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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.
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The Daughter of Time
Laid up in hospital with a broken leg, Inspector Alan Grant of Scotland Yard grows interested in a portrait of Richard III and sets out to learn whether the king really murdered the princes in the Tower.
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.
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 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 Red House Mystery
Antony Gillingham, a gentleman of leisure, arrives at the Red House to visit a friend just as a shot is fired behind a locked office door, and the host's black-sheep brother is found dead inside.
The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes
Eleven more Holmes cases told by Watson, among them 'Silver Blaze' and its dog that did nothing in the night-time, and 'The Final Problem', which introduces Professor Moriarty.
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 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.
A Good Girl's Guide to Murder
For her final-year school project, Pippa Fitz-Amobi reopens the case of Andie Bell, who vanished from their English town five years ago and was believed to have been killed by her boyfriend Sal, and Pip is sure the police got it wrong.
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.
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.