Best books to learn Mystery & detective fiction, in order

The genre has a lineage worth following: the origins with Poe and Doyle, the golden-age puzzle masters, the hardboiled turn, then today's best crime writing. Reading in order shows how each generation broke the last one's rules.

Reading paths for mystery & detective fiction

Mystery & detective fiction: the essential path

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Popular mystery & detective fiction books

The Complete Tales and Poems of Edgar Allan Poe [67 stories, 52 poems, 4 essays]Edgar Allan Poe · 1938

The Tiger in the SmokeMargery Allingham · 1952

The Maltese FalconDashiell Hammett · 1929

A great deliveranceElizabeth George · 1988

In the heat of the nightJohn Ball · 1965

The simple art of murderRaymond Chandler · 1950