The Best Mystery Novel?

I read Dorothy L. Sayers’s The Nine Tailors several years ago, and today I just finished it again, on audio this time. I think it’s my all-time favorite mystery novel. What’s yours?

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  1. David Ellis wrote:
    October 6, 2009 at 7:15 pm   Link

    Mystery’s not really my genre. I’ve tried several in the past few years and not finished them because they always bored me. The last one I recall liking was DEATH IS A LONELY BUSINESS by Ray Bradbury. And that was so long ago I only vaguely recall the plot.

  2. Sandy Woodiwiss wrote:
    October 6, 2009 at 7:23 pm   Link

    I love Dorthy L Sayers as well, though I have to say the best in Mystery is just about anything Sherlock Holmes by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. It is not so much the who did it but how the great detective gets there. Anything outside the “Doyle Diamond” is usually not much to write home about.

  3. Kim J. wrote:
    October 6, 2009 at 9:17 pm   Link

    I’m another Sayers fan, although my favorite is Murder Must Advertise—I love the picture Sayers paints of a business she was successful at. I also like Ngaio Marsh, especially the novels set in New Zealand (Colour Scheme is probably my favorite of hers).

    I don’t enjoy Holmes as much, but I still remember my reaction coming to the end of The Valley of Fear. Good stuff.

  4. Laughing Boy wrote:
    October 6, 2009 at 11:04 pm   Link

    The Name of the Rose.

  5. Dave wrote:
    October 7, 2009 at 12:06 am   Link

    I’m with David here. I haven’t read uch mystery in the last few years but I have all of Sayers books and several of Chesterton’s “Father Brown” books. “The Nine Tailors” and “Five Red Herrings” are both good. I like what little John Grisham I have read, particularly “The Testament” which was very good. I read all the Sherlock Holmes stuff as a kid and have watched every episode of the Jeremy Brett PBS series at least once. Oh, and let’s not forget the “Dirk Pitt” series by Clive Cussler – they were good for a while or Sue Grafton’s “Kinsey Millhone” series.

    Thanks for the walk down memory lane. 8^>

  6. luke wrote:
    October 10, 2009 at 2:12 pm   Link

    Encyclopedia Brown. Actually I don’t read much mystery, I’ve tended towards fantasy and sci-fi, but a favorite myster-ish book is A Boy’s Life by Robert McCammon.

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