Mystery Books

  1. When the Wind Blows
  2. State of Fear
  3. Manhattan Is My Beat
  4. Foreign Body
  5. Cat and Mouse
  6. Southern Cross
  7. Memories of Midnight
  8. The Virgin of Small Plains
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Mystery Movies

  1. 12 Monkeys
  2. Apocalypto
  3. Moon
  4. The Negotiator
  5. Orphan
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Mystery Authors

  1. Edward D. Hoch
  2. Linda Barnes
  3. Michael Gilbert
  4. Laurie King
  5. Hammond Innes
  6. Edgar Allan Poe
  7. Francis Beeding
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The Best Mystery Books - Top 100

REX STOUT'S TEN FAVORITE DETECTIVE NOVELS


Rex Todhunter Stout (1886-1975) was an American detective story writer and creator Nero Wolfe. The selection of his ten favorite detective novels was published in Vincent Starrett's Books and Bipeds in 1947.

cover Title Author Detective Genre Year
1 LAMENT FOR A MAKER Michael Innes novel 1938
2 The Maltese Falcon Dashiell Hammett novel 1930
3 The Documents in the Case Dorothy Sayers shorts 1930
4 The Bellamy Trial Frances Noyes Hart 1927
5 The Benson Murder Case S. S. Van Dine Philo Vance novel 1926
6 The Murder Of Roger Ackroyd Agatha Christie Hercule Poirot Novel 1926
7 The Cask Freeman Wills Crofts novel 1920
8 Call Mr. Fortune H. C. Bailey Reggie Fortune shorts 1920
9 The Innocence Of Father Brown G. K. Chesterton collections 1911
10 THE MOONSTONE Wilkie Collins novels 1868