Authors and Titles
This iconic Agatha Christie title is one of the best selling mystery novels of all time.
What is And Then There Were None?
Mycroft is older brother to this famous fictional detective.
Who is Sherlock Holmes?
Giving the well known novel its name, Sam Spade searches for this treasured item.
What is the Maltese Falcon?
This famous author once said, “I specialize in murders of quiet, domestic interest.”
Who is Agatha Christie?
This Irish-American author was inspired to write The Likeness after reading Donna Tartt's The Secret History.
Who is Tana French?
G. K. Chesterton created this novice sleuth who is also a Roman Catholic priest.
Who is Father Brown?
This well-known supernatural mystery starts with a mini mystery about the owner of a cane.
What is The Hound of the Baskervilles?
This famous detective once said to his companion, "It may be that you are not yourself luminous, but that you are a conductor of light. Some people without possessing genius have a remarkable power of stimulating it."
Who is Sherlock Holmes?
This novel by Raymond Chandler was the first to feature detective Philip Marlowe.
What is The Big Sleep?
This famous detective first appears in The Mysterious Affair at Styles.
Who is Hercule Poirot?
In Agatha Christie's The Murder of Roger Ackroyd, this surprising character is the killer.
Who is the narrator or Dr. James Sheppard?
This investigator said the following: “Yes, that bullet would have killed me if it weren’t for the eight pounds of ground beef that I keep in my breast pocket.”
Who is Phillip Marlowe?
One of this author's lesser know works is titled The Glass Key.
Who is Dashiell Hammett?
Who is Smokey Dalton?
This small clue allows Edgar Allan Poe's Dupin to solve the murder of two women in "Murders in the Rue Morgue."
What is an (orangutang) hair?
This investigator said the following: “Love triumphs over hate every single time. Love will always find a way to throw hate into a trunk, drive it to a remote location, and beat it to death with a sock full of nickels.”
Who is Father Brown?
Much better known for his macabre poetry, Edgar Allan Poe also authored this short story, considered the first detective fiction.
What is "The Murders in the Rue Morgue?"
This character made by Dorothy L. Sayers makes a hobby out of criminology.
Who is Lord Peter Wimsey?
Amy leaves behind this red herring in Gillian Flynn's Gone Girl.
What is a diary?
This Tana French character says, “I had learned early to assume something dark and lethal hidden at the heart of anything I loved. When I couldn't find it, I responded, bewildered and wary, in the only way I knew how: by planting it there myself.”
Who is Rob Ryan?