Dostoevsky's tense moral descent of a guilty student (1866).
One murder, a grid of suspects, weapons and locations, and just enough clues to eliminate everything but the answer. There are hundreds, in books and one a day online.
The three novels everyone starts with, plus the first collection of Strand stories.
A Japanese surgeon in Germany saves a boy who becomes a serial killer; Urasawa's thriller.
Marv hunts the men who killed Goldie; Miller's black-and-white noir.
Bruce Wayne's first year and Jim Gordon's; Miller and Mazzucchelli's crime comic.
The Kingpin learns Daredevil's identity and takes everything apart; Miller and Mazzucchelli.
A stolen treasure, a one-legged man and Watson falling in love, in the second novel.
Watson meets Holmes at Baker Street and a body with RACHE on the wall; the first case, 1887.
A spectral dog on Dartmoor and the most famous Holmes novel of all.
The twelve Strand stories, A Scandal in Bohemia to The Copper Beeches.
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