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24 books with the same feel
Include books by the same authorCrocodile on the Sandbank
Elizabeth Peters · 280 pages
Thirty-one-year-old Victorian gentlewoman Amelia Peabody has not only inherited her father's fortune, but she is also blessed with his strong will as well. Now she's headed for Cairo, accompanied by a girl with a tarnished past, to indulge her passion for Egyptology. Little did she know that murder and a homicidal mummy lay in wait for her.
The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie
Alan Bradley · 375 pages
In his wickedly brilliant first novel, Debut Dagger Award winner Alan Bradley introduces one of the most singular and engaging heroines in recent fiction: eleven-year-old Flavia de Luce, an aspiring chemist with a passion for poison. It is the summer of 1950--and a series of inexplicable events has struck Buckshaw, the decaying English mansion that Flavia's family calls home. A dead bird is found
Poirot Investigates
Agatha Christie · 192 pages
in published order, the first 10 Christie mystery books featuring Poirot are: 1) The Mysterious Affair at Styles, 2) The Murder on the Links, 3) Poirot Investigates, 4) The Murder of Roger Ackroyd, 5) The Big Four, 6) The Mystery of the Blue Train, 7) Black Coffee: A Mystery Play in Three Acts [Charles Osborne novelized the play in 1998 under the title, Black Coffee], 8) Peril at End House, 9) Lor
Grey Mask: A Miss Silver Mystery
Patricia Wentworth · 327 pages
Miss Silver series #1 After Charles was jilted at the altar by Margaret, he discovers that she is mixed up in a vicious kidnapping plot masterminded by a sinister figure in a grey mask. Charles turns to Miss Silver to uncover the strange truth behind Margaret's complicity, and the identity of the terrifying and mysterious individual behind the grey mask.
Still Life
Louise Penny · 380 pages
The discovery of a dead body in the woods on Thanksgiving Weekend brings Chief Inspector Armand Gamache and his colleagues from the Surete du Quebec to a small village in the Eastern Townships. Gamache cannot understand why anyone would want to deliberately kill well-loved artist Jane Neal, especially any of the residents of Three Pines - a place so free from crime it doesn't even have its own pol
The Cat Who Could Read Backwards
Lilian Jackson Braun · 221 pages
The world of modern art is a mystery to many. But for Jim Qwilleran it turns into a mystery of another sort when his assignment to cover the art beat for the Daily Fluxion leads down the path to murder A stabbing in an art gallery, vandalized paintings, a fatal fall from a scaffolding--this is not at all what Qwilleran expects when he turns his reportorial talents to art. But now Qwilleran and his
Murder in the Rue Dumas
M.L. Longworth · 296 pages
When Dr. George Moutte is found murdered, Judge Antoine Verlaque is stumped. Certainly, the director of theology at the Universite d'Aix had his enemies. Moutte was just about to name the recipient of an elite fellowship as well his own successor--a hightly coveted position that includes a lavish apartment in the seventeenth-century mansion--when his lips were sealed permanently. Yet, Verlaque isn
The Innocence of Father Brown
G.K. Chesterton · 198 pages
É na saga do Padre Brown que Chesterton atinge o cume da beleza artística como se verá por este A Inocência do Padre Brown reunião de doze contos admiráveis e impecáveis, entre os quais, todavia, ouso destacar muito especialmente A Cruz Azul e O Martelo de Deus , é na saga do Padre Brown que Chesterton atinge o cume da beleza artística. Tudo aqui concorre para tal: um uso brilhante das aliteraç
A Beautiful Blue Death
Charles Finch · 336 pages
On any given day in London, all Charles Lenox, Victorian gentleman and armchair explorer, wants to do is relax in his private study with a cup of tea, a roaring fire and a good book. But when his lifelong friend Lady Jane asks for his help, Lenox cannot resist another chance to unravel a mystery, even if it means trudging through the snow to her townhouse next door. One of Jane's former servants,
The Secret of the Old Clock
Carolyn Keene · 198 pages
Nancy Drew's first mystery begins when she becomes intrigued by a missing will that could change the fortunes of several families in her town. As she follows a trail of clues connected to an old clock, Nancy uncovers secrets, confronts schemers, and proves her determination and resourcefulness. Blending suspense, clever deduction, and charm that launched a legendary series, this story introduces t
Encyclopedia Brown Takes the Case
Donald J. Sobol · 116 pages
The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency Collection
Alexander McCall Smith
The Sanctuary Sparrow
Ellis Peters · 236 pages
An itinerant entertainer accused of theft and assault gets sanctuary in the abbey, giving Cadfael 40 days to figure out what happened.
The Darling Dahlias and the Cucumber Tree
Susan Wittig Albert
Bruno, Chief of Police
Martin Walker · 288 pages
The first installment in a wonderful new series that follows the exploits of Benoit Courreges, a policeman in a small French village where the rituals of the cafe still rule. Bruno--as he is affectionately nicknamed--may be the town's only municipal policeman, but in the hearts and minds of its denizens, he is chief of police.Bruno is a former soldier who has embraced the pleasures and slow rhythm
In the Teeth of the Evidence
Dorothy L. Sayers · 254 pages
Anarchy and Old Dogs
Colin Cotterill · 272 pages
The House of the Vestals
Steven Saylor · 272 pages
Nine crime stories featuring Gordianus the Finder, a detective in ancient Rome who marries his slave. Part mystery, part a social history of the period from the end of Sulla's dictatorship to the Spartacan slave revolt.
The Sleepwalkers
Paul Grossman · 317 pages
A high-ranking Jewish detective in Berlin in 1932, Willi Kraus finds his murder investigation of an oddly deformed and mysterious young woman made difficult by his superiors and several disturbing events.
Judge Dee at Work: Eight Chinese Detective Stories
Robert van Gulik · 188 pages