The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes
Arthur Conan Doyle
1892
Books with the “Eccentric Detective” trope
A brilliant investigator with unusual habits solves impossible cases through unmatched deduction.
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Characters and archetypes · Eccentric Detective
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The Hound of the Baskervilles
Arthur Conan Doyle
1902
The Murders in the Rue Morgue
Edgar Allan Poe
1841
The Moonstone
Wilkie Collins
1868
The Innocence of Father Brown
G. K. Chesterton
1911
Whose Body?
Dorothy L. Sayers
1923
The Murder of Roger Ackroyd
Agatha Christie
1926
Murder on the Orient Express
Agatha Christie
1934
The Three Coffins
John Dickson Carr
1935
Too Many Cooks
Rex Stout
1938
The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie
Alan Bradley
2009
The House of Silk
Anthony Horowitz
2011
The Thursday Murder Club
Richard Osman
2020
The Marlow Murder Club
Robert Thorogood
2021
The Name of the Rose
Umberto Eco
1980
The Mysterious Affair at Styles
Agatha Christie
1920
The Murder at the Vicarage
Agatha Christie
1930
The Nine Tailors
Dorothy L. Sayers
1934
The Moving Toyshop
Edmund Crispin
1946
The Poisoned Chocolates Case
Anthony Berkeley
1929
The Maid
Nita Prose
2022
Magpie Murders
Anthony Horowitz
2016
A Study in Scarlet Women
Sherry Thomas
2016
Vera Wong's Unsolicited Advice for Murderers
Jesse Q. Sutanto
2023
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