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The Moving Finger by Agatha Christie

The Moving Finger by Agatha Christie

The placid village of Lymstock seems the perfect place for Jerry Burton to recuperate from his accident under the care of his sister, Joanna. But soon a series of vicious poison-pen letters destroys the village’s quiet charm, eventually causing one recipient to commit suicide. The vicar, the doctor, the servants—all are on the verge of accusing one another when help arrives from an unexpected quarter. The vicar’s houseguest happens to be none other than Jane Marple.

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Trigger & Content Warnings

Suicide discussed
Drugging
Murder & attempted murder
Plane crash recounted, off-page
Blackmail

A Murder Is Announced by Agatha Christie

A Murder Is Announced by Agatha Christie

The villagers of Chipping Cleghorn, including Jane Marple, are agog with curiosity over an advertisement in the local gazette which reads: ‘A murder is announced and will take place on Friday October 29th, at Little Paddocks at 6.30 p.m.’ A childish practical joke? Or a hoax intended to scare poor Letitia Blacklock? Unable to resist the mysterious invitation, a crowd begins to gather at Little Paddocks at the appointed time when, without warning, the lights go out…

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Trigger & Content Warnings

Death of a sister from pneumonia
Murder & attempted murder
Gun violence
Home invasion
Poisoning
Strangulation
Near-drowning

Crooked House by Agatha Christie

Crooked House by Agatha Christie

In the sprawling, half-timbered mansion in the affluent suburb of Swinly Dean, Aristide Leonides lies dead from barbiturate poisoning. An accident? Not likely. In fact, suspicion has already fallen on his luscious widow, a cunning beauty fifty years his junior, set to inherit a sizeable fortune, and rumoured to be carrying on with a strapping young tutor comfortably ensconced in the family estate. But criminologist Charles Hayward is casting his own doubts on the innocence of the entire Leonides brood. He knows them intimately. And he’s certain that in a crooked house such as Three Gables, no one’s on the level…

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Trigger & Content Warnings

Self-injury
Murder-suicide by car accident
Murder by poisoning
Death of a child
Death of a father & grandfather

Why Didn’t They Ask Evans by Agatha Christie

Why Didn’t They Ask Evans? by Agatha Christie

While playing an erratic round of golf, Bobby Jones slices his ball over the edge of a cliff. His ball is lost, but on the rocks below he finds the crumpled body of a dying man. The man opens his eyes and with his last breath says, “Why didn’t they ask Evans?”

Haunted by those words, Bobby and his vivacious companion, Frankie, set out to solve a mystery that will bring them into mortal danger…

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Trigger & Content Warnings

Racism
Sexism
Suicide
Murder
Kidnapping

The Thirteen Problems by Agatha Christie

The Thirteen Problems by Agatha Christie

One Tuesday evening a group gathers at Miss Marple’s house and the conversation turns to unsolved crimes.

The case of the disappearing bloodstains; the thief who committed his crime twice over; the message on the deathbed of a poisoned man which read ‘heap of fish’; the strange case of the invisible will; a spiritualist who warned that ‘Blue Geranium’ meant death… Now pit your wits against the powers of deduction of the ‘Tuesday Night Club’.

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Trigger & Content Warnings

Ableism
Sexism
Fatmisia
Infidelity
Domestic abuse, implied
Suicidal ideation mentioned
Suicide
Dieting mentioned
Death of a husband
Death of a granddaughter from pneumonia
Death of a son mentioned
Murder & attempted murder
Knife violence & stabbing
Drowning
Poisoning

The Man in the Brown Suit by Agatha Christie

The Man in the Brown Suit by Agatha Christie

Adventure-seeking Anne Beddingfeld is in London when she sees a stranger fall to his electrifying death in the tubes. A dreadful accident? If so, who is the man in the brown suit fleeing from the scene? Curiosity, and one cryptic clue, lead Anne aboard a cruise ship to Cape Town and into the confidence of Colonel Race, counterintelligence officer for MI5. Drawn into a dangerous conspiracy, Anne’s found the adventure she wanted. And as she’s chased across continents, all she must do now is survive it.

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Trigger & Content Warnings

Antiziganism
Physical illness
Murder & attempted murder by strangulation
Gun violence
Accidental death from falling onto live train tracks, on-page*
Kidnapping & captivity
Military deployment during World War One recounted

*Note : Discussed whether it was suicide or not.

Practical Magic by Alice Hoffman

Practical Magic by Alice Hoffman

For more than two hundred years, the Owens women have been blamed for everything that has gone wrong in their Massachusetts town. Gillian and Sally have endured that fate as well: as children, the sisters were forever outsiders, taunted, talked about, pointed at. Their elderly aunts almost seemed to encourage the whispers of witchery, with their musty house and their exotic concoctions and their crowd of black cats. But all Gillian and Sally wanted was to escape. One will do so by marrying, the other by running away. But the bonds they share will bring them back—almost as if by magic… Read more.

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Trigger & Content Warnings

Attempted sexual assault
Domestic abuse
Murder

The Bone Doll’s Twin by Lynn Flewelling

The Bone Doll’s Twin by Lynn Flewelling

Long ago, during the dark days of the Great War with Pleinmar, King Thelatimos journeyed to the Oracle of the God Illior at Afra to save his warn-torn kingdom. Here he was presented with a prophecy ‘So long as a daughter of Thelatimos’s line defends and rules, Skala shall never be subjugated.’ And that is how the line of queens ruling over Skala was established… However, as generations went by the male heirs to the throne became intensely resentful of the prophecy that emasculated their claim to power. Finally Queen Agnalain took the throne and the people of Skala suffered under her erratic and selfish… Read more.

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Trigger & Content Warnings

Racism
Misogyny
Queermisia
Transmisia
Rape
Death of a parent
Murder of children
Torture

The Girl from the Well by HG Wells

The Girl from the Well by H.G. Wells

A dead girl walks the streets. She hunts murderers. Child killers, much like the man who threw her body down a well three hundred years ago. And when a strange boy bearing stranger tattoos moves into the neighborhood so, she discovers, does something else. And soon both will be drawn into the world of eerie doll rituals and dark Shinto exorcisms that will take them from American suburbia to the remote valleys and shrines of Aomori, Japan. Because the boy has a terrifying secret – one that would just kill to get out.

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Trigger & Content Warnings

Paedophilia & child sexual abuse
Death of children
Murder

Tokyo Ghoul, Volume Fourteen by Sui Ishida

Tokyo Ghoul, Vol. 14 by Sui Ishida

As Kaneki and the fiercest fighter in the CCG, Arima, finally face off, several investigators launch an assault on Yoshimura, unaware of the danger that awaits them. The massive battle takes a turn for the worse when the One-Eyed Owl appears, leaving the fate of Kaneki and the CCG hanging in the balance.

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Trigger & Content Warnings

Cannibalism
Surgery for organ transplantation mentioned
Murder & attempted murder
Physical assault