Max Carrados

Two broke friends advertise themselves as adventurers for hire and land in the hunt for a missing woman and a document that could topple a government.

Agatha Christie

The little priest finally explains his method, then proves it across a run of cases where the culprit is always the person nobody suspected.

G. K. Chesterton

A naked corpse turns up in a stranger's bathtub wearing nothing but a pince-nez. Lord Peter Wimsey's first case, solved between meals and rare book auctions.

Dorothy L. Sayers

A spinster rents a summer house and gets gunshots in the night, a body at the foot of the stairs, and a household nobody can account for.

Mary Roberts Rinehart

An old man sits in a teashop, ties knots in a piece of string, and explains to a journalist how a dozen unsolved crimes were actually done.

Baroness Orczy