Agatha Christie

I personally never got hooked by Arthur Conan Doyle. For mystery, when the film-noirish stuff of Dashiell Hammett and Raymond Chandler get old, I turn to Agatha Christie. Considering that she's the bestselling author in history, Shakespeare notwithstanding, and that she's not "all money and no literary merit" (*cough* Stephen King *cough*)... and I personally think her plot twists were masterfully devised... let's discuss her.

And Then There Were None is my favorite, even though Poirot wasn't in it. I absolutely loved Murder on the Orient Express too...