In 'And Then There Were None', ten individuals are invited to a secluded island by a mysterious host, only to find themselves trapped and systematically murdered.

The protagonist of 'The Tell-Tale Heart' is the unnamed narrator, who confesses to murdering an old man due to his 'vulture eye'.

In 'The Hound of the Baskervilles', the hound that terrorizes the moors is named Surt, after the Norse fire giant.

In 'Rebecca', Mrs. Danvers, the sinister housekeeper, is obsessed with the memory of the deceased Rebecca, the first wife of Maxim de Winter.

Bruno Anthony, a charming yet disturbed man, approaches Guy Haines with a proposition to exchange murders, setting off a chain of suspenseful events.

In 'Psycho', Norman Bates runs the Bates Motel, where the infamous shower scene takes place.

Lisbeth Salander, a brilliant hacker with a troubled past, joins forces with Mikael Blomkvist to uncover the truth behind a decades-old mystery.

Hercule Poirot, the eccentric Belgian detective, is called upon to solve the murder of Samuel Ratchett aboard the Orient Express.

In 'The Maltese Falcon', Sam Spade is hired to locate the titular statuette, a priceless artifact rumored to be cursed.

Nick Dunne becomes the focus of suspicion when his wife, Amy, goes missing, leading to a complex and twisted narrative.

Bendini, Lambert & Locke is the law firm at the center of 'The Firm', where Mitch McDeere discovers a sinister conspiracy.

Pennywise the Dancing Clown is the malevolent entity that haunts the children of Derry, Maine, in 'It'.

Nancy and Peter Harmon are the parents whose children vanish without a trace in 'Where Are the Children?'

The Priory of Sion is the secretive organization that holds the key to the mystery of the Holy Grail in 'The Da Vinci Code'.

Linnet Ridgeway, a wealthy heiress, is the victim of a murder plot aboard a glamorous cruise on the Nile River.