Books like The three coffins by John Dickson Carr

In John Dickson Carr’s locked‑room thriller, Sir Henry Merrivale teams with Scotland Yard’s Inspector Humphrey Masters to solve the baffling murder of Hollywood star Marcia Tait in the snow‑covered Queen’s Mirror pavilion.

Aaron Tyler and his poker club friends apprehend and accidentally kill an intruder in his house. Thus begins a descent into a web of violence that may cost them everything - their jobs, families and ultimately their lives. No act of violence ever truly dies away... the effects of it go on for ever. The old princess, relic of an Eastern European royal house, could see plenty of it in her crystal ball: John Coffin on the run, three separate women and three separate acts of violence. There was the ghostlike girl in the upper room, the girl from Wolverhampton and the princess herself, who studied the psychology of poisoning. John Coffin had left his wife and his job after he had been concussed while making an arrest. Moving from place to place within his own part of South London he finds himself in a nightmarish web of violence. Net he can never be sure whether what he sees is really happening or whether it is something emanating from his own disturbed mind....

In post‑war London, detective Gideon Fell and a mysterious woman hear the famed Professor Rigaud recount the baffling murder of Howard Brookes, a case that seems to defy logic and invites fresh investigation.

When a violent death shatters an English estate, Dr. Gideon Fell is called to untangle the tangled claims of its two heirs.

Professor Charles Grimaud is challenged by a stranger who claims to have risen from his own coffin. When the stranger dies violently during a snowstorm, Dr. Gideon Fell investigates a killer who leaves no footprints.

Guided by your choices, readers help The Three Investigators crack a robbery mystery at Markels Mansion.