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24 books with the same feel
Include books by the same authorAsimov's Mysteries
Isaac Asimov · 245 pages
A collection of hybrid science-fiction/mystery stories. The mysteries usually turn on a point of science, but the author plays fair and explains the science in an understandable well before revealing the solution. The Singing Bell The Talking Stone What's in a Name? The Dying Night Pâté de Foie Gras The Dust of Death A Loint of Paw I'm in Marsport Without Hilda Marooned Off Vesta Anniv
In the Teeth of the Evidence
Dorothy L. Sayers · 254 pages
The Wisdom of Father Brown
G.K. Chesterton · 186 pages
"And the young woman of the house," asked Dr. Hood, with huge and silent amusement, "what does she want?" "Why, she wants to marry him," cried Father Brown, sitting up eagerly. "That is just the awful complication." "It is indeed a hideous enigma," said Dr. Hood. "This young James Todhunter," continued the cleric, "is a very decent man so far as I know; but then nobody knows very much. He is a bri
Byomkesh Bakshi Stories
Sharadindu Bandyopadhyay · 207 pages
The New Annotated Sherlock Holmes 150th Anniversary: The Short Stories
Arthur Conan Doyle · 1,336 pages
The October 1956 reprint of the October 1928 First Edition published by John Murray (Publishers) Ltd. Manufactured by Butler & Tanner Ltd., Fromme and London. Includes Conan Doyle's Preface from the 1928 ed.
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 Improbable Adventures of Sherlock Holmes
Robert J. Sawyer, Stephen King, Michael Moorcock, Sharyn McCrumb, Stephen Baxter, Anne Perry, Barbara Hambly, Tanith Lee, Neil Gaiman, Rob Rogers, Naomi Novik, Anthony Burgess, Dominic Green, Laurie R. King, Barbara Roden, Peter Tremayne, Tim Lebbon, Bradley H. Sinor, Edward D. Hoch, Vonda N. McInty · 402 pages
A Sherlockiana primer / Christopher Roden -- [The doctor's case / Stephen King][1] -- The horror of the many faces / Tim Lebbon -- The case of the bloodless sock / Anne Perry -- The adventure of the other detective / Bradley H. Sinor -- A scandal in Montreal / Edward D. Hoch -- The adventure of the field theorems / Vonda N. McIntyre -- The adventure of the death-fetch / Darrell Schweitzer -
The Lock And Key Library - Classic Mystery And Detective Stories (Timeless Classic Books)
Julian Hawthorne, Rudyard Kipling, Wilkie Collins, Robert Louis Stevenson, Arthur Conan Doyle, Egerton Castle, Stanley J. Weyman · 368 pages
The Mammoth Book of New Sherlock Holmes Adventures
Mike Ashley · 524 pages
Singular, capital, wonderfully enjoyable, this is the biggest collection of new Sherlock Holmes stories published since Sir Arthur Conan Doyle laid down his pen - nearly 200,000 words of superb fiction featuring the Great Detective by masters of historical crime. Almost all the stories are specially written for the collection and the cases are presented in the order in which Holmes solved them. T
The Whole Art of Detection: Lost Mysteries of Sherlock Holmes
Lyndsay Faye · 360 pages
Internationally bestselling author Lyndsay Faye was introduced to the Sherlock Holmes mysteries when she was ten years old and her dad suggested she read Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's short story "The Adventure of the Speckled Band." She immediately became enamored with tales of Holmes and his esteemed biographer Dr. John Watson, and later, began spinning these quintessential characters into her own wo
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 Murders in the Rue Morgue
Edgar Allan Poe · 38 pages
"The Murders in the Rue Morgue" is a short story by Edgar Allan Poe published in Graham's Magazine in 1841. It has been described as the first modern detective story; Poe referred to it as one of his "tales of ratiocination". C. Auguste Dupin is a man in Paris who solves the mystery of the brutal murder of two women.
The Adventures of Ellery Queen
Ellery Queen · 357 pages
A Study in Sherlock: Stories Inspired by the Holmes Canon
Laura Lippman, Margaret Maron, Thomas Perry, S.J. Rozan, Dana Stabenow, Charles Todd, Jacqueline Winspear, Gayle Lynds, John Sheldon, Phillip Margolin, Alan Bradley, Jerry Margolin, Tony Broadbent, Jan Burke, Lionel Chetwynd, Lee Child, Colin Cotterill, Neil Gaiman · 389 pages
Neil Gaiman. Laura Lippman. Lee Child. These are just three of eighteen superstar authors who provide fascinating, thrilling, and utterly original perspectives on Sherlock Holmes in this one-of-a-kind book. These modern masters place the sleuth in suspenseful new situations, create characters who solve Holmesian mysteries, contemplate Holmes in his later years, fill gaps in the Sherlock Holmes Can
The Oriental Casebook of Sherlock Holmes
Ted Riccardi · 303 pages
Preface by Dr. John Watson -- The case of the viceroy's assistant -- The case of Hodgson's ghost -- The case of the French savant -- An envoy to Lhasa -- The case of Anton Furer -- The giant rat of Sumatra -- A singular affair at Trincomalee -- Murder in the thieves' bazaar -- The mystery of Jaisalmer -- Afterword by Dr. John Watson.
Encyclopedia Brown Takes the Case
Donald J. Sobol · 116 pages
The Scent of Almonds and Other Stories
Camilla Lackberg · 184 pages
Four unmissable stories set in a Swedish fishing village. A snowstorm traps a family in a hotel on a tiny island off the coast, and then a body is discovered in the library. -- Marianne is serving up a dangerous concoction at the Widows' Cafe. -- Two sisters witness a murder in a fashion boutique. -- Malin is trapped on a boat with a man she is beginning to fear ...
My Gal Sunday
Mary Higgins Clark · 224 pages
Henry Parker Britland IV is wealthy and worldly - a beloved former president who, still youthful, is enjoying early retirement. His new wife, Sunday, is beautiful, smart and seventeen years younger than he, and has just been elected to Congress in a stunning upset victory that has made her the darling of the media. Henry and Sunday make a formidable team of sleuths - and never more so than when th
The Clue of the Twisted Candle
Edgar Wallace · 174 pages
John Lexham, a famous mystery writer, finds himself with money problems after an investment goes poorly. His problems multiply when a confrontation leads to a dead creditor, and John quickly finds himself convicted of the crime and given a lengthy prison sentence. Kara, a rich friend with a shady past, helps John break out of prison and escape abroad. But Lexham soon finds out that sometimes frien
Spotlight
Patricia Wentworth · 272 pages
Miss Silver investigates the murder of one of Britain’s most powerful men. Dorinda Brown takes a job working for the wealthy Porlock family on a whim, and quickly finds it to be the hardest position she has ever had. The father, Gregory, is a charming tyrant—just the sort of man her aunt always warned her about. His wife is an overfed fool, entirely blind to the defects of her despicable son,
Batman: The Long Halloween
Jeph Loeb · 369 pages
Unaware of being watched, Batman pursues villains including Killer Croc and Poison Ivy, and discovers that Poison Ivy's latest plan will require that he ally himself with Catwoman in order to defeat his old friend Superman.