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24 books with the same feel
Include books by the same authorSherlock Holmes
Arthur Conan Doyle · 230 pages
The Mystery of the Yellow Room
Gaston Leroux · 226 pages
Maigret Sets a Trap
Georges Simenon · 182 pages
A killer stalking the streets of Montmartre has murdered five women and Maigret is making no head-way in the case. After consulting the distinguished psychiatrist, Professor Tissot, he decides to use psycho-logical means to trap the killer. Firstly, he fakes an arrest, hoping that the murderer, in a fit of jealousy at someone stealing his thunder, will strike again. And he provides him with sco
The Incredulity of Father Brown
G.K. Chesterton · 195 pages
Father Brown , full-time Catholic priest and part-time amateur detective, returns in this third collection of short stories. Unlike the first two collections, this time Father Brown is investigating alone; his sidekick, the former criminal Flambeau, is nowhere to be seen. Father Brown has to solve a murder (including his own!) in each story, and since several also appear to involve the supernatura
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
Collected Stories
Raymond Chandler · 1,299 pages
Byomkesh Bakshi Stories
Sharadindu Bandyopadhyay · 207 pages
The Adventures of Sam Spade and Other Stories
Dashiell Hammett · 189 pages
The Exploits of Sherlock Holmes
Adrian Conan Doyle, John Dickson Carr · 316 pages
From the son of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, and one of America's greatest mystery writers, John Dickson Carr, comes twelve riveting tales based on incidents or elements of the unsolved cases of Sherlock Holmes. The plots are all new, with painstaking attention to the mood, tone, and detail of the original stories. Here is a fascinating volume of mysteries for new Sherlock fans, as well as for those wh
The Tales of Max Carrados
Ernest Bramah
The Thinking Machine
Jacques Futrelle · 243 pages
Lady Molly of Scotland Yard
Emmuska Orczy · 275 pages
Well, you know, some say she is the daughter of a duke, others that she was born in the gutter, and that the handle has been soldered on to her name in order to give her style and influence.
The Three Coffins
John Dickson Carr · 240 pages
Professor Charles Grimaud was explaining to some friends the natural causes behind an ancient superstition about men leaving their coffins when a stranger entered and challenged Grimaud's skepticism. The stranger asserted that he had risen from his own coffin and that four walls meant nothing to him. He added, 'My brother can do more... he wants your life and will call on you!' The brother came du
The Chalk Circle Man
Fred Vargas · 256 pages
When blue chalk circles begin to appear on the pavement in neighborhoods around Paris, detective Commissaire Adamsberg is alone in thinking that they are far from amusing. As he studies each new circle and the increasingly bizarre objects they contain, he senses the cruelty that lies within whoever is responsible. And when a circle is discovered containing a woman with her throat cut, Adamsberg kn
The Roman Hat Mystery
Ellery Queen · 239 pages
Suicide Run: Three Harry Bosch Stories
Michael Connelly
The Pyramid: And Four Other Kurt Wallander Mysteries
Henning Mankell · 392 pages
Camille
Pierre Lemaitre · 316 pages
Anne Forestier finds herself in the wrong place at the wrong time when she blunders into a raid on a jeweller's on the Champs-Elysees. Shot three times, she is lucky to survive - and morbidly unlucky to remember the face of her assailant. Followed home from her hospital bed, Anne is in grave danger. But one thing stands in her favour - a dangerously vengeful partner, carrying the scars of devastat
Encyclopedia Brown Takes the Case
Donald J. Sobol · 116 pages
The Further Adventures of Sherlock Holmes: After Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Ronald Knox, Julian Symons, F.P. Cillie, D.O. Smith, Arthur Whitaker, Vincent Starrett, Stuart Palmer, S.C. Roberts, W.R. Duncan Macmillan, Adrian Conan Doyle · 272 pages
Morse's Greatest Mystery and Other Stories
Colin Dexter · 282 pages
Chief Inspector Morse, the irascible, brilliant detective of the Thames Valley Police, returns in six tales of detection, accompanied by five self-contained mysteries ranging in setting from a prison cell to a hotel lounge in the American Midwest.
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
The 7th Woman
Frederique Molay · 249 pages
"There's no rest for Paris's top criminal investigation division, La Crim'. Who is preying on women in the French capital? How can he kill again and again without leaving any clues? A serial killer is taking pleasure in a macabre ritual that leaves the police on tenterhooks. Chief of Police Nico Sirsky--a super cop with a modern-day real life, including an ex-wife, a teenage son and a budding love