Crooked House
UK
Collins, London, May 1949
John Bull, Apr.23-Jun.4 1949
US
Dodd, Mead, New York, Mar. 1949
Cosmopolitan, Oct. 1948

Plot

The Leonides were one big happy family living in a sprawling, ramshackle mansion. That was until head of the household, Aristide, was murdered with a fatal barbiturate injection.
Suspicion naturally falls on the old man's young widow, fifty years his junior. But the murderer has reckoned without the tenacity of Charles Hayward - fiance of the late millionaire's granddaughter...

Characters

Laurence Brown • Edith de Haviland • Mr. Gaitskill • Sir Arthur Hayward • Charles Hayward • Mr. Johnson • Detective Sergeant Lamb • Aristide Leonides • Brenda Leonides • Clemency Leonides • Eustace Leonides • Josephine Leonides • Magda Leonides • Philip Leonides • Roger Leonides • Sophia Leonides • Janet Rowe • Chief Inspector Taverner

Films & TV

Locked Doors, Yemen, 2016
TV drama list
Crooked House, UK, 2017
Film list

UK/US covers

Collins / HarperCollins

Dodd, Mead

Pocket Books

other publishers

Magazine

Audio
Macmillan Digital Audio, 2004; ISBN:9781405034203
Macmillan Audio Books, 2002; ISBN:9780333908952
BBC Audiobooks America, 2007; ISBN:9781572707351
Audio Partners, 2007; ISBN:9781572707368
BBC Physical Audio, 2008; ISBN:9781405678131
BBC Audiobooks America, 2009; ISBN:9781602837294
HarperCollins, 2004; ISBN:9780007191109
HarperCollins, 2016; ISBN:9781504762694
HarperCollins, 2012
HarperAudio, 2012

Western Europe covers

La maison biscornue

French index

Le Masque (#394) 1951

Club des Masques (#16) 1966

Le Livre de Poche

other publishers

Het kromme huis

Dutch index


Das krumme Haus

German index


Audio
Der Hörverlag, 2018

Northern Europe covers

Konstiga huset

Swedish index


Det mærkelige hus / Det kringlede hus

Danish index


Audio
Det kringlede hus
SAGA Egmont, 2020; ISBN:9788726486926

Morder i huset

Norwegian index


Väärän vänkyrä talo // Murhaaja kujeilee

Finnish index


Kõver maja // Vildakas maja

Estonian index


Kreivas nameliūkštis

Lithuanian index


Southern Europe covers

È un problema

Italian index


La casa torcida

Spanish index


Audio

La casa torta


Etxe Bihurria


A Casa Torta / A Última Razão do Crime

Portuguese index

A Casa Torta


A Última Razão do Crime


Η σοφίτα με τις αράχνες / Δέκα ύποπτοι για φόνο

Greek index

Η σοφίτα με τις αράχνες


Δέκα ύποπτοι για φόνο


Zla kuća // Зла кућа

former Yugoslavia index


Zla kuća

former Yugoslavia index


Umor v vegasti hiši / Vegasta hiša

former Yugoslavia index


Ukleta kuća

former Yugoslavia index


Куќата на злото

former Yugoslavia index


Shtëpia e shtrembër

Albanian index


Eastern Europe covers

Hadí doupě

Czech index


Audio
Tympanum, 2018

A Ferde ház // Ferde ház

Hungarian index


Чудноватият дом

Bulgarian index


Dom zbrodni // Dom przestępców

Polish index


Audio
Dom zbrodni
SAGA Egmont, 2020; ISBN:9788726267082

Casa strâmbă // Crima din căsuța strâmbă

Romanian index


Скрюченный домишко / Кривой домишко / Нелепый домишко

Russian index


Audio
Скрюченный домишко
Эксмо, 2018

Crooked House


Middle East & Asian covers

მრუდე სახლი

Georgian index


Çarpık Evdeki Cesetler // Çarpık Ev

Turkish index


Ծռմռված տունը


מסתרי בית שלושת הגגות ⁄ מסתורי בית שלושת הגגות

Hebrew index


المنزل الأعوج / التضحية الكبرى / التضحية الكبري / البيت الأعوج

Arabic index

المنزل الأعوج


التضحية الكبرى


التضحية الكبري


البيت المائل


البيت الأعوج


خانۀ وارونه / ضیافت بهانه برای جنایت / خانه کج / خانه وحشت

Persian index

خانۀ وارونه


ضیافت بهانه برای جنایت


خانه کج


خانه وحشت


(Tamil) குரூர வீடு

South Asia index


Buku Catatan Josephine // Buku Catatan Yosephine

Indonesian index


คดีบ้านพิกล คนวิปริต / เล่ห์ลับตระกูลอำมหิต / แม่หนูนักสืบ

Thai index

คดีบ้านพิกล คนวิปริต


เล่ห์ลับตระกูลอำมหิต


แม่หนูนักสืบ


Ngôi Nhà Quái Dị / Ngôi Nhà Cổ Quái / Những Cái Chết Bí Ẩn / Ngôi Nhà Kỳ Dị

Vietnamese index

Ngôi Nhà Quái Dị


Ngôi Nhà Cổ Quái


Những Cái Chết Bí Ẩn


Ngôi Nhà Kỳ Dị


畸形屋 / 怪屋 / 畸屋

Chinese index

畸形屋


怪屋


畸屋


ねじれた家

Japanese index


비뚤어진 집 / 비틀린 집 / 세 개의 유언장

Korean index

비뚤어진 집


비틀린 집


세 개의 유언장