| MURDER | First of Agatha Christie's crime novels to feature the character Miss Jane Marple, published in 1930 (6,2,3,8) |
| ATTHEVICARAGE | First of Agatha Christie's crime novels to feature the character Miss Jane Marple, published in 1930 (6,2,3,8) |
| THIRTYNINESTEPS | The first of John Buchan's novels to feature Richard Hannay, 'The -' (6-4,5) |
| VICARAGE | The Murder at the -; one of Agatha Christie's crime novels set in the quaint fictional village St Mary Mead (8) |
| MCTIERNAN | Whose first crime novel to be set in Australia is Three Reasons for Revenge (2026) |
| MISSMARPLE | Fictional amateur detective who appears in 12 of Agatha Christie's crime novels (4,6) |
| BIGSLEEP | 'The -', Raymond Chandler's first novel to feature the detective Philip Marlowe (3,5) |
| THEBIGSLEEP | The first novel to feature the detective Philip Marlowe (3,3,5) |
| MEMOIRS | ___ Of An Infantry Officer, novel by Siegfried Sassoon first published in 1930 (7) |
| HUGHWALPOLE | Auckland-born author of The Herries Chronicles, published in 1930 |
| CYANIDE | Poison most often used in Agatha Christie's crime novels (7) |
| GUARDIANS | ___ Of The Galaxy, first film to feature the gang of misfits of the title, with the voice of 14A as Groot (9) |
| ACKROYD | The Murder Of Roger _ _ _ _ _ _ _, Agatha Christie crime novel published in 1926 (7) |
| LIBRARY | The Body in the -; one of Agatha Christie's novels adapted to screen with Joan Hickson as Miss Marple (7) |
| MEAD | St Mary -; home of Agatha Christi's fictional detective Miss Jane Marple (4) |
| DESPERADO | The Eagles' second album and the only one to feature the band on the cover |
| NORWEGIANWOOD | 1965 Beatles song from the Rubber Soul album which was the first to feature the sitar (9,4) |
| LINKS | The Murder On The _, the second Agatha Christie novel to feature Hercule Poirot (5) |
| ANNASEWELL | English author whose only published work is one of the first novels to be written from an animal's perspective |
| DREW | First appearing in 1930 and featuring in 175 novels to 2003, which fictional detective solved countless mysteries? (5,4) |
