Books like The Westing Game
Sixteen heirs of the eccentric millionaire Samuel W. Westing are paired off and handed clues, and whoever solves the puzzle of his death will inherit his fortune.
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From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler
Eleven-year-old Claudia Kincaid runs away from her suburban home with her younger brother Jamie to live secretly in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, where the mystery of a statue that may be by Michelangelo draws them in.
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 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.
Vera Wong's Unsolicited Advice for Murderers
Vera Wong, a lonely sixty-year-old widow who runs a fading tea shop in San Francisco's Chinatown, finds a dead man on her floor one morning and, unimpressed by the police, decides to catch the killer herself by befriending the suspects.
Magpie Murders
Editor Susan Ryeland settles down with the manuscript of Alan Conway's latest mystery, in which detective Atticus Pünd investigates a death in a 1950s English village, and discovers the final chapters are missing just as news comes of the author's own death.
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.
The Unwedding
Ellery Wainwright, whose husband has left her for another woman, takes the Big Sur trip they booked for their twentieth anniversary alone, and the morning after a lavish wedding at the resort she finds the groom dead in the pool, just as a storm cuts everyone off.
The Decagon House Murders
Seven members of a university mystery club, who go by the names of famous crime writers, spend a week on a deserted island where a reclusive architect and his family died in a fire, staying in his ten-sided guest house.
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 Perfect Couple
On the morning of a lavish Nantucket wedding, the maid of honour is found dead in the harbour, and as the police chief questions the bride, the groom, his wealthy family and their guests, each turns out to be hiding something.
The Tokyo Zodiac Murders
In 1979 the astrologer and amateur sleuth Kiyoshi Mitarai takes up a crime that has baffled Japan for forty years: an artist murdered in his locked studio in 1936, and the six young women of his family later found dismembered as his notebooks described.
The Honjin Murders
In the winter of 1937, on the wedding night of the eldest son of an old family in a village in Okayama, the household wakes to a scream and the notes of a koto, and finds the newlyweds dead in a locked annex surrounded by untouched snow.