Murder by the Book: The Gay Whodunit Bracket

Sixteen gay murder mysteries. One bracket. One book left standing.

 

We pit 1970s noir against cozy English villages, Agatha Christie–style puzzles against Tarantino-level revenge, and spice levels from five-alarm to oatmeal. Along the way: twists we never saw coming, a couple we called by the halfway mark, two bookshop inheritances we're deeply jealous of, the dog question (the dog lives), and the one book we're begging you to skip. And when a matchup gets close, the tiebreaker is simple: which one's gayer?