Best Whodunit

And Then There Were None is a 1939 mystery novel by Agatha Christie about ten people summoned to an isolated island under different pretexts. Cut off from the mainland, they are accused of past deaths and then killed one by one according to the pattern of a nursery rhyme. The novel combines a closed...

The Maltese Falcon is a 1930 detective novel by American writer Dashiell Hammett, developed from a story first serialized in Black Mask magazine. Private investigator Sam Spade becomes entangled with criminals seeking a jewel-encrusted falcon statuette whose history and value are obscured by decepti...

The Case of the Golden Idol is a 2022 detective puzzle video game developed by Color Gray Games and published by Playstack. Players inspect static, illustrated scenes depicting deaths and other pivotal events, identify characters and objects, and place discovered words into statements that explain w...

Crooked House is a 1949 detective novel by Agatha Christie set within the wealthy Leonides family. After family patriarch Aristide Leonides is poisoned, suspicion falls on members of his multigenerational household, and Charles Hayward investigates while considering marriage to Aristide's granddaugh...

The Mystery of the Yellow Room is a French detective novel by Gaston Leroux, first published in book form in 1907. It introduces the young reporter and investigator Joseph Rouletabille, who examines an apparently impossible assault committed inside a locked room at the Chateau du Glandier. The novel...

Sleuth is a 1972 mystery thriller directed by Joseph L. Mankiewicz and adapted by Anthony Shaffer from his stage play. Laurence Olivier plays successful crime novelist Andrew Wyke, while Michael Caine plays Milo Tindle, the younger man involved with Wyke's wife. Set largely at Wyke's elaborate count...

The Nine Tailors is a 1934 detective novel by Dorothy L. Sayers featuring Lord Peter Wimsey. Stranded in a village in the English Fens, Wimsey becomes involved in a mystery surrounding an unidentified body discovered in a churchyard grave. The plot draws extensively on English change-ringing, parish...

The Westing Game is a 1978 mystery novel for younger readers written and illustrated by Ellen Raskin. Sixteen people connected to the newly built Sunset Towers are named as potential heirs to industrialist Samuel W. Westing and organized into pairs to interpret a set of clues. Structured around word...

Hypnospace Outlaw is a 2019 investigative adventure game developed by Tendershoot and published by No More Robots. Players act as an enforcer within Hypnospace, a fictional online service accessed while its users sleep, and browse personal pages, forums, files, and advertisements modeled on the amat...

Unforgotten is a British television crime drama created by Chris Lang for ITV. It follows detectives investigating cold cases that begin when human remains are discovered, with each series gradually revealing the connections among a group of people linked to the victim. Nicola Walker originally star...

Murder on the Orient Express is a 1974 British mystery film directed by Sidney Lumet from Agatha Christie's novel. Albert Finney portrays Hercule Poirot, who investigates the stabbing of a wealthy passenger after the Orient Express becomes immobilized by snow. The ensemble cast includes Lauren Bacal...

AI: The Somnium Files - nirvanA Initiative is a 2022 mystery adventure and visual novel developed and published by Spike Chunsoft. A sequel to AI: The Somnium Files, it follows investigators Mizuki Date and Ryuki across two periods separated by six years as they examine the Half Body serial killings...

Paradise Killer is a 2020 investigation video game developed by Kaizen Game Works. Players control Lady Love Dies, an investigator recalled from exile to examine a mass killing on a surreal island inhabited by an immortal ruling syndicate and its servants. The game allows evidence, witnesses, and lo...

Clue is a 1985 American comedy mystery directed by Jonathan Lynn and adapted from the board game of the same name. Set largely inside an isolated mansion, it follows a group of pseudonymous dinner guests attempting to identify a killer amid multiple deaths, secret passages, and blackmail. Its origin...

Guilt is a Scottish television drama created by Neil Forsyth and first broadcast in 2019 by BBC Scotland. It begins when brothers Max and Jake accidentally strike and kill an elderly man with their car, then attempt to conceal their responsibility. Their cover-up draws them into deception, suspicion...

Werewolf is a social deduction party game derived from Mafia, the group game created by Dmitry Davidoff. Players receive secret roles, typically dividing them between hidden werewolves and villagers, while a moderator guides alternating night and daytime phases. The werewolves secretly remove player...

Strange Horticulture is a 2022 puzzle and mystery video game developed by Bad Viking. The player operates a plant shop in the fictional town of Undermere, identifying specimens through written clues and supplying them to customers whose stories form an occult mystery. Its play centers on consulting...

One Night Ultimate Werewolf is a social deduction game designed by Ted Alspach and Akihisa Okui and published by Bezier Games. Players receive hidden roles, perform role-specific actions during a single night phase, and then discuss what occurred before voting for a suspected werewolf. Unlike tradit...

Letters from Whitechapel is a hidden-movement board game designed by Gabriele Mari and Gianluca Santopietro. One player takes the role of Jack the Ripper and secretly records movement across a map of Whitechapel, while the other players control police investigators who search for clues and attempt a...

Sherlock Holmes: Crimes and Punishments is a 2014 detective adventure game developed by Frogwares. Players control Sherlock Holmes through six separate investigations, examining scenes, interviewing suspects, conducting experiments, and connecting clues through a deduction system. More than one inte...

Tragedy Looper is an asymmetric deduction board game designed by BakaFire and first published in Japan in 2011. One player acts as the Mastermind, secretly assigning roles and pursuing a scenario's tragic objectives, while the other players act as Protagonists who repeatedly revisit the same sequenc...

Awkward Guests is a deduction card game designed by Ron Gonzalo García and originally published in Spanish as Incómodos Invitados. Players investigate the murder of Mr. Walton by exchanging cards that contain statements about suspects, motives, movements, and possible weapons. Its modular case syste...

And Then There Were None is a 1945 mystery film directed by René Clair and adapted from Agatha Christie's novel and stage play. It follows ten people invited to an isolated island, where they are accused of past crimes and begin dying in a sequence resembling a nursery rhyme. The ensemble cast inclu...

The Afterparty is an American comedy murder-mystery television series created by Christopher Miller for Apple TV+, first released in 2022. Its central investigation begins after a death at a high-school reunion afterparty, with detective Danner questioning the guests as possible suspects. Individual...

Shadows of Doubt is a detective video game developed by ColePowered Games and released in early access in 2023. Set in procedurally generated, densely simulated cities with a science-fiction noir atmosphere, it allows players to investigate murders by searching locations, examining physical evidence...

Tangle Tower is a 2019 point-and-click mystery adventure developed by SFB Games. Detective Grimoire and his assistant Sally investigate the apparent murder of Freya Fellow at a strange mansion occupied by two interconnected families. Players search illustrated rooms, collect and combine evidence, so...

Deception: Murder in Hong Kong is a social-deduction board game designed by Tobey Ho and first published in 2014. One player secretly acts as the murderer, while another serves as the forensic scientist and provides limited clues about the selected means of murder and supporting evidence. The remain...

Detective: A Modern Crime Board Game is a cooperative investigation game designed by Ignacy Trzewiczek, Przemysław Rymer, and Jakub Łapot and published by Portal Games in 2018. Players work as members of the fictional Antares National Investigation Agency, following leads across a campaign of interc...

Mr. Jack is an asymmetric two-player deduction board game designed by Bruno Cathala and Ludovic Maublanc and first published in 2006. One player controls Jack the Ripper, who is concealed among eight characters moving through a stylized Whitechapel, while the other controls an investigator attemptin...