Genre: Mystery (38 books)

Rebecca

Daphne du Maurier

Last night I dreamt I went to Manderley again.

Bleak House

Charles Dickens

London. Michaelmas term lately over, and the Lord Chancellor sitting in Lincoln's Inn Hall.

The Name of the Rose

Umberto Eco

In the beginning was the Word and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.

The Woman in White

Wilkie Collins

This is the story of what a Woman's patience can endure, and what a Man's resolution can achieve.

The Big Sleep

Raymond Chandler

It was about eleven o'clock in the morning, mid October, with the sun not shining and a look of hard wet rain in the clearness of the foothills.

Possession

A.S. Byatt

The book was thick and black and covered with dust.

Brighton Rock

Graham Greene

Hale knew, before he had been in Brighton three hours, that they meant to murder him.Hale knew they meant to murder him before he had been in Brighton three hours. [1956 ed.]

The Hound of the Baskervilles

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

Mr. Sherlock Holmes, who was usually very late in the mornings, save upon those not infrequent occasions when he was up all night, was seated at the breakfast table. I stood upon the hearth-rug and picked up the stick which our visitor had left behind him the night before. It was a fine, thick piece of wood, bulbous-headed, of the sort which is known as a “Penang lawyer.” Just under the head was a broad silver band nearly an inch across. “To James Mortimer, M.R.C.S., from his friends of the C.C.H.,” was engraved upon it, with the date “1884.” It was just such a stick as the old-fashioned family practitioner used to carry—dignified, solid, and reassuring.

My Name is Red

Orhan Pamuk

I am nothing but a corpse now, a body at the bottom of a well.

Going native

Stephen Wright