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The suspects, the clues, and the motive are all on the page. Agatha Christie hides her killer in plain sight, and Gaston Leroux seals a room nobody could enter.
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Murder Mystery
Murder Mystery Novels
A body, a closed circle of suspects, and one investigation that has to get there before you do. These are the murder mystery novels that built the genre.
Poirot retires to a quiet village and a wealthy neighbor is stabbed the night after a suicide. The solution broke every rule the genre had, and readers still argue about it.
The first Poirot case: a wealthy woman poisoned in her own country house, a family that all stood to gain, and a Belgian refugee who notices what the police miss.
A drawing teacher meets a woman dressed all in white on a midnight road, and the encounter pulls him into a conspiracy over an inheritance. Told through the statements of everyone involved.
A journalist detective builds a perfect case against the obvious suspect and gets it completely wrong. The novel that taught the genre its detective could be fallible.
A young man disappears on Christmas Eve and his choirmaster uncle knows more than he says. Dickens died before writing the solution, so the ending is yours to argue.
A man is chloroformed to death inside a cab and the driver cannot describe the passenger who paid the fare. A street mystery that outsold every rival of its day.
A house guest hears a shot, finds the host's brother dead, and the host gone. Two amateurs stay on to work out how anyone left a room that was being watched.
The victim is inside a room sealed from the inside, and nobody could have entered or left. Each of these mystery books gives you a solution you could have worked out yourself.
Two women killed in a fourth floor room locked from the inside, with no way in and no way out. The story that invented the detective and the impossible crime at once.
A woman is attacked in a sealed chamber and her assailant vanishes from a corridor watched at both ends. A young reporter solves what the police cannot.
A naked corpse turns up in a stranger's bathtub wearing nothing but a pince-nez. Lord Peter Wimsey's first case, solved between meals and rare book auctions.
Every book on this page is free to read online or download in PDF. If you want the professionals on the case, our detective books page collects Holmes and his rivals.
