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A lavish weekend party, a practical joke that goes murderously wrong, and stolen state secrets all transpire in The Seven Dials Mystery, by Agatha Christie. Full of her usual sly wit this clever murder mystery is a classic detective story featuring some of the characters from an earlier novel, The Secret of Chimneys: Lady Eileen (Bundle) Brent, Lord Caterham, Bill Eversleigh, George Lomax, Tredwell, and Superintendent Battle.

Nancy’s dog, Cody was barking; when she went to get him, she found a body on the side of the road Linda, a 38-year-old single mom, was injured severely by a hit and run driver. Nancy ran home to call an ambulance and get help. There are many suspects including the men playing cards and drinking at the Roadhouse, a new man in town whose car is dented and the ex-boyfriend Linda recently kicked out of her home. Linda’s daughter, Brenda, saw her grandfather, Tom, driving drunk in the area Linda was found and thinks he did it.

An epic Wild West detective story as a group is hired to clean up a corrupt town. A model for many later Westerns & Detective stories.

Pictorița Bella Sinclair dă o petrecere cu ocazia deschiderii expoziției sale, unde prezintă și tablourile lui Fran Hunter. Herring House, galeria în care are loc vernisajul, se află pe plaja de la Biddista, în nord-vestul îndepărtat al insulei. Când un englez misterios izbucnește în lacrimi și pretinde că nu știe cine e și de unde vine, serata se încheie dezastruos. A doua zi, englezul e găsit spânzurat de o grindă, cu o mască de clovn pe față.

Maurice Leblanc, a writer of detective fiction during the same period as Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, created Arsene Lupin, a sort of French Robin Hood. An inventive genius, a master of disguise, and an accomplished actor, Lupin operates in the choice chateaux and salons. He scorns sham and with great disdain leaves his card in a baron's residence. The card reads, "Arsene Lupin, gentleman-burglar, will return when the furniture is genuine."

It’s 1925 and the Empress of Australia is making her regular Atlantic crossing, New York-bound, with a full manifest of passengers.When a dead body is uncovered onboard, it is up to Inspector Archie Daniels to find the killer. But solving one murder quickly turns into solving two, then three, and it becomes clear that Daniels must act fast to avoid an all-souls-lost-level calamity. No one, from the horrendously wealthy and entitled first-class passengers to what they would consider the dregs of empire below deck, is safe. And no one can get off.

The Adventure of the Seven Christmas Cards – A Sherlock Holmes Christmas Story. As the year comes to a close, Sherlock Holmes and Dr Watson must set out through snow laden London to investigate the theft of a priceless clock and the receipt of seven macabre Christmas cards. Will they solve...

Arthur Conan Doyle ranked "The Red-Headed League" second in his list of his 12 favorite Sherlock Holmes stories. It is one of Holmes' most intriguing cases, in which he has to solve a problem caused by a strange society in which the only criteria for admission is bright red hair!

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Everyone in Athena, Mississippi, knows Charlie Harris, the good-natured librarian with a rescued Maine coon cat named Diesel that he walks on a leash. He's returned to his hometown to immerse himself in books, but soon enough he's entangled in a real-life thriller. A famous author of gory bestsellers and a former classmate of Charlie's, Godfrey Priest may be the pride of Athena, but Charlie remembers him as an arrogant, manipulative jerk—and he's not the only one. Godfrey's homecoming as a distinguished alumnus couldn't possibly go worse: by lunch, he's put a man in the hospital. 

Un príncipe oriental inicia en Londres un romance con una muchacha de dudosa reputación, a la que regala un rubí emblemático que desaparecerá junto con la joven.

En los últimos días de la Gran Guerra, Poirot y Hastings se hallan cenando en el Carlton cuando se encuentran con un viejo conocido, el capitán Vincent Lemesurier, quien se encuentra allí con su tío Hugo Lemesurier, cuando de repente llega un primo suyo, Roger, avisándoles de que el padre de Vincent ha sufrido una seria caída mientras montaba a caballo y apenas le quedan unas horas de vida. Vincent y Hugo se marchan corriendo, y Roger les habla entonces de la antigua maldición de los Lemesurier, según la cual ninguno de los primogénitos de la familia podrá heredar jamás

Adéntrate en el misterio de El Cinturón de Hipólita, en el que la autora despliega su genialidad para enredarnos en una trama tan audaz como te puedas imnaginar. Hércules Poirot se enfrenta a un desafío que pone a prueba no solo su intelecto sino su valor. Un artefacto de valor incalculable ha desaparecido, llevando a nuestro detective en una búsqueda que cruza fronteras y desafía la historia. Con cada pista envuelta en el mito y la leyenda, Poirot debe desentrañar la verdad oculta detrás de siglos de engaños.

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Sunny Randall is hired to investigate the disappearance of an energy drink company’s CEO, Dylan. As she gets closer to finding Dylan, she learns not only of his bad behaviour toward numerous women, but of his bad behaviour within the business world – and his energy drink that, despite its marketing, has proven dangerous and even deadly.

In Agatha Christie’s classic, Sleeping Murder, the indomitable Miss Marple turns ghost hunter and uncovers shocking evidence of a perfect crime. Soon after Gwenda moved into her new home, odd things started to happen. Despite her best efforts to modernize the house, she only succeeded in...

The season had begun. Débutantes and chaperones were planning their luncheons, teas, dinners, balls. And the blackmailer was planning his strategies, stalking his next victim. But Chief Detective Inspector Roderick Alleyn knew that something was up. He had already planted his friend Lord Robert...

The scruffy detective Kosuke Kindaichi returns to solve another fiendish murder mystery. An old friend of Kindaichi’s invites the detective to visit the remote mountain village of Onikobe, the site of a 20-year-old unsolved murder case. But no sooner has Kindaichi in the village than a new series of murders strikes – several bodies are discovered staged in bizarre poses, and it soon becomes clear that the victims are being killed using methods that eerily echo the lyrics of an old local children’s song …

In this “chilling and entirely believable”* mystery, forensic archaeologist Ruth Galloway and DCI Harry Nelson investigate a set of remains buried in the foundations of an old country manor—but as soon as they get close to cracking the case, Ruth becomes the killer’s next target...

Dr Watson comments: 'The stage lost a fine actor' when Holmes chose to devote his formidable talents to the solution of crime. Two of these stories, "The Reigate Squire" and "The Adventure of Beryl Coronet", Sherlock Holmes demonstrates his thespian powers as he unravels the mysteries.