Best Mystery Novels. 1939s And Then There Were None is Christies best-selling novel with over 100. She was best known for her 66 mysteries and this one And Then There Were None was the one that sold the best something like 100 million copies.
This list features the best mystery novels including The Hound of the Baskervilles The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes The Maltese Falcon The Murders in the Rue Morgue The Daughter of Time and The Big Sleep. Blacktop Wasteland won The Anthony Award 2021 Best Novel. Among his old partners Smiley needs to find the double-agent.
Some of the best Mystery novels and books of all time include the likes of Agatha Christies Murder on the Orient Express.
Isaac Asimov wrote several novel-length mysteries albeit often ones with a science fiction setting. And by best we mean most terrifying. Then the storm hits. The novel won the Agatha Award and the Anthony Award for Best First Novel and the Macavity Award for Best First Mystery upon its publication in 1992.