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Mystery Works
YGK These Works of Mystery and Detective Fiction
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Detective who debuts in "The Murders in the Rue Morgue" | C. Auguste Dupin |
| Two games the narrator muses on at the start of "Rue Morgue" | Chess and whist |
| The actual murderer in "The Murders in the Rue Morgue" | An orangutan |
| The unidentifiable "voice" heard by neighbors in "Rue Morgue" | The orangutan |
| Police prefect who asks for Dupin’s help in "The Purloined Letter" | G |
| Official who steals a letter for blackmail purposes | Minister D |
| Reward amount offered for the return of the purloined letter | 50,000 francs |
| Metaphor used by Dupin to explain how the letter was hidden | A map game (hiding in plain sight) |
| Author of The Moonstone | Wilkie Collins |
| Sacred gem plundered from India that is stolen on an 18th birthday | The Moonstone |
| Maid who commits suicide by jumping into quicksand | Rosanna Spearman |
| Drug Franklin Blake was fed that caused him to move the Moonstone in a stupor | Laudanum |
| The true thief who kept the Moonstone to pay off personal debts | Godfrey Ablewhite |
| Servant in The Moonstone who is obsessed with Robinson Crusoe | Gabriel Betteredge |
| Character in The Moonstone with multi-colored hair and an opium addiction | Ezra Jennings |
| Story in which Sir Arthur Conan Doyle intended to kill off Sherlock Holmes | The Final Problem |
| Sherlock Holmes’s archnemesis who first appears in "The Final Problem" | Professor Moriarty |
| Location in Switzerland where Holmes and Moriarty supposedly fall to their deaths | Reichenbach Falls |
| Disguise used by Holmes while traveling to Europe in "The Final Problem" | An Italian priest |
| Character who solicits Holmes regarding a hellish hound killing heirs | James Mortimer |
| Method used to make the dog appear spectral in The Hound of the Baskervilles | Phosphorus |
| The escaped convict hiding on the moors aided by the Barrymores | Selden (Mr. Barrymore's brother-in-law) |
| Location where Jack Stapleton drowns while fleeing | Grimpen Mire |
| Author of the hard-boiled classic The Maltese Falcon | Dashiell Hammett |
| San Francisco private eye who is the protagonist of The Maltese Falcon | Sam Spade |
| Sam Spade’s partner who is murdered at the start of the novel | Miles Archer |
| Real identity of "Ms. Wonderly" | Brigid O’Shaughnessy |
| Obese character hunting for the Maltese Falcon | Caspar Gutman |
| Middle Eastern associate of Gutman described as a "homosexual" | Joel Cairo |
| Gutman's bodyguard who is chosen as the "patsy" and later kills Gutman | Wilmer |
| The ultimate fate of the Maltese Falcon in the novel | It is a fake (lead) |
| Actor who played Sam Spade in the 1941 film adaptation | Humphrey Bogart |
| Author of The Big Sleep | Raymond Chandler |
| Wealthy patriarch who hires Philip Marlowe to help his daughter Carmen | General Sternwood |
| Private eye hired by General Sternwood | Philip Marlowe |
| Bookseller who is blackmailing Carmen Sternwood and whose store is a pornography front | Arthur Geiger |
| Missing husband of Vivian Sternwood, the General's other daughter | Regan |
| The person who kills the chauffeur to protect Carmen from disrepute | The chauffeur (killed Geiger first) |
| The person who kills Joe Brody | Geiger's homosexual lover |
| The actual murderer of Regan | Carmen Sternwood |
| Author of Murder on the Orient Express | Agatha Christie |
| Belgian detective featured in Murder on the Orient Express | Hercule Poirot |
| Victim found stabbed to death on the train | Samuel Ratchett (Lanfranco Cassetti) |
| Real-life crime that inspired the kidnapping and murder mentioned in the novel | The kidnapping of Charles Lindbergh's baby |
| The two theories Poirot presents at the end of the novel | All the passengers did it (true), or a stranger entered the train (false) |
| Author of And Then There Were None | Agatha Christie |
| Number of murderers who have escaped justice and are invited to an island mansion | Ten |
| The method by which the guests are accused of their crimes | A mysterious record (gramophone) |
| The two final survivors of the killings | Vera Claythorne and Philip Lombard |
| The character who orchestrated all the killings | Justice Wargrave |
| Earlier title for the novel based on a minstrel song | Ten Little Indians |
| Author of The Name of the Rose | Umberto Eco |
| Year and century in which The Name of the Rose is set | 1327 |
| Main character who investigates the death of a manuscript artist | William of Baskerville |
| William's novice | Adso of Melk |
| The monastery librarian who bars William and Adso from the library | Malachi |
| Blind monk who hates laughter and poisoned a book | Jorge of Burgos |
| The title of the secret book discovered to be the murder weapon | A sequel to Aristotle's Poetics |
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