometimes slip into dubious stories, getting out of which can be difficult ...
Robert McCammon: The Voice of the Night Bird
Historical detective, set in Carolina in 1699. A sweet and, at first glance, completely innocent woman was declared none other than a real witch. She allegedly killed her husband and serves Satan, doing bad deeds to people throughout the city of Fountain Royal. The young detective Matthew Corbett, for free, tries to help this woman and figure out who is right and who is to blame. Yes, the story is truly with an exciting plot, I want to immediately find and read this fascinating book. Who is with me?
By the way, we have a very interesting article on the most-beauty.ru website about the most beautiful witches from movies.
Thomas Harris: The Silence of the Lambs
The cult story of the terrible killer Hannibal Lecter could not help but enter our rating of the best detectives. Catching the brutal killer of American women is not so easy. A young FBI agent named Clarice Starling, to attack the trail of a crazy pervert, decides to use the prompts of another psychiatrist who is serving his sentence in prison. But you have to pay for everything and nothing happens for nothing ... It’s easy to find out what comes of all this by simply reading the best detective story of the 20th century.
James Headley Chase: “The whole world is in your pocket”
An exciting detective story about the thief recidivist Frank Morgan, who served more than one prison term, still did not learn the lesson that there is no easy money. Released, Frank posed for an armored car with a millionth stuffing. Over the years, he has done more than one thing and considers himself a real pro, but is this really so? Let's read and find out ...
Hare Cyril: “A purely English murder”
Old and kind England is famous not only for its brilliant detectives, but also for bloodthirsty and cruel killers. The most family-friendly English holiday, Christmas, is overshadowed by the death of the son of Lord Thomas Warbuck. Everything happens in an old country castle. The guests who filled the house are in panic and horror. And only one of them holds himself together. This is Dr. Botwink, who is located here by the will of fate, and he is the one who undertakes the investigation of this mysterious death. Only here, not everything is as simple as it might seem at first glance. The fact is that all those present cannot stand each other and suspicion falls on everyone ...
Stig Larsson: “The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo”
Our rating of the best detective works could not get around this novel, which has become a real classic of the genre. The plot is quite simple and at the same time very confusing. The protagonist Michael Blomqvist, the publisher of the glamorous magazine, loses the lawsuit filed against him by one influential millionaire. Now Michael faces imprisonment, but fate introduces him to the right person and gives a chance to restore justice. But how can he use it, you can find out if you read the novel or download an audio book. Go ahead, the story is very interesting ...
Daphne du Maurier: Rebecca
A young girl named Rebecca on the Cote d'Azur of Monte Carlo meets an English aristocrat named Maximilian de Winter. Considering him his fate, naive and in love, the girl goes with him to his beautiful and mysterious estate - Manderley. Stupid Rebecca did not even suspect what secret and truth about her lover she would have to find out there. All blame love and boundless curiosity ...
Dan Brown: Da Vinci Code
The novel by American writer Dan Brown, The Davinci Code, has become a true masterpiece and a worldwide bestseller. The plot tells about the religious and very mysterious murder of the curator of the Louvre, Jacques Sauniere. Dr. Robert Langdon is none other than the professor of religious symbolism at Harvard University. After all, no one else can unravel the mysterious signs on the body of the murdered and find encrypted clues in the paintings of the real genius of the Middle Ages Leonardo da Vinci.
Boris Akunin: “Turkish Gambit”
We could not help recalling our compatriot, the genius author and writer Boris Akunin, and his brilliant detective novels, which we are very familiar with due to their adaptations. The plot of this novel takes place during the Russian-Turkish war, namely in 1877. The main heroine here is the young, bold and very beautiful girl Varvara Suvorova, who at such a turbulent time dared to travel all alone and, so to speak, ran into trouble. Fortunately, the real gentleman and the brave knight Erast Fandorin was nearby.
Gaston Leroux: “The Secret of the Yellow Room”
Another novel by an English author about death in a confined space. The novel, it would seem, begins with a denouement, but this death will entail new deaths, not everyone can investigate and stop. For the "impossible", as he calls it, the murder is taken by a young journalist Joseph Rultabiy. He just can’t understand how this strange murder happened in a room locked with a key, but he will surely get to the bottom of the truth. It turned out that the killer was very close all the time ...
Finally
The detective genre in literature is a fairly young style that arose relatively recently, namely in the 19th century. Having taken a leading position, the detective, as a literary genre, is popular in the modern world. So that lovers of detective stories will always have something to read, and authors to write about.
Our rating of the best detectives can be listed forever, because a huge number of them have been written and "there is no taste or color for comrades." And we tried to choose for you the most famous and popular works in this genre. If our list seemed incomplete to you, then we are waiting for your feedback and suggestions in the comments to our article.