Clue of the Twisted Candle

Upon waking up to the news that the man she’d gone on a date with the previous night has been murdered, a young woman with only a faint memory of the night’s events begins to suspect that she murdered him while attempting to resist his advances.

A crooked politician finds himself being accused of murder by a gangster from whom he refused help during a re-election campaign.

In Acapulco, Hercule Poirot attends a dinner party in which one of the guests clutches his throat and suddenly dies. The causes seem to be natural until another party with most of the same guests produces another corpse.

After two British Secret Intelligence Service agents are murdered at the hands of a cryptic neo-Nazi group known as Phoenix, the suave agent Quiller is sent to Berlin to investigate.

A Broadway playwright puts murder in his plan to take credit for a student's script.

A woman fights to convince the police that she witnessed a murder while looking out her bedroom window.

After a former model is drowned in her bathtub, Detective James Halloran and Lieutenant Dan Muldoon attempt to piece together her murder.

In this twisty thriller, a tennis coach at a tropical resort finds himself at the center of a missing persons mystery. Tom teaches tennis during the day and parties at night. When an enigmatic tourist arrives, Tom is unable to shake the feeling he has met her before. Tension and attraction grow, until her husband disappears, and the police suspect Tom.

Jane Marple solves the mystery when a local woman is poisoned and a visiting movie star seems to have been the intended victim.

An attorney defends a hoodlum of murder, using the oppressiveness of the slums to appeal to the court.