The Green Mile
Guard Paul Edgecombe watches John Coffey show healing miracles on death row in 1932 Louisiana.
2,549-word summary · 11 min read
classics + mystery
10 books tagged both “classics” and “mystery”.
The Hound of the Baskervilles
Holmes Watson probe spectral hound killing Baskervilles on Dartmoor.
2,596-word summary · 12 min read
The Name of the Rose
Friar William and Adso investigate 1327 abbey deaths amid library labyrinth.
2,580-word summary · 11 min read
A Study in Scarlet
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
The Mysterious Affair at Styles
Hastings reunites with refugee Poirot at Styles Court after Emily Inglethorp is poisoned in her locked room.
2,856-word summary · 13 min read
The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
A London lawyer traces a violent stranger to his respectable friend in Stevenson's 1886 tale of two selves.
2,286-word summary · 10 min read
Watchmen
A full retelling of Alan Moore's Watchmen: a retired hero's death in 1985 America sparks a sprawling plot with an exiled god and a shocking bid for peace, from…
2,762-word summary · 12 min read
Murder on the Orient Express
Poirot is trapped by snow with thirteen strangers after an American is found stabbed in his berth.
2,004-word summary · 9 min read
Rebecca
A shy bride at Manderley learns she competes with Maxim's perfect dead wife Rebecca.
2,008-word summary · 9 min read
And Then There Were None
And Then There Were None retold: ten to Soldier Island, rhyme deaths, no one left to tell.
2,137-word summary · 9 min read