A young reporter solves a mystery crime. The fictional reporter is Joseph Rouletabille. He works on a complex, and seemingly impossible, crime in which the criminal appears to disappear from a locked room.

A chess grandmaster is in a big tournament, and when his lover is found painted up and the blood dra...

Seattle medical examiner David Krane is obsessed with solving his wife's murder. A possible solution...

A daring prison break from an airliner at 30,000 feet leaves U.S. Marshal Pete Nessip mourning a bro...

Millions in diamonds are stolen from a New York City safe, and later the burglar is killed. Shamus i...

Arthur Simon Simpson is a small-time crook biding his time in Greece. One of his potential victims t...

A law student takes a job as a night watchman at a morgue and begins to discover clues that implicat...

The discovery of a severed human ear found in a field leads a young man on an investigation related ...

The cruel and abusive headmaster of a boarding school, Michel Delassalle, is murdered by an unlikely...

A prizefighter-turned-longshoreman with a conscience goes up against labor leaders to expose corrupt...

When his young son is killed in a hit and run accident, Charles Thenier resolves to hunt down and mu...

An insurance investigator visits a small town while looking into the strange disappearance of a popu...

In 1970s Hollywood, Detective Philip Marlowe tries to help a friend who is accused of murdering his ...

In the questionable town of Deer Meadow, Washington, FBI Agent Desmond inexplicably disappears while...

A police detective falls in love with the woman whose murder he's investigating.

During World War I, a novelist declared dead is recruited by British intelligence and sent to Switze...

When wistful introvert Alan Furnace meets quick-witted bombshell Beatrice, he has no idea of her sec...

Some of Sin City's most hard-boiled citizens cross paths with a few of its more reviled inhabitants.

Story of a young woman who marries a fascinating widower only to find out that she must live in the ...

Clarice Starling is a top student at the FBI's training academy. Jack Crawford wants Clarice to int...

A British crime novelist travels to her publisher's upmarket summer house in Southern France to seek...