A story of a young woman on a fast train from Brighton to London

And her strange and unexpected companion in first class

A pair of spectacle sparks drama for the Egypt-bound sleuth and his wife.

PARKER: Look, two doctors examined that body - one with close knowledge of the deceased, the other entirely independent. They found nothing. WIMSEY: As would 99 doctors out of 100. The 100th might be looking for something the others weren't.

PARKER: But looking for what?

A wife leaves her fortune to a religious guru, then her husband murders her.

An American is found dead in an empty house in the Brixton Road. Inspector Gregson of Scotland Yard is puzzled. He consults Mr Sherlock Holmes, a rather eccentric young gentleman who, together with J. H. Watson MD, has recently taken up residence at 221B Baker Stree

The ancestral home of Lord Lebanon is the scene of two murders. Inspector Tanner goes down to investigate and is confronted by a very frightened young

The mill band are marching through the snow up to their ankles. There's a bonfire up the road. People linking hands and circling round the fire. Talk about pagan rites!’  Even if the villagers have been tortured by a vindictive, spiteful grasping woman, Superintendent Baxter doesn't expect her murder to be a cause for celebration.

Maigret goes to the seaside to investigate the death of a simple country girl called Rose

Is a crime writer using his apparent breakdown and plotlines to mask an actual murder?

A dangerous web of lies and murder awaits the sleuth when his wife disappears.