Detective Fiction

literature

‘The Red-Headed League’ presents Sherlock Holmes with a seemingly bizarre request: a red-headed pawnbroker is hired for a mysterious, well-paid job that suddenly ends, leadi...

literature

Murder on the Orient Express presents a locked-room mystery aboard the luxurious Orient Express, where a snowdrift halts the train and a passenger is found murdered in his sleep...

literature

Robert B. Parker is best known for creating the Boston private detective Spenser, a modern, morally grounded investigator who combines toughness, wit, and deep literary sensibil...

literature-and-arts

Agnès in Murder on the Orient Express begins after the luxurious Orient Express is halted by a snowdrift in Yugoslavia. In the isolated hours of the night, a passenger is found...