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Become Detective Benoit Blanc from "Knives Out"

Did you make it to the movies this holiday weekend to check out the new age clue-like film, "Knives Out"? If you did, I'm sure you are begging for more of it's kind, as it kept you on the edge of your seat the whole time. No need to fret, listed below are who dunnit books and films to help you become a great detective like Benoit Blanc! https://filmschoolrejects.com/knives-out-reading-list/ https://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/industry-news/tip-sheet/article/70916-10-best-whodunits.html

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  • "Eight strangers are invited to a palatial estate on an island off the coast of Devon. Through a bizarre gramophone recording of a nursery rhyme, an unseen host accuses each guest of a different murder. They are told that they must offer a proper…
    Book, 2011New York : Harper, c2011, 1939. — FICTION Christie Agatha
  • "Roger Ackroyd is a wealthy widower with doubts concerning his fiancee’s recent suicide. During a large dinner party, featuring a wide array of kooks very much in tone with Knives Out, Ackroyd admits to one guest that his fiancee confessed to the…
    Book, 1991New York : HarperPaperbacks, 1991, c1954. — FICTION Christie Agatha
  • Curtain

    Poirot's Last Case : a Hercule Poirot Mystery

    Christie, Agatha, 1890-1976
    "When a series of murder suspects start dying themselves, a wheelchair-bound Hercule Poirot suspects the work of a serial killer. He tracks the five-time murderer to a familiar location, Styles Court." - Film School Rejects
    Book, 2011New York ; London ; Toronto ; Sydney : Harper, 2011, ©1975. — FICTION Christie Agatha
  • A Is for Arsenic

    the Poisons of Agatha Christie

    Harkup, Kathryn,
    " Agatha Christie knew her poisons. A chemist herself, Kathryn Harkup investigates Christie’s fiction through the murderous cocktails at the center of her plots. Each chapter explores a different Christie mystery, deconstructs the effectiveness of…
    Book, 2015London ; New York : Bloomsbury Sigma, 2015. — 615.9 Harkup 09/2015
  • "The dead guy is Mr. Boddy. The suspects are Mustard, Scarlet, Peacock, White, Plum, and Green. However, there are a few new additions as well: Detective Ochre and Doctor Orchid. The tone is a touch grimmer than the ’85 film." - Film School Rejects
    Graphic Novel, 2018San Diego, CA : IDW Publishing, a division of Idea & Design Works LLC, 2018. — GRAPHIC Allor Paul 03/2018
  • "This features a powerful protagonist hell-bent to discover the truth, despite the objections and obstacles in his path. It involves a devastating secret and arguably literature’s most sensationally dysfunctional family." - Publisher's Weekly
    Book, 2007New York : Chelsea House, c2007. — 882.01 Sophocle 11/2007
  • "Hamlet is in pursuit of a dreadful hidden truth. As happens in the detective stories I most admire, the manner in which he pursues that truth directly reflects the complexities of his character. His conflicted soul and the choices that flow from…
    Book, 2007Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2007. — 822.33 Shakespe
  • "It begins with a baffling problem—an eerie situation, seemingly inexplicable by any rational means. Then Holmes begins sifting through it—questioning, observing, connecting the dots, and emerging finally with a perfectly rational solution." -…
    Book, 1986New York : Signet Classic, 1986. — MYSTERY Doyle Arthur 1986
  • "The Galton Case, a complex search not only for an individual’s identity but for the meaning of identity itself." - Publisher's Weekly
    Book, 1996New York : Vintage Books, 1996. — FICTION Macdonal Ross
  • "Set in the slippery world of espionage, Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy is a classic tale of detection—and it’s a pleasure to follow Smiley’s low-key, high-stakes pursuit of the truth. - Publisher's Weekly
    Book, 1974New York : Knopf ; \distributed by Random House\, 1974. — MYSTERY LeCarre John 06/1974
  • "This is remarkable for its inventive serial-killer plot, for its vivid and believable portrayal of the psychopath at the heart of it, and for Harris’s ability to paint pictures you’re not likely to forget." - Publisher's Weekly
    Book, 2009New York : Berkley Publishing Group, 2009. — FICTION Harris Thomas
  • "Erlendur is a morose, guilt-ridden man whose memories, preoccupations, and family problems are as much a part of this series as the troubled lives he investigates and the crimes he solves." - Publisher's Weekly
    Book, 2010New York : Minotaur Books, 2010. — FICTION Arnaldur Indridas
  • " The Crossing made this list because it’s good in all the ways the Bosch series is good … plus, it ratchets up the tension by having Harry take on a case that alienates him from the police world that always sustained him … plus, it involves…
    Book, 2015New York : Little, Brown and Company, 2015. — FICTION Connelly Michael
  • "Martin Cruz Smith’s Gorky Park gave me a visceral experience not only of the weather and geography of Moscow but of the corrupt culture, tricky politics, and dangerous pressures of life there in the waning days of the Soviet Union." - Publisher's…
    DVD, 2014[Place of publication not identified] : [Publisher not identified], [2014] — DVD FEATURE Gorky 1983
  • DVD, 2000Hollywood, Calif. : Paramount Home Video, c2000. — DVD Clue
  • DVD, 2016[United States] : Acorn Media, 2016. — DVD And