classics + crime

Arthur Conan Doyle · 1902

Holmes Watson probe spectral hound killing Baskervilles on Dartmoor.

2,596-word summary · 12 min read

Charles Dickens · 1838

An orphan flees the workhouse for London's thieves, and Dickens indicts a cruel society.

2,763-word summary · 12 min read

Arthur Conan Doyle · 1887

Watson meets Holmes in Baker Street, a Brixton body bears the word Rache, and a Utah revenge tale explains it.

2,208-word summary · 10 min read

Agatha Christie · 1920

Hastings reunites with refugee Poirot at Styles Court after Emily Inglethorp is poisoned in her locked room.

2,856-word summary · 13 min read

Anthony Burgess · 1962

Teenage Alex leads his droogs on ultraviolent nights until the state rewrites him with the Ludovico Technique.

1,923-word summary · 9 min read

Charles Dickens · 1861

Orphan Pip chases wealth and Estella through London fog and prison ships.

2,117-word summary · 9 min read

Donna Tartt · 1992

A California outsider joins six classics students whose Greek rite ends in murder.

2,735-word summary · 12 min read

Fyodor Dostoevsky · 1866

Raskolnikov kills a pawnbroker to prove he is beyond morals, then unravels under Porfiry and Sonya.

3,206-word summary · 14 min read

Agatha Christie · 1939

And Then There Were None retold: ten to Soldier Island, rhyme deaths, no one left to tell.

2,137-word summary · 9 min read