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A murdered man, a coded message, and a poisoned pill draw Holmes and Watson into their first case together.
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The Murder of Roger Ackroyd
A wealthy widower is stabbed in his study in a quiet English village, and the retired Poirot takes the case with the help of the local doctor who narrates it.
The Devotion of Suspect X
When a single mother kills her abusive ex-husband, her neighbour, a brilliant, lonely mathematics teacher, devises a cover-up, and a physicist friend of the investigating detective begins to suspect what his old classmate has done.
The Seven-Per-Cent Solution
In a lost manuscript by Dr Watson, Sherlock Holmes, in the grip of cocaine, is tricked into travelling to Vienna to be treated by a young doctor named Sigmund Freud.
The Word Is Murder
Diana Cowper, a wealthy widow, arranges her own funeral and is strangled six hours later, and Daniel Hawthorne, a sacked detective now consulting for the police, asks Anthony Horowitz to write a book about him solving it.
The Cold Dish
In Absaroka County, Wyoming, Sheriff Walt Longmire investigates the death of a young man found on a sheep ranch, one of four boys who were given suspended sentences for assaulting a Northern Cheyenne girl.
Malice
A bestselling novelist is found murdered the night before he is due to move abroad, and Detective Kaga's case turns on the written account of the victim's oldest friend.
The Moonstone
A sacred Indian diamond left to a young English heiress vanishes from her Yorkshire house on the night of her eighteenth birthday, and the people who were there tell the story of the hunt for it in turn.
The Wench Is Dead
Laid up in an Oxford hospital with a bleeding ulcer, Chief Inspector Morse reads an old account of the 1859 murder of Joanna Franks on the Oxford Canal, for which two boatmen were hanged, and sets out to solve it again from his bed.
The Big Bow Mystery
In a lodging house in Bow, in London's East End, a young idealist is found with his throat cut in a room bolted from the inside, and the retired detective next door is baffled.
A Is for Alibi
Private investigator Kinsey Millhone of Santa Teresa, California, is hired by Nikki Fife, just out of prison after eight years for poisoning her philandering husband, to find out who really killed him.
The Hollow Man
Professor Grimaud, a lecturer on magic and the occult, is visited at home in London by a masked stranger, and is found shot in his locked study with no one inside and no footprints in the fresh snow.
The Cuckoo's Calling
Cormoran Strike, a war veteran running a failing detective agency in London, is hired by the brother of a supermodel who fell to her death from her balcony, ruled a suicide, to prove she was murdered.