Murder -- Investigation -- Fiction books

The murder of Roger Ackroyd

Agatha Christie

The novel opens with a brisk, first‑person account of a physician‑detective who is summoned to the bedside of…

The Man in the Brown Suit

Agatha Christie

The novel opens in a glittering theatre where the celebrated dancer Madame Nadina receives a fervent ovation…

Whose Body? A Lord Peter Wimsey Novel

Dorothy L. Sayers

Whose Body? is a detective novel that places its famed amateur sleuth, Lord Peter Wimsey, at the centre of a…

The Big Four

Agatha Christie

The story is a classic Christie detective adventure, starring the celebrated Belgian sleuth Hercule Poirot…

The Plymouth Express Affair

Agatha Christie

The story opens aboard the Plymouth Express, where a nervous Lieutenant Simpson discovers a concealed…

The Hunter's Lodge Case

Agatha Christie

The Hunter’s Lodge Case is a compact detective story that places the celebrated Belgian sleuth, Hercule…

The Mandarin's Fan

Fergus Hume

The Mandarin’s Fan is a detective‑mystery novel by Fergus Hume, the author of the celebrated The Mystery of a…

The trouble at Pinelands: A detective story

Ernest M. Poate

The Trouble at Pinelands is a detective story set in a remote North Carolina mansion that doubles as a…

Murder in Paris

Alice Campbell

Murder in Paris is a detective‑mystery that opens aboard a crowded train bound for Normandy, where the…

Murder at the vicarage

Agatha Christie

The novel is a village‑set detective story that opens inside the vicarage of a small English parish, where…

The Circular Staircase

Mary Roberts Rinehart

The Leavenworth Case

Anna Katharine Green

The "Canary" murder case

S. S. Van Dine

Strong poison

Dorothy L. Sayers

The Greene murder case

S. S. Van Dine

The shooting party

Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

The Pit-Prop Syndicate

Freeman Wills Crofts

The silver blade: The true chronicle of a double mystery

Charles Edmonds Walk

The Benson murder case

S. S. Van Dine

The viaduct murder

Ronald Arbuthnott Knox

The mystery at lovers' cave

Anthony Berkeley

Edgar Huntly; or, Memoirs of a Sleep-Walker

Charles Brockden Brown

A silent witness

R. Austin Freeman

The House of the Arrow

A. E. W. Mason