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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 Hollow Man is a 1935 detective novel by John Dickson Carr, published in the United States as The Three Coffins. It features the scholar and amateur investigator Dr. Gideon Fell confronting two apparently impossible murders involving sealed or closely observed locations. The novel is especially n...
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...
The Crooked Hinge is a 1938 detective novel by John Dickson Carr featuring Dr. Gideon Fell. Set around an English country estate, its plot concerns two men who each claim to be the rightful heir and survivor of the sinking of the Titanic, followed by a seemingly impossible murder. The novel combines...
Shari Lapena's 2018 thriller set at a snowbound Catskills inn where a group of guests are trapped by a blizzard and begin turning up dead one by one.
