A country solicitor is drawn into defending a mother and daughter accused of abducting and assaulting a visiting young woman. The plot hinges on assembling testimony, scrutinizing inconsistent claims, and testing how community suspicion and newspaper pressure shape culpability.

A pragmatic private investigator in India is drawn into a case when a household servant disappears; the investigation unfolds through interviews, local social detail, and procedural clue-gathering.

A murder occurs within a limited social circle and the central account is delivered in first person by a figure close to the investigation; a famous private detective appears and works from clues and interviews to identify the killer.

A woman linked to an academic community returns to a college where puzzling acts and a climate of fear have erupted; an investigator connected to her seeks to discover who is behind the incidents and why.

A contemporary publishing editor wrestles with a missing final chapter and a real-life death tied to a recently published mystery novel.

Set in a past colonial-era city, the novel follows a woman trained in law who is hired to sort out a will and guardianship matter involving three widows.

Three apparently separate family tragedies — a child's disappearance, a domestic killing, and an inexplicable murder — form the puzzle around a private investigator who reconstructs lives through interviews, documents, and visits.

Scotland Yard Inspector Alan Grant, laid up with a broken leg, occupies himself by researching a centuries-old royal mystery: whether King Richard III was truly guilty of the crimes long attributed to him.

A baffling murder in 1920s London brings together an informal club of six armchair detectives who each propose different solutions to the same facts. The novel turns the detective parlor game into its subject, testing how many plausible—but ultimately flawed—explanations can arise from identical evidence.

Philip Marlowe, a private investigator in mid‑century Los Angeles, becomes entangled with a damaged newcomer and the consequences of that friendship. The novel follows Marlowe’s investigation and its social fallout while using detective work to probe characters’ motives and the city’s moral landscape.

A mystery told through several first-person documents and witness statements: an artist-teacher becomes entangled with a disturbing female figure and a dispute over inheritance and identity.

An English academic with a penchant for puzzles becomes involved in a London mystery centered on a strange toyshop and a missing person. The setup puts a cerebral, amateur detective into a circle of eccentric characters and cryptic clues that require deduction and local knowledge to sort out.