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"The whole point of a good detective story was that it must be somebody obvious but at the same time, for some reason, you would then find that it was not obvious, that he could not possibly have done it. Though really, of course, he had done it. " -- Agatha Christie

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    Murder on the Orient Express by Agatha Christie

Just after midnight, the famous Orient Express is stopped in its tracks by a snowdrift. By morning, the millionaire Samuel Edward Ratchett lies dead in his compartment, stabbed a dozen times, his door locked from the inside. Without a shred of doubt, one of his fellow passengers is the murderer. Isolated by the storm, detective Hercule Poirot must find the killer among a dozen of the dead man’s enemies, before the murderer decides to strike again.

Year: 1934
Genre: Locked Room, Murder Mystery

    And Then There Were None by Agatha Christie

1939. Europe teeters on the brink of war. Ten strangers are invited to Soldier Island, an isolated rock near the Devon coast. Cut off from the mainland, with their generous hosts Mr and Mrs U.N. Owen mysteriously absent, they are each accused of a terrible crime. When one of the party dies suddenly they realise they may be harbouring a murderer among their number.

Year: 1939
Genre: Murder Mystery

 

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-- -- --1923 The Murder on the Links   by Agatha Christie
-- -- --1926 The Murder of Roger Ackroyd   by Agatha Christie
-- -- --1928 The Mystery of the Blue Train   by Agatha Christie
-- -- --1930 Black Coffee   by Agatha Christie
-- -- --1933 Lord Edgware Dies   by Agatha Christie
-- -- --1933 The Thin Man   by Dashiell Hammett
-- -- --1934 Murder on the Orient Express   by Agatha Christie
-- -- --1935 Death in the Clouds   by Agatha Christie
-- -- --1935 Three Act Tragedy   by Agatha Christie
-- -- --1936 Cards on the Table   by Agatha Christie
-- -- --1936 Murder in Mesopotamia   by Agatha Christie
-- -- --1937 Death on the Nile   by Agatha Christie
-- -- --1937 Dumb Witness   by Agatha Christie
-- -- --1938 Appointment with Death   by Agatha Christie
-- -- --1938 Hercule Poirot's Christmas   by Agatha Christie
-- -- --1939 And Then There Were None   by Agatha Christie
-- -- --1939 The Regatta Mystery and Other Stories   by Agatha Christie
-- -- --1940 Evil Under the Sun   by Agatha Christie
-- -- --1940 One, Two, Buckle My Shoe   by Agatha Christie
-- -- --1940 Sad Cypress   by Agatha Christie
-- -- --1942 Five Little Pigs   by Agatha Christie
-- -- --1942 The High Window   by Raymond Chandler
-- -- --1946 The Hollow   by Agatha Christie
-- -- --1947 I, The Jury   by Mickey Spillane
-- -- --1947 The Fabulous Clipjoint   by Frederic Brown
-- -- --1948 Taken at the Flood   by Agatha Christie
-- -- --1948 The Case of the Lonely Heiress   by Erle Stanley Gardner
-- -- --1949 The Case of the Dubious Bridegroom   by Erle Stanley Gardner
-- -- --1950 The Drowning Pool   by Ross Macdonald
-- -- --1950 Three Blind Mice and Other Stories   by Agatha Christie
-- -- --1951 The Under Dog and Other Stories   by Agatha Christie
-- -- --1952 Mrs. McGinty's Dead   by Agatha Christie
-- -- --1952 So Nude, So Dead   by Ed McBain
-- -- --1953 After the Funeral   by Agatha Christie
-- -- --1953 Madball   by Frederic Brown
-- -- --1953 The Mousetrap   by Agatha Christie
-- -- --1954 Cut Me In   by Ed McBain
-- -- --1955 Hickory Dickory Dock   by Agatha Christie
-- -- --1956 Dead Man's Folly   by Agatha Christie
-- -- --1958 The Count of 9   by Erle Stanley Gardner
-- -- --1959 Cat Among the Pigeons   by Agatha Christie
-- -- --1960 The Cutie   by Donald E. Westlake
-- -- --1961 Call for the Dead   by John le Carré
-- -- --1961 Double Sin and Other Stories   by Agatha Christie
-- -- --1962 A Murder of Quality   by John le Carré
-- -- --1963 The Clocks   by Agatha Christie
-- -- --1966 Third Girl   by Agatha Christie
-- -- --1969 Hallowe'en Party   by Agatha Christie
-- -- --1970 A Maze of Death   by Philip K. Dick
-- -- --1971 Nemesis   by Agatha Christie
-- -- --1973 The Godwulf Manuscript   by Robert B. Parker
-- -- --1975 Curtain: Poirot's Last Case   by Agatha Christie
-- -- --1979 Gunsights   by Elmore Leonard
-- -- --1979 Smiley's People   by John le Carré
-- -- --1981 Split Images   by Elmore Leonard
-- -- --1982 Fletch's Moxie   by Gregory Mcdonald
-- -- --1983 Fletch and the Man Who   by Gregory Mcdonald
-- -- --1984 Carioca Fletch   by Gregory Mcdonald
-- -- --1984 Flynn's In   by Gregory Mcdonald
-- -- --1984 Tough Guys Don't Dance   by Norman Mailer
-- -- --1985 Fletch Won   by Gregory Mcdonald
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-- -- --1987 Echoes in the Darkness   by Joseph Wambaugh
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