Forensic detective mystery
1909
The Aluminium Dagger
R. Austin Freeman
1 h 3 min · Dr Thorndyke story
A murder in a locked flat, an impossible weapon and a clue hidden in geometry and ballistics.
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Forensic detective mystery
1909
R. Austin Freeman
1 h 3 min · Dr Thorndyke story
A murder in a locked flat, an impossible weapon and a clue hidden in geometry and ballistics.
Golden Age detective novel
1926
S. S. Van Dine
9 h 5 min · Philo Vance #1
A Wall Street broker is shot in his own armchair, and Philo Vance insists that evidence proves nothing and temperament everything. His first case.
Locked-room mystery novel
1892
Israel Zangwill
5 h 3 min
A lodger is found with his throat cut in a room fastened from the inside, and two detectives read the same facts to opposite ends. The locked-room novel begins here.
Golden Age detective novel
1929
S. S. Van Dine
9 h 36 min · Philo Vance #4
Cock Robin dies with an arrow through his heart, and a killer signing himself THE BISHOP turns nursery rhymes into a deadly game.
Golden Age detective novel
1927
S. S. Van Dine
9 h 8 min · Philo Vance #2
A Broadway star is strangled behind a bolted door that nobody used. Philo Vance asks for a card table instead of the fingerprints.
Detective mystery
1894
Arthur Morrison
48 min
Britain's newest torpedo plans vanish from an apparently impossible office.
Forensic detective mystery
1923
R. Austin Freeman
1 h 2 min · Dr Thorndyke story
A body in a burning hayrick. A dental plate far from the ashes. Thorndyke asks who really died.
Golden Age detective novel
1928
S. S. Van Dine
10 h 25 min · Philo Vance #3
Behind a high wall on 53rd Street, a family bound together by a will is shot one by one. The coldest and most rigorously built of Vance's cases.
Victorian detective novel
1886
Fergus Hume
9 h 17 min
A dead man is delivered to a Melbourne police station in a cab, and a young Irishman would rather hang than explain his evening.
Locked-room mystery
1897
L. T. Meade & Robert Eustace
52 min
A circular bedroom conceals a mechanism designed to kill without a witness.
Locked-room mystery
1925
R. Austin Freeman
56 min · Dr Thorndyke story
Fifteen discs. Two bodies. One strong-room engineered as a death trap.
Golden Age detective novel
1930
S. S. Van Dine
8 h 59 min · Philo Vance #5
A patron lies dead at the feet of Anûbis in a private Egyptian museum, and Philo Vance calls the evidence too simple.
Crime novel
1927
Marie Belloc Lowndes
9 h
Ivy Lexton has two minutes alone in a doctor's surgery and a powder puff in her bag. An early English crime story told from the poisoner's side of the door.
Railway detective mystery
1912
Victor L. Whitechurch
30 min
A railway death staged as an accident draws Thorpe Hazell into a trail of hidden evidence.
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