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 Hound of the Baskervilles (Sherlock Holmes, #5)
The Mysterious Affair at Styles (Hercule Poirot, #1)
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)
Murder at the Vicarage (Miss Marple, #1)
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

Raymond Chandler
A check girl in peach-bloom Chinese pajamas came over to take my hat and disapprove of my clothes. She had eyes like strange sins.
Raymond Chandler, The High Window

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