Crooked HouseAgatha Christie

Classic mystery

Crooked House

The wealthy Leonides family lives together in a sprawling, oddly designed house where affection, dependence, and resentment have become inseparable. When the patriarch is poisoned, Charles Hayward investigates because he hopes to marry Leonides's granddaughter Sophia. Every generation has motive, and the household's distortions make ordinary assumptions about innocence unreliable. Dark and psychologically sharp, this standalone mystery suits a gloomy evening for readers who enjoy poisonous families, unconventional houses, domestic suspense, and solutions rooted in character rather than elaborate machinery.

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Crime, danger, and death

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