Books like The Thin Man
A retired detective and his wealthy wife drink their way through a Prohibition-era Christmas in New York while he is pulled into the disappearance of an eccentric inventor suspected of murder.
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Promised Land
Spenser, the Boston private eye, is hired to find a missing housewife from Cape Cod, and finds her among a group of militant feminists planning a robbery.
The Big Sleep
A private detective in 1930s Los Angeles takes a missing-person case that leads through a web of pornography, murder, and the corruption of the California rich.
The Maltese Falcon
In 1920s San Francisco, private detective Sam Spade is hired by a beautiful woman whose story is a lie, and after his partner is shot, he is drawn into a hunt for a jewelled falcon statue.
The Murder at the Vicarage
When the widely disliked Colonel Protheroe is found shot in the vicar's study in the village of St Mary Mead, there is no shortage of suspects, and the vicar's elderly neighbour, Miss Jane Marple, has her own ideas.
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.
Her Royal Spyness
In 1932 Lady Georgiana Rannoch, thirty-fourth in line to the throne and flat broke, flees her brother's Scottish castle for London, where the Queen asks her to spy on the Prince of Wales and a body turns up in her bath.
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.
Last Bus to Woodstock
Two young women give up on the bus to Woodstock and decide to hitch a lift. That night one of them is found dead in the yard of a Woodstock pub, and Chief Inspector Morse and Sergeant Lewis go looking for the other.
Red Harvest
A detective arrives in a mining town controlled by warring gangs and plays them against each other, leaving a trail of bodies that adds up to something like justice.
Old Bones
Gideon Oliver, the American forensic anthropologist known as the skeleton detective, is in Brittany when an old Breton patriarch drowns and bones turn up in his cellar.
La Brava
Joe LaBrava, a former Secret Service agent turned photographer in Miami Beach, falls for Jean Shaw, a film noir actress he idolised as a boy, and walks into a scam built around her.
God Save the Mark
Fred Fitch, the easiest mark in New York, falls for every con going, and then inherits a fortune from an uncle he never knew, who was murdered.