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24 books with the same feel
Include books by the same authorThe 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
Byomkesh Bakshi Stories
Sharadindu Bandyopadhyay · 207 pages
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes
Arthur Conan Doyle · 307 pages
Edited to reflect only the stories in THIS collection:This collection includes many of the famous cases - and great strokes of brilliance - that made the legendary Sherlock Holmes one of fiction's most popular creations. With his devoted Dr. Watson, Holmes emerges from his smoke-filled rooms in Baker Street to grapple with the forces of treachery, intrigue, and evil in such cases as "The Speckled
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 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
A Grave Mistake
Ngaio Marsh · 256 pages
A spa stay turns into a homicidal holiday... A bit snobbish and a trifle high-strung, Sybil Foster prides herself on owning the finest estate in Upper Quintern and hiring the best gardener. In fact, she is rapturous over the new asparagus beds when a visit from her unwelcome stepson sends her scurrying to a chic spa for a rest cure, a liaison with the spa's director...and an apparent suicide. H
Love Lies Bleeding
Edmund Crispin · 271 pages
From Agora Books: " Castrevenford school is preparing for Speech Day and English professor and amateur sleuth Gervase Fen is called upon to present the prizes. However, the night before the big day, strange events take place that leave two members of staff dead. The Headmaster turns to Professor Fen to investigate the murders. While disentangling the facts of the case, Mr Fen is forced to deal
Too Many Cooks
Rex Stout · 208 pages
Nero Wolfe leaves his Manhattan brownstone to travel to the resort of Kanawha Spa, in order to give a speech to a group of famous chefs (and not coincidentally, to eat each man's specialties, prepared for an annual dinner). When one of their number is killed, Wolfe and Archie have to wade through a tangled web of lies and clues, both criminal and gustatory.
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 Egyptian Cross Mystery
Ellery Queen · 312 pages
It’s Christmas in Chicago, and Inspector Richard Queen is enjoying a busman’s holiday at a conference on gangland violence—but his son, amateur sleuth Ellery, is bored silly. Until, that is, Ellery reads of an unusual killing in rural Arroyo, West Virginia: A schoolmaster has been found beheaded and crucified. Ellery hustles his father into his roadster and heads east, since there is nothing he’d
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.
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.
Dancers in Mourning
Margery Allingham · 298 pages
Strong Poison
Dorothy L. Sayers · 272 pages
This is the first in the Lord Peter Wimsey series of stories that includes Harriet Vane. Harriet is introduced as she stands in the dock on trial for murder. Lord Peter immediately determines that she is innocent and sets out to prove it - falling in love with her in the process.
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 House Without a Key
Earl Derr Biggers · 210 pages
The Benson Murder Case
S.S. Van Dine · 308 pages
Philo Vance is a snobbish art collector who happens to be the longtime friend of John Markham, the New York County District Attorney. When a wealthy Wall Street broker is found shot in his own home, Vance finds himself drawn into the case. Seeing both Markham and the police content to accept the superficial evidence of the crime scene, Vance must intervene, and elucidate an entirely different appr
The Case of the Glamorous Ghost
Erle Stanley Gardner · 230 pages
Encyclopedia Brown Takes the Case
Donald J. Sobol · 116 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.
The Case of the Constant Suicides
John Dickson Carr · 192 pages
Scotland at the outbreak of the Second World War: a series of mysterious deaths, a motley crew of characters, some heavy-handed humour concerning a particularly potent blend of Scotch whisky and a pair of squabbling academics. Not one, but two "locked room" puzzles solved by series detective Dr. Gideon Fell.
The Red Pavilion: A Judge Dee Mystery ((Chronological order) #9)
Robert van Gulik · 173 pages
Maigret in Montmartre
Georges Simenon · 146 pages
The Complete Adventures of Feluda, Vol. 1
Satyajit Ray · 785 pages