The Circular Staircase

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

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

A detective blinded years earlier reads a room through hearing and touch alone. Eight cases where the man who cannot see notices everything.

Ernest Bramah