Mystery series in order, plus guides that help you jump in without spoiling the fun. If you’re here to follow a detective from book one onward, this is the hub.
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Arthur Conan Doyle’s detective stories are short, sharp, and much easier to organize than the adaptation universe around them. If you want the Sherlock Holmes books in order, there are four Holmes novels and 56 short stories, usually collected across nine main books.
For most readers, I’d read Sherlock Holmes in publication order. It starts with Holmes and Watson …
Looking for Agatha Christie books in order after watching Murder on the Orient Express? Or maybe you’ve already read a few Poirot or Miss Marple mysteries and just want to know what comes next. Either way, Christie’s bibliography gets bigger and messier fast once you move beyond the most famous titles.
Christie wrote 66 detective novels, 14 short …