The Adventure of the Dead Man's Violin
London, November 1898. A black-edged note arrives at Baker Street before breakfast: "My brother has been found dead. Last night I heard…
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Hercule PoirotThe Belgian detective at work across the world between the wars: Carnival in São Paulo, a night train from Madrid, a courtroom in Athens. Order, method, and the little grey cells.- Sherlock HolmesBaker Street between 1891 and 1902. Black-edged notes before breakfast, locked studies on the Yorkshire coast, and the science of deduction.
Miss MarpleSt Mary Mead and villages like it — flower shows, church fêtes and very long memories. An elderly lady who has seen this exact wickedness before.- Captain Hastings & Anne FosterDublin between the wars, where Captain Arthur and Anne Foster run a young detective agency with a spaniel named Pip underfoot. Occasionally as far afield as Chicago and Havana.
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