Books like The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes
Twelve early Holmes cases narrated by Dr Watson, among them a pawnbroker recruited by the League of Red-Headed Men, the speckled band and the engineer's thumb, which set the pattern for the detective stories that followed.
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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.
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 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 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 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 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 Red Locked Room
Impossible-crime stories by one of the masters of the Japanese puzzle mystery, written in the 1950s and 60s, several featuring Chief Inspector Onitsura.
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 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 Judas Window
James Answell is found unconscious in a locked study beside the body of his prospective father-in-law, shot through with an arrow, and Sir Henry Merrivale has to prove at the Old Bailey that he didn't do it.
The Mistletoe Murder and Other Stories
Four Christmas crime stories, two of them featuring Adam Dalgliesh, written over the years for magazines.
Tokyo Express
The bodies of a ministry official and a young hostess are found on a beach in Fukuoka, an apparent lovers' suicide, but a veteran local detective and a young Tokyo inspector start to wonder about the train timetables.