I Think Therefore I Solve Trivia Quiz

Answer: Caroline Graham

Chief Inspector Tom Barnaby investigates a series of sadistic killings following the murder of a young homeless girl. Who is the heartless murderer?

Answer: Ruth Rendell

Chief Inspector Reg Wexford, the creation of Ruth Rendell, defies his doctor's order in this novel to investigate the murder of a young girl in a graveyard in London. His nephew is initially in command of the case, but the Police are baffled, so Inspector Wexford charges in to the rescue.

Answer: Colin Dexter

The first of Colin Dexter's books about Inspector Morse, this tells the story of two girls who decide to hitch a lift on a rainy night instead of waiting for the bus - with disastrous results for one of them.

Answer: Agatha Christie

Poirot arrives too late to save his client, who has been found brutally murdered during the night on a golf course, dressed, oddly so, in his son's overcoat. Poirot channels all his skills into solving the brutal crime.

Answer: Colin Dexter

While Inspector Morse is recuperating in hospital (ulcer), he becomes interested in reading about, and solving, a 100-year-old murder for which he believes two men were wrongfully hanged.

Answer: Ruth Rendell

This tale revolves around a female vicar who was strangled in her dwelling. Because she was facing resistance to her plans for modernising the vicarage, plus the fact she is of mixed race and a single mother as well, the police are baffled as to the relevant motive for her slaying. Inspector Wexford needs all his skill here to find the killer.

Answer: Caroline Graham

When a collector of old war weapons and torture devices is killed by one of his machines, and his friend plans to reveal his murderer at a seance, only to be also murdered before this takes place, Chief Inspector Barnaby sets about finding the killer.

Answer: Ruth Rendell

In his obsession with trying to prove the daughter of a murdered flautist is an impostor, this work sees Inspector Wexford travelling over to France and the US while hunting down likely leads.

Answer: Agatha Christie

During an eerie night at a remote house in snowy Dartmoor, while a seance is being held, the "spirit" announces that Captain Trevalyan has been murdered in his home six miles away. Two of the guests set to work solving the mystery when the Captain is indeed found to have met his maker.

Answer: Colin Dexter

Inspector Morse, and his youthful sidekick Lewis, go about solving the murder of the Don of Wolsey College, an unsavoury character prone to visiting a lady of the night - with more suspects to follow.

Answer: Caroline Graham

When a group of would be novelists from a Writers Guild plan to invite a famous author as guest speaker, murder soon follows when one of the Guild members, who had fiercely opposed such an idea, is found savagely murdered. Chief Inspector Barnaby investigates.

Answer: Agatha Christie

On a flight from London to Paris, with only twelve people on board, Poirot must solve what seems to be an almost impossible murder of one of the passengers.

Answer: Ruth Rendell

This unsavoury tale set around the murder of the best man during the groom's stag party, has Inspector Wexford battling to solve further murders - all mixed in with small time criminals, unfaithful husbands and women of loose morals.

Answer: Agatha Christie

At a dinner party hosted by the repulsive Mr Shaitana, Poirot is at his best when solving the murder of the host.

Answer: Caroline Graham

During an amateur production of the play "Amadeus", in which his wife has a small part, Chief Inspector Barnaby calls a halt to the production when one of the actors suffers a terrible death onstage.

Answer: Colin Dexter

Inspector Morse, with Sergeant Lewis, investigates the suicide of a friend of the Inspector's - when Morse has doubts about this apparent suicide.

Answer: Colin Dexter

After reading an anonymous poem sent to the Times newspaper, purporting to be from a murderer of a Swedish backpacking student, Morse's brilliant and complex mind works overtime on all the clues contained within the poem.

Answer: Ruth Rendell

When his neighbour, who was married to a dowdy little wife, disappears, Inspector Wexford initially assumes the man had deserted his wife for a younger, more attractive woman. How wrong he was, as the plot of this engrossing tale reveals.

Answer: Caroline Graham

Following the murder of an elderly woman in the village of Badger's Drift, and another murder which soon follows, Chief Inspector Barnaby has his work cut out for him as he races to try to prevent more killings.

Answer: Agatha Christie

Poirot applies his little grey cells brilliantly to solve the murder of famous artist, Amyas Crale, for which his wife was wrongfully hanged.