Selected by Maxim Jakubowski

Roderick Alleyn : I can find my way out / by Ngaio Marsh -- Father Brown : the secret garden / by G. K. Chesterton -- Albert Campion : the case of the widow / by Margery Allingham -- Benny Cooperman : my vacation in the numbers racket / by Howeard Engel -- Mike Hammer : the Duke Alexander / by Mickey Spillane -- Sherlock Holmes : the adventure of the beryl coronet / by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle -- Arsene Lupin : the red silk scarf / by Maurice Leblanc -- Inspector Maigret : crime in the Rue Sainte-Catherine / by Georges Simenon -- Philip Marlowe : trouble is my business / by Raymond Chandler -- Miss Marple : sanctuary / by Agatha Christie -- Perry Mason : the case of the irate witness / by Erle Stanley Gardner -- Inspector Morse : the inside story / by Colin Dexter -- Eliot Ness : the strawberry teardrop / by Max Allan Collins -- The 87th precinct : Sadie when she died / by Ed McBain -- Hercule Poirot : the theft of the royal ruby / by Agatha Christie -- Ellery Queen : man bites dog / by Ellery Queen -- Raffles : the criminologists' club / by E. W. Hornung -- Inspector Rebus : saint nicked / by Ian Rankin -- Charlie Resnick : now's the time / by John Harvey -- Bernie Rhodenbarr : the burglar who dropped in on Elvis / by Lawrence Block -- Lincoln Rhyme : the christmas present / by Jeffery Deaver -- Rumpole of the Bailey : Rumpole and the scales of justice / by John Mortimer -- Matt Scudder : a candle for the bag lady / by Lawrence Block -- Nick Sharman : midnight at the lost and found / by Mark Timlin -- Tommy and Tuppence : the disappearance of Mrs. Leigh Gordon / by Agatha Christie -- Van der Valk : Van der Valk and the false Caesar / by Nicolas Freeling -- V. I. Warshawski : the Pietro Andromache / by Sara Paretsky -- Inspector Wexford : when the wedding was over / by Ruth Rendell