A man walks to an unknown destination and meets his Russian friends in a dilapidated building. Then, they exchanged a parcel with an American after he paid his money to them. The vagueness of the story continues with another character named M. le Marquis, who wears a mask visiting a…
The narrator has spent a year and a half on a ranch in Argentine. He had landed in France two days before and was en route to London. The narrator reveals that he will meet his friend Poirot and through his reminiscence about his old friend, we get to know…
One-Sentence Summary: Roger Ackroyd's lover is going to reveal who has been blackmailing her and forces her to commit suicide, but the blackmailer has acted first before the revelation. The narrator, Dr James Sheppard, introduces himself at the beginning of his memoir and recalls a murder that occurred in his…
One-Sentence Summary: The death of a pawnbroker drives two young people to dark and sinister life. Yosuke Kirihara, a pawnbroker, was found dead by a kid at an abandoned construction site. Before his death, Yosuke visited one of his customers, Fumiyo Nishimoto, leading detective Sasagaki, wondering whether there had an…
Anthony Cade hates his current job as a tour guide for Castle's Select Tours in Bulawayo but has no choice due to financial difficulties. He meets his old friend James McGrath, and James offers him a job. Anthony agrees to deliver a manuscript of Count Stylptitch's memoir to a publisher…
A short story of a teenager is full of resentment with everyone around him and feeling dull about his life. He has the desire to kill someone and leave everything behind him. Then, he decides to kill his only friend by asking her to go to his house and strangles…
Clegg works as a clerk in a city hall. His favourite thing to do during his free time is collecting butterflies. Clegg is obsessed with Miranda Grey, an art student who lives opposite the city hall. He admires her from a distance and even has an observation diary with her…
Riley is on his way home after a football session. During the journey, he meets someone that he knows, and after the greeting, he is murdered by the unknown person. Then, the story introduces Megan, telling her struggle as a mother to bond with her newborn baby and the husband…
First narrator Toshi tells a brief story of her life, including her family, friends, and as a high school student. She gives a short introduction of her neighbour who moves in two years ago, a family of three with a son who is a similar age to her. At first,…
Detective Inspector John Logos is confined by his health deterioration which forces him to work on a desk job at the St Brostal police station. At the present state, DI Logos may be lacking in physical fitness and experienced marriage disintegration, however, he has an impressive background before joining the…