Detective Fiction


Murder on the Orient Express (Hercule Poirot, #10)
A Study in Scarlet (Sherlock Holmes, #1)
The Murder of Roger Ackroyd (Hercule Poirot, #4)
The Mysterious Affair at Styles (Hercule Poirot, #1)
The Hound of the Baskervilles (Sherlock Holmes, #5)
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (Sherlock Holmes, #3)
And Then There Were None
The Big Sleep (Philip Marlowe, #1)
The Cuckoo's Calling (Cormoran Strike, #1)
The Maltese Falcon
The Sign of Four (Sherlock Holmes, #2)
Death on the Nile (Hercule Poirot, #18)
The A.B.C. Murders (Hercule Poirot, #13)
The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes (Sherlock Holmes, #4)
The Elephant Tree
His mouth went dry and for a split second he had a metallic taste on the sides of his tongue. He stood, turned, and gulped. A vision had appeared from somewhere. Was she real? She was tall, with long, glossy light-gold hair surrounding a perfectly shaped face. The front of her silk white robe was open down to a delightful cleavage where a long silver cross hung. As she walked slowly past Alec to sit at the desk, the robe parted for a fleeting glimpse of her leg. A scent of lily of the valley mea ...more
Hugo Woolley, The Wasp Trap

Yukito Ayatsuji
What mystery novels need are – some might call me old-fashioned – a great detective, a mansion, a shady cast of residents, bloody murders, impossible crimes and never-before-seen tricks played by the murderer. Call it my castle in the sky, but I’m happy as long as I can enjoy such a world. But always in an intellectual manner.
Yukito Ayatsuji, The Decagon House Murders

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