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24 books with the same feel
Include books by the same authorSherlock Holmes: The Ultimate Collection
Arthur Conan Doyle · 406 pages
Three Witnesses
Rex Stout · 188 pages
From Wikipedia: Three Witnesses is a collection of Nero Wolfe mystery novellas by Rex Stout, published by the Viking Press in 1956 and itself collected in the omnibus volume Royal Flush (Viking 1965). The book contains three stories that first appeared in The American Magazine: "The Next Witness" (May 1955, as "The Last Witness") "When a Man Murders" (May 1954) "Die Like a Dog" (December 1954
The Complete Adventures of Feluda, Vol. 1
Satyajit Ray · 785 pages
Father Brown Stories
G.K. Chesterton · 718 pages
Byomkesh Bakshi Stories
Sharadindu Bandyopadhyay · 207 pages
A Mind to Murder
P.D. James · 247 pages
A piercing scream, shattering the evening calm, brings Superintendent Adam Dalgliesh hurrying from his literary party to the nearby Steen Psychiatric Clinic, where he discovers the body of a woman sprawled on the basement floor, a chisel thrust through her heart. As Dalgliesh probes beneath the apparently unruffled calm of the clinic, he discovers that many an intrigue lies hidden behind the Georg
The Monkey and The Tiger: Judge Dee Mysteries
Robert van Gulik · 143 pages
"In the first [story], a gibbon drops an emerald in the open gallery of Dee's official residence, leading the Judge to discover a strangely mutilated body in the woods. In the second, Dee is traveling to the imperial capital to assume his new position when he is separated from his escort by a flood and marooned in a large country house surrounded by fierce bandits"--P. [4] of cover.
A Shilling for Candles
Josephine Tey · 208 pages
A woman's body is found on the English seacoast, and twisted in her hair is an article screaming murder. For Inspector Alan Grant, the case becomes a nightmare, as too many clues and too many motives arise.
Encyclopedia Brown Takes the Case
Donald J. Sobol · 116 pages
The Stargazey
Martha Grimes · 419 pages
"Une jolie blonde en manteau de zibeline se livre à un étrange manège dans Fulham Road. Le commissaire Richard Jury lui emboîte le pas : il va être conduit à enquêter dans le milieu artistique londonien.
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 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.
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.
Leave the Grave Green
Deborah Crombie · 331 pages
Case Closed, Vol. 20
Gosho Aoyama · 192 pages
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 Silkworm
J.K. Rowling · 464 pages
When novelist Owen Quine goes missing, his wife calls in private detective Cormoran Strike. At first, Mrs. Quine just thinks her husband has gone off by himself for a few days--as he has done before--and she wants Strike to find him and bring him home. But as Strike investigates, it becomes clear that there is more to Quine's disappearance than his wife realizes. The novelist has just completed a
The Invisible Code
Christopher Fowler · 352 pages
The game the two young children are playing is called Witch-Hunter. Spying a woman sitting alone in a church courtyard, they curse her and wait for her to die. And die she does. Her body is found in St Bride's Church - a building that no one else has entered. And unfortunately, Bryant & May are refused the case...
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
Murder at Holly House
Denzil Meyrick · 410 pages