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Wich are some of the best fiction, mystery books of all times?

No spoilers please, just a brief explanation of why.

“…and then there were None” by agatha christie This is one of the classic mystery novels. Ten people are all invited to stay on an island and one by one their mysterious host kills them. It’s one of the best mysteries/thrillers of all time. It was extremely influential in the realm of mysteries.

Basically any book by agatha christie. She’s the rightly nicknamed Queen of Mystery Novels. I’m not sure if that’s an official thing that other people call her, but it should be. She wrote the some of the best mystery novels of her time and many have lasted long and are still good by the standards of novels today.

Nero Wolfe, he’s great too. Oh wait, that’s the character name, you would probably prefer the author’s name. That is Rex Stout. Please forgive the mistake, I’m exhausted, which will become more clear as this entry becomes less and less …I’m sure there’s a word that means “easy to follow” but I can’t think of it at the moment and want to use the word “cognizant” which is COMPLETELY WRONG. However, the choice of reading Rex Stout novels is not completely wrong and is instead a really good choice as he was brilliant. Nero Wolfe is an eccentric overweight consulting detective that lives entirely in his house which he never leaves and has an assistant who does all the leg work of investigating for him. It’s like if Sherlock Holmes never left Baker Street, or Monk never left his house(which is what is wrong with his brother Ambrose).
Oh, right: Sherlock Holmes. His are the most famous of mysteries aren’t they? And rightly so, they’re fantastic. You can never go wrong with Holmes really.

Jasper Fforde writes mysteries… sort of. His books are not really mysteries, but they’re not really any single genre, they cross genres and skewer the concept of story and what can or can’t be part of one. Really, this is just a suggestion to read some of Jasper Fforde, he’s great. Specifically the NCD(Nursery Crimes Divion) series of books “The Big Over Easy”(Humpty Dumpty: Accident? Suicide? Murder?) and “The Fourth Bear” actually ARE mysteries, though the characters are often characters from nursery rhymes, so it’s weird and awesome. Seriously, I am in awe of the writing skill of Jasper Fforde.

OK, it’s far too late for me to still be writing and be comprehensible… COMPREHENSIBLE! That’s the word I couldn’t think of earlier! That’s it! OK, so obviously I can’t be that so I will leave it there. I hope you consider some of these suggestions, even if they were made by someone who is completely off his rocker from exhaustion.

Bessarabo Affair Photo Mugs THE BESSARABO AFFAIR (a real-life mystery) The visitor thinks she sees something sinister when the door is opened…….

Courrier De Lyon Photo Mugs LE COURRIER DE LYON (a real-life mystery) A re-telling of this classic mystery which has never been finally resolved though there have been many suggestions…..

Fantomas Photo Mugs FANTOMAS (Pierre Souvestre a Marcel Allain) – cover of the first edition of the book which launched the celebrated masked master-criminal….

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Five Red Herrings: A BBC Full-Cast Radio Drama $18.04 The elegant, intelligent amateur sleuth Lord Peter Wimsey is one of detective literature’s most popular creations. Ian Carmichael is the personification of Dorothy L. Sayers’ charming investigator in this BBC Radio 4 full-cast dramatization. When Sandy Campbell’s body is found at the foot of a cliff near the small town of Kircdubright, the local constabulary are convinced that the argumentative pa…

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Videodrome (The Criterion Collection) [Blu-ray] $23.99 Love it or loathe it, David Cronenberg’s 1983 horror film Videodrome is a movie to be reckoned with. Inviting extremes of response from disdain (critic Roger Ebert called it “one of the least entertaining films ever made”) to academic euphoria, it’s the kind of film that is simultaneously sickening and seemingly devoid of humanity, but also blessed with provocative ideas and a compelling subtext o…

The Rescuers Down Under (A Walt Disney Classic) [VHS] $2.74 No, this isn’t a quickie, direct-to-video sequel, cashing in on the success of the 1977 animated hit about adventurous mice, but a full-blown theatrical effort. This time around, Bernard (voiced by Bob Newhart) is trying to pop the question to Bianca (Eva Gabor) when they’re summoned to Australia, where a young boy has been kidnapped by a pallid, gray-faced poacher (who looks like and is voi…

Inception $3.87 Science-fiction features often involve time travel or strange worlds. In Christopher Nolan’s heist thriller Inception, the concepts converge through the realm of dreams. With his trusty associate, Arthur (Joseph Gordon-Levitt, a fine foil), Dom Cobb (Leonardo DiCaprio, in a role that recalls Shutter Island) steals ideas for clients from the minds of competitors. Fallen on hard times, he’s become e…

The Elements of mystery fiction $9.99 The Elements of Mystery Fiction: Writing the Modern Whodunit has guided and inspired mystery writers – veterans as well as beginners – for nearly a decade. Here William G. Tapply, with more than 20 popular mystery and suspense novels under his belt, isolates the crucial ''elements'' of the mystery novels that publishers want to publish and readers want to read – original plots, clever clues, sympathetic sleuths, memorable villains, multi-dimensional supporting characters, true-to-life settings, sharp narrative hooks, and, of course, smooth writing. In clear, readable prose using examples from many of our best contemporary mystery novelists, Tapply shows how the writer can create the pieces and fit them together to make a story you can't put down. This new expanded edition of Elements contains original chapters by some of our best contemporary writers and most prominent personalities in the publishing world discussing writing and business issues that are vital to mystery writers in the 21st century.

Mystery Fiction and Modern Life $40.43 This book is in Used condition

Mayhem, Mystery and Murder $9.95 Back when I was a kid growing up in South Chicago, I never dreamed that having a Lebanese father and a Syrian mother would turn out to be an asset. But my ancestry paid off big-time when I sat down across from Timothy Fisher at a San Francisco sidewalk cafe on that warm September morning. He bought my cover as a Mid-East terroristhook, line and sinker. Of course, being an FBI agent, I’d been provided with excellent cover. Even so, he was nervous and kept looking around at our neighbors, the only ones at the time being a young couple who, hands across their table, were obviously and hopelessly in love. I’ve got the money, I told him, assuming that might help to calm him down. It didn’t. He kept scanning the street. I’m not interested, he said. And that surprised me. What he said next surprised me even more Over 50! mystery short stories by John Broussard, a prolific and compelling writer. Boson Books also offers several full length mystery novels by John Broussard. Visit our Fiction page and look under Action, Adventure and Mysteries . For an author bio, photo, and a sample read, visit bosonbooks.com.