A woman vanishes on an island and the film forgets to look for her; Antonioni booed at Cannes, then canonised.
Schoolgirls vanish on a Victorian rock in 1900 and nobody explains it.
A wife and a mistress murder the headmaster, then the body vanishes; the twist Hitchcock envied.
A Swinging London photographer enlarges a picture and may have found a murder.
Jack Nicholson with a slit nose, the water wars of Los Angeles and "forget it, Jake".
Hitchcock's only Best Picture: a second wife haunted by the first at Manderley.
A writer is tried for her husband's death, with only their blind son as witness.
A wife disappears and a media circus decides her husband did it.
A withdrawn girl befriends a mysterious blonde in a marsh-side mansion.
A disgraced journalist and a hacker reopen a forty-year-old disappearance.
A surveillance expert becomes convinced he has recorded a murder.
Two Victorian magicians destroy each other over a single trick.
Seven contradictory accounts of one killing in a bamboo grove, the dead man's included; the source of Rashomon.
Snow White and the Big Bad Wolf in exile in New York; Willingham's fairy-tale noir.
Urasawa remakes an Astro Boy story as a murder mystery about robots and war.
Childhood friends and a cult leader who copies their game; Urasawa's conspiracy epic.
A missing cat, a missing wife and a dry well in a Tokyo suburb; Murakami's big one.
A Greenlandic-Danish scientist investigates a boy's fall from a roof in Copenhagen.
Five parts, a missing German novelist and the murdered women of Santa Teresa; Bolano's unfinished monument.
An old woman in a Silesian village and hunters who keep dying; Tokarczuk's eco-thriller.
A 15-year-old with Asperger's investigates a dead poodle and finds out about his mother.
Six classics students at a Vermont college and the murder they commit; Donna Tartt's debut.
A boy in postwar Barcelona finds a novel in the Cemetery of Forgotten Books and someone is burning every copy.
A disgraced journalist and a hacker investigate a forty-year-old disappearance; Larsson's Millennium trilogy begins.
A man alone in an infinite house of statues and tides; Susanna Clarke's second novel.
A murder among Ottoman miniaturists in 1591 Istanbul, told by everyone including the colour red.
A girl raised alone in the North Carolina marsh and a murder trial; the bestseller of the 2010s.
Philip Marlowe's first case in a corrupt Los Angeles; Chandler's similes.
Sam Spade and the black bird; the hard-boiled detective novel in its first form.
Oedipa Maas and a secret postal system; Pynchon in 150 pages.
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