And Then There Were None (Agatha Christie, 1939)
The Big Sleep (Raymond Chandler, 1939)
Lolita (Vladimir Nabokov, 1955)
Honorable mentions: Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows (J.K. Rowling, 2007) - The Hound of Baskervilles (Arthur Conan Doyle, 1902) - Murder at the Vicarage (Agatha Christie, 1930) - The Outsider (Albert Camus, 1942) - The Sun Also Rises (Ernest Hemingway, 1926) - The Thin Man (Dashiell Hammett, 1934) - The Turn of the Screw (Henry James, 1898)