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• And Then There Were None

  Christie, Agatha, 1890-1976

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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…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Murder of Roger Ackroyd

  Christie, Agatha, 1890-1976

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  "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…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Curtain

  Poirot's Last Case : a Hercule Poirot Mystery

  Christie, Agatha, 1890-1976

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  "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

• A Is for Arsenic

  the Poisons of Agatha Christie

  Harkup, Kathryn,

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  " 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…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Clue

  Allor, Paul,

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  "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

• Sophocles' Oedipus Rex

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  "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

• Hamlet

  Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616

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  "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…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Hound of the Baskervilles

  Doyle, Arthur Conan, Sir, 1859-1930

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  "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." -…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Galton Case

  Macdonald, Ross, 1915-1983

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  "The Galton Case, a complex search not only for an individual’s identity but for the meaning of identity itself." - Publisher's Weekly

• Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy

  Le Carré, John, 1931-2020

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  "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

• Red Dragon

  Harris, Thomas, 1940-

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  "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

• Hypothermia

  Arnaldur Indriðason, 1961-

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  "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

• The Crossing

  a Novel

  Connelly, Michael, 1956-

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  " 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…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Gorky Park

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  "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…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Clue

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• And Then There Were None

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