As media attention rouses excitement for the upcoming motion picture, readers will want to pick up The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, a gripping collection which includes many of the famous cases--and great strokes of brilliance--that made the legendary Sherlock Holmes one of fiction's most popular creations.

Just after midnight, the famous Orient Express is stopped in its tracks by a snowdrift. By morning, the millionaire Samuel Edward Ratchett lies dead in his compartment, stabbed a dozen times, his door locked from the inside. One of his fellow passengers must be the murderer. Isolated by the storm, detective Hercule Poirot must find the killer among a dozen of the dead man's enemies, before the murderer decides to strike again.

Spring 1940: As World War II heats up in England, Tommy and Tuppence Beresford are enlisted in the cause, independently taking on assumed identities to uncover Nazi informers who imperil the security of their homeland. They set an elaborate trap to expose the traitors in their midst.

An exclusive hotel on a tiny, picturesque island seems to be the ideal retreat for the stresses of criminal detection for Hercule Poirot. But with the appearance of the beautiful Arlena Stuart, the quiet and peaceful atmosphere becomes charged with an indefinable erotic tension. And when she is found viciously strangled in a secluded cove, there are few, especially among the women, who seem to feel either surprise or regret.

The death of a wealthy widow is believed to be an accident until her future husband is killed. The police bring in Hercule Poirot to help with the investigation.

Cormoran Strike investigates the disappearance of a novelist who, in his most recent book, unflatteringly portrayed people from his life.

In the summer of 1932, the career of psychologist and investigator Maisie Dobbs takes an exciting new turn when she accepts an undercover assignment from the British Secret Service. Sent to pose as a junior lecturer at a private college in Cambridge, she will monitor any activities "no in the interests of His Majesty's government." When the college's controversial pacifist founder, Greville Liddicote, is murdered, however, Maisie is directed to stand...

The genteel game of Real Tennis takes a murderous twist when Jude boyfriend's friend winds up dead on the court.