Seeking a few of Edgar Allan Poe's quintessential speculative fiction (detective novels)

1 "The Complete Sherlock Holmes", Arthur Conan Doyle.

"The Complete Sherlock Holmes Mysteries" British Arthur Conan Doyle Crowd Publishing

The Bible of speculative fiction, and a must-have desk book for every fan of deduction. From the birth of "A Study in Scarlet Letter" to the present more than a hundred years, Sherlock Holmes has been unrivaled in the world, and his influence has long transcended the corner of reasoning, becoming synonymous with the sleuth in the hearts of the people. A marvelous book for young and old, countless people with it across the sea of reasoning, ranked first, the name is deserved.

2 "The Maltese Falcon", Dashiell Hammett.

The Maltese Falcon by Dashiell Hammett Shanghai Translation Publishing House

There are many genres of speculative fiction, and many of them have their own side branches, but the mystery book is always the orthodox one, and the mainstream position is not easy to shake, and the only ones who have the ability to fight with it are Hammett and Chandler. Only Hammett and Chandler to support the hard-boiled line. Hammett is not the first writer to write hard-boiled novels, but he is the first writer to infuse hard-boiled novels with literary quality and psychological depth, and he has opened up another battlefield for speculative fiction with his own creations. The Maltese Falcon, the first of the cold hard-boiled novels that claimed to be "better than any Hemingway novel", is one of those speculative novels that you can't help but like.

3 "Tales of Mystery and Imagination", Edgar Allan Poe.

"Edgar Allan Poe's Short Stories", People's Literature Publishing House

While it is the founding work of reasoning, several of Edgar Allan Poe's short stories are quite distinctive even today. To be able to use a short space to create a sense of unending suspense, in the rigorous logic of reasoning into the fantasy plot, and with the tricky writing to add to the flowers, so far not many short story writers can do. In this sense, Edgar Allan Poe will never go out of fashion.

4 "The Daughter of Time", Josephine Tey.

5 "Presumed Innocent", Scott Turow.

6 "The Spy Who Came in from the Cold", John le Carr.

The Spy Who Came in from the Cold English John le Carr Xinhua Publishing House

Simmons, in Bloody Murder, identifies two major directions in the creation of spy novels: one is represented by Graham Greene and the author of this book, John le Carr, who use their own experiences as a basis for the civilianization of the mysterious spies, and heavily depict their pain and helplessness, with a higher literary quality; the other is represented by Ian Fleming, who wrote the James Bond series, focuses on depicting the legend of the spy's career, and portrays a "superhuman" image through the struggle between the spy and a huge state apparatus. This book is Le Carré's best-known work, and it is not as creative as his later novels, which have not yet lost their twilight color. The plot of the whole book has ups and downs, and it turns around in places that the reader would not expect. In the writer's realistic and calmly restrained pen, ripples out of the faint melancholy feelings, worthy of the front-runner of the spy novel.

7 "The Moonstone," Wilkie Collins.

"The Moonstone" English Wilkie Collins China Literature Union Publishing Company

Wilkie Collins's novels may seem a bit outdated these days; after all, not everyone appreciates the kind of slow-paced whodunit that lacks bloody murders and subtle subterfuge. Still, considering that "The Moon Jewels" is a work in the hay day of speculative fiction, one has to admire Collins' knack for storytelling and his ability to hold the reader's attention throughout such a long stretch of pages. Nobel Prize winner Eliot once evaluated this book as "the finest English detective novel", not without reason.

8 "The Big Sleep," Raymond Chandler.

The Long Sleep, Raymond Chandler, Mass Publishing

Philip Marlowe made his full-length debut, and the hardboiled sleuths have since found their best advocate. It's safe to say that Marlowe's character of the urban loner, cold on the outside and gentle on the inside, has influenced every subsequent hard-boiled detective. The same cold and hard everyone, Chandler's style and Hammett is very different: the latter is completely worldly and cold, the detective from the inside hard to the outside, while the former is always unwilling to give up the heart of the hope for a better human nature, the detective is just a hot water bottle - cold on the outside and hot on the inside. So Hammett was called "cold street black giant", while Chandler is "the poet laureate of crime fiction".

9 "Rebecca", Daphne du Maurier.

Butterfly Dreams by Daphne du Maurier Translation Press

Hitchcock's movie version is probably better known than the original. And my personal advice is the same: go see the movie and forget about the novel itself. For the average reader's reading taste, this book has little to do with deduction, and the author's skills are so far removed from Collins and others, how can one bear to read it?

10 "And then there Were None", Agatha Christie.

No One Left Alive British Agatha Christie Guizhou Publishing House

The number one work of vernacular reasoning in my mind. Among Christie's works, this book really qualifies as an anomaly. From beginning to end, it is a tense and exciting book that keeps the reader on the edge of their seat. The unprecedented plotting is truly "whimsical" and shows the true charm of Bengali reasoning. I've been telling stories to my friends since I read this book, and it's always been my signature dish, and I've always been able to get my audience hooked on it and applauding it, and there are almost 500 Amazon reviews of this book, and almost everyone has given it a five-star rating, so it's clear that this book has a lot of charm, regardless of the boundaries of the world.

11 "Anatomy of a Murder", Robert Traver.

12 "The Murder of Roger Ackroyd", Agatha Christie.

The Case of Roger Ackroyd English Agatha Christie Guizhou Publishing House

The Queen of Detectives' masterpiece, a work that takes the unexpectedness of the killer to its peak. Unfortunately, the ending of the work is deafening, but the rest of the book is slightly dull, and the pace is typical of the British style of lukewarm water - this is a common problem in the vast majority of Christie's works.

13 "The Long Goodbye", Raymond Chandler.

14 "The Postman Always Rings Twice", James M. Cain.

"The Postman Always Knocks Twice" by James M. Cain Springbok Literary Publishing

This When this book first came out, it was highly controversial because of the author's deviant ideas and vulgarly sharp writing. Using the perpetrator as the first protagonist and the murderer as the first-person narrative point of view, the reader can gradually empathize with the murderer's position - a technique that can be seen everywhere today, but was a real innovation at that time. The book even influenced the Nobel Prize-winning author Gamou, who would later become famous in the literary world for writing The Outsiders.

15 "The Godfather", Mario Puzo.

"The Godfather", Mario Puzo, Translation Publishing House

Whether it was Puzo's novels or Coppola's movies that made waves in the West, "The Godfather" showed us for the first time that the mafia can be bad in a classy way. The novel is naturally wonderful, but for fans of deduction it is just a good-looking gangster novel, after all, there is no deduction-related plot in it. Perhaps I'd rather recommend Coppola's movie version of The Godfather trilogy.

16 "The Silence of the Lambs", Thomas Harris.

"The Silence of the Lambs", Thomas Harris, Translation Publishing House

The movie based on this work became the third film to win five major prizes, including best picture, best director, best actor and actress, and best screenplay, in one fell swoop, after It Happened One Night and One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest. and Best Screenplay. To be honest, the novel is nothing less than a movie, and the confrontations between highly intelligent criminals and beautiful young female agents leave the reader in a cold sweat at times. The open-ended ending makes the thriller seem afterthoughtful and intriguing.

17 "A Coffin for Dimitrios," Eric Ambler.

18 "Gaudy Night," Dorothy L. Sayers.

19 "Witness for the Prosecution," Agatha Christie

Short Stories by Agatha Christie, Guizhou Publishing House

Some of Christie's longer stories often seem like an expanded version of a short story, so if we want to get a sense of the Queen of Detectives's unconventional ideas and skill at creating "word barriers," we should look at the shorter ones as well. This book is a collection of short stories. This book is a collection of short stories, which has not been published separately in this country, but many of them can be found in Christie's short story anthologies.

20 "The Day of the Jackal", Frederic Forsyth.

"The Day of the Jackal", Frederic Forsyth, Zhuhai Publishing House

Forsyth's debut novel, which became a sensation in the world of speculative literature as soon as it was published, and became the number one bestseller of the year, and the winner of the Edgar Allan Poe Award for Best Detective Novel of the Year in nineteen seventy-two! The book is extremely fast-paced, with two parallel, methodical threads in the narrative, and the reader's heart hangs in the back of his throat until the end of the novel, when he can exhale a long breath. The Day of the Jackal is the pinnacle of the thriller, and although Forsyth himself has since produced a number of great works, none have ever matched the level of this one.

21 "Farewell, My Lovely", Raymond Chandler.

"Farewell, My Lovely", Raymond Chandler, Mass Publishing

A personal favorite of Chandler. The book is written in a rare paradigm of love in speculative fiction, cold/sad/realistic/romantic merged into one, and at the end of the work all the contradictions entangled explosion, it is a low return. Only so moody a title but was translated into a vicious "lovers without love", really should hit the translator's ass.

22 "The Thirty-nine Steps", John Buchan.

The Thirty-nine Steps, John Buchan, Central Compilation and Translation Press

Hitchcock deserves a lot of credit for making this novel famous. Instead of watching Bakken's original, I'd rather watch a movie about the master of suspense. It's a lot of fun, and it saves time, so why not?

23 "The Name of the Rose", Umberto Eco.

"The Name of the Rose" by Umberto Eco Writers Publishing House

Eco's work is typical of intellectual writing, erudite and thoughtful, with the momentum of a conversation with the Creator looming large in his work. Eco's detective William inherits Holmes' signature style of deduction, but is much more erudite and worldly than his predecessors. The Name of the Rose has become an "encyclopedic" work due to the writer's erudition, and even if readers only look at the book's bizarre and eccentric knowledge, it is still interesting enough. Ike also published a book of literary criticism in Sanlian Publishing House, Interpretation and Excessive Interpretation, which includes his debates with several internationally renowned masters of literary theory, from which Ike's wisdom can be seen as well as God's and ghost's thoughts.

24 "Crime and Punishment", Fyodor Dostoevski.

Crime and Punishment, Fyodor Dostoevski, Russia, People's Literature Publishing House

This list already includes a number of works that don't quite fit in the realm of the speculative fiction genre, but the inclusion of Dostoevski's Crime and Punishment blew me away. It's the MWA getting in its own face. There's no denying that Crime and Punishment is a great and moving work, and there are murders and crimes, but it has nothing to do with "mystery" in any sense of the word.

25 "Eye of the Needle", Ken Follett.

26 "Rumpole of the Bailey", John Mortimer.

27 "Red Dragon", Thomas Harris.

28 "The Nine Taylors", Doris Harris.

29 "The Rumpole of the Bailey", John Mortimer. Nine Taylors", Dorothy L. Sayers.

29 "Fletch", Gregory McDonald.

30 "Tinker, Taylor, Soldier, Spy", John le Carr.

"Tailor, Sailor, Soldier, Spy " English John le Carr Translation Publishing

Another masterpiece by John le Carr, this is a slightly duller, slower-paced book in comparison to his acclaimed The Man Who Suffered from Indifference. The protagonist, Smiley, like his creator, is aging and losing his virility. But Le Carré's literary prowess still shines some bright sparks from time to time in this work, and it's still a spy novel worth reading.

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