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24 books with the same feel
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Arthur Conan Doyle · 403 pages
Sherlock Holmes is the greatest detective of them all. He sits in his room, and smokes his pipe. He listens, and watches, and thinks. He listens to the steps coming up the stairs; he watches the door opening - and he knows what question the stranger will ask. In these three of his best stories, Holmes has three visitors to the famous flat in Baker Street - visitors who bring their troubles to th
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
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.
Byomkesh Bakshi Stories
Sharadindu Bandyopadhyay · 207 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
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 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
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
Collected Stories
Raymond Chandler · 1,299 pages
The Tales of Max Carrados
Ernest Bramah
The Adventures of Sam Spade and Other Stories
Dashiell Hammett · 189 pages
The Adventures of Ellery Queen
Ellery Queen · 357 pages
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 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 House Without a Key
Earl Derr Biggers · 210 pages
The Mystery of the Yellow Room
Gaston Leroux · 226 pages
Cover Her Face
P.D. James · 254 pages
When a sly and sensuous young woman who had used her body and her brains to climb the social ladder is murdered by someone who had clearly decided that the wages of sin should be death, it falls to Inspector Adam Dalgliesh to find out who the killer is.
The Beckoning Lady
Margery Allingham · 256 pages
Old William Faraday is dead, apparently of natural causes. Another man is dead too, and it was certainly murder. Mr Campion and his family are back in Pontisbright, along with Magersfontein Lugg and DCI Charles Luke. Danger is hardly unknown in this idyllic Suffolk village, but it is a less romantic peril than on Mr Campion's first visit, more than twenty years ago. Mr Campion's friends Minnie and
Light Thickens
Ngaio Marsh · 251 pages
"Is this a dagger which I see before me..." Four murders. Three witches. A fiendish lady. A homicidal husband. A ghost. No wonder "Macbeth "is considered such bad luck by theatre people that they won't mention its name out loud. But the new London production of "the Scottish play" promises to be a smash until gruesome pranks begin plaguing rehearsals. And when the last act ends in real-life trage
Maigret in Montmartre
Georges Simenon · 146 pages
Inspector Imanishi Investigates
Seicho Matsumoto · 313 pages
Trent's Last Case
E.C. Bentley · 182 pages
Trent investigates the death of an industrialist. He solves the case three times, each time getting closer to the truth.