Read The Maltese Falcon

Philip Marlowe's first case in a corrupt Los Angeles; Chandler's similes.

Poirot, a snowbound train and twelve suspects; the solution everyone knows and still enjoys.

Ten strangers on an island die one by one; Christie's best-selling book.

Hitchcock's obsession film in San Francisco, the dolly zoom and the green light.

Six classics students at a Vermont college and the murder they commit; Donna Tartt's debut.

A disgraced journalist and a hacker investigate a forty-year-old disappearance; Larsson's Millennium trilogy begins.

A banker's birthday present is a game he cannot opt out of; Michael Douglas in freefall.

The unsolved San Francisco case, told through the people it consumed.