Like a lot of Christie’s murders, this one hinges on a very theatrical misdirection perpetrated by the guilty parties.Ĭ elle qui n’était plus (1954) and D’entre les morts (1956) by Boileau-Narcejac I’ve always been enamored by the cleverness of this particular plot, and I like this book more than Murder on the Orient Express. The following are eight more books I almost picked, each with a clever murder to call their own.ĭeath on the Nile (1937) by Agatha Christie MacDonald’s The Drowner, Ira Levin’s Deathtrap, and Donna Tartt’s The Secret History. Cain’s Double Indemnity, Patricia Highsmith’s Strangers on a Train, John D. Milnes’ The Red House Mystery, Anthony Berkeley Cox’s Malice Aforethought, Agatha Christie’s The A. Researching this book, I did a lot of reading and re-reading, and eventually came up with eight books that fit the story. The list, composed by a bookseller for his store’s blog, inspires a string of real murders. I had a lot of fun coming up with the list of eight perfect murders in my novel by the same name. Still, murderers keep trying, in fiction as well as real life. The Sherlock Holmes of the world render perfect murder an unreachable ideal. There are lots of “perfect murder” attempts, but most crime fiction is hinged on the notion that a detective will come along to outsmart the criminal. These murders actually don’t show up all that often in crime fiction. What exactly is a perfect murder? It’s a phrase that gets tossed around a lot (well, maybe only by me), and my sense is that a perfect murder is when the murder itself is unsolvable, maybe even undetectable.
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