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Arthur Conan Doyle’s classic detective tale follows Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson as they investigate the legend of an undead hound on Dartmoor, revealing secrets that threaten a family’s legacy.

Hard‑boiled detective Sam Spade races to recover a priceless, gem‑encrusted statuette while double‑crosses and danger creep from every corner.

A pioneering English detective story in which a priceless diamond, once stolen from a Hindu idol and presented to a young woman on her eighteenth birthday, disappears again, sparking intrigue and danger.

On a luxury Nile cruise, the glamorous Linnet Ridgeway is found murdered, and intrepid detective Hercule Poirot must uncover the truth amid intrigue, secrets, and false leads.

Betty Friedan’s 1963 classic uncovers the invisible barriers that kept women confined to domestic roles, sparking a cultural awakening that reshaped ideas about equality and personal fulfillment in the United States.

When a coastal dog retrieves a bone that turns out to be human, Isa Wilde’s idyllic village of Salten is thrust into terror as her childhood friends uncover a dark secret, unraveling their shared past.

Lord Peter Wimsey is drawn into the mysteries of a disinterred corpse, uncovering a century‑old crime that reverberates through a quiet East Anglian village.

"In England in the late 1920s, The Honourable Daisy Dalrymple Fletcher, on a convalescent trip to the countryside, goes to visit three old school friends in the area. The three, all unmarried, have recently bought a house together. They are a part of the generation of "superfluous women"--brought up expecting marriage and a family, but left without any prospects after more than 700,000 British men were killed in the Great War. Daisy and her husband Alec--Detective Chief Inspector Alec Fletcher, of Scotland Yard --go for a Sunday lunch with Daisy's friends, where one of the women mentions a wine cellar below their house, which remains curiously locked, no key to be found. Alec offers to pick the lock, but when he opens the door, what greets them is not a cache of wine, but the stench of a long-dead body. And with that, what was a pleasant Sunday lunch has taken an unexpected turn. Now Daisy's three friends are the most obvious suspects in a murder and her husband Alec is a witness, so he can't officially take over the investigation. So before the local detective, Superintendent Underwood, can officially bring charges against her friends, Daisy is determined to use all her resources (Alec) and skills to solve the mystery behind this perplexing locked-room crime"--

A gripping mystery set against the backdrop of World War II, exploring the clandestine activities of resistance movements and the dangers of hoarding wartime secrets.

In the gloomy London suburb of Albert Park, a modern Jack the Ripper stalks at night, killing three women. Wealthy detective Carolus Deene, a history teacher at a boys’ public school, steps in to solve the murders.

When two elderly ladies are strangled in Buddington-on-the-Hill, schoolmaster Carolus Deene must untangle the mystery to expose the killer.

Senior History Master Carolus Deene confronts a series of odd and ominous events at the elite boys’ preparatory school St. Asprey’s, including spectral footsteps, mysterious lights, and a dead puppy, as he unravels a violent mystery.

A country house death turns into a mystery when a teacher’s ‘suicidal’ suicide seems staged, and his aunt asks a detective historian to uncover the truth.

In a late‑November evening on the Selby‑on‑Sea promenade, a calculated murder is set to become the ultimate crime that sidesteps police and detectives. The plan falls apart when a remarkable schoolmaster‑detective, Carolus Deene, scrambles to unravel the mystery.

Amateur detective Carolus Deene wrestles with murder, mystery and rumor in the Kentish village of Clibburn when a local figure is shot at midnight, followed by two more fatal discoveries.

When solicitor Duncan Humby vanishes while drafting a will that would strip a wealthy family’s assets to charity, teacher‑turned‑investigator Carolus Deene is drawn to the remote village of Hallows End, where a heart‑attack death hints at foul play.

In the commuter’s first‑class carriage, the missing sixth seat sparks a mystery that only Carolus Deene can unravel, revealing a fatal twist in the quiet English village of Brenstead.

Carolus Deene, a history teacher and amateur detective at Queen’s School, Newminster, investigates the mysterious death of writer Mrs Lillianne Bomberget after her body is found in the Suffolk dunes, and two more bodies soon follow.

In the seaside guesthouse Cat’s Cradle, history teacher Helena Gort enlists detective Carolus Deene to investigate two suspicious deaths, hoping to stop a looming danger.