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Rich families, locked rooms and a detective who sees everything.

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1Crooked House
Crooked House
Agatha Christie
A tyrannical millionaire is poisoned at his sprawling family estate, leaving every eccentric relative under suspicion in this classic closed-circle whodunit.
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2The Westing Game
The Westing Game
Ellen Raskin
An eccentric millionaire dies and challenges sixteen heirs to solve his murder in a game of wits to win his vast fortune.
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3Everyone in My Family Has Killed Someone
Everyone in My Family Has Killed Someone
Benjamin Stevenson
This witty, self-aware mystery traps a dysfunctional family at an isolated mountain resort where someone is picking them off one by one.
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4The Seven Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle
The Seven Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle
Stuart Turton
An ingenious country-house puzzle where a guest must solve the murder of a host's daughter amidst a gathering of deceitful aristocrats.
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5Magpie Murders
Magpie Murders
Anthony Horowitz
A witty, fiendishly clever mystery within a mystery that lovingly pays homage to Golden Age whodunits with an eccentric cast of suspects.
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6Hercule Poirot's Christmas
Hercule Poirot's Christmas
Agatha Christie
A sadistic tycoon invites his estranged, greedy family to his manor for the holidays, only to be found murdered behind a locked door.
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7The Red House Mystery
The Red House Mystery
A. A. Milne
A delightfully witty Golden Age country-house mystery featuring an amiable amateur sleuth unraveling a tangled web of secrets.
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8Daisy Darker
Daisy Darker
Alice Feeney
A dysfunctional family gathers at a secluded estate for a matriarch's will reading, sparking deadly secrets and shocking twists.
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9The Inheritance Games
The Inheritance Games
Jennifer Lynn Barnes
An eccentric billionaire disinherits his greedy family to leave his fortune and puzzle-filled mansion to an unsuspecting outsider.
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10The Thursday Murder Club
The Thursday Murder Club
Richard Osman
Wry British wit and sharp plotting propel this clever modern whodunit about eccentric retirees investigating a local murder.
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11The Poisoned Chocolates Case
The Poisoned Chocolates Case
Anthony Berkeley
Six armchair detectives offer competing, ingenious solutions to a baffling murder in this playful Golden Age classic.
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12The Decagon House murders
The Decagon House murders
Yukito Ayatsuji
A stunning homage to classic fair-play mysteries that traps university sleuths on an island with a methodical killer.
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