Mrs. McGinty's Dead
Agatha Christie

Mrs. McGinty died after a brutal blow to the head, and the only suspect was her shifty and destitute lodger, James Bentley. Bentley was duly arrested, tried and condemned to death. But even when faced with overwhelming evidence, the policeman who arrested him didn't think Bentley was a murderer... and called in Hercule Poirot.

• A beautiful little conundrum: so simple, so economical, so completely baffling. Every clue scrupulously given, with superb sleigh of hand. (Sunday Times)
• A classic Christie... liberally decorated with red herrings and genuine clues from which our attention is distracted at just the right moment. (Birmingham Post)