The Red House Mystery

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.

Agatha Christie

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.

Agatha Christie

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.

Wilkie Collins

The case that introduces Holmes to Watson, and both of them to a body in an empty Brixton house with a word scrawled on the wall in blood.

Arthur Conan Doyle

A family curse, a corpse on the moor, and paw prints too large for any ordinary dog. Holmes stays in London and sends Watson into the fog alone.

Arthur Conan Doyle