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The Cuckoo's Egg

★★★★☆
In the early days of the internet, one astronomer turned part-time sysadmin uncovers a hacker trying to steal sensitive military information

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Maltese Falcon

★★☆☆☆
Private eye Sam Spade finds himself surrounded by several parties all vying to get hold of a jewel encrusted bird

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Crooked House

★★★☆☆
The wealthy Aristide Leonides is dead, poisoned through his medicine. But who has poisoned him?

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Tracers in the Dark

★★★☆☆
Relooking at cyber-security and privacy in the insidious world of the dark web

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Hallowe'en party

★★★☆☆
A young girl is killed during a hallowe'en party, and Poirot is summoned to investigate

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Aarushi

★★★★☆
Details the botched investigation and the media frenzy around a brutal murder of a teen girl

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Persuader

★★★☆☆
Jack Reacher goes undercover at the behest of the DEA to track a personal enemy

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My Sister, The Serial Killer

★★★☆☆
Korede has to juggle her job as a nurse with her love for her murderous sister

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The Keeper of Lost Causes

★★★★☆
A police detective is assigned a cold case to keep him occupied, and has breakthroughs using exceptional detecting skills

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Five Little Pigs

★★★★☆
Poirot investigates a cold case

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The Defense

★★★★☆
Eddie Flynn, a former con-artist turned lawyer, is trapped into defending a notorious Russian mobster

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A German Requiem

★★★☆☆
The third in the Berlin Noir series; WW2 is done, and Bernie is still trying to eke out a living. He is called to Vienna to investigate a case, but is caught up in the complex interplay between Germans, the Allies, the Red Army and former Nazis in hiding

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The Burglar in the Closet

★★★☆☆
Another heist gone wrong, as Bernie is hiding in the closet when a woman is murdered.

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The A.B.C. Murders

★★★★★
Poirot tracks a serial killer with a peculiar modus operandi... he murders people in alphabetical order.

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The Pale Criminal

★★★☆☆
Tracing a blackmailer leads Bernie Gunther to the trail of a series of missing young girls... and a plot to discredit Jews that goes all the way to the top

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March Violets

★★★★★
Bernie Gunther, a private detective in 1930’s Berlin, has to solve the murder of a billionaire’s daughter

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