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Choose a classic mystery.

Choose a detective story for the pleasure of a question that stays with you between reading sessions. This selection brings together Sherlock Holmes, Father Brown, and classic crime novels.

For separate cases within one book, start with The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes or The Innocence of Father Brown. For a mystery that unfolds across a novel, try The Mysterious Affair at Styles. Kramena keeps your place while you follow the clues.

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8 books to explore

  1. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes

    Arthur Conan Doyle

    35 Episodes, complete work.

    This collection brings together twelve cases investigated by Sherlock Holmes and recorded by his friend Dr. Watson. From quiet London rooms to country estates, Holmes applies close observation and daring inference to mysteries that repeatedly challenge what seems obvious.

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  2. The Hound of the Baskervilles

    Arthur Conan Doyle

    14 Episodes, complete work.

    Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson investigate a family legend surrounding a great hound and a death on the lonely Devon moors. The case brings rational inquiry into a landscape charged with fear, inheritance, secrecy, and the possibility of something supernatural.

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  3. A Study in Scarlet

    Arthur Conan Doyle

    10 Episodes, complete work.

    When Dr. John Watson meets the brilliant consulting detective Sherlock Holmes, their new partnership is soon tested by a baffling murder. Arthur Conan Doyle's first Holmes novel introduces the methods, friendship, and moral questions that shape the cases to come.

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  4. The Innocence of Father Brown

    G. K. Chesterton

    18 Episodes, complete work.

    Father Brown's investigations begin with strange crimes and end by entering the minds of the people who committed them. G. K. Chesterton's collection pairs playful puzzles with humane insight into temptation, conscience, deception, and the moral choices hidden beneath respectable appearances.

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  5. The Mysterious Affair at Styles

    Agatha Christie

    13 Episodes, complete work.

    When a wealthy country-house matriarch dies suddenly, Hercule Poirot begins sorting family tensions, alibis, and small but telling clues. Christie's debut novel established the meticulous detective and the classic locked-country-house puzzle.

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  6. The Murder of Roger Ackroyd

    Agatha Christie

    16 Episodes, complete work.

    When wealthy Roger Ackroyd is found murdered behind the locked door of his study, the retired Hercule Poirot is drawn into the secrets of an English village. Dr. James Sheppard records an inquiry shaped by blackmail, concealed relationships, and the dangerous difference between seeing and understanding.

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  7. Whose Body?

    Dorothy L. Sayers

    14 Episodes, complete work.

    An unidentified man is discovered in an architect's bath, wearing nothing but a pair of pince-nez. Lord Peter Wimsey follows the body's missing identity through London hospitals, drawing rooms, and the uneasy border between brilliant reasoning and moral responsibility.

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  8. The Red House Mystery

    A. A. Milne

    14 Episodes, complete work.

    A country-house visit turns into an amateur investigation when a shot is heard and the host's estranged brother disappears. Antony Gillingham and Bill Beverley approach locked rooms, hidden passages, and suspicious behavior with friendship, curiosity, and a taste for detective play.

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