What are the best detective novels of all time?
Mystery & ThrillerNamed in 5 of 6 answers
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A hardboiled detective novel by Raymond Chandler, published in 1939, introducing private investigator Philip Marlowe in a complex case of blackmail and murder.
2 questions · 1 categories · As of Nov 12, 2026
| Categories | Category rank | Questions | Score |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mystery & Thriller | #5of 309 | 2 | 86.6 |
Brands named in the same answers as The Big Sleep in the last four weeks, counted in answers.
| Brand | Answers naming the brand | Named alongside |
|---|---|---|
| The Murder of Roger Ackroyd | 15 | The Big Sleep (15), The Hound of the Baskervilles (15), The Maltese Falcon (15) |
| The Hound of the Baskervilles | 15 | The Big Sleep (15), The Murder of Roger Ackroyd (15), The Maltese Falcon (15) |
| And Then There Were None | 14 | The Big Sleep (14), The Hound of the Baskervilles (14), The Murder of Roger Ackroyd (14) |
| The Maltese Falcon | 15 | The Big Sleep (15), The Hound of the Baskervilles (15), The Murder of Roger Ackroyd (15) |
| The Big Sleep | 15 | The Hound of the Baskervilles (15), The Murder of Roger Ackroyd (15), The Maltese Falcon (15) |
| The Moonstone | 13 | The Name of the Rose (13), The Big Sleep (13), The Hound of the Baskervilles (13) |
| John Grisham | 8 | Scott Turow (7), The Firm (6), Michael Connelly (6) |
| Presumed Innocent | 7 | Scott Turow (6), The Firm (6), John Grisham (6) |
| The Firm | 6 | Scott Turow (6), Presumed Innocent (6), John Grisham (6) |
| The Spy Who Came in from the Cold | 5 | Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy (4) |
| Gone Girl | 9 | Rebecca (6), The Name of the Rose (6), The Big Sleep (6) |
| Gillian Flynn | 8 | Freida McFadden (5), Lisa Jewell (5), Harlan Coben (5) |
| Scott Turow | 7 | John Grisham (7), The Firm (6), Michael Connelly (6) |
| Freida McFadden | 6 | Gillian Flynn (5), Lisa Jewell (4), Harlan Coben (4) |
| The Name of the Rose | 14 | The Big Sleep (14), The Hound of the Baskervilles (14), The Murder of Roger Ackroyd (14) |
| The Daughter of Time | 12 | The Big Sleep (12), The Hound of the Baskervilles (12), The Murder of Roger Ackroyd (12) |
| The Silence of the Lambs (film) | 4 | Gone Girl (3), Rebecca (2), The Talented Mr. Ripley (1) |
| Miss Marple books | 4 | Agatha Christie’s Hercule Poirot (2), The Thursday Murder Club (2), Netflix (1) |
| Michael Connelly | 8 | Scott Turow (6), John Grisham (6), The Lincoln Lawyer (novel) (5) |
| Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy | 4 | The Spy Who Came in from the Cold (4) |
| The Thursday Murder Club | 5 | Miss Marple books (2) |
| Anatomy of a Murder | 5 | Robert Traver (5), Scott Turow (5), The Firm (5) |
| The Lincoln Lawyer (novel) | 5 | Scott Turow (5), The Firm (5), Michael Connelly (5) |
| Agatha Christie’s Hercule Poirot | 4 | Miss Marple books (2), Netflix (1) |
| Netflix | 2 | Miss Marple books (1), Agatha Christie’s Hercule Poirot (1) |
| Robert Traver | 5 | Scott Turow (5), Anatomy of a Murder (5), The Firm (5) |
| Harlan Coben | 6 | Gillian Flynn (5), Freida McFadden (4), Lisa Jewell (2) |
| Rebecca | 7 | Gone Girl (6), The Name of the Rose (5), The Big Sleep (5) |
| Lisa Jewell | 5 | Gillian Flynn (5), Freida McFadden (4), Michael Connelly (2) |
| The Talented Mr. Ripley | 8 | The Moonstone (7), The Name of the Rose (7), The Big Sleep (7) |
Sites the answers naming this brand cited in the last four weeks. Counts are citing answers.
| Rank | Source | Citing answers |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | goodreads.com | 4 |
| 2 | shortform.com | 3 |
| 3 | simple.wikipedia.org | 3 |
| 4 | time.com | 3 |
| 5 | jeffreyarcher.com | 2 |
| 6 | martinhillortiz.blogspot.com | 2 |
| 7 | prowritingaid.com | 2 |
| 8 | thegreatestbooks.org | 2 |
| 9 | collider.com | 2 |
| 10 | penguin.co.uk | 2 |
For the brand's best questions: of each surface's 1 answers, how many named it.
| Questions | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1What are the best detective novels of all time? | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2What are the best mystery novels ever written? | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
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