V.I. Warshawski

A once-celebrated kid detective, now 31, continues to solve the same trivial mysteries between hangovers and bouts of self-pity. Until a naive client brings him his first 'adult' case, to find out who brutally murdered her boyfriend.

A private investigator helps a former flame solve the murder of her wealthy grandfather, who lived in a sprawling estate surrounded by his idiosyncratic family.

During a murder hunt game at a country house, to which Hercule Poirot is invited as an "expert", a real murder occurs.

Private investigator Matthew Scudder is hired by a drug kingpin to find out who kidnapped and murdered his wife.