1. Sherlock Holmes - The Adventure of the Norwood Builder
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Note: this article contains plot details and spoilers. The Adventure of the Norwood Builder "I am sure that they are only waiting for the warrant to arrest me. It will break my ...

2. Arthur Conan Doyle - Sherlock Holmes - The Gloria Scott - Bilingual Text in French and English
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... round here.' An instant afterwards there appeared a little wizened fellow with a cringing manner and a shambling style of walking. He wore an open jacket, with a splotch of tar on the sleeve, a red-and-black ...

3. Arthur Conan Doyle - Sherlock Holmes - Charles Augustus Milverton - Bilingual Text in French and English
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... je vis Holmes à toute heure du jour et de la nuit, aller et venir dans ce costume ; mais, sauf qu’il m’affirmait ne pas perdre son temps à Hampstead, j’ignorais tout ce qu’il complotait. Enfin, un ...

4. Arthur Conan Doyle - Sherlock Holmes - The Adventure of the Copper Beeches - Bilingual Text in French and English
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... il m’était impossible de démêler s’il s’agissait d’une manie ou d’un complot, et si l’homme était un philanthrope, ou un scélérat. Quant à Holmes, il demeurait silencieux des heures entières, ...

5. Arthur Conan Doyle - Sherlock Holmes - The Boscombe Valley Mystery - Bilingual Text in French and English
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... upon the sofa and tried to interest myself in a yellow-backed novel. The puny plot of the story was so thin, however, when compared to the deep mystery through which we were groping, and ...

6. Dan Brown - The Lost Symbol - Unabridged Audiobook - Full Review
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... be drawn from The Lost Symbol is something not easy to judge. The weakest element of the novel is the plot which is sufficient only to support a short story. Dan Brown fills in the ...

7. Unexpected Twists in the Sherlock Holmes Short Stories
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Note: this article contains plot details and spoilers. Unexpected Twists in the Sherlock Holmes Short Stories The Sherlock Holmes short stories sometimes have truly unexpected twist ...

8. Daphne du Maurier - The King's General - Audiobook - Full Review
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...  Overall 2______ Suspense 3______ Characters 3______ Plot 1______ Audio 2______ Buy from  ...

9. Evelyn Waugh - A Handful of Dust
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...  for deftly written dialogues which carry the story forward - revealing character, moving the plot forward at a fair rate of knots and providing the kind of colour and texture to ...

10. Dan Brown - The Lost Symbol - Videos
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... needed to get two things dead right: firstly print enough books so you don't run out of copies for the buying public and secondly guard each and every copy well so that the plot does leak out.  ...

11. Daphne du Maurier - The Parasites
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... 3______ Plot 3______ Audio 4______ Buy from Audible Own it? Rate it!  ...

12. George Eliot - Middlemarch
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... this!" In the second half of the novel something changes. The characters take wing, the plot powers along like a boulder rolling downhill. The chapters fly past and there is much less  ...

13. Agatha Christie - After the Funeral
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...  interesting characters, but too full of the standard fare of murder mystery novels to be highly original and with an elaborate plot leading to an implausible resolution.  ...

14. Agatha Christie's Audiobook - And Then There Were None
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... murderer and the unmasking of motivation shows Christie at her best in bringing together character and plot. Litrev Rating Overall 5______ Suspense 4______ ...

15. Agatha Christie's Audiobook - And Then There Were None
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... murderer and the unmasking of motivation shows Christie at her best in bringing together character and plot. Litrev Rating Overall 5______ Suspense 4______ ...

16. Daphne du Maurier - Rebecca
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... Cover to Cover and read by Anna Masey Litrev Rating Overall 5______ Suspense 5______ Characters 5______ Plot 5______  ...

17. Agatha Christie - The Mystery of the Spanish Chest - Audiobook Review
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...  Suspense 3______ Characters 5______ Plot 1______ Audio 5______ Own it? Rate it!  ...

18. Agatha Christie - The Mirror Crack'd from Side to Side - Full Review
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... to the fore. The plot of the novel is decent enough - in fact very good, but the real genius in the story is the intensely personal, yet brilliantly disguised motive ...

19. Agatha Christie - The Mirror Crack'd from Side to Side
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... spite of this and some striking imagery, the novel doesn't live up to expectations. A good plot for a short story, perhaps, but not enough to sustain a novel.  ...

20. Agatha Christie - At Bertram's Hotel - Full Review
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... - too mundane and too real to be real in a fiction novel - and some are decidedly larger than life. Both types are essential to the plot, which is both bizarre and original. ...

21. Agatha Christie - At Bertram's Hotel - Full Review
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... real to be real in a fiction novel - and some are decidedly larger than life. Both types are essential to the plot, which is both bizarre and original. As for Stephanie Cole's reading ...

22. Agatha Christie - Death Comes as the End - Full Review
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23. Agatha Christie - A Murder is Announced - Full Review
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... from listening to her voice alone. The story itself is extremely well planned and executed. The plot is something of  ...

24. Agatha Christie - Death in the Clouds - Full Review
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... plot, and read excellently by the talented Hugh Fraser. Litrev rating 4 / 5  ...

25. Agatha Christie - Sad Cypress - Full Review
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... sown. Peace of mind undermined indefinitely. Sad Cypress has an ingenious plot, but is so easy to follow that the solution must be cloaked in the most expertly wrought of ambiguities ...

26. Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone - Full Review
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... then the plot and its various subplots are even more expertly put together. The sense of a scarcely explained but profoundly important background to the events related in the story ...

27. Agatha Christie - Taken at the Flood
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... murder mystery with a significant romantic element. The story has a fabulously complex plot but relies too greatly, at the level of detail, on unguessable motivations and ...

28. Agatha Christie - Taken at the Flood - Full Review
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... well executed murder mystery with a gripping start, but which is dulled by a lack of admirable personalities and marred by a revolting romantic sub-plot.  ...

29. Agatha Christie - Sad Cypress
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... greed. The novel triumphs on all levels with a brilliant plot, tight narrative, and believeable dialogue and personalities. The story commences with a poison-pen letter ...

30. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows - Full Review
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... of the Harry Potter novels. The style of writing is brave, ambitious. In substance, the plot is equally daring. There are problems too. A very unfortunate use of ...

31. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince - Full Review
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... greatly because of this. Litrev Rating Overall 3______ Suspense 4______ Characters 3______ Plot 3______  ...

32. Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix - Full Review
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... expose a great slice of the plot of the novel and the result is that Order of the Phoenix lacks the same sense of mystery and suspense that seasons Goblet of Fire and Prisoner of Azkaban.  ...

33. Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire - Full Review
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... Rowling uses in her story, two seem to stand out as being unusually helpful in both narration and plotting - that scar, that connection between Potter and Voldemort is one. It allows the ...

34. JK Rowling - Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
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...  Litrev Rating Overall 5______ Suspense 5______ Characters 5______ Plot 5______ Audio 5______  ...

35. Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban
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... tension and conflict. The story has a first rate plot, a completely unexpected conclusion - well maybe not completely unexpected - and gets there with a tremendous combination of ...

36. Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets
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... destroy his family. With a strong plot, good narration, and plenty of action, Chamber of Secrets is a gripping novel with a cast of characters to admire, ...

37. Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets - Full Review
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... school - the talented but decidedly sinister Salazar Slytherin. Around this myth JK Rowling builds a series of carefully interwoven plots involving a number of characters ...

38. Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban - Full Review
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... the magical inventions - inventions that Rowling is so good at dreaming up - to create a plot which is strongly dependent on magical tools and techniques in its resolution, but which is nonetheless ...

39. JK Rowling - Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone
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... novel series. The book’s well written narrative and rich dialogue are underpinned by an intelligent and complex plot. The central theme of the book is that of the fight between good ...

40. Agatha Christie - The ABC Murders
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... 5______ Suspense 5______ Characters 5______ Plot 5______ Audio 5______ Own it? Rate it!  ...

41. Graham Greene - The Third Man
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... to emerge. The Third Man is a book with an exceptionally well constructed plot, excellent dialogue and characters who seem more real than mere inventions of a talented writer.  ...

42. Ian Fleming - James Bond - Moonraker
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...  Litrev Rating Overall 5______ Suspense 5______ Characters 5______ Plot 5______ Audio 5______  ...

43. Dame Daphne du Maurier
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... a considerable alteration to plot.     The short story, the Birds also received the Hitchcock treatment and remains even today one of the great director’s best known ...

44. Dame Agatha Christie
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... and entertaining on film.       A Bevy of Suspicious Characters Unfortunately the plots of Christie’s novels can sometimes become separated from commonsense ...

45. Mrs McGinty’s Dead Full Review
(Audiobooks/Agatha Christie Full Reviews)

...  Christie’s plotting is initially weak and inconsistent, with bothersome omissions and a lack of mystery, drama or urgency. This is rectified towards the end, with the main plot  ...

46. Agatha Christie - Dumb Witness
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... be about to strike again.   Christie disappoints with a lack of attention to detail in some aspects of the plot, but this is more than made up for by the book's delightful characters and entertaining ...

47. Devil May Care Full Review
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...  But is it a success? Absolutely. The writing, plot, characters and scenarios all combine pleasantly to bring to mind Ian Fleming’s novels. Where the novel disappoints is in its ability to provide ...

48. James Bond - Devil May Care
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... What is his psychology? What makes him tick? A good plot, a strong narrative, a very human James Bond combined with the usual Bond theme of the struggle between good and evil make this novel engaging ...