Read The Big Sleep

Sam Spade and the black bird; the hard-boiled detective novel in its first form.

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.

Jack Nicholson with a slit nose, the water wars of Los Angeles and "forget it, Jake".

Peter Falk's rumpled detective, "just one more thing", with the murderer shown first.

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.

Los Angeles, 2019: a detective hunts four replicants who want more life.