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🔎 The PlotA country-house weekend ends in disaster: the fiancé of Lady Mary Wimsey is found shot dead near the family’s Yorkshire estate, and all the evidence seems to point toward her brother—Gerald, the implacable Duke of Denver. With scandal brewing and an inquest closing in, Lord Peter Wimsey and his steadfast friend Inspector Parker chase…

🔎 The PlotPoet Richard Cadogan arrives in Oxford for a change of scenery—and stumbles into a nightmare: a strangled woman in a toyshop after midnight. He’s knocked out, locked in, and when he returns with police the next morning, the corpse is gone…and the toyshop has somehow become a greengrocer’s. Enter Gervase Fen, irrepressible Oxford don…

🔎 The PlotA New Year’s Eve snowstorm strands Lord Peter Wimsey in the fenland village of Fenchurch St. Paul, where an all-night peal of church bells rings in more than the new year. Months later, a faceless corpse is found in a stranger’s grave, a decades-old emerald theft resurfaces, and the village’s labyrinth of sluices, drains,…

🔎 The PlotA glittering honeymoon cruise down the Nile turns deadly when a beautiful heiress is found shot in her cabin. Everyone on board the S.S. Karnak has something to hide—jilted lovers, jealous rivals, charming swindlers—and every alibi leaks like a sieve. Fortunately (or not), Hercule Poirot is a fellow passenger. As the paddlewheels churn and tempers simmer…

🔎 The PlotWhen a new client walks into the office of San Francisco private eyes Sam Spade and Miles Archer, the job looks simple—tail a man, report back. By morning, Archer is dead, the “client” has more names than alibis, and the city’s thick with treasure hunters chasing a legendary black statuette. Spade is squeezed by…