Brief reads

Many detectives in classic mystery fiction are actually far from perfect. Sherlock Holmes can be arrogant, emotionally distant, and even harsh at times. Hercule Poirot in Agatha Christie’s novels, is…

When people read detective or mystery novels, they often notice the same thing: some details feel important at first but never really matter in the end, while other seemingly ordinary…

Murder on the Orient Express is a classic in detective fiction not only because of its clever central puzzle, but also because it changes the idea of what a “murderer”…