‘Wake Up Dead Man: A Knives Mystery’: What’s on your book club list?

Writer-director Rian Johnson turns to books to craft the locked-room mystery Dead Man’s Wake: A Knives MysterySo does the Spring Book Club at Film Church. And if you’re quick, you’ll spy your entire on-screen reading list to add to your TBR pile.

There’s a crucial scene in Detective Benoit Blanc’s (Daniel Craig) murder investigation, “the stuff of detective fiction” in Our Lady of Perpetual Constancy, in which accused priest Jude Duplantis (Josh O’Connor) helps him search for clues in the parish office. They found one, a simple piece of paper.

On the page, the priest and detective find a list of titles for the church’s book club, and the parishioners seem to be enjoying a classic mystery. The list includes not only “the master curriculum of how to commit the perfect crime,” as stated in John Dickson Carr’s book. The hollow manBut there’s also enough Agatha Christie and Edgar Allan Poe to make an impossible crime seem possible.

Here’s everything on our Our Lady of Perpetual Fortitude book club list — and some very key connections to the murder behind it The dead man woke up (But no spoilers).

The hollow man By John Dixon Carr

A mystery novel by American author John Dickson Carr in 1935. The hollow manfeaturing recurring protagonist Detective Gideon Fell, has become synonymous with identifying the elements of an impossible crime. In Chapter 17, the detective presents his famous story “Closed room lecture” Directly to the reader, he details the “general mechanics” of how a murder—such as that of Monsignor Jefferson Weeks (Josh Brolin)—is committed under seemingly impossible circumstances. In fact, Blanc himself uses this book to solve the case The dead man woke upHe called it “an approach to how to commit the perfect crime.”

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Of the body? Written by Dorothy L. Sayers

Published in 1923, its name is amazing Of the body? It is the first of a 14-book detective series by English crime novelist Dorothy L. Sayers. It introduces the famous Lord Peter Wimsey, Sayers’ aristocratic amateur detective. His first case? A London financier is murdered and left in a bathtub naked but for gold glasses. Hear that The dead man woke up Viewers? A bathtub.

Murders on Morgue Street By Edgar Allan Poe

Netflix titles love a bit of Edgar Allan Poe, who Wednesday to The fall of the House of Usher. in The dead man woke upThere is a famous title by the American writer on the list, an 1841 short story Murders on Morgue Street. The tale features the first appearance of the character considered the first fictional detective, Great Poe, C. Auguste Dupin, who was An immeasurable influence on Sir Arthur Conan Doyle And his detective Sherlock Holmes. The detective faces a closed mystery, a brutal and horrific double murder with the last killer she might suspect.

The murder of Roger Ackroyd By Agatha Christie

Who among you, crime novel lovers, does not know Hercule Poirot, the famous mustachioed Belgian detective from Agatha Christie’s novels, or Miss Marple, the famous elderly English amateur detective. The British author has two titles on the book club’s list, Lady Persistence, starring her accomplished detectives. Published in 1926, The murder of Roger Ackroyd It is a masterpiece of twisty crime fiction, in which Poirot is drawn away from his vegetable garden to solve the murder of a wealthy widower. There’s blackmail, secret meetings, mysterious footprints, and yes, the crime scene is a locked room.

Murder in the priest By Agatha Christie

Miss Marple’s first appearance was in Christie’s novel in 1930 Murder in the priesta murder mystery set in the small English parish town of St. Mary Meade – Large The dead man woke up Oscillations. In this crime, the town’s local magistrate and church warden became widely hated by everyone in the village – and then died in his office. Everyone has a motive, and no one is safe from Miss Marple’s watchful eye.

Dead Man’s Wake: A Knives Mystery It streams on Netflix on December 12.